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Shin Kyuk-Ho (Japanese: Takeo Shigemitsu, born 4 October 1922) is a Korean businessman. He founded and led the Lotte group. == Career == Shin is the founder of the Lotte group. He was born in Ulsan, Korea in 1922 and founded Lotte in 1948, which grew from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan to becoming a major multinational corporation with overseas branches in dozens of countries and products shipped worldwide. It is now South Korea's eighth largest conglomerate. Shin was impressed with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774) and named his company Lotte after the character Charlotte in the novel. In 2005, Shin was ranked 387th on ''Forbes'' magazine's World's Richest People list, and moved up to 136th place in 2006.〔(Shin Kyuk-Ho & family, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com )〕 He currently resides in South Korea for odd months and in Japan for even months. However, reporters have noticed that Shin has been staying in South Korea since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan.〔()〕 Shin started his company two years after graduating from Waseda Jitsugyo High School (Japanese: 早稲田実業学校) in Tokyo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shin Kyuk-ho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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