When I first became a doctor in 1937, my worry for children who struggled from milk allergies and lactose intolerance has started with the sense of duty as a doctor. My eyes turned to lag nutrients and medical facility. As I had the opportunity to attend the 1st Asia pediatric international conference held in Singapore in 1958, it became a fuse effort to learn advanced technology in UK, US and Japan for 6 years in my later years.

In 1964, I finally revealed the name of disease and causes of lactose intolerance, I realized the fact it occurred to the children who cannot digest lactose which is included in breast milk, and these children need to be fed nutritional substitute that doesn’t include lactose. So the study of substitute using soy bean which contains balanced the three nutrients without containing lactose. For two years, I conducted animal feeding tests using soymilk made with grind soybean, and thereafter, I paved the way for Vegemil baby food through steady clinical studies.

Since 1968, we produced and supplied “Vegemil” by cottage industry at the pediatric hospital but couldn’t meet the demand, so we built a factory in Singal, Gyeonggi-do and equipped with supply production scale of approximately 500,000 bottles a day. However, it still wasn’t enough even with this kind of manufacturing facility, so we built large-sale soymilk production facility in Cheongju in 1983 and produced 1.5 million bottles of Vegemil a day.

On the other hand, occurrence of health problems due to westernized and instantized eating habits created an opportunity for another challenge to me, who simply only thought about the lactose intolerance or milk allergies and made a great effort to solve them.

In 1992, the “Vegemil C” was created by mixing fixed ratio of soymilk and milk on the second animal feeding tests at the Dr. Chung’s food central research center, it indicated positive results in energy, endurance, intelligent etc. tests. The research paper was published at the international food conference held in India and favorably reviewed, and it received patents for food invention by US and Austrian government in May, 1995.

As the role of the various components including proteins contained in soybean newly started show, new benefits of soybean components such as protein, fiber, lecithin, trypsin inhibitor etc. are being released, and continuous in-depth studies are being done in Western countries. For past 30 years, I have been advocating the value of the soybeans alone but now I feel grateful that many colleagues are working with me on this, I feel like soybeans met their golden age.

From the 1st Soybean symposium held in Arizona, USA to the 5th Soybean symposium held in Orlando, Florida, USA in September 2003, the title of individually held international Soybean symposiums was constantly emphasizing the benefits that soybeans provide to humans, and about 250 papers has been announced. Perhaps, I believe these global flows shall continue for the time being. All our efforts for the health of people around the world don’t have time to rest. To become a worldwide food company, I believe it is our duty to make endless efforts and develop better products for the human health, and I’m hoping that will lead to realizing my simple and only dream of world peace.

Hereupon, all our employees promise we will do our best until our customers are satisfied.