Amid the AI tailwind, the Samsung family, among Korea's wealthiest1–4places claimed
The Samsung family took 1–4all of the top spots in the real-time billionaire rankings. Chairman Lee Jae-yong's net worth was estimated at 340 hundred million dollars (about 51 trillion 3000 hundred million won), while Samsung Electronics shares surged about 40% over the past month.
Members of the Samsung family took 1–4all of the top spots in the ranking of Korea's wealthiest people. This was the first time the Samsung family had monopolized the top positions. The ranking was based on a real-time tally of billionaires.
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong's net worth was estimated at 340 hundred million dollars (about 51 trillion 3000 hundred million won). The figure was shown to have increased from the previous quarter as of the time of the tally. In that ranking, Lee placed 1.
Hotel Shilla President Lee Boo-jin's net worth was estimated at 124 hundred million dollars (about 18 trillion 7000 hundred million won). Lee Seo-hyun, president in charge of strategic planning at Samsung C&T, had a net worth of 120 hundred million dollars (about 18 trillion 1000 hundred million won). The two women each ranked among the top positions.
Former Leeum Museum of Art director Hong Ra-hee's assets were 112 hundred million dollars (16 trillion 9000 hundred million won) in total. The tally cited Samsung Electronics' share price surge of about 40% over the past month as the reason for the increase in her assets. The rise in the share price was explained in connection with expectations for demand for artificial intelligence-related semiconductors.
The tally's data reported that Samsung Electronics' high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is used in AI chips from NVIDIA, AMD, and Alphabet. It added that demand for NAND flash memory for SSDs is also increasing as data centers expand. The tally classified Samsung Electronics as the world's largest company in AI memory semiconductors by revenue.
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