Zoe Chase
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
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Whole bunch of Bangladeshis, the Koreans would train them for six months, and then they'd all go back to Bangladesh together and open a factory.
Eventually, a hundred and twenty-eight Bangladeshis fly off to Korea, a country most of them had certainly never seen, and the culture clash was instant.
Mohamed Naruddin was on that trip.
really they threw up?
Yeah.
The Bangladeshis weirded out the Koreans too, I discovered.
Yeah.
I reached Kim Unhee.
He was the Korean trainer at Daiwoo in charge of the collar and cuff section.
Korea was still pretty isolated back then.
Kim Unhee had never met someone from that part of the world.
Neither side had been prepared for this aspect of the training, the smell of each other.
But they worked through it.
Kim On he even tried the Bangladeshi food himself at a special event the Bangladeshis threw for the Koreans.
That part about the International Society turns out to be true, certainly immediately for Korea.
After six months of training, Kim Unhee flew to Bangladesh to help them set up the very first export-oriented garment factory there, Desh Garments in Chittagong.
That was in 1980, in 30 years, a country that had only the material to make burlap sacks to sell to the world.
Became one of the biggest clothing makers on earth.
Now more than 4,000 factories.
Anwal Chowdhury, another person from the original group who went to Korea, he says you can trace everyone back to our trip.
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