April 25, 2024

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Cho Hyun-shick

NET WORTH Updated Weekly

US$409M -

• BIRTH

  01/07/1970

• CORPORATION

  Hankook Tire Worldwide

• POSITION

  President & CEO

• EDUCATION

  Syracuse University Economics, Bachelor
  The Hill School, Pottstown

LISTED STOCK WEALTH

US$335M -

UNLISTED STOCK WEALTH

$73M

Anothen Geumsan

588,200 (86.22%) shares

Anothen WTE

302,932 (63.25%) shares

Shinyang World Leisure

80,000 (40%) shares

MK Technology

1,400,000 (20%) shares

Shinyang Tourism Development

30,000 (44.12%) shares

M Frontier

800,000 (24%) shares

H2WTE

36,000 (27.27%) shares

PROPERTIES

Tower Palace in Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

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BIOGRAPHY

Cho is the eldest son of Hankook Tire chairman Cho Yang-rai.
Cho majored in economics at Syracuse and after a brief stint at Mitsubishi’s branch in the United States, joined Hankook Tire in 1997. He is currently the President and CEO of Hankook Tire Worldwide, the holding company of Korea’s largest, and the world’s seventh largest, tire maker.
He was said to be in charge of developing new ventures in non-tire areas and M&As, while younger brother Hyun-bum focused on tire division as the chief marketing officer of Hankook Tire. But in 2015, the brothers were also given titles at each other’s companies, the older as the chief marketing officer and the younger as the chief corporate strategy & finance officer. It was seen as a move by their father to assess their abilities to take over the helm.
The family has been in the middle of controversy for buying and inheriting premium condominiums in the United States in the 1990s. Purchasing overseas real estate for investment purposes was only legalized in 2006.
Cho is married to Cha Jin-young, the daughter of KAIST professor Cha Dong-hwan.