Did he? Money is no guarantee for happiness or comfort. Considering his position and how young he died, he likely had a very stressful live, and little time for his personal enjoyments. At least, he hadn't enough time to take care of his own health.

My assumption is, he worked hard to gain money, and died before he reached the point where he could fully use it for his personal benefit. Which is indeed sad.

Do you actually know anything about his life? I don't know how you can make that assumption at all.

No, I don't, which is why I wrote it's "my assumption". What I know is the life of managers, high performers, Korean culture, and that he died too young. People in that position usually have an awful work/live-balance, too much stress, not enough time for their own personality and self-fulfillment because of a toxic environment.

The average life expectancy in South Korea seems 82.68 years. So he died nearly 20 years too early, with wealth which should allow him to outlive the expectancy by 20 years instead. So yeah, my assumption is he had all the money, but not enough fun.

He reached to top of his profession, high social status, decent money. Maybe it is USA/western obsession with longevity. From where I am, people would totally fine if someone died in 60s after such high level accomplishments.

Absolutely wild how people will just make up a story to fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and believe it.

This makes me think... how is it that in 2025, a 63 year old super rich guy can die of a heart attack.

By now, we should have some sort of portable appliance a medication that would save us from sudden heart attack.

Unless there is zero probability someone rich can die of heart attack even if they are billionaire. Overall they are dying less from preventable/lifestyle diseases which is reasonable expectation.