Kim Woo-choong, the disgraced founder of the now-collapsed Daewoo business group whose rise and fall symbolized South Korea’s turbulent rapid economic growth in the 1970s, has died at a hospital outside the country’s capital. He was 82.
Born in 1936, when the Korean peninsula was under Japan’s 35-year colonial rule, Kim started as a textile salesman and built Daewoo Corp. in 1967. The company grew into South Korea’s second-largest business empire, producing items including clothes, cars, ships, TV sets, refrigerators and other electronics.
Hope we make his return worthy of his work ethic and intentions. When the greats checkout, it’s f***ing beyond hard to continue moving like it didn’t matter.
RIP to his car company that lasted a whole 5 years in the US of A.