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Dr. Je Woo Kim on How South Korea Rewrote Its Future
Dr. Jae Woo Kim grew up on a farm in rural South Korea in the 1960s and '70s without electricity — and went on to become a Samsung engineer, a Qualcomm veteran, and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. In this episode, host Joe Pardavila sits down with Dr. Kim to unpack his book, The Rise of Seoul: South Korea's Journey from Rags to Riches, and the extraordinary six-decade transformation he lived through firsthand.They dig into why Korea split into North and South after World War II, what it was actually like growing up by kerosene lamp, and how a "local brand" called Samsung went from making home…
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