Jeong Ju-yung is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Jeong Ju-yung as South Korean businessman (1915–2001).
Jeong Ju-yung was born at Tongchon County in 1915. His recorded nationality is South Korea. He was educated at George Washington University and Waseda University.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as entrepreneur, autobiographer and politician.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from South Korea shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Jeong Ju-yung died in 2001, aged 86. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at George Washington University and Waseda University
