✎ About Lee Myung-Hee

Lee Myung-Hee was born on September 05, 1943 in Seoul, South Korea, South Korea, is Shinsegae. Chairwoman of Shinsegae Group, Lee Myung-Hee is the youngest daughter of late founder of Samsung Group, Lee Byung-Chull, and the sister of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Samsung owned Shinsegae until the two separated in 1991. The group, which began in 1955 with the Donghwa department store, has diversified into fashion, hospitality (Chosun hotels in partnership with Westin), food and beverage and other sectors. Spun off as a public company in 1996, Shinsegae International imports and distributes around 30 premium brands, including Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Givenchy. It also manufactures and distributes its own fashion labels (VOV, G-Cut and Tomboy) and markets household and consumer goods under the brand name Jaju as well as the Vidi Vici cosmetics line. The majority of her wealth comes from E-Mart, which the chaebol took public in 2011 and is now the country's biggest discount-store chain.
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🎂 Lee Myung-Hee - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Lee Myung-Hee is 80 years, 7 months and 22 days old. Lee Myung-Hee will celebrate 81rd birthday on a Thursday 5th of September 2024. Below we countdown to Lee Myung-Hee upcoming birthday.

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Popular As	Lee Myung-Hee
Occupation	Fashion and Retail
Age	79 years old
Zodiac Sign	Libra
Born	September 05, 1943 (Seoul, South Korea, South Korea)
Birthday	September 05
Town/City	Seoul, South Korea, South Korea
Nationality	South Korea

🌙 Zodiac

Lee Myung-Hee’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Lee Myung-Hee was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.

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Biography/Timeline

1979

Lee was born in Uiryeong County to Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and his first wife Park Du-eul as the youngest of eight children. She attended Ewha Girls' High School and then majored in art at Ewha Womans University before marrying. After ten years of being a homemaker she became a sales executive at Shinsegae Department Store in 1979 and then its Chairwoman in 1997 after the company was separated from Samsung.

2006

During her time as chairwoman Lee has been fined on three separate occasions. The first was in 2006 for 350 billion won ($300 million) after she hid 800 billion wons worth of stock under different names. In 2012 by the Fair Trade Commission fined Lee 4 billion won ($3.4 million) for charging different transaction fees. Then in 2015 she was fined 70 billion won for hiding 380,000 company shares worth 80 billion won ($68 million) under different names.