Shin Dong-bin

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean. (July 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 417 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Korean Wikipedia article at [[:ko:]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated page}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (July 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,616 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated page}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Shin Dong-bin
신동빈
Shin at the Asia Summit of World Travel & Tourism Council in Seoul, South Korea in September 2010
Born	(1956-02-14) February 14, 1956 (age 65) Tokyo, Japan[1]
Nationality	Japan (1956~1995) South Korea (1996~)
Alma mater	Columbia University (M.B.A.) Aoyama Gakuin University (B.A.)
Occupation	CEO of Lotte Corporation
Parents	Shin Kyuk-ho (father) Hatsuko Shigemitsu (mother)
Korean name
Hangul	신동빈
Hanja	辛東彬
Revised Romanization	Sin Dong-bin
McCune–Reischauer	Sin Tong-pin

Shin Dong-bin (Korean: 신동빈; Hanja: 辛東彬; born February 14, 1956) is a Korean-Japanese businessman. He also has a Japanese name Akio Shigemitsu (Japanese: 重光昭夫, romanized: Shigemitsu Akio). As of 2012, he was CEO of the South Korean conglomerate Lotte Corporation and the Japanese Chiba Lotte Marines baseball team. He is the second son of Shin Kyuk-ho (Takeo Shigemitsu), founder and first CEO of Lotte and his Japanese wife. He is the younger brother of Hiroyuki Shigemitsu (Korean name Shin Dong-ju), CEO of the Japanese Lotte Group. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a B.A. in economics in 1977 and from Columbia University with an MBA.^[3]

On December 22, 2017, a Seoul district court handed down to Shin a two-year suspension of a jail sentence with embezzlement and breach of trust in October 2016.^[4]

On February 13, 2018, Shin was sentenced to 30 months in prison after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of charges stemming from Lotte's decision to give ₩7 billion (US$6.5 million) to Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of former President of South Korea Park Geun-hye, in exchange for government favors in providing a license to operate duty-free stores.^[5] On October 5, 2018, a South Korean appeals upheld Shin's conviction, but also agreed to suspend his sentence to time already served, thus setting him free.^[6]

References[]

This biographical article about a South Korean personality is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This biographical article related to Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t