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Biography
Suh Kyung-bae (born 1963) is a South Korean businessman. He is the Chairman & CEO of Amorepacific Group, a Korean cosmetics company founded by his father Suh Sung-whan in 1945.
Life and career
Suh Kyung-bae was born in South Korea in 1963. He received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University and an MBA from Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
In 1997, Suh inherited the company from his father and guided the company’s expansion to a global beauty company. According to Forbes, Amorepacific became one of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies.
In 2006, Suh was decorated with Légion d'honneur by the French government. In 2015, he was selected as the ‘Businessman of the Year’ by Forbes Asia Magazine and in 2017, was ranked World’s 20th, Asia’s 2nd best-performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review and INSEAD Business School.
Suh is married with two children and lives in Seoul.
Non-profit work
In 2016, Suh established Suh Kyung-bae Science Foundation. Since 2017, the foundation has awarded 14 scientists grants of between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion won.