Portrait of Lee Seo-hyun

Rank #270

Lee Seo-hyun

Net worth $11.7B

Samsung · South Korea

Born
Sep 20, 1973
Age
52
Source
Samsung
Residence
Seoul
Citizenship
South Korea
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Parsons School of Design

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Lee Seo-hyun oversees the Samsung Welfare Foundation, a charity founded by her late father Lee Kun-hee, former chair of Samsung Electronics.
  • She also heads the advisory board at the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul.
  • In 2024, she rejoined the group's de facto holding company, Samsung C&T, as president of strategic planning after about a five-year absence.
  • She joined Samsung Group's Cheil Industries as a manager in 2002, after graduating from the Parsons School of Design in New York.
  • Lee developed the company's casual-wear brand Bean Pole and was behind the 2011 acquisition of the Italian exotic leather brand Colombo via della Spiga.
  • In 2014, in partnership with YG Entertainment, a top Korean entertainment agency, she launched a street fashion brand called Nonagon.

Financial assets

Exchange Ticker Company Shares Price Currency