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==Lin Shon Wan (1779~1885)== |
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Lin Shon Wan was the most famous rags to riches businessman in Korea. It was in the Ching |
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Dynasty of China. He made a massive fortune by trading between Korea and |
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China. The King of Korea wanted Lin to be in charge in the poorest county – |
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Thaichan – as a magistrate. The soil of Thaichan was very poor, and there |
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were a lot of hillsides. In addition, the weather was cold, and even if |
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the farmers worked day and night, they couldn’t feed themselves. When Lin |
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arrived in Thaichan he tried to persuade the farmers to abandon |
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cultivation. The farmers and landowners were angry. Because of the poor |
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harvest, the Thaichan people had to make grass mats to earn extra income. |
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Lin set up lacquer factories and manufactured high quality lacquers. He |
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thought it was a trading age; people don’t have to make everything they |
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need, but create what they master. Then people can earn what they want by |
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trading. Lin taught the landowners to run the business by trading lines to |
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China and Japan. It is now the age of the Internet. We know the poor need |
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daily necessities, and it’s not efficient and fair for the poor to raise |
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the crops on such poor ground. But the people can create the intelligent |
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properties by computers. The computers are like the factories, and the |
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Internet replaces the trading net. |
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The homonyms - Tahitian and name Lin Shun Wan, |
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I transliterated myself; if you really want to quote this you will have to |
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consult some Koreans. —Kevin Fu |
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Revision as of 01:44, 17 December 2008
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