'SKorea's Bill Gates' seeks to break political mould... One of the main challengers to the frontrunner in South Korea's presidential race is an IT multi-millionaire who has given away much of his fortune and is now looking to break the country's political mould. Ahn Cheol-Soo was pursuing medical studies at the prestigious Seoul National University in 1988 when his computer became infected with Brain, regarded as the first widespread technological virus. Burning the midnight oil, he developed a cure for the digital disease and handed it out to his colleagues. For the next seven years he doubled as a doctor and professor of medicine, and a developer of anti-virus software, until he founded his eponymous start-up AhnLab. It went on to become the leading provider of anti-virus programs -- still distributed free to individual users -- in one of the world's most wired countries, and now has some 1,000 employees and a market capitalisation of more than $500 million. Ahn -- who said he turned down a $10 million offer for the firm when it was two years old because he felt "unable to turn back on my employees" -- still owns nearly 20 percent, even after giving away half his holdings in
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