From Yonhap:
Kim Jeong-hoon, tapped as the minister for the future creation and science ministry, is an icon of the American dream for South Koreans.
Born in 1960 in Seoul, Kim emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea with his parents at the age of 15. He completed undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at Johns Hopkins University and earned his doctorate in three years in engineering from the University of Maryland.
Kim joined Lucent Technologies in 1998 when Lucent acquired Yurie Systems, Inc. for around US$1 billion, a tech equipment firm which he founded in 1992.
He left Lucent in 2002 to join the University of Maryland faculty. But Kim came back to Lucent in April 2005 as chief of the renowned Bell Labs, the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent.
Park's nomination of the Korean-American businessman underscores her aim to create more jobs by combining scientific and technological developments with industry.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/02/17/90/0301000000AEN20130217003000320F.HTML
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