SEOUL: Shin Kyuk-ho (pic), a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into Lotte Group, South Korea’s biggest retailer, has died. He was 97.
Shin had been hospitalised in Seoul to get medical treatment for various age-related symptoms and passed away yesterday at 4:29 pm, Lotte Group said in a statement.
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