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Lee Kun-hee

1942 - 2020

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Lee Kun-hee (Korean: 이건희; Hanja: 李健熙, Korean: [iːɡʌnɣi]; 9 January 1942 – 25 October 2020) was a South Korean business magnate who served as the chairman of the Samsung Group from 1987 to 2008, and again from 2010 until his death in 2020. He is also credited with the transformation of Samsung to one of the world's largest business entities that engages in semiconductors, smartphones, electronics, shipbuilding, construction, and other businesses. Since Lee Kun-hee became the chairman of Samsung, the company became the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones, memory chips, and appliances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Kun-hee has received more than 2,772,557 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Lee Kun-hee is the 137th most popular businessperson (down from 76th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from South Korea (down from 47th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South Korean Businessperson.

Lee Kun-hee is most famous for being the chairman of Samsung Electronics.

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  • 2.8M

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  • 59.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Lee Kun-hee ranks 137 out of 847. Before him are Thomas Lipton, Margaret Hamilton, Armand Peugeot, Larry Flynt, Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Massimo Moratti. After him are Alisher Usmanov, Phil Knight, Elizabeth Arden, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Masayoshi Son, and Asa Griggs Candler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Lee Kun-hee ranks 112. Before him are Barry Levinson, Bob Ross, Larry Flynt, Manolo Blahnik, Kang Kek Iew, and Ahmed Aboul Gheit. After him are Terry Jones, Britt Ekland, Pedro Rocha, Hannu Mikkola, Vladimir Bukovsky, and Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Among people deceased in 2020, Lee Kun-hee ranks 76. Before him are Amadou Toumani Touré, Clive Cussler, Eddie Van Halen, Kelly Preston, Kang Kek Iew, and Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. After him are Terry Jones, Momčilo Krajišnik, Quino, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Per Olov Enquist, and Conchata Ferrell.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Lee Kun-hee ranks 73 out of 1,128. Before him are Queen Cheorin (1837), Queen Munjeong (1501), Ri Chun-hee (1943), Toyo Ito (1941), Charles J. Pedersen (1904), and Yi Hwang (1501). After him are Jeong Mong-ju (1337), Heo Jun (1546), Yi I (1536), Han Duck-soo (1949), Lee Sun-kyun (1975), and Psy (1977).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In South Korea

Among businesspeople born in South Korea, Lee Kun-hee ranks 3. Before him are Sung Jae-gi (1967), and Lee Byung-chul (1910). After him are Shin Kyuk-ho (1921), Choi Soon-sil (1956), and Lee Jae-yong (1969).

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