30 Lee Dong-gull, Korea Development Bank
Having become the first head of the state-run bank in 26 years to serve a second three-year term, the chairman has his work cut out for him
KDB has been seeing a seemingly never-ending stream of troubled debtors as the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on many economies, including South Korea’s, has aggravated an already bad situation; so the chairman may get drawn to more urgent corporate rescues in other sectors in the bank's portfolio