On Tuesday the 31st at 8:30 p.m., KBS2's '셀럽병사의 비밀' episode 50 will focus on the turbulent life of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and the hidden stories behind it. It unfolds how a young man who gave up studying abroad because of beriberi and wandered between gambling halls wrote the semiconductor miracle the world had called impossible, and his dramatic journey is revealed.
Say it with numbers, "don't remember it, record it"... perfectionism more dramatic than drama
Lee Byung-chul's first business was a rice mill in Masan. Having relied on hunches and rumors and losing more than half his capital in the first year, he took out the books for the past year and worked the abacus through the night. The one iron rule he found at the end became the driving force that raised Samsung into a global corporation. He placed a bet to fully recover the losses within a year and built today's Samsung.
When receiving reports, Lee Byung-chul always said, "speak in exact numbers." After his morning bath he would transfer overnight thoughts into a notebook, and he was a note obsessive who even wrote down who to reward and who to scold. This perfectionism showed itself in the business field as well. During the construction of the Shilla Hotel he personally approved even the bathroom doorknobs, and he sent chefs abroad to study at famous restaurants to hone quality. In particular, the behind-the-scenes of the instruction scene about counting sushi grains (lunch 320 grains, drinking 280 grains) that became a hot topic in the drama Reborn Rich was revealed and captured everyone's attention. On the broadcast, the star chef Hou Deok-juk, who won his favor, appears in person and also discloses the much-praised "secret dumpling" recipe.
The semiconductor miracle written bitterly amid Japanese ridicule
When Samsung announced its entry into semiconductors in 1983, the world's reaction was cold. Mitsubishi Research Institute in Japan released a report listing "five reasons Samsung cannot succeed," and U.S. Intel mocked it as "megalomania." Amid sneers that a bicycle factory would make a supersonic airplane, the card Lee chose was, unexpectedly, a "64 km winter march." The unprecedented special training, which even included the absurd mission "bring back something alive," and vivid testimony from an employee who carried it out come to home viewers.
A control freak who even studied cancer cells on his own, and what he ultimately could not control
When diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1976, Lee Byung-chul sensed the disease from the doctor's look alone, searched papers through the night and personally chose his surgeon. Even after surgery he miraculously recovered through perfect self-management, but before lung cancer returned in 1986, even a giant had to shrink. The lonely image of him preparing for the end by riding a cart three laps around the golf course he had tended in life, and the final message from Lee delivered by professional golfer Lee Gang-seon, who accompanied him at the time, are expected to move viewers' hearts.
Meanwhile, comedian Kwak Beom, who appeared as a guest that day, embodied the character "Kwak Kyung-young" and while acting as Lee Byung-chul, suffered the humiliation of having the script snatched by MC Le Chanwon, turning the set into a sea of laughter. Economic YouTuber Shuka reportedly displayed erudite knowledge by linking the recent stock craze with Lee Byung-chul's management philosophy.
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