Sungjoo Group's Sung-Joo Kim

My father is the founder of Daesung Group, one of the biggest energy companies in Korea. I'm the youngest of six children and one of three girls. My job was to grow up and marry a rich man.

I went to Amherst and later Harvard, where I started dating a Canadian. When I asked him to marry me, I was disowned by my family. I dropped out and got a job at Bloomingdale's. My parents wouldn't talk to me. I had gone against their wishes, and there's nothing worse in Confucian tradition.