Portrait of Shin Dong-joo

Rank #3149

Shin Dong-joo

Net worth $1.2B

Retail · South Korea

Born
Jan 28, 1954
Age
72
Source
Retail
Residence
Tokyo
Citizenship
South Korea
Marital status
Married
Children
1
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University; Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Shin Dong-joo is the eldest son of Shin Kyuk-Ho, the late founder of Lotte Group, one of South Korea's largest conglomerates.
  • The retail heavyweight has interests ranging from food and beverage to chemicals, construction and professional baseball.
  • In 2015, he was dismissed from his executive positions in the group after a bitter feud with his brother Dong-Bin.
  • Lotte started as a confectionery manufacturer in Japan in 1948 and expanded into South Korea in 1967.
  • At the start of his career, he worked for Mitsubishi in Japan in 1978.