[ Global Billionaires Series 89 ] Meritz Financial Group Chairman Cho Jung-ho's Epic
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A Giant of Yeouido, an Unrivaled Financial Empire Forged by the Radical Separation of Ownership and Management 1. Prologue: A Giant of Finance Standing Tall on the Rough Sea of Capital As the protagonist ranked 89th in the 2026 World's Billionaires Top 100 series, Chairman Cho Jung-ho of Meritz Financial Group—who established South Korea's Meritz Financial Group as a revolutionary giant that completely shook the paradigm of the domestic capital market—has written an epic that profoundly penetrates far beyond a mere financial tycoon's success story. Some may easily dismiss him as a second-generation chaebol heir who comfortably amassed assets within the hereditary background of being the founder's son of Hanjin Group. However, that single casual word can never fully capture the decades of meticulous governance restructuring he underwent, his radical breakthrough of mercilessly shattering conventional practices to delegate absolute authority to professional executives, ...