According to a survey, the world’s billionaire wealth has increased by over 50% on average over the past year, driven by the Corona 19 pandemic.
According to data released by the US Think Tank Policy Institute (IPS) on the 31st of last month (local time), as of March 18, last year, when the spread of Corona 19 began in earnest, 2365 billionaires around the world owned a total of 840 trillion dollars. One year after this, these assets had increased to $1,290 billion. During this period, their total assets increased by $4.55 trillion (about 4900 trillion won). The property growth rate reaches 54%.
No. 1 fortune was Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, to $178 billion, an increase of 57% over the same period. France’s Louis Vuitton Moe Hennessy (LVMH) group chairman Bernard Arno and his family’s property increased 114 percent to $166.2 billion, ranking second.
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO ($162.1 billion), Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($126.5 billion), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ($101.7 billion), and Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway ($96.66 billion), were followed.
Of the 38 billionaire Koreans surveyed, NXC CEO Kim Jeong-joo ($14.1 billion) was ranked 144th, the highest ranking. Celltrion Chairman Seo Jeong-jin ($13.8 billion, 150th place), Kakao Bumsoo Kim ($9.7 billion, 236th place), Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong ($8.4 billion, 287th place). It is estimated that the inheritance of the late Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee was not reflected in Vice Chairman Lee.
There were 13 billionaires whose wealth increased by more than 500%. The billionaire with the most wealth was the chairman of Zhongshan Shan, the founder of Nungfu Shanquan, a bottled water company in China, with an increase of 3300%. Kim Bum-seok, chairman of the Coupang Board of Directors, has increased 670%, making it the only Korean to be included in this list.
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