The founder of Lotte, representative company of Japan and South Korea, dies.

● Mr. Shin Gyeokho (Japanese name: Takeo Shigemitsu) died on April 19th at 4:30 pm. At the age of ninety-nine

● He was born in Korea and went to Japan, where he saw gum from the US military in Japan and produced gum in Japan.

● Shin-Okubo's gum factory soon became the spot of “Lover of the mouth”

* The name of “Lotte” is derived from the characters of the novel “The sadness of young Bertel”.