Li Jianxi

Lee Kun-hee (Korean: Lee Kun-hee/Li Junhee, Romanized: I Geon-hui; January 9, 1942 - October 25, 2020), a South Korean entrepreneur, the third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-cheol, and the second chairman of Samsung Group. He ranked 65th on Forbes' 2019 list of the world's billionaires, with assets of US$16.9 billion. Lee Kun-hee was born in Gyeongsangnam-do, Japanese-occupied Korea in 1942 and graduated from Waseda University. In 1966, after returning from studying abroad for an MBA in the United States, he joined Toyo Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Samsung. Two years later, he was appointed as a director of Toyo Broadcasting. In 1978, he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung C&T, and the following year he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung Group. In 1987, after Lee Byung-cheol passed away, he took over as chairman of Samsung Group. Three months after taking office as Chairman of Samsung, he proposed the "Second Entrepreneurship Declaration", "New Management" in 1993, "Extraordinary Management" from 1997 to 2000, and the "Talent Pool" vision in 2004.