Hotel Shilla CEO Lee ranks 85th on Forbes' 100 most powerful women

Samsung heiress and Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin ranked 85th on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women selected by Forbes.

Lee, who leads Samsung Group's luxury hotel and duty-free shop business unit, is the only Korean on the list this year. She ranked 89th last year.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen topped the 19th annual Forbes list, followed by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, US Vice President Kamala Harris, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Fidelity Investments CEO Abigail Johnson.

Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan, was the highest-ranking Asian on the list at 17th. MacKenzie Scott, novelist and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, fell from the top spot last year to 11th this year.

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Jihyun Kim edited this article.