Kim Seung-youn
The public chaebol name on the 2014-15 purchase and the later export years.
Role
3
Hinge
3
Firm
3
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale28
Intensity18
Duration45
Tech shift56
Political impact42
Cultural memory26
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
What is K9 Thunder in this file?
A ROK self-propelled 155 mm howitzer that entered ROKA service in 1999 and later became the firm's public export signature. Named as industrial history. No employment or manufacturing content.
Why did Samsung sell?
Public file: Samsung's portfolio choices after years of being a defence-and-engine maker; Hanwha's bid to be the land-and-aerospace chaebol. A 2014-15 political-industrial event.
How does Yulgok relate?
Park Chung-hee-era modernisation and heavy industry created the supplier base. This is policy history, not a praise song and not a coup file (see korea-1979 for 12.12).
What is the Poland story?
2020s framework headlines for K9 and K2 as Warsaw rearmed. Dated news history. Not a live delivery tracker and not a how-to.
How does Rheinmetall fit?
Gun, vehicle, and ammunition-plant partnerships and competitions -- a two-firm European-Korean file.
K9 at a Seoul parade, a Polish handshake thumbnail, a Changwon night shift in a company film.
Kim Seung-youn as the chaebol portrait English captions use.
People
Park Chung-hee
Yulgok and HCI as the policy soil -- industrial history, not a coup manual. See also korea-1979 for the 1979 afterlife of his rule.
Policy
3
Era
3
Point
3
Lee Byung-chul
The ancestor politics of the Techwin line -- a different chaebol family than Hanwha.
Firm
3
Role
3
Point
3
Kim Jong-hee
The explosives-and-chemicals origin of the buying chaebol (1952 founding story in company histories).
Role
3
Year
3
Point
3
Kim Dae-jung
Post-1997 restructuring weather in which chaebols were pushed to refocus -- background to later sales.
Era
3
Theme
3
Point
3
Moon Jae-in
The political weather of the pre-2022 export push and "peace economy" arguments -- a caption, not a sales credit.
Office
3
Era
3
Point
3
Armin Papperger
The European counterpart name in teaming headlines -- partner-rival.
Firm
3
File
3
Point
3
Paik Sun-yup
Not a Hanwha employee -- the 1950 user of imported types that Yulgok later claimed to outgrow. A memory hinge on the ROK military page.
War
3
Role
3
Point
3
Debate
Did exports "prove" Yulgok, or did a few types get lucky in a 2020s scare?
Hold the cartoon and the failed-programme file together.
Chaebol champion vs more open defence market
A Korean political argument since the 1990s. This page records it; it does not pick a ministry.
A mobile-game skin of a K9 is not a monograph.
Do not let export pride erase ADD and the failed programmes beside the signature type.