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Events on Wednesday 21 March 2001 1
1915 – 2001Chung Ju-yung (1915-2001)Died 21 March 2001, aged 85Chung founded the Hyundai group, building it from a car-repair shop into one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, spanning construction, shipbuilding and cars. Born to a poor farming family in what is now North Korea, he became a symbol of the country's rapid industrialisation. In 1998 he drove herds of cattle across the border in a gesture of reconciliation.