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[사진 출처 = 연합뉴스]It was found that the wealth of six domestic rich people, who ranked in the top 500 in the world’s richest man rankings, has soared by at least 27 trillion won in the past year.
Among the top 500 in the world’s richest man rankings compiled by Bloomberg as of the 10th, Jae-yong Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics (51th), Celltrion Chairman Seo Jeong-jin (177th), Nexon founder Kim Jung-joo, CEO of NXC (201st), and Beomsu Kim, Chairman of the Kakao Board of Directors (330th), Hyuk-bin Kwon, founder of Smilegate (#401) and Mong-koo Chung, honorary chairman of Hyundai Motor Group (#411) were named.
Of these, the sum of the assets of five of them, excluding Jae-yong Lee, was estimated to be about 50 trillion won (45.55 billion dollars), an increase of about 25 trillion won (2.240 billion dollars) from a year ago (24.7 billion dollars). . This is an increase of about 104% from a year ago.
On the other hand, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s property increase compared to the previous year was not accurately counted.
Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s assets, including that of late Chairman Lee Kun-hee, amounted to about 31 trillion won, four times that of a year ago. However, Jaebeol.com said that if only the value of the shares of the listed companies owned by Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is calculated, it is currently 9,153.3 billion won, an increase of 1.37 trillion won (17.6%) from a year ago (7,799.6 billion won).
Accordingly, it is estimated that the assets of six people, including Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, have increased by at least about 27 trillion won (83.6%) over the past year.
Among them, the person with the highest rate of property growth is Chairman Seo Jeong-jin.
Chairman Seo’s wealth increased by about 157.4% from about 5.6 trillion won ($5.99 billion) a year ago to 14.500 billion won ($13.1 billion) now.
Then, CEO Kim Jeong-joo (an increase of 104.8%), Chairman Beom-soo Kim (an increase of 103.6%), founder Hyukbin Kwon (an increase of 98.2%), and Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo (an increase of 47.3%) showed a higher increase in wealth compared to the previous year.
In the case of Chairman Kim, the value of his shares in Kakao, either directly or indirectly through K Cube Holdings, a wholly-owned, 100%-owned company, is currently more than 10 trillion won, but Bloomberg excluded the portion of his shares held as collateral from the asset estimate.
They all have in common that their fortunes have been greatly boosted by following trends such as internet, games, and eco-friendly cars that have emerged globally during the past year through the corona 19 crisis.
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