Korea’s 40 Wealthiest

by WangKon936 on April 25, 2008

With the sub-prime tremors cooling down and with nothing else better to do on a slow news day, Forbes has compiled a list of Korea’s richest 40 people. I know the gallery is not as interesting as the race girls or Djamilya scrubbing away dirt and body oil, but I sort of think that #4, Lee Myung-Hee, is a bit of a MILF.

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1 user-81 April 25, 2008 at 3:29 am: “but I sort of think that #4, Lee Myung-Hee, is a bit of a MILF.”

At 64, she’d be a GILF.
2 seoulmilk April 25, 2008 at 5:31 am: #1. i was thinking the same thing.
3 NewYorkTom April 25, 2008 at 5:57 am: I shudder at the thought!

To think, you guys are living amongst all the hot Korean chicks in Seoul and I’m over here in NYC with very a limited pool of Kgirls… That’s a slap in the face to me…a very, very hard one.
4 mcnut@hotmail.com April 25, 2008 at 6:27 am: i think korea has the highest % per captia of MILF’s in the world

as a matter of fact i would totally back the

“Hub of MILF’s” idea!!!!
5 Whatev April 25, 2008 at 9:28 am: So, the richest Korean is only as rich as Wallace McCain (the frozen French fries guy)? I don’t buy it.
6 WangKon936 April 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm: # 5,

The key here is REPORTED income… not actual income, which is who knows what….
7 megook April 25, 2008 at 1:56 pm: you should really consider getting an eye exam…
8 Wedge April 25, 2008 at 1:58 pm: You dudes are sick if you think that’s hot.
9 globalvillageidiot April 25, 2008 at 2:48 pm: Aside from Italy, can anybody think of another democratic country where the richest guy is presently a politician? Just wondering.

Also – and Italy with Berlusconi and his TV stations also springs to mind here – is Chung, at least in principle, supposed to be “uninvolved,” so to speak, with Hyundai Merchant Marine’s day-to-day affairs while he is in office?
10 MigukNamja April 25, 2008 at 2:49 pm: #6

Exactly. For instance, take the Samsung supposed ex-Chairman himself:

#3 Lee Kun-Hee

Net Worth $2.7 billion

The recently-discovered embezzled money alone was far more than a paltry $2.7B. Furthermore, I’m assuming his disclosed net worth is simply what his accountants could not hide.

He likely has at least 10x the disclosed $2.7B at his fingertips, if not more.
11 Linkd April 25, 2008 at 2:55 pm: In his case, if I remember correctly, he owns 4% of Samsung Electronics stock in his own name. At its current market cap of $72 bil, that accounts for all of the $2.7 bil. I think Forbes is just using the publicly available stockholding info, rather than using actual forensic accounting.
12 Linkd April 25, 2008 at 2:58 pm: Ha! What am I saying? It’s Forbes. What did we expect – research? It’s the tabloid press of business “news”.
13 dda April 25, 2008 at 3:09 pm: The recently-discovered embezzled money alone was far more than a paltry $2.7B.

Admittedly, if it’s embezzled money, it’s not his But yeah, as you formulate it, he probably has access to much much more money…