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...years, Lee had amassed $8,000. He went to a bank and, with some difficulty, borrowed another $8,000. With that, he bought the Olympic Market, a grocery store in the heart of Los Angeles' Koreatown. Two previous owners had failed in the store, but Lee got up every morning at 2 a.m. to go to market for his supplies, regularly worked an 18-hour day, began to make profits. He bought some adjoining property for a parking lot, made more profits, then bought a restaurant. It had been a dry-cleaning store, but Lee transformed it with Korean paintings...