As most of the others say here, our Thai King Bhumipol has done lots of good deeds to the country where no government take initiatives on (for whatever reasons). Many people are poor, especially in rural areas where no road or electricity go to. And many things were far away from under developed back then. What our king did, was he took initiatives going out into far away places by car, then trekking, etc. to visit people and first understand what are the challenges. He identifies the problem, gather his research, come back to his palace and study. Lots of experiment were done, then after a success solution, he would go back and explain and coach the poor to be educated on what could be done. And so on, more than 3000 projects over his reign. To give some examples, one of the high lights is he initiated a project for artificial rain making. The project was a success used in 1969 until today. This is for very poor rain area where nothing can be grown. They need rain, it was too dry. This project was now also used in other countries that faced similar problem. Another project is there was a province which is behind the mountain and very far from water, he studied and initiated the project to create a 3 meter wide tunnel to carry water from the damn on the other side to that province so that people can survive better. And so on and so on..... he is truely a wise king and very active. He used to study science and engineer during some time so that explains why he is very systematic