Lee Boo-jin
President and CEO, Hotel Shilla
Rank on list: 90
Net worth: $2 billion
Source of wealth: Samsung
Citizenship: South Korea
The president and chief executive of Hotel Shilla, one of Seoul’s top lodging and conference centers, has also served as an advisor for the trading department of Samsung C&T, her family’s de-facto holding company. With her brother embroiled in a bribery scandal, Boo-jin has been speculated as a possible successor to the family empire. Hotel Shilla is also the country’s biggest duty-free operator after Lotte.