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Picture = Min Keh-shik '65 (left), Yoon Jae-seung '85 (right)

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award is one of the world's most prestigious awards for businesspeople. It started naming Korean winners last year.

Winners of this year's award are Min Keh-shik '65 (B.S. in Naval Architecture Engineering), vice chairman of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. as the Heavy Industry Entrepreneur of the Year;�Yoon Jae-seung '85 (LL.B.), chairman of Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., as the Rising Star Entrepreneur of the Year.

Winners were selected by a panel of judges representing the business community, academia and civic groups, including Yun Jong-yong, former CEO of Samsung Electronics Co.; former head of the Fair Trade Commission and current Seoul National University Professor Kang Chul-gyu.

January 15, 2009
SNU PR Office