Korea: Becoming a Power House in the World of Telecommunications
Pacific Leadership Fellow Public Lecture
Daeje Chin
President and CEO of Skylake Incuvest & Co. and Former Korean Minister of Information and Communication
January 09, 2008
5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: IR/PS
Open to: Public
Pacific Leadership Fellow Daeje Chin will discuss how Korea has become a world leader in telecommunications. A reception will follow the lecture. Please click here for the event flyer.
Dr. Chin is a South Korean businessman and former politician. He 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 to 2003. In 2003, he became minister of information and communication. He resigned from the government in 2006, and ran for the governorship of Gyeonggi Province on the ruling Uri Party ticket. Although he lost to the Grand National Party candidate Moon-Soo Kim, as part of the wide-spread electoral revolt against the incumbent party, he was one of only two Uri Party candidates in the entire country to collect more than 30% of the vote. In 2006, Chin started a VC/private equity fund, Skylake Incuvest & Co, focusing on ICT sector investment.
