Chairman Kim Bong-jin, the founder of the nation’s No. 1 delivery app, Bae-eui People’s Family, promised to donate half of his fortune. Not long ago, Chairman Kim Bum-soo of Kakao made a similar promise. Recently, the voluntary donation of wealth by self-made rich people like these is a little different from the past chaebols and rich people who have been pushed forward to donate their property. This appearance raises the possibility of changing the conventional wisdom that has inherited a company to children.
This is reporter Han Sang-woo.
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A picture of the elegance of elegance brothers, chairman Kim Bong-jin and his wife, has been uploaded among the world’s richest people, including the world-class donation club’The Giving Pledge’ and Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
Chairman Bong-jin Kim, who became the 219th member of the world and the first Korean member, promised “to give back more than half of our assets to society.”
Chairman Kim’s fortune is known to be over 1 trillion won, and the amount of donation is expected to exceed 500 billion won depending on the value of the stock held.
[허성준/우아한형제들 홍보팀장 : 교육 불평등 문제 해결 등 평소 소신을 실천하기 위해 더 큰 환원을 결심한 걸로 알고 있습니다.]
After Kim Bum-soo, chairman of the Kakao Board of Directors, who recently promised to donate more than 5 trillion won, a large donation from self-made rich people continues.
This is different from the past chaebol’s donation practices, when donating money as a means of atonement or donating money rather than personal property.
[박주근/CEO스코어 대표 : (재산의) 50%를 기부한다는 것은 기본적으로 경영권을 승계하지 않겠다는 함의를 갖고 있고, 사회적으로 공유하겠다는 의미를 갖고 있기 때문에 플랫폼 기업이라든지 독점 기업에 대한 셈법으로 보기에는 무리가 있다고 봅니다.]
We are interested in whether it will change the conventional wisdom of conglomerates recognized as the inheritance of wealth.