Lee+myung+bak


 * LEE MYUNG BAK (President of KOREA,** 李明博)

Lee Myung Bak, 1941-, South Korean business executive and politician, president of South Korea born in Osaka, Japan. He began his business career with Hyundai Construction in 1965, becoming the chief executive officer of the company in 1977. By the time he left the Hyundai Group in 1992 he had been CEO of eight Hyundai businesses and earned the nickname "The Bulldozer" for the drive with which he managed difficult projects. He was elected as a president of Korea in 2008.

He has 3 daughters and one son. He is married to Kim-Yoon-ok. []

Lee Myung-bak was born on December 19, 1941 in Osaka, Japan. His father, Lee Chung-u, was employed as a farm hand on a cattle ranch in Japan. His mother, Chae Taewon was a housewife. His name at birth was the Japanese-style "Akihiro Tsukiyama" "Lee Myungbak" is just the translation of this to Korean. His family emigrated to Japan during the Japanese colonization of Korea. Lee has three brothers and three sisters and is the fifth of seven children. After the end of World war II in 1945, his family returned to his father's hometown Po Hang, Gyeongsangbukdo, South Korea. Lee's sister, Lee Ki-sun, made it known that they smuggled themselves into the country in order to avoid the property they acquired in Japan being confiscated by the officials. However, because the ship they took was wrecked off the coast of Tsushima island, they lost all their belongings after all and the family barely survived.
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Lee attended night school at Dongji Commercial High School in Pohang on a full scholarship. A year after graduation, Lee gained admission to Korea university. In 1964, during his third year in college, Lee was elected president of the student council. That year, Lee participated in student demonstrations against President Park Chung hee's Seoul-Tokyo Talks taking issue with Japanese restitution for the colonization of the Korean peninsula. He was charged with plotting insurrection and was sentenced to five years probation and three years of imprisonment by the Supreme Court of Korea. He served a little under three months of his term at the Seodaemun prison in Seoul.

Lee Myung-bak is married to Kim Yoon-ok and has three daughters and one son. Lee is also a declared Christian and an elder at Somang Presbyterian Church in Seoul. Despite being a new employee, Lee was sent to Thailand to participate in the project. The project was successfully completed in March 1968, and Lee returned to Korea and was subsequently given charge of Hyundai's heavy machinery plant in Seoul. Lee pledged with Park Chung Hee not to protest any of Park's policy and in return of that promise, Park enforced Hyundai Construction to employ Lee Myung Bak. It was during his three decades with the Hyundai Group that Lee earned the nickname "Bulldozer". In one instance, he completely dismantled a malfunctioning bulldozer to study its mechanics and figure out how to repair it.

Lee became a company director at the age of 29 – just five years after he joined the company – and CEO at age 35, becoming Korea's youngest ever CEO. In 1988, he was named the chairman of Hyundai Construction at the age of 47. After leaving Hyundai at the end of a 27-year career, he decided to enter politics.

While he was CEO of Hyundai Construction, he obtained orders without receiving payments in order to make his business results prominent. So during his CEO term, Hyundai Construction had been sharpenly improved, but after he retired, "Bubble" was collapsed and Hyundai Construction falled into crisis situation.

What is success? Success is when you wanted or asked to do something, and you achieved that, it is success. What personal qualities are needed for success? We might need patience. And even if we fail, we have to try and do again. Success also needs a lot of works. Find a dictionary definition of success. The achievement of something desired, planned or attempted. Form your own definition of success (Ms Rogge's Workshop). To success, we need to study hard and take advices. We need to try for what we have to and not to be upset even if we fail. We also need patience, there are many chances. Success doesn't come fast so we have to prepare before success. What did you learn during Ms Rogge's workshop? I learned about success. Different ways and kinds of success. People's mind and personality related to success. Why do people fall short of achieving their potential? Because many of them don't know their potential and they don't find it. Why does God want us to achieve our full potential? To see how we achieve that and how we use it. What do you think about this WIKI project - compared to a written assignment? What do you like and dislike? I like that using computer, it is easier and faster. We can use internet so it was good. And I found this project is different from other project because we are doing this in a website and we show people about famous people who we have chosen.
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Student (Self) Evaluation** 25% = Part 1 = Information and bibliography = 20/25 25% = Part 2 = Contributions and Comments = 5/25 25% = Part 3 = Personal Reflections = 20/25 25% = Layout, appearance and design = 20/25 OVERALL STUDENT MARK = 65/100
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