Record year

South Korea's economy boomed 23% to 6.1% in the last year that stock exchange jumped and it won its rise against the dollar further. This is a recipe for an exponential increase in wealth and in fact our annual list of the country's 40 richest excavated a record 21 billionaires, up from only 11 before a year and 5 in 2009. The collective wealth of the 40 is now $65.6 billion, more than $20 billion more than in the previous year and another record. All that was on the list in the last year its net value remains richer this year, with the exception of a Tycoon the same.

Samsung's Lee Kun-Hee tops the list again, but no. 2 is the largest dollar gainer Chung Mong-Koo . His assets jumped by $3.4 billion, or 80% to $7.4 billion, driven an 86% increase in the Hyundai Motor share price such as car sales boomed. The biggest percentage gainer was no. 9 Kim Jung-Ju, whose NEXON the increasing popularity of online-play rides. He was jumping from 260% from $ 570 million and no. 27 a year ago to $2.06 billion in this year. No. 13 Park Hyeon-Joo, who was Mirae asset management group, saw its wealth nearly triple, from 510 million last year to $1.5 billion.

The list itself as a minimum net worth required joined four newcomers to the list of 435 million $ in the last year $ 525 million in this year. The five include a Hyundai heritage, of Dongbu, the third of three OCI brothers on the list and the woman, who is running Orion with her husband after the takeover of her father. Two tycoons back to drop off-- another of the brothers of OCI after a two-year absence and the Hankook Tire Chairman for three years way according to the list.

This year of Korean Air Cho Yang-HO, whose Reichtum was flat at $520 million includes notable drop-offs.

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