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Kim Bong-jin (born 10 October 1976) is a South Korean businessman, a designer-turned-entrepreneur who in 2010 founded the tech-savvy country's No. 1 mobile food delivery app service Baedal Minjok, operated by Woowa Brothers Corp. that grew to a Unicorn (finance) and later became part of the Germany-based global food delivery powerhouse Delivery Hero.

Early life and education
Kim was born in Wando, a southwestern island in Jeolla Province of the Korean Peninsula, and brought up in a poor family that moved to Seoul later. He dreamed of a life as an artist, more specifically a painter like Vincent van Gogh, but had to enter a technical high school because his parents could not afford to support art education. But he later went to a private institute to learn sketches and drawings in the final year of high school and managed to enter Seoul Institute of the Arts to major interior design.

Kim, after graduation, worked as a graphic designer in several companies which included Naver Corporation, one of the largest tech companies of South Korea that operates the country's largest web portal and other services Naver. He, however, quit the company as an employee, went to Kookmin University's post-graduate design school, where he studied typography design, or font design. He once created his own business at this time around to make and sell hand-made furniture, but went almost bankrupt in a couple of years.

Recent Career
Kim, now Chairman & Executive Director of Woowa DH Asia Pte. Ltd., is one of the most famous South Korean entrepreneurs who pioneered the “food tech” industry in the country and beyond. In 2011, he founded Woowa Brothers Corp., which operates the country's leading online food delivery service Baedal Minjok, or Baemin in short. Woowa Brothers has since become a "unicorn" company under his leadership and in early 2021, after a yearlong review by the country's Fair Trade Commission, officially joined forces with Delivery Hero SE (listed on DAX).

Kim is currently in charge of Delivery Hero's operations in 12 countries, overseeing the Foodpanda and Baemin brands across the Asia-Pacific region as the Chairman of Woowa DH Asia. His work is now focused on improving the experience of customers not only in South Korea but in the entire APAC region.

As his contribution to the national economy and the start-up scene was recognized, Kim has been awarded twice by the South Korean Presidents (in 2014 and in 2017), and won numerous other accolades.

He is also an active philanthropist who gave away more than USD 9.15 million up till the first half of 2021. He was the first person to introduce the concept of the so-called Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to Korean ecosystem through Community Chest of Korea (CCK), and he is also the greatest contributor to CCK in its history as of June 2021. In February 2021, Kim Bong-jin and his wife Bomi Sul together became the first South Korean signatories of the The Giving Pledge, the world's renowned charitable organization founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, pledging to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy.

Personal life
He is married with three children and based in Seoul, South Korea, though he travels a lot for business purposes to different places in Asia and beyond.