Life Summary
Kwon Won-kang is the chairman of Kyochon F&B.

He has focused on transitioning Kyochon F&B into a professional management system.

He was born on August 15, 1951, in Daegu.

He dropped out of Daegun High School in Daegu and drove a truck selling vegetables to support his family.

While working at a construction site in Indonesia, he contracted hyperthyroidism and returned to Korea.

Afterward, he worked as a taxi driver and used the proceeds from selling his individual taxi license to open “Kyochon Tongdak,” a fried chicken shop in an apartment shopping complex in Gumi, North Gyeongsang.

In 1999, he founded KNG System to begin franchise operations in earnest and later changed the company’s name to Kyochon F&B.

In 2019, he stepped down as CEO and chairman to adopt a professional management system but returned as chairman three years later.

In 2024, he resigned as chairman of the board, and in 2025, he stepped down as an internal director.

He is known as a principled leader, striving to uphold management principles once established.

Starting from a small neighborhood fried chicken shop, he built the company into the No. 1 chicken brand in Korea by sales, making him a self-made figure.

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