Billionaire Seo Jung Jin makes a spectacular breakthrough to become the richest person in Korea in 2021

Seo Jung-jin

Assets: $12.5 billion

Increase/decrease compared to 2020: 1.1 billion USD

Source of wealth: Biotechnology, Celltrion

Seo Jung-jin is the co-founder of the biopharmaceutical company Celltrion based in Incheon, South Korea. Mr. Seo first appeared on Forbes' list of world billionaires in 2013 with a fortune of $1.2 billion. In March this year, Mr. Seo resigned as Chairman of Celltrion Grou .

Mr. Seo Jung-jin came from a poor family in a poor working family who lived by selling briquettes, billionaire Seo Jung Jin used to work as a taxi driver to earn money to study at Konkuk University in Seoul.
After completing his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, he joined the ranks of engineers at Daewoo Motor, then lost his job when the car company declared bankruptcy because it could not survive the Asian financial crisis.