POSCO Chief Executive's Speech

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Notable & Quotable: Korea. Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2016 (in the op-ed page).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-korea-1463700315
("From remarks by Kwon Oh-joon, chief executive officer of the South Korean steel manufacturer Posco, on receiving the Korea Society’s Van Fleet Award, named for US Army Gen James A Van Fleet, in New York City, May 18")

Note:
(a) KOWN Oh-joon  権五俊  (Compare CHUN Doo-hwan 全斗煥)
(b)
(i) James Van Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Fleet
(1892 – 1992)
(ii) The surname Van Fleet is Americanized spelling of Dutch Van Vliet.

The Dutch surname Van Vliet is for "someone from any of the many places named with vliet 'brook,' 'stream.' "  Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford Univ Press.

(c) "I was born just 20 days before the outbreak of the Korean War, in a small town in South Korea. One of the fiercest battles in modern history was recorded near the Nakdong River close to my hometown, and this battle forced my family to evacuate southwards."

Nakdong River  洛東江
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakdong_River
(map)