Chung Mong-joon is a South Korean businessman and politician. He is the sixth son of Chung Ju-yung, founder of Hyundai, the second-largest South Korean chaebol before its breakup in 2003. He remains th...
Chung Mong-koo is a South Korean businessman. He is the honorary chairman and former CEO of Hyundai Motor Group, Korea's second largest chaebol that manages 54 subsidiaries including Hyundai Motor, Kia...
Chung Eui-sun is a South Korean billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Hyundai Motor Group and the only son and "heir apparent" of Hyundai Motor Group honorary chairman Chung Mong-koo.
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This project was started to focus on the contributions that Koreans and peoples of the Korean descent have made to society in the 20th and 21st century.
List of notable Koreans
Activists
Kang Pan-sŏk (Korean: 강반석), independence activist against the Japanese colonial rule of Korea
Kim Hyŏng-jik (Korean: 김형직), independence activist against the Japanese colonial rule of Korea
Lee Hee-ho (Korean: 이희호), women's rights activist, peace advocate, and First Lady of South Korea from 25 February 1998 to 24 February 2003
Ryu Gwan-sun (Korean: 유관순), independence activist against the Japanese colonial rule of Korea
Actors
John Cho (Korean: 조요한), Korea-born American actor, best known for his roles in American Pie and Harold & Kumar
Peter Chung (Korean: 정건식), Korea-born American animator, creator and director of Æon Flux
Jeong H. Kim (Korean: 김종훈), Korea-born American electrical engineer, President of Bell Labs
Kim Keon-hee (Korean: 김건희), chief executive officer and president of the art exhibition company Covana Contents, and First Lady of South Korea since 10 May 2022
Lee Byung-Chul (Korean: 병철)Former Chairman and Founder of Samsung Group
Lee Kun-Hee (Korean: 이건희)Former Chairman of Samsung Group
Jay Y Lee (Korean: 이재용) Executive Chairman of Samsung Group
Comedians
Margaret Cho, a Korean American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist.
Filmmakers
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호), South Korean film director and screenwriter
Historians
Shin Jae-ho (Korean: 신재호), founder of the nationalist historiography of Korea
Lee Myung-bak (Korean: 이명박), 10th President of the Republic of Korea
Lee Sang-deuk, member of the conservative Saenuri Party in the National Assembly
Lee Syung-man (Korean: 이승만), 1st President of the Republic of Korea
Lee Shi-yeong (Korean: 이시영), 1st Vice President of the Republic of Korea
Lee Wan-yong (Korean: 이완용), pro-Japanese minister during the Japanese Colonial Rule of Korea, traitor (Korean: 매국노) of Korea
Lee Bong-chang (Korean: 이봉창), political activist during the Japanese Colonial Rule of Korea, failed assasinator of later-Emperor Hirohito
Moon Jae-in (Korean: 문재인), 12th President of the Republic of Korea
Ronald Moon, former Chief Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court
Park Chung-hee (Korean: 박정희), 3rd President of the Republic of Korea
Park Eun-Shik (Korean: 박은식), Korean historian, 2nd President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai
Park Hon-yong (Korean: 박헌영), Communist politician of North Korea, criminal for starting the Korean War
Syngman Rhee, 1st President of the Republic of Korea
Yoon Suk-yeol (Korean: 윤석열), 13th President of the Republic of Korea
Yun Bong-gil (Korean: 윤봉길), political activist during the Japanese Colonial Rule of Korea, assassinator of the Shanghai International Settlement (1932)
Scholars
Jaegwon Kim (Korean: 김재권), Korea-born American philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 김용), Korea-born American physician, 17th President of Dartmouth College
Kim Ung-yong (Korean: 김웅용), South Korean professor and former child prodigy
Kim Yoon-ok (Korean: 김윤옥), First Lady of South Korea from 25 February 2008 to 24 February 2013
Kwang Lim Koh (Korean: 고광림), South Korean diplomat and political science professor
Scientists
Mark L. Polansky, American of Korean descent aerospace engineer and research pilot, NASA astronaut
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