The brains behind the hype at Hyundai

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Lee Sang-yup put his ballpoint pen to paper and began sketching. A folding tray table, during a bumpy flight, was not the smoothest surface on which to draw. But the straight lines and sharp angles he had in mind came anyway. It was 2016, and Lee was on his way home to South Korea after more than two decades abroad. When he emigrated in 1995, Lee was a…