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Chung Yong-jin is the chairman of Shinsegae Group.

Among Shinsegae Group's two main businesses, Shinsegae and Emart, he is in charge of Emart.

Focusing on the large-scale mart business, Emart, he leads supermarket, convenience store, specialty store, hotel, and complex shopping mall businesses. He acts as the head of Shinsegae Group on behalf of his mother, Lee Myung-hee, the general chairwoman of Shinsegae Group.

He was born on September 19, 1968, as the eldest son of Chung Jae-eun, honorary chairman of Shinsegae, and Lee Myung-hee, the general chairwoman of Shinsegae Group. Chung Yoo-kyung, the general president of Shinsegae, is his younger sister.

He attended Seoul National University, majoring in Western history, but dropped out and went to study abroad, graduating with a degree in economics from Brown University in the United States.

He started his career at Korea Fujitsu.

After joining Shinsegae as the executive director of the Strategic Planning Office, he served successively as managing director of the Planning and Coordination Office at Shinsegae Department Store, vice president of the Management Support Office at Shinsegae, and vice chairman of the Management Support Office at Shinsegae. He eventually became the vice chairman and CEO of both Shinsegae and Emart.

In 2024, he became the chairman of the group.