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Unorthdox Korean CEOs?

 
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:36 am    Post subject: Unorthdox Korean CEOs? Reply with quote

I rarely if ever read business magazines. Do any Korean CEOs come to mind that are a little eccentric / unorthodox / super-intelligent? Somebody that dropped out of high school and started a huge corporation, somebody who walks two hours to work and back, takes Maltese lessons during the lunch break, has already booked a ticket on the space plane that's scheduled to launch under Virgin Galactic, somebody like that. Eccentric Korean billionaires. Billionaire just meaning anybody with a lot of money, not necessarily someone with a billion bits of any certain currency.
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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/samsung.html
don't know if it quite classifies as eccentric, but definitely interesting
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a biography of that Jung/Chung guy who started Hyundae...the one who took a herd of cattle to the North back in '00. He once had the grass painted green so foreign dignitaries would be impressed. The bio is worth a read.
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Paji eh Wong



Joined: 03 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I imagine those Chaebol heads are a little like great heavyweights. When you start running out of people to compare yourself to, you start getting a little kooky.
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Universalis



Joined: 17 Nov 2003
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Korean CEO's are little emperors...

I heard a rumor that Chung Ju-hyung from Hyundai used to pay beautiful young actresses and models bucketloads of money just to hang out at his place naked while he was around.

Brian
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Saxiif



Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Universalis wrote:
Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Korean CEO's are little emperors...

I heard a rumor that Chung Ju-hyung from Hyundai used to pay beautiful young actresses and models bucketloads of money just to hang out at his place naked while he was around.

Brian

Money well spent.
I wish I could afford that Sad
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darrin312



Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Location: Kyopoville

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saxiif wrote:
Universalis wrote:
Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Korean CEO's are little emperors...

I heard a rumor that Chung Ju-hyung from Hyundai used to pay beautiful young actresses and models bucketloads of money just to hang out at his place naked while he was around.

Brian

Money well spent.
I wish I could afford that Sad


Seriously- I dont see anything wrong with that.
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