Born the eldest son of a poor farming family, Ju-yung Chung worked initially as a dock laborer, construction worker and factory errand boy. Unphased even when an auto repair shop launched with all his assets was lost to a fire less than a month after opening, or his subsequent civil engineering firm lost its assets during the Korean War, Chung never gave in.
Continually taking on new challenges, he built leading Korean enterprises in construction, automobiles and shipbuilding, playing a leading role in the transformation of the nation’s industrial and economic fortunes. To this day, the late Founding Chairman is remembered as a pioneering business leader whose positive thinking, bold vision and relentless determination never failed to place the wellbeing of people and country at their core.
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