{"id":57339,"date":"2023-09-25T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?page_id=57339"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:09:31","slug":"sungjoo-kim-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/sungjoo-kim-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sungjoo Kim Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb57339-69eba6abb7f3b\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-gb57339-69eba6abb7f3b-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb57339-69eba6abb7f3b-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb57339-69eba6abb7f3b-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-51217\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sung-Joo-Kim.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"168\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sungjoo Kim<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Current\/ previous positions:<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Chair and Chief Visi<\/span>onary Officer, MCM Holdings AG (South Korea)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>In 1990, Sung Joo Kim founded the Sungjoo Group, Korea\u2019s foremost fashion industry leader which launched prominent European luxury brands including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel in the Asia Pacific region.\u00a0 After acquiring Germany\u2019s top luxury fashion brand MCM in 2005, she became its Chair and Chief Visionary Officer, successfully expanding its reach globally.\u00a0 Among many awards, she has been listed in <em>Forbes<\/em>\u2019 Top 50 Asian Business Women in 2012, and selected as one of Asia\u2019s 25 Hottest CEOs by <em>Fortune<\/em>.\u00a0 In 2015, she was appointed as an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contribution to strengthening bilateral ties between the UK and the Republic of Korea.\u00a0 In addition to her entrepreneurial pursuits, she served as President of the Korean Red Cross from 2014-2016 and is Chair of her foundation, focusing on supporting women\u2019s projects in different countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sungjoo Kim Current\/ previous positions: Chair and Chief Visionary Officer, MCM Holdings AG (South Korea) &nbsp; &nbsp; BIOGRAPHY In 1990, Sung Joo Kim founded the Sungjoo Group, Korea\u2019s foremost fashion industry leader which launched&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57341,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57339\/revisions\/57341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}