General Information
| Full Name | Kevin Stewart |
| Other Name | Han Seung-Woo (νμΉμ°) |
| Place Of Birth | Melbourne, Australia |
| Date of Birth | 20 August 1982 |
| Nationality | Australian & South Korean |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Occupation | Auto racing driver (1986-2013), Businessman (2016-present) |
| Company | Paramedic Industries (2016-present) |
| Education | Haileybury School of Keysborough, Bachelor in Engineering (B.E) of Imperial College London (2000-2005), Master of Science in Project Management (M.S.P.M) of Hanyang University (2016-2018) |
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| Championship Titles |
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| Australian Kart Championship Winner (1996, 1997, 1998) |
| Formula Two World's Champion (2005) |
| Formula One World's Champion (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) |
| Formula One World's Runner-Up (2006, 2012) |
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Formula One World Championship Career
| Active Years | 2005 - 2013 |
| Teams | McLaren, Mercedes |
| Championships | 4 (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) |
| First Entry | 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix |
| First Win | 2007 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last Win | 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix |
| Last Entry | 2013 Italian Grand Prix |
Get To Know
| Physical | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Height | 184 cm (6β0β) |
| Weight | 72 kg (158 lbs) |
| Blood type | O (Rh +) |
| Skin color | Light brown |
| Hair color | Black |
| Iris Color | Dark brown |
| Body function | 90% (usable) + 10% (recovering) |
| Disability type | Lower limb(s) disability (recovering) |
| Mobility aid | Assistive cane |
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Character Personality Traits
| Positive characteristics | Diligent, smart, patient, faithful, brave |
| Negative characteristics | Emotionless, halfhearted |
| Words often used | Inspiring, fierce, fresh, impertinent, impudent, infernal, intelligent, intense, promising, etc |
| Other words that might be used | Intelligent, explosive, impolite, uncivil, uneasy, unflagging, unmannered, etc. |
| Values or morals | Generosity, loyalty, self-control, reliable |
| Dark side | Greed, unmercifulness, malicious, pessimism |
| Social traits | Extrovert |
| IQ | 137 |
| Hobbies | Craft, card games, making coffee, photography, puzzle, pottery, reading, fishing |
| Bad habits | Skipping meals, staying up late, annoying people on purpose, being overly critical |
| Interest | Astronomy, photography, traveling, arts and crafts |
Paramedic Industries
Paramedic Industries is a most popular South Korean multinational medical device company, that generates the majority of its sales and profits from Asia and Australia. Its headquarters are based in Melbourne, Australia and Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
The company specializes in distribution of therapy medical devices, with particular focus on medical imaging and diagnostics, serving more than 100,000 locations around the world. The company also manufactures medical and surgical products, including surgical vision, wound closure, biosurgery, and electrophysiology, surgical apparel products. In addition, it operates the largest network of radiopharmacies in Asia. Paramedic Industries provides medical products to over 65 percent of hospitals in South Korea itself.
| Company type | Public Company |
| Industry | Medical equipment, Healthcare |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founder | Kevin Stewart or Han Seung-Woo |
| Headquarters | (Legal Headquarters) Melbourne, Australia and Seoul, South Korea |
| Fabrication | South Korea and Australia |
| Products | Medical devices |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Revenue | $ 26 billion (2019) |
| Operating Income | $ 2.33 billion (2019) |
| Net Income | $ 184 million (2019) |
| Total Assets | $ 19.95 billion (2019) |
| Number of employees | 3,000 |
Pathway Of Live
Kevin Stewart, also known as Han Seung-Woo is an Australian businessman and inventor who played a key role in the success of the medical device company development In Asia and currently based in South Korea.
Kevin Stewart also was an Australian Formula One driver who has won the World Championship on four occasions, in 2007, 2009, 2010 and in 2011, making him the most successful Australian driver of all time. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most skillful drivers of all time. He retired in 2013, at the peak of his motor racing career in a tragic accident at Monza, Italy.
`Kevin Stewart is a phenomenon β nobody has come into the sport and done what heβs done.β βBBC Sport
Kevin Stewart was born in Melbourne, Australia on 20 August 1982 to a wealthy family with Korean ethnicity, who supported his aspiration to race. He began driving karts at an early age. His earliest recorded race was a fun go-kart race, aged four. He drew a lot for pole position and won his race. Aged 14-17, he won the Australian Kart Championship three times in a row.
In the early 2000s, after graduating from Haileybury, Keysborough School, he moved to England to further his motor racing career to begin received coaching from the age of 18 from Alain Prost and signed by Ferrari.
In 2005, he won the Formula Two championship. It was around this time that he finished his Bachelor degree in Engineering (B.E.) in Imperial College London and settled joining the McLaren Formula One team at the age of 23, making his Formula One World Drivers' Champions debut of 19 years after his initial racing career.
In his first season in Formula One World Drivers' Champions, Kevin Stewart set numerous records and finished second in the 2006 Formula One World Drivers' Champions. He was able to impress the public with his driving skills, especially in the wet. His first world championship was won the following season (2007), ahead of his rival by the same margin of a single point.
βIβve never known anyone as competitive as me and I think my rival is very close.β
Ending For A New Beginning
In 2008 was the toughest time of Kevin Stewart's career as he slipped behind the Renault team and only managed to finish at the 3rd place.
Kevin Stewart had joined his rival in 2009 at the Mercedes Formula One team and he went on to repeat this ultimate prize by winning the Formula One Championship in the 1st place for three years in a row (2009, 2010, 2011). Followed by the 2nd place in 2012.
