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Native name
  
신격호

Education
  
Waseda University

Role
  
Businessman


Name
  
Shin Kyuk-ho

Ethnicity
  
Korean

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Born
  
4 October 1922 (age 102) (
1922-10-04
)
Urusan, Japanese Korea(now Ulsan Metropolitan City, South Korea)

Nationality
  
Korea (Korean-Japanese)

Spouse
  
Seo Mi-kyung (m. 1988), Shigemitsu Hatsuko (m. 1952), No Soon-hwa (m. 1939–1951)

Children
  
Shin Dong-bin, Shin Yoo-mi, Shin Young-ja

Parents
  
Kim Pil-soon, Shin Jin-soo

Siblings
  
Shin Chun-ho, Shin Jung Hee

Organizations founded
  
Lotte, Lotte Mart

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Shin Kyuk-Ho (Japanese: Takeo Shigemitsu, born 4 October 1922) is a Korean businessman. He founded and led the Lotte group.

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Career

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Shin is the founder of the Lotte group. He was born in Ulsan, Korea in 1922 and founded Lotte in 1948, in Tokyo, Japan, which grew from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan to becoming a major multinational corporation with overseas branches in dozens of countries and products shipped worldwide. It is now South Korea's eighth largest conglomerate.

Shin Kyuk-ho Shin Kyuk ho Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

Shin was impressed with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and named his company Lotte after the character Charlotte in the novel.

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In 2005, Shin was ranked 387th on Forbes magazine's World's Richest People list, and moved up to 136th place in 2006. He currently resides in South Korea for odd months and in Japan for even months. However, reporters have noticed that Shin has been staying in South Korea since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan.

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Shin started his company two years after graduating from Waseda Jitsugyo High School (Japanese: 早稲田実業学校) in Tokyo.

Personal life

Shin has been married three times. Shin has a total of four children from the three marriages and he is currently married to the former celebrity Seo Mi-kyung. His children, Shin Dong-bin (Akio Shigemitsu), Shin Young-ja, Shin Dong-joo (Hiroyuki Shigemitsu), and Shin Yoo-mi are all involved in Lotte Group. His younger brother Shin Chun-ho is the chairman of Nongshim.

References

Shin Kyuk-ho Wikipedia


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