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Year Age Event
1895 Age 1 Born on Jan. 15 in Pyeongyang, Pyeongannam-do, as the first son of Gi-yeon New
1904 Age 9 Emigrated to US with Park, Jang-hyeon, a diplomatic minister of Korean Empire
1909 Age 14 Entered into Korean Child Soldier School established by Yong-man Park
1915 Age 20 - Graduated from Hastings High School
- Employed by a substation in Detroit
1919 Age 24 - Coauthored and announced the Resolution Elucidating Koreans' Purposes and Aspiration at the Korean Freedom Convention held in Philadelphia in Apr. where he met Seung-man Lee and Jae-pil Seo for future activities
- Graduated from Department of Business Management at University of Michigan
1922 Age 27 Established 'La Choy Food Product Inc.'
1924 Age 29 Established New Han & Company with Dr. Jae-pil Seo as the president
1925 Age 30 Married to Hu, Meili
1926 Age 31 Founded Yuhan Corp. (Dec 10)
1929 Age 34 First daughter, Jae-ra, born (Oct 19)
1935 Age 40 First son, Il-son, born (Jun 3)
1936 Age 41 Established Yuhan Corp. as a corporate took the office of president on June 20
1941 Age 46 Master degree of business management from graduate school of University of Southern California (MA degree)
1942 Age 47 - Worked as a Korean consultant for US Office of Strategic Service (OSS)
- Worked as a key founder of Mangho Army for National Independence consisting of Koreans in the US
1943 Age 48 - Wrote a memorandum entitled, "Korea and the Pacific War," as a head of the special research committee of the United Korean Committee in America Mission
- Yuhan Corp., name changed to Yuhan Pharmaceutical Industry Co. Ltd by the pressure of the Japanese Imperialism
1945 Age 50 - Worked as the head of Team No. 1 in the NAPKO project for recovery Korean territory (March to August). Planned a two frontal warfare in connection with the OSS operation with the provisional government in Chongqing (not carried out by the Independence)
1946 Age 51 Elected first president of Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry
1947 Age 52 Yuhan Trade Co. Ltd, name changed to Yuhan Industry Co. Ltd.
1948 Age 53 Studied international laws in graduate school of Stanford University
1952 Age 57 Established Goryeo Technical School
1957 Age 62 Established Goryeo Engineering Academy
1961 Age 66 Goryeo Engineering Academy, name changed to Korea Occupational Academy
1962 Age 67 - Listed stocks firstly among pharmaceutical companies
- Headquarters moved to Daebang-dong
- Established Yuhan School foundation corporation
1963 Age 68 Donated 17,000 personally owned shares to Yonsei University and Health Fellowship Foundation
1964 Age 69 - Opened Korea Advanced School of Technology
- Founded Yuhan Foundation, an educational foundation, and established Yuhan Technical High School at Hang-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu
1965 Age 70 - Initiated the Yuhan Educational Trust Fund Management Committee and expanded the education and scholarship works by donating personally owned 56,000 shares.
- Received honorary doctorate degree of laws from Yonsei University
1971 Age 76 - Passed away (Mar. 11)
- Received posthumous award of Order of Civil Merit, Mugunghwa Medal
- His will testament opened, donating all of his personal properties to the society