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radiology department, which will
include X-ray, MRI and related
services. The couple’s Muangthai
Capital is one of Thailand’s big-
gest consumer finance compa-
nies. Last year they donated $1.7
million to Khirimat Hospital in
IU (LEE JI EUN), 26 Sukhothai. The couple began do-
Singer, Actress nating multimillion-dollar sums
SOUTH KOREA to healthcare centers throughout
Thailand in 2015, shortly after
The youngest to make the list, taking their company public.
the singer-actress, who goes —Danielle Keeton-Olsen
by her stage name IU, has
given a total of 900 million
won ($800,000) to a variety of
causes since 2018. This April she
donated to Gangwon Province YOU ZHONGHUI, 57
to help fund relief efforts after Chairman, Fortune High
a massive forest fire left nearly Investment Group; Chairman,
4,200 people homeless. She IU (Lee Ji Eun) Seaskyland Technologies
was the first of many celebrities, CHINA
including fellow K-pop stars PSY
You has committed $1.4 mil-
and Suzy Bae, to donate to that
cause. In March, she made a lion through her Fortune High
donation to the Seoul Associa- Investment, an educational
tion of the Deaf after starring in CHUCHAT PETAUMPAI, 66 assessment services group of
Chairman of the Executive which she owns 81%, to renovate
a drama series that highlighted
Committee, Muangthai Capital a boarding school in China’s
the lives of deaf and speech-
Guizhou province. The donation
impaired individuals. In May, DAONAPA PETAMPAI, 66
she donated to Childcare Korea, Managing Director, is being made through the Sun
an organization that serves un- Muangthai Capital Yat-sen Fraternity Foundation,
derprivileged children. IU, who THAILAND which will also administer it.
grew up poor, has made annual You gave $140,000 in 2017 to
donations of 300 million won The husband and wife duo this upgrade a wildlife rescue station
to 500 million won to various year made their largest single for black snub-nosed monkeys in
charities for the past five years. contribution to healthcare in Guizhou’s Fanjingshan National
—Jihyun Park Reserve. The same year she be-
Thailand, donating roughly $2.7 came the first woman from China
million to Bangkok’s Thammasat to sign the Giving Pledge created
University Hospital to construct by Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and
Chuchat Petaumpai
an outpatient building for its Warren Buffett. —Jane Ho
HANS SY, 64
Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee and Director, SM Prime
PHILIPPINES

Child Haus in July opened its
newly renovated and expanded
center in Quezon City to house
40 cancer-stricken children and
their caregivers. Sy, previously
CEO of property firm SM Prime,
paid $400,000 in 2010 for the
property, which now provides
poor provincial families with
temporary shelter, as well as
programs and activities that
promote healing. On his 60th
birthday in 2015, Sy bought the COURTESY OF IU; BRENT LEWIN/BLOOMBERG; COURTESY OF CHILD HAUS
land for Child Haus’ first location
in Manila for $600,000 and paid
$1.4 million to build it. Opened in
2017, he still covers its operating
expenses. Sy’s associates have
become cosponsors and provide
Child Haus with additional
financial support and in-kind Hans Sy with some of his beneficiaries
contributions. —Grace Chung

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