After the death of the late Samsung patriarch Lee Kun-hee, the new owner of the single-family house inherited by the Samsung family has been identified as a woman entrepreneur born in 1984.
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's actual transaction price disclosure system and court registry records on the 17th, the buyer of the dwellings located in Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, is Chair Kang Na-yeon (41) of Taehwa Holdings, a corporations specializing in energy and steel trade, and Kang's minor child (11). The transaction took place on Jun. 13 at a price of 22.8 billion won.
Ownership was transferred on the 12th, three months after the transaction. Chair Kang and the child hold equity stakes of 85% and 15%, respectively.
Built in 1976, the dwellings has one basement level and two above-ground floors, with a site area and total floor area of 1,073.1 square meters and 496.9 square meters, respectively.
In September 2010, the late chairman bought the dwellings from Saehan Media Co. for 8.2847 billion won. Saehan Media was run by the late Lee Chang-hee, the chairman's second-oldest brother.
After the late chairman died in 2020, the dwellings was inherited in 2021 under joint ownership by his wife, Hong Ra-hee, honorary director of the Leeum Museum of Art, and their children: Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hotel Shilla President Lee Boo-jin, and Samsung C&T President Lee Seo-hyun.
The industry believes the Samsung family sold the dwellings to secure funds for inheritance taxes. The Samsung owner family, which inherited an estate worth about 26 trillion won, is paying 12 trillion won in inheritance taxes over six years through an installment payment plan.