19 billion won in annual sales, Harvard graduate Kim Jung-min's story of searching through trash cans is so stressful that it causes hair loss
Jun 04, 2025
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EBS and E-Channel co-production 'Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaires' (hereinafter 'Neighborhood Millionaires'), which will air at 9:55 p.m. on the 4th, will feature Kim Jung-bin, CEO of a recycling company with annual sales of KRW 19 billion'.
Kim Jung-bin's company is a company that collects discarded plastic bottles and produces renewable raw materials that can replace oil. It has developed a separate collection robot that accumulates 10 won per pet bottle, and has compensated ordinary citizens with a total of 5.4 billion won (equivalent to 540 million pet bottles). Through 'My Neighbor Millionaire', Kim Jung-bin reveals his daily life of taking the lead in recycling by collecting discarded plastic bottles on dog walks or everywhere. In particular, Kim Jung-bin, who also puts his hand in the trash can and searches it, laughs awkwardly, saying, `It's hard once, but it's easy after that.'
After graduating from Harvard Kennedy School (the Graduate School of Public Policy), Kim Jung-bin became the CEO of a global conglomerate, SamX, and a steel company with annual sales of 500 billion won, and started his current recycling company. In particular, when he served as CEO of a steel company, his annual salary was 300 million won, and the accumulated amount he executed while working amounted to 3 trillion won. Amid growing questions about why he gave up his high salary, which everyone envies, and chose the hard way to start a business, Kim Jung-bin confides in an unexpected story, saying, `The stress was severe enough to cause hair loss.' The hidden reason why the steel company CEO who used Article 3 was able to start a recycling company can be found on the broadcast of 'Neighbor's Millionaires'.
Seo Jang-hoon, meanwhile, draws attention by expressing his confident belief that `Styles like Elon Musk are likely to be reluctant from the standpoint of investors.' While listening to the secret of Kim Jung-bin's early investment success, Seo Jang-hoon notes that "the tone of your words is calm and there is no feeling of "sasa"". He added "If I were an investor, no matter how powerful I was, I wouldn't do it to a style that talks too much and overreacts." The life story of Kim Jung-bin, who led a company worth 250 billion won from trash, will be broadcast on EBS, E-channel 'Seo Jang-hoon's Neighborhood Millionaires' at 9:55 p.m. on Wednesday, the 4th.
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