TY - BOOK AU - Yi, Myŏng-bak. TI - The uncharted path: an autobiography SN - 9781402271045 U1 - 951.9505092BAK PY - 2011/// CY - Naperville PB - Sourcebooks KW - Yi, Myŏng-bak N1 - Originally published in 1995 by Gimmyoungsa N2 - Born poor in the wake of the Korean war, Lee Myung-Bak was destined for a life of poverty. But through intelligence and self-determination, he excelled in school, putting himself through college, hauling garbage six times a day to pay for tuition. He then took a low-level job at Hyundai, an organization of about 90 people at the time. Through a relentless work ethic and inability to compromise his beliefs, he rose to the role of CEO and found himself on a mission not just to expand the Hyundai corporation, but to grow South Korea from a nation of poverty to a G20 economy ER -