Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho, the billionaire tycoon who turned a chewing gum business into a sprawling corporate empire, died on Sunday in Seoul. He was 98. Born in the southeastern city of ...

Shin Kyuk-ho, the founder of South Korea’s Lotte Group, died on Sunday afternoon after being hospitalized in Seoul for a chronic illness, according to local news reports. He was 98. Kyuk-ho’s ...

Shin Kyuk-ho, a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into the Lotte Group, South Korea's biggest retailer, has died. He was 97. Shin had been ...

The Seoul Central District Court sentenced founder Shin Kyuk-ho to four years in prison but didn’t issue a warrant to arrest him in consideration of his age, court officials said on condition of ...

Shin Kyuk Ho, the 93-year-old founder of Korean-Japanese retail giant Lotte Group, has lost his board seat at the family-controlled conglomerate’s lodgings and duty-free sales unit Hotel Lotte ...

Nongshim, founded by the brother of the late Lotte founder Shin Kyuk-ho, disclosed the investment plan last week in a securities filing. The company’s shares have risen about 40% so far this ...

Shin Choon-ho had a hunch in the mid-1960s that instant ramen noodles could become a big business. He formed a company to make them despite opposition from his older brother, Shin Kyuk-ho, head of ...

Shin Kyuk-ho, founder and honorary chairman of retail giant Lotte Group, died Sunday of a chronic illness at age 99. Lotte said Shin died at 4:29 p.m. at Asan Medical Center in Seoul.

SEOUL, South Korea - Shin Kyuk-ho, who built a chewing-gum business into the hugely successful Lotte Group in South Korea and Japan, only to see his sons argue over the corporate empire ...

Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho, the billionaire tycoon who turned a chewing gum business into a sprawling corporate empire, died on Sunday in Seoul. He was 98. Shin’s death marks the end of an ...