By 2013, Kevin Stewart decided to reserve a new car to join the competition. Before the competition, he stated that:
βItβs going to be a season with lots of accidents, and Iβll risk saying that weβll be lucky if something really serious doesnβt happen.β
In the first two races of the season, he gained pole position, but for different reasons failed to finish. The third race of the season was to be held at Monza, Italy. However, the weekend was marred by accidents and tragedy. On the 9th lap, Kevin Stewart suffered a fatal crash.
On the high-speed Tamburello corner on, the car left the track at around 197 mph (317 km/h), hitting the concrete retaining wall at around 136 mph (218 km/h). Fortunately, he was rushed to the hospital, he was declared alive but comma with fatal injuries and decided to take a leave from the racing Industry.
βOn a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. As soon as you touch this limit, something happens, and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.β
The Rainbow After The Storm
Spending his life after the fatal injuries that Kevin Stewart has, he struggles a lot to recover. By the supports of his family, relatives, friends, and fans, he managed to get the spirit to recover. Despite the obstacles of having dozens of surgeries, hundreds of therapy, and hundreds of consultations to restore the function of the body to normal.
Almost a year after the accident, with a desperate hope of recovering, Kevin took a break from a health recovery session in Australia and visited several countries in Asia. Including South Korea, the birth country of his parents for the first time. At that time, He was able to have a chance and visit his long-missed relative and within the short stay, he immediately fell in love with the countries and decided to choose the country as the place to recover mentally and physically.
Knowing the limited development of technology in the medical and therapeutic fields, Kevin Stewart tried a lot of alternative ways to have a speedy recovery and shorten his difficulty.
Thanks to the fact that his family and relatives, he got help from the best physical therapists team and the well-known surgery team of Gangnam National Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. The team did also a collaborative work with the biggest German automation supplies to make medical devices that can help him to recover. And thanks to this invention, Kevin Stewart has been able to use 90% of his body function.
βThe doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.β
Through these Ideas, Kevin Stewart tried to Invent an Asia based medical company that started in South Korea in 2016. Having a collaboration with Gangnam National Hospital and severals best hospital in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, and the country based factories to make the products. In the very beginning, Paramedic Industries' medical devices were sold through the domestic market (South Korea) only.
Kevin Stewart decided to continue his studies in Master of Science in Project Management (M.S.P.M.) at the Hanyang University of South Korea in 2016 in order to be able to to lead and manage effectively his own company.
βJust because something doesnβt do what you planned it to do doesnβt mean itβs useless.β
Over the next few years, Paramedic Industries expanded rapidly as the market for medical devices began to become increasingly significant. In 2018, Paramedic Industries has successfully entered the medical devices market internationally and become number one in Asia, with the invention of devices and technology for a wide range of therapy areas, with particular focus on medical imaging and diagnostics.
In 2019, Paramedic Industries officially entered Australian market and becomes one of the top medical device start-up company in the world for 2019 with an impressive annual revenue of nearly $15 billion in 2018. The company develops and manufacture products in various therapy areas: orthopedic, cardiovascular, diabetes, vision care, and surgery. Their Analytical Instruments and Speciality Diagnostics segments did particularly well, growing by 11% and 7% respectively. Worldwide medical device sales increased by 1.5% and the primary contributors included high sales in the following areas: surgical vision, wound closure, biosurgery, and electrophysiology.
βMy job is not to be easy on people. My jobs are to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.β
A Light On My Path
One of Kevin Stewart's interest is in arts, especially paintings. He is someone with an active interest in the arts and likely to contribute more to society such as his attendance at museums and dance, music, opera and theater events; and art expositions.
He is a home collector, he buys art regularly and really loves the art that he hangs up in his home or properties. Kevin Stewart usually has a specific taste in art and is likely to have only one or two favorite artists whose art he buys.
Amaranthine is one of Kevin Stewart's favorite painters, his first encounter with her works is in World's International Exhibition in 2008 and immediately falls in love at her style of painting.
Even if Kevin Stewart and Amaranthine haven't met in person, he became the collectors that turn into repeat buyers for Amaranthine's works. As the Amaranthine showing her gratitude for him, Kevin Stewart begins to receive regularly her letters, e-mail, and newsletters about Amaranthine art expositions and newly-released works. In the end, he always is the one who purchases another one of her artworks.
Destiny brought them together at a charity art auction that was held in the US in 2016, where Park Ha-Na's paintings were presented to be sold under the Amaranthine, and Kevin Stewart was one of the bidders at that auction house, which is also their first encounter with Amaranthine or Park Ha-Na in person.
After seeing each other and talking in person, the relationships bloom between them after several months since that day, from an artist and a buyer to lovers.
Kevin Stewart married to Park Ha-Na on 15 July 2018, the day when one of the most famous night's sky-event takes place, the Moon meets the Venus. Married under the sky that shows the look of thin waxing crescent moon to appear in a stunningly close encounter with the planet Venus low in the southwestern sky.
βSometimes I believe in God, sometimes I donβt. I think itβs 50-50 maybe. But ever since Iβve had the accident, Iβve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of β maybe itβs βcause I want to believe that He makes everything beautiful in His time.β
Souls Of Life
Very Very Important Person (VVIP)
Park Ha-Na (λ°νλ)
known as
Amaranthine
Professional Artist
Wise One
Gilbert Stewart
Han Min-Hyuk (νλ―Όν)
Businessman
Commander
