SOUTH KOREA Trinity Golf Club, Seoul

Any day now, South Korea’s richest woman is expected to break ground on her second golf course, a Tommy Fazio-designed layout in suburban Seoul.

The 7,400-yard track will be the featured attraction of Trinity Country Club, and Fazio says it’ll be “one of the hardest, maybe the hardest course in South Korea.”

The club is being developed by Lee Myung-hee, the daughter of Samsung’s late founder and, according to Forbes, South Korea’s seventh-richest person (estimated net worth: $1.79 billion). Her brother, Lee Kun-hee, who recently resigned as Samsung’s chairman, is South Korea’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of $2.32 billion.

Lee is the chairwoman of Shinsegae Group, which owns several hundred stores of various kinds, including the nation’s Starbucks outlets. Its flagship holding is Shinsegae Centum City in Busan, which Guinness World Records says is the world’s largest department store. (It’s a colossus, with eight floors of shopping, a spa, an ice rink, a golf driving range.)

Fazio’s golf course will take shape on property near Lee’s first golf course, Jayu Country Club. Lee hopes to open it in 2012.