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Sam Chi is a Korean-American entrepreneur who brings 25 years of experience and network in vast areas of business industries. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, with BA and MBA degrees, he began his working life as an associate for Price Waterhouse Coopers, one of the most prestigious and biggest accounting companies in the world for 2 years from 1993 to 1995. From 1998 to 2002, Sam ventured into the Investment Banking world as a Vice President of JP Morgan Chase, one of the top investment banks in history with its market capitalization of $400 Billion and total assets of $2 Trillion. In 2001, while still at JP Morgan, he established his first company, PMG (People Management Group) Food System , then PMG Entertainment and PMG Bio Pharming (2004), covering areas of restaurants and food logistics to movies to musicals to music to the other entertainment projects to bio tech to pharmaceuticals, etc.
I met Sam as I was directing traffic at the car show last weekend. He drove up in his vintage pickup truck and looked so proud, I knew he would be my next stranger!
Sam has been working on his "baby" since he was 18 and he's 25 now. He was super friendly and happy to let me take his picture.
This picture is #14 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
I had run into Alex (on the right) earlier on my beach walking venture when I had asked her for a portrait. She was on the phone, but put her conversation on hold. It was Sam on the other end and it just happened that when our paths crossed again that I met the person on the other end of the phone. Both were locals now and loving the area, and they both knew the trick to avoid having to carry quarters for the parking meters... bike instead of drive.
While visiting Ai Weiwei's art exhibition at HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, I also enjoyed making pictures of a few artists who performed with flowers decorating people's hair.
Sam was among the lucky ones who got her hair decorated. She is a 28 y/o beautiful, Korean student of fashion design, studying for the third year in the university in Helsinki. She's working on her M.A. degree.
I assumed Sam was short for Samantha, but no, it was actually short for Samuel. Her pregnant mother was sure she was carrying a baby boy whom she wanted very much to name Samuel. Well, it didn't change the fact that the baby turned out to be a girl. Once you like a name you want to give it to your child, right :-)
Sam likes to do oil painting in her spare time. Cooking is her hobby, too.
"I would like to share one of Vincent Van Gogh's quote", Sam says: "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Good luck with your M.A. thesis, Sam!
www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/exhibition/vieno-motors-how-to-prep...
This is my 49th submission to The Human Family group.
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For my friends .Sam is about 12 he's a beautiful dog. And Finlay runs around like is bum is on fire. They always come and see me .
From the movie "Trick or Treat", Sam's name originates from Samhain, the origins of Halloween itself. He is depicted as a child dressed in a Halloween costume, which consists of an orange set of pajamas, and a mask made of a burlap sack with buttons for eyes. Sam drags a dirty sack around with him throughout the film, but its contents are unknown, Sam is revealed to be a demonic pumpkin-like creature who acts as the enforcer for the rules and traditions of Halloween.