Daeje Chin
January 8-12, 2008Events
Daeje Chin is a South Korean businessman and a former politician. He was born in Uiryeong, South Gyeongsang Province. He attended Gyeonggi High School and then studied electronic engineering at Seoul National University (B.S. and M.S.), the University of Massachusetts (M.S.) and Stanford (Ph.D). From 1985 he worked for Samsung, and served as president of their Digital Media Business from 2000-2003. He became minister of information and communication in February 2003. He resigned from the government in early 2006, and ran for the governorship of Gyeonggi Province on the ruling Uri Party ticket. However he lost to Moon-Soo Kim, the candidate of the Grand National Party, as part of the wide-spread electoral revolt against the incumbent ruling party. He was, however, the only candidate to collect more than 30% of the votes by a ruling Uri-party candidate in all of the contests in the whole nation, with the exception of Governor Kim Wan-ju of Jeollabukdo. In October 2006, Chin started a VC/private equity fund, Skylake Incuvest & Co, focusing on ICT sector investment.
