“Six fans were urgently airlifted during the meeting with President Yoon Seok-yeol. Haha.”
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the world’s richest people, revealed the story of the untimely blowing of a fan at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul, which he visited on the 29th of last month.
According to the information technology (IT) industry, CEO Zuckerberg held a town hall meeting for internal executives and employees on the 28th (local time). This is an opportunity where CEO Zuckerberg communicates with executives and employees for about an hour once every two weeks. At this event, CEO Zuckerberg revealed the story of how he unintentionally abused his power during his recent visit to Korea. He said that six electric fans were urgently deployed after seeing him sweating profusely while talking to the president. CEO Zuckerberg laughed and blamed himself, saying, “I must have been a very ’embarrassing’ person,” and “I seemed to treat my subordinates as if I were a high-ranking cabinet official.”
This is what CEO Zuckerberg said in full: CEO Zuckerberg, who visited Korea for 3 days and 2 nights last month, had a long schedule without any time to adjust to the time difference. To minimize fatigue, he drank coffee, which he did not enjoy, and went for a run in the morning. Immediately after finishing his run, he moved to the presidential office to meet President Yoon Seok-yeol. “All of this was raising my temperature,” Zuckerberg said.
The President’s Office official, who watched CEO Zuckerberg’s face covered in sweat throughout the conversation, was embarrassed. He didn’t realize that at the end of February he would have to prepare for ‘cooling down’. CEO Zuckerberg said, “A woman (who appears to be an official of the President’s Office) ordered a subordinate to bring a fan, and the employees ran at high speed,” adding, “Soon, six fans were installed around me.” CEO Zuckerberg also joked, “It looks like they decided not to turn on the air conditioner (in February, the middle of winter) as they moved from the Blue House to a new location (Yongsan).”
This is not the first time that CEO Zuckerberg was ‘pissed off’ when meeting the Korean president. A similar thing happened when I met then-President Park Geun-hye in June 2013. CEO Zuckerberg, who was 29 years old at the time, visited the Blue House wearing a suit, different from his usual comfortable attire. He did so to be polite to the Korean president. At that time, there was a power crisis and the Blue House was taking the lead in saving power. The Blue House was filled with intense heat, and CEO Zuckerberg’s face quickly became wet with sweat. At the time, President Park asked, “Is it too hot right now?”
But principles are principles, so I didn’t turn on the air conditioner. CEO Zuckerberg had to keep drinking water while blowing air from the fan. He couldn’t even tell the Korean president to turn on the air conditioner.
At the meeting with Facebook employees at the time, when asked about his ‘impressions of his visit to Korea,’ he responded as follows. “It was so hot at the time that I couldn’t think of anything. It was really, really hot.” CEO Zuckerberg, who visited Korea for the first time in 10 years, once again felt the ‘heat’ of the Korean President’s Office.
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2024-03-30 13:48:29
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