Hyeon Jeongeun

Hyun Jeong-eun (; born 26 January 1955) is a South Korean businesswoman and the chairwoman of the Hyundai Group.

Education Hyun Jeong-eun graduated from Kyunggi Girls' High School in 1972. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1976 and a Master of Arts in Sociology in 1979 from Ewha Womans University. She later obtained a Master of Arts in Human Development from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1983.

Biography Hyun Jeong-eun was born on January 26, 1955, as the second daughter among four daughters to her father, Hyun Young-won, and her mother, Kim Moon-hee. In 1976, she married Chung Mong-hun, with whom she had one son and two daughters.

On August 4, 2003, her husband Chung Mong-hun died and she succeeded him and was inaugurated as the new chairwoman of the Hyundai Group on October 21, 2003.

On August 16, 2009, in her capacity as chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, she met with Kim Jong Il, the then leader of North Korea. The politician Kim Moo-sung is her maternal uncle.

Career

1983~1998 Korea Girl Scout Association, Member of International Committee & National Development Committee 1988~1991 Korea Association of Univ. Women, Member of Financial Committee 1998~2007 Korea Girl Scout Association, Director of National Headquarters 2005~2008 Member of the Presidential Committee on Government Innovation and Decentralization 2006~2008 The Civil Service Commission, Member of the Advisory Council on Personnel Policy 2011~2019 Embassy of Brazil in Korea, Honorary Consul 2013~2025 Ewha Haktang, Director 2019~2021 National Unification Advisory Council, Vice Chairperson 1999~ Korea National Red Cross, Member of Special Advisory Council in the Women Volunteer’s Community 2003~ Hyundai Group, Chairman 2013~ Seoul Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vice Chairman 2019~ The National Trust for Cultural Heritage, Director 2020~ North Chungcheong Province, Honorary Governor

Awards and honors

2006 Received Pinnacle Award from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. 2006 Received a ‘21st Century CEO’ Award from Ewha Univ. 2009 Received a ‘Proud Kyunggi Alumni Award’ from Kyunggi Girls’ High School 2010 Received a ‘Person of the Year Award’ form the Women’s News 2010 Received a ‘Kim Hwal-Ran Women Leaders Award’ from Korean National Council of Women 2012 Named ‘MK Economy’s CEO of the Year 2012’ 2012 Listed in the ‘Forbes Asia list of 50 top Asian businesswomen’ 2013 Received a ‘Proud Ewha Alumni Award’ from Ewha Univ. 2013 Received the Order of ‘Rio Branco’ from the Brazilian Government 2015 Received Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit from the Korean Government