'Jjanhanhyung' Lucky, Sesame Business Scale Reduced to Half Compared to 10 Years Ago

Lucky recently appeared on the web variety show ’Heartwarming Brother Shin Dong-yup’ and shared an update on his sesame business. During the broadcast, Lucky explained the reason he came to Korea. He said, ″My father was involved in the coal business,″ and added, ″At that time, he got to know someone from Hyundai Motor in India and thought Korea was a blue ocean, so he sent me here.″ When the topic of the sesame business came up, Shin Dong-yup mentioned, ″Sesame is tremendous.″ In response, Lucky joked, ″Please don’t say things like that. Every time I talk about it on the show, it decreases by 10%.″ He continued, ″When I started the business 10 years ago, it was huge, but now it’s half of that. My brother scolds me a lot. He tells me not to talk about sesame on the show.″ Lucky previously appeared on MBC’s variety show ’Radio Star’ in 2021 and revealed that he was the first to establish a company importing Indian sesame to Korea. At that time, he said, ″We handle about 70-80% of the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation, a government agency. Most Koreans think sesame comes from China, but 80% is from India. Sesame is mainly imported from India and Africa,″ and added, ″That’s why I’m also nicknamed ’Sesame Uncle.’″ Meanwhile, Lucky married a non-celebrity Korean woman last September and is known to own nine buildings in India.