Chung Se-yung, the founder of South Korea's largest automaker, Hyundai, has died of pneumonia in Seoul. He was 78.
Chung Se-yung, a brother of the late Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-yung, set up Hyundai Motor in 1967 and helped to build the company into the world's fifth-largest carmaker.
Chung was chairman of the industrial giant until 1996.
Hyundai founder dies
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