the.com/lee kun hee
turned a fish-and-noodle trading company into the phone in your pocket.
means the late chairman who transformed samsung from a cheap-goods conglomerate into a global electronics juggernaut through ruthless reinvention.
from born 1942 in daegu, korea, third son of samsung founder lee byung-chul, he inherited the group in 1987 and spent the next three decades betting the company on quality over quantity.
burning declaration1993, ordered staff to change everything but wives, kids
literal burningtorched 150,000 defective phones in 1995 protest
net worth peakover 20 billion dollars, korea richest man
art collectiondonated 23,000 artworks worth billions after death
for instance
gumi phone bonfire — burned faulty anycall phones to force quality culture
samsung electronics ipo era — grew it into world's top memory chip maker by 1990s