In the super-rich families in China, Korea, and Japan, most of them have a traditional mindset that their sons should shoulder and inherit the career.
But in the two giant empires Samsung and Huawei, there are talented geniuses. Their reputation is known no less, even more than that of men. That is “Great Princess Huawei” Manh Van Chu and “Samsung Princess” Lee Boo Jin.
2 talented princesses of world-famous mighty empires
Lee Boo Jin was born in 1970, the second daughter of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun Hee. She is the model of “powerful woman” in the Korean business world. In college, even though she majored in art, when she graduated, the great lady of the Lee family still went back to the family company to work.
Currently, Lee Boo Jin is the President and CEO of Hotel Shilla – one of Seoul’s leading hotel and convention centers. Hotel Shilla is also the largest duty-free operator in the country after Lotte. Currently, Lee Boo-Jin ranks 16th in the list of the richest billionaires in Korea with a fortune of 1.6 billion USD. She ranked 1730 in the list of the richest billionaires in the world published by Forbes. In addition, Lee Boo Jin is also ranked 87th among the most powerful women in the world.
After just over 10 years at the helm, Lee Boo Jin has brought Shilla to the highest annual revenue milestone in the history of the business. The hotel chain’s stock doubled and helped Korea get its first Louis Vuitton airport duty-free store. The other sister of the Samsung family, Lee Seo Hyun, was also assigned a separate business, but did not make the same impression as her sister. Korean media said that Lee Boo Jin was a “daughter of wine” who was very popular with the late President because of his leadership style exactly like his father.
Meanwhile, in China, Manh Van Chu (born in 1972) is also a woman who is wildly admired for her talent and bravery. Unlike Miss Samsung, when she was born, the Huawei empire did not exist. When Manh Van Chu was born, Nham Chinh Phi was still a construction worker in the army, the whole family of 4 lived in a small dilapidated apartment.
In college, Manh Van Chu studied accounting at Shenzhen University – a fairly ordinary school, not too famous in his hometown. There are even some rumors that Manh Van Chu dropped out of high school to go to Huawei – the company founded by his father – to work from a very young age. Her first job at Huawei, although called a secretary, was actually sitting all day stamping documents.
At the age of 20, when his family began to have more conditions, Manh Van Chu intended to study for a master’s degree. She cherished a plan to study in the US but was rejected right from the “parking round” due to poor English. After that, she chose to attend a domestic school, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. But this is also a school not for ordinary people. The school is ranked national key level under the Ministry of Education of China, is one of the leading general universities in the country.
Despite being the President’s son, Manh Van Chu must also go up slowly, not be biased at Huawei. She was at Huawei for a long time and no one knew that she was the daughter of the Chairman. She was commented on as extremely hard working, trying, eager to learn, and able to endure hardships. Those are the qualities that help Manh Van Chu to gradually advance to a high position in Huawei and receive the admiration and respect of everyone.
Although both Manh Van Chu and Lee Bo Jin have older brothers – who are defaulted to be the “princes” of the corporation, but not so that the two princesses are overshadowed.
All broken marriages
The life of the real-life princesses is not smooth, as bold as a fairy tale. The same goes for Miss Samsung and Huawei. Although they are good and strong in the market, when they return to their home to become wives and mothers, they have all failed.
In 1999, the great lady Lee Boo Jin once shocked her family when she decided to marry “Cinderella” Im Woo Jae – an “insignificant” employee in Samsung at that time. Despite the fierce opposition of his parents, Lee Boo Jin still chose the call of love. To be worthy of the “princess”, the “pro-horse” guy Im Woo Jae was sent by the Lee family to study in the US, promoted and created many conditions for career development.
Lim Woo Jae shared about his pressure in his rich wife’s family, “The time to prepare to study abroad was the most difficult time in my life. I was so depressed that I tried to end this life. I hugged him. get married and cry like a baby.” Later, Lim Woo Jae was promoted to the highest advisor of a business in the group. Soon after, the company ran into problems, and Lim was annoyed and irritated by outside rumors. In his heart, he never accepted his lack of ability. Samsung of course doesn’t allow an incompetent person there. The staff would sometimes mock Lim. When he heard about it, he started smoking, drinking, going out to find women and even domestic violence when Lee Boo Jin was pregnant.
In 2014, Lee Boo Jin filed for divorce after 15 years of being together because the two sides had too many differences. It was a tumultuous and tumultuous divorce. Lim Woo Jae reacted to all allegations related to his domestic violence when his wife was pregnant, accusing him of drinking alcohol or finding women outside.
Not only that, the proud groom also criticized his wife for not creating conditions for him to fulfill his husband’s and father’s duties to his son. It was not until 2017 that the divorce case had a final verdict. On both sides of the road, Lim Woo Jae received an amount of $ 7.6 million (more than VND 175 billion) and gave up child custody. He also left the Samsung group shortly after. However, then this husband continued to file a lawsuit, demanding a compensation of up to $ 1.1 billion but failed. After the divorce, Lee Boo Jin continued his life with successive successes at work. Currently, she is the “brilliant heir” at Samsung Group and a highly admired powerful billionaire.
Manh Van Chu also married his father’s employee, but the ending was much happier, at least for now. Her husband is Liu Xiaozong, 4 years younger than her. Before getting married in 2007, Liu Xiaozong was a loyal employee of Huawei for 11 years. The couple has a daughter and is still together. During the 3 years Manh Van Chu was under house arrest in Canada, her husband was one of the people who always accompanied and helped her regain her freedom.
But few people know that the great princess Huawei also went through a boat with a broken marriage. She also has 3 sons with her ex-husband. The identity of Meng Wanzhou’s former husband was not disclosed and remains a mystery to the Chinese media. Currently, Huawei’s sons are between the ages of 14 and 20 years old.
Although in different countries, driving two corporations, even rivals in the field of technology, but Manh Van Chu, Lee Boo Jin and many other talented geniuses have proven to the world the ability, bravery of modern women. They are all typical role models of “powerful women” and have redefined the prejudice that young men and women only know how to enjoy themselves and be lucky.
