Lee Joo-sung

Lee Joo-sung
이주성
Born (1978-08-11) August 11, 1978 (age 46)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Columbia University
Occupation(s)President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings
Board member ofSeAH Steel Holdings
SeAH Steel Corp.

Lee Joo-sung (Korean: 이주성; born 1978) is a South Korean businessman.[1] He is the President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings, a large Korean steel conglomerate, since January 2022, and the largest shareholder of the company.[2][3]

Biography

Lee Joo-sung was born in 1978, in Seoul. He is son of the current SeAH Group chairman Lee Soon-hyung and grandson of the corporation's founder Lee Jong-deok. This makes him a third-generation descendant of the conglomerate, together with his cousin Lee Tae-sung. He majored in Economics and East Asian Languages & Civilizations in the University of Chicago (2001) and received an MBA from Columbia University in 2011.

He took a leading role as Senior Executive Vice President in SeAH Steel in 2018, after SeAH Steel Corp. demerged into two separate entities.[4] In January 2022, Lee was promoted to President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings.[2]

In the present, Lee is actively diversifying the company activities by investing in renewable energy in UK, Denmark and other European Countries.[5] Lee created the UK-based subsidiary SeAH Wind and negotiated with the British government the construction of the world's biggest offshore wind power facility.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Joo-Sung Lee, Seah Steel Holdings: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  2. ^ a b "Lee Joo-sung Named President & CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings". Bloomberg.com. 2022-02-15. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  3. ^ "이태성 '특수강'·이주성 '강관' 동반 '호실적'…세아그룹 사촌경영 안착?". 종합일간지 : 신문/웹/모바일 등 멀티 채널로 국내외 실시간 뉴스와 수준 높은 정보를 제공 (in Korean). 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  4. ^ "SeAH Steel to split into holding and operating units by Sept. 1 - Pulse by Maeil Business News Korea". m.pulsenews.co.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  5. ^ 최, 지원 (2022-08-12). "[살길은융합-철강편②] 세아제강 이주성, 해상풍력 100개 '새 바람'". 신아일보 (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  6. ^ "코로나19에도 빛난 세아제강지주 이주성 부사장의 '리더쉽'". 철강금속신문 (in Korean). 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2023-01-11.