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Suh Myoung Hwan is the Chairman and CEO of Daewon Cable and also serves as the CEO of Gapdo Mulsan, the holding company of Daewon Cable.

He was born on September 15, 1955, as the son of Suh Kang-Hee, the founder of the construction company Cheonghwa Enterprise.

Suh Myoung Hwan graduated from Kyungdong High School in Seoul and earned his degree in Textile Engineering from Hanyang University in 1980. He completed his graduate studies at the University of California in 1982.

In 1984, he became the CEO of Cheonghwa Enterprise, which was founded by his father, Suh Kang-Hee.

Since 1987, he has also been serving as the CEO of Gapdo Mulsan.

In 1999, Suh Myoung Hwan acquired Daewon Cable, which had sales of approximately 60 billion won at the time, and has since expanded it to a scale of around 500 billion won (as of 2023).

Since the acquisition in 1999, he has been the Chairman and CEO of Daewon Cable.

He has achieved domestic production of specialty high-voltage cables and instrumentation cables by obtaining UL certification, which has helped reduce reliance on imports. As the leading domestic manufacturer of automotive wires, Daewon Cable has developed fire-resistant, colorless, and odorless wires in collaboration with automobile manufacturers.

Looking ahead to the era of electric and hydrogen vehicles, Suh Myoung Hwan has proactively expanded the production capacity for automotive wires.