"1.6 Billion CEO" Kim Jin-won, from Jet Ski National Team to Comeback... EBS "Seo Jang-hoon's Neighbor Millionaire" Airs on the 29th

EBS’s ″Seo Jang-hoon’s Neighbor Millionaire″ will feature the story of Kim Jin-won, the ″Jet Ski Riding Lumberjack,″ focusing on his success and hardships in the July 29th broadcast. Kim Jin-won is a 26-year veteran jet ski athlete and CEO of a lumber company with annual sales of up to 16 billion KRW. He was a national jet ski representative at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. Currently, he operates a leisure facility on the Han River, where he conducts athlete training and experience programs. The broadcast will reveal Kim Jin-won’s Han River leisure facility, which has 11 jet skis and 7 boats, as well as his large lumber company holding 10 billion KRW worth of timber. It will also introduce the log unloading site weighing a total of 25 tons and the world of wooden planks that take 8 to 9 years to dry. In his childhood, Kim Jin-won dropped out of school and started working as a cargo truck assistant transporting wood at the age of 16. He spent seven years traveling nationwide, living in his truck. He recalled, ″The 5-ton truck was my lodging. When the weather was a bit cold, ice would form on my head.″ In his twenties, he acquired an 11-ton truck and officially entered the business, purchasing raw wood overseas and distributing it nationwide. His ability to identify good wood and his attention to customer preferences became his competitive edge. He received apartment sale rights as payment for supplying materials to construction sites, eventually owning 12 apartments. Driving a luxury large sedan, he became a millionaire in his mid-twenties. Kim Jin-won said, ″I once earned up to 30 million KRW a month.″ However, due to a construction company’s bankruptcy, the promissory notes he received became worthless, leaving him with a debt of 4 billion KRW. Kim Jin-won sold all 12 apartments, his house, and cash to repay the debt and had to start driving cargo trucks again. He confessed, ″I spent all day, morning, noon, and night, going up and down the mountains, even having extreme thoughts.″ Afterward, Kim Jin-won refocused on wood sales and succeeded in making a comeback with new items. His story will be broadcast on the 29th at 9:55 PM.