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Kim Seung-yeon is the Chairman of Hanwha Group.

He is focusing on transferring management control to his three sons, centered on his eldest son Kim Dong-kwan, Vice Chairman of Hanwha Group.

He was born on February 7, 1952, in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, as the eldest son among two sons and one daughter of Kim Chong-hee, the founder of Hanwha Group.

He attended Gyeonggi High School in Seoul, then graduated from Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in the United States and the Department of Business Administration at Menlo College. He earned a master’s degree in international politics from the graduate school of DePaul University.

In 1981, following the death of his father, he became chairman at the young age of 29.

In 2014, after receiving a guilty verdict on charges of breach of trust, he stepped down from all CEO positions at affiliated companies while retaining only the group chairman position.

In 2021, he returned to management after seven years by taking non-registered executive roles at Hanwha, Hanwha Solutions, and Hanwha Construction.

He has served as Vice Chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Korea Amateur Boxing Federation, Chairman of Kyunghyang Shinmun, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sungkonghoe University.

He upholds trust as the core of his management philosophy and has created a unique organizational culture that places strong emphasis on loyalty.

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