Haan Gyung-hee was a homemaker in South Korea with a problem: how to keep the floors clean and not spend hours doing it. because of the ondol tradition of heating homes through the floor, Koreans spend a lot of time on the floor. They sit, sleep, eat, and play on it, so it is very important to keep it clean. Gyung-hee didn't want to be on her hands and knees every day washing the floor,so she invented a steam cleaner.
Many people didn't take Gyung-hee seriously, and it was difficult for her to get a bank loan to go into business. But in 1999, she succeeded. Now Haan is the CEO of a multinational, multimillion-dollar company called Haan corporation. Since the first idea for the floor cleaner, Gyung-hee has had many other good ideas for new products, such as a clothes steamer for ironing clothes. As a result, her company is doing very well.