LS Group 3rd Generation Sanghyun Lee, CEO of Ta-in, Receives Chairman's Commendation from the National Unification Advisory Council

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Contributed to inter-Korean sports and cultural exchanges...Visited Pyongyang 3 times

Lee Sang-hyun, CEO of Ta-in and third-generation member of the LS Group (right), receiving the Chairperson's Commendation from the National Unification Advisory Council and posing for a commemorative photo with Kim Kwan-yong, Senior Vice Chairperson of the National Unification Advisory Council. (Photo by Ta-in)

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] Taein announced on the 22nd that Lee Sanghyun, CEO and third-generation member of LS Group, received the Chairperson's Commendation from the National Unification Advisory Council.

The National Unification Advisory Council is a presidential advisory body on peace and unification policy under the Constitution. It awards commendations to those who have contributed to realizing a free, peaceful, and prosperous Korean Peninsula through their activities.

CEO Lee visited Pyongyang three times for inter-Korean sports exchanges, starting with attending the opening event of the Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium in 2003.

In 2003, while serving as president of the Hanyang University Business School Student Council, he visited Kim Il Sung University. In 2004, as president of the Hanyang University Student Council, he led the first bicycle trip to Mount Kumgang as the leader of the National University Students' Land Pilgrimage Corps.

He later served as a member of the Korea Sports Council's Inter-Korean Sports Exchange Committee. Currently, he is also active as a sports committee member of the National Council for Peace and Cooperation (Minhwahyeop).

CEO Lee is known as an expert on North Korean stamps and currency, having visited the Pyongyang Korean Stamp Corporation. In 2018, the South Korean government hosted a stamp exhibition and for the first time established a special North Korean stamp exhibition hall featuring Lee's collection. In 2019, invited by the Ministry of Unification, he contributed to restoring inter-Korean identity through the 'Lee Sangdongmong' North-South Stamp Exhibition, focusing on the history and culture of both Koreas. The 2019 exhibition continued as a detailed exhibition at the Ministry of Unification's Inter-Korean Integrated Culture Center this year. Since November 2015, he has been serializing a fixed column titled 'North and South Seen Through Stamps' 44 times over seven years in 'Minjok Hwahae,' the bimonthly magazine of Minhwahyeop.

CEO Lee is also active as the president of the Korea Hockey Association. In May last year, he attended the 47th International Hockey Federation Board meeting and led inter-Korean hockey exchanges. He expressed his ambition, saying, "We will strive to promote inter-Korean harmony through hockey by facilitating mutual training visits and forming unified teams."

CEO Lee is the grandson of the late Koo Taehoe, honorary chairman of LS Cable & System and founder of LS Group. He authored Korea's first donation guidebook, 'Korea Donation Guidebook.' He donated materials to the Ahn Junggeun Memorial Hall and entrusted the first discovered photo of the Dokdo marker to a national institution. In 2018, he joined the Honor Society, a high-donor group of the Community Chest of Korea.

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