South Korea’s 50 Richest
74 | FORBES ASIA JUNE 2018She controls one of the country’s oldest and most popular confectionery groups, Orion, whose revenue these days comes mostly from China. One of only five women
on the list, Lee, No. 30, is the second daughter of Lee Yang-Koo, founder of Dongyang, the precursor to the group. She’s now running its entertainment subsidiary
Showbox, which distributed the 2017 box oice hit A Taxi Driver, which raked in $85 million, making it the country’s second-highest-grossing film that year. Our
estimate of her fortune includes the wealth of her husband, Dam Chul-Gol, Orion Holdings’ chairman, who holds a 28.7% stake; Lee holds 32.6%.LEE HWA-KYUNG: MOVING TO THE SILVER SCREEN