A total of 36 South Koreans made it onto the Hurun Global Rich List 2019,... the Chinese version of Forbes billionaire list.
According to the list of around 24-hundred billionaires worldwide,... South Korea ranked in 14th place in terms of the number of billionaires,... up one notch from the previous year.
The list identified Samsung Electronics Chairman, Lee Kun-hee as the richest South Korean,... with total assets of over 16 billion U.S. dollars.