[ Global Billionaires Series 88] Kakao Chairman Kim Beom-su
The Visionary Changemaker and the Celestial Trajectory Through Four Pillars of Destiny Introduction: The Giant Who Shook South Korea's IT Ecosystem, The Life and Era Trajectory of Kim Beom-su Born on March 8, 1966, in a barren and impoverished rural environment in Damyang, Jeollanam-do, Kim Beom-su is today one of South Korea's most unique self-made entrepreneurs who completely reshaped the landscape of modern Korean IT industry. Entering the Industrial Engineering Department at Seoul National University, he acquired logical reasoning and systemic thinking, later earning a master's degree from the graduate school. He began his career as an ordinary corporate engineer and office worker. However, deep within his inner self burned an ambition and insight that rejected a complacent life and sought to redraw a massive new playing field. The economic deprivation and the needle's eye of survival he had to endure during his childhood were not merely sufferings; they served as ...