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for 75 hours. Since then, I have made
everyday! I used to see him after
Argus:Whatcausedyoutoleavefor
two promises and kept them pretty
midnightwhenhecamehometochange
Americainyour20s?
Matthew Duksun Lee (Matthew): I
well so far; 1) I would not get on an
hisclothes.
had always dreamed about going to
empty freighter go across an ocean; 2)
Matthew: Once I arrived in the United
Americawhilegrowingup.Englishwas
I would never get on a bus to make a
States, I had to struggle for several
one of my favorite subjects in school.
transcontinentaltrip.
years. First I had to work at two jobs; a
I was able to speak it fairly well by the
full-time and a part-time job everyday
time I graduated from high school. I
to make a living and to save enough
Argus: Was there any problem
could improve it further after I started
money to get married. I later had to
gettingajobinAmerica?
at HUFS and because I could speak
Matthew: Fortunately because I spoke
give up my part-time job in order to go
English well, I was able to get a job at
English, I had no problem in getting a
to the computer school. I got my first
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) after I
job. I found my first job two days after
real,meaningfuljobasaprogrammerat
completedmymilitaryservice.Iworked
I arrived in Washington. Many people
Control Data Corporation in the spring
on the adoptions program to place war
talk half jokingly that the career of
of1967.ShortlyafterIstartedatControl
orphans to adoptive parents overseas,
the Korean immigrants in the U.S. is
Data, I told my wife that she wasn’t
mostly in the United States. I met my
determineddependingonwhocomesto
goingtoseememuchasIwasgoingto
wife, Katherine, while working at CRS.
theairporttopickthemup.Fortunately,
be working nights and weekends. I did
My dream came true when I got my
I had relative in Washington, DC
nothaveto,butIwantedto,toprovethat
passport and visa in January of 1966 to
when I got there who was a computer
I can do things better, faster and more
go to the United States. Even though I
programmer. To make the long story
efficiently than any other people. As I
did not have the money to travel, I was
short, at the suggestion of my relative I
did not have an advanced degree or an
able to get a free passage on an empty
gotintothecomputerfieldshortlyafterI
exceptional talent, only thing I could
freighter which was returning to the U.
arrivedinWashington.
offer to overcome that was my hard
S.afterunloadingallthereliefsupplies.
work. Because I did that, I was able to
It took over two weeks to get across the
establishareputationandberecognized
Argus: You were appointed as vice
Pacific Ocean. I had to go through and
as someone people could go to get
president of a statistical research
survive a horrible typhoon that lasted
their problems solved. Because of that
company even though you were a
for three days in the middle of the
reputation, WESTAT reached out and
foreigner and did not even major in
ocean.AgainbecauseIdidnothavethe
recruited me in June of 1969. My hard
statistics. What was the secret to
money to fly to Washington, DC from
work continued for a few more years at
yoursuccess?
San Francisco, CA, I had to experience
Katherine H. Lee(Katherine): He
WESTAT, but I have not had to work
a terrible ride on a Greyhound bus
did work extremely hard all the time,
nights and weekends any more since
1972.
Katherine: Besides, he usually treats
people nicely. He makes people feel
comfortable. So once employees are
hired at his company, they never leave.
Ithinkhispeopleskillisoneofhisbest
assests.
Argus: Why did you found a new
Argus
corporation when you had such a
good job as a vice president of a
The
/
goodcompany?
Jin-woo
Matthew:Fromthebeginning,Ialways
wanted to start my own business. I also
Lee
knew that if I really wanted to do it, I
hadtodoitbeforeIturned50.SoIhad
to do it in a hurry. As you said, I really
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