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Chairman of LS Group
Koo Ja-eun
LS Nears KRW 50T Vision, Plans KRW 12T Investment
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Last Updated on Mar 31, 2026
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Chairman of LS Group
Life Summary
Koo Ja-eun is Chairman of LS Group.
He is striving to expand production capacity in the group’s core power equipment business and to create concrete results in future growth businesses such as batteries, electric vehicles, and semiconductors, with the goal of raising group assets to KRW 50 trillion (US$ 36.0 billion) by 2030.
In line with the group’s unique tradition of “cousin management,” he is leading the group until 2029 and serving as a bridge to the era of the “third generation of owners” afterward.
He was born in Seoul on October 18, 1964, as the third of four children, with one son and three daughters, of Koo Du-hoe, Honorary Chairman of Yesco Holdings.
He graduated from Hongik University High School in Seoul and from the business administration department at Benedictine University in the United States. He completed an MBA program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the United States.
He joined LG Caltex Oil and later moved to LG Electronics.
When LS Group separated from LG Group, he moved to LS Electric.
At LS Cable, he served as head of the Injection System Business Division and head of the Communications Business Headquarters, and after serving as executive vice president of LS-Nikko Copper, he became CEO and President of LS Cable in 2012.
After serving as CEO of LS Mtron, he took office as chairman in 2022.
Since the LG days, he has broadened his insight by working across various affiliates in different fields, and at LS Group he has continued to advance as a manager, renewing record-high performances on the back of strong conditions in the group’s key businesses.
He places importance on a horizontal organizational culture and is making diverse and unconventional attempts to change the typically conservative atmosphere of the power industry.
He is showing leadership marked by soft charisma.
Within the group, he is recognized as an overseas sales expert who is fluent in foreign languages such as English, Chinese, and Japanese.
There were no major typos in the original Korean text, but “1남3녀 가운데 셋째” could sound slightly awkward in English if translated literally, so it was rendered naturally as “the third of four children, with one son and three daughters.”
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He is striving to expand production capacity in the group’s core power equipment business and to create concrete results in future growth businesses such as batteries, electric vehicles, and semiconductors, with the goal of raising group assets to KRW 50 trillion (US$ 36.0 billion) by 2030.
In line with the group’s unique tradition of “cousin management,” he is leading the group until 2029 and serving as a bridge to the era of the “third generation of owners” afterward.
He was born in Seoul on October 18, 1964, as the third of four children, with one son and three daughters, of Koo Du-hoe, Honorary Chairman of Yesco Holdings.
He graduated from Hongik University High School in Seoul and from the business administration department at Benedictine University in the United States. He completed an MBA program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the United States.
He joined LG Caltex Oil and later moved to LG Electronics.
When LS Group separated from LG Group, he moved to LS Electric.
At LS Cable, he served as head of the Injection System Business Division and head of the Communications Business Headquarters, and after serving as executive vice president of LS-Nikko Copper, he became CEO and President of LS Cable in 2012.
After serving as CEO of LS Mtron, he took office as chairman in 2022.
Since the LG days, he has broadened his insight by working across various affiliates in different fields, and at LS Group he has continued to advance as a manager, renewing record-high performances on the back of strong conditions in the group’s key businesses.
He places importance on a horizontal organizational culture and is making diverse and unconventional attempts to change the typically conservative atmosphere of the power industry.
He is showing leadership marked by soft charisma.
Within the group, he is recognized as an overseas sales expert who is fluent in foreign languages such as English, Chinese, and Japanese.
There were no major typos in the original Korean text, but “1남3녀 가운데 셋째” could sound slightly awkward in English if translated literally, so it was rendered naturally as “the third of four children, with one son and three daughters.”
#LSGroup #KooJaeun #LSChairman #Koreabusiness #powerequipment #batterybusiness #electricvehicles #semiconductorindustry #cousinmanagement #Koreanchaebol