The Billionaire Who Repaid a Childhood Debt With 1,001 Cows
Chung Ju-yung and the 1,001 Cows of Redemption: When a Personal Debt Became National History In modern Korean history, few acts carry as much symbolic and emotional weight as that of Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the Hyundai industrial empire. In 1998, he shocked the world with a gesture that was neither business nor politics…