The Invention of Steam Vacuum

             Have you heard of ‘Steam Vacuum?’ Steam Vacuum is the great innovation which made the life of housewife comfortable. The innovator who made this great invention is ‘Han Gyeong Hui’ who is the female CEO that succeed in the business targeting housewife. After she graduated her Ewha Womans University, she joined IOC(International Olympic Committee). After two years working there, she entered graduate school in California. She get the degree at school and had a career in other different company in USA. Finally, as she passed the exam, she became deputy director of education. As we can see, she always challenged to her life and tried to do many different things. Now, she is the hero among mom. Thus, she contributed a lot for housewife in the family and had brought lots of change of thinking .

             Among her inventions, the most representative innovation is ‘Steam Vacuum.’ Han Gyeong Hui was a very neat and organized person. So she always cleaned her house with the boiled water. One day, while she was cleaning the house as usual, she suddenly thought it was uncomfortable to boil water every single time. Then, she started to think of the innovative way to clean her house. Finally she came up with the ‘Steam Vacuum,’ and started to develop her idea. She was working as a public official at that time. However, she quitted the job right away because she had the confidence about making her innovation. There were lots of difficulties in the process of inventing it. She had to mortgage her house and parents' house and also spent over 600million won. After 3 years of effort to develop the steam vacuum, finally it came out in the market. However, there were lots of problems in the vacuum such as water leaking. Through lots of trial and error, the vacuum developed and became popular among housewife. This is the process of how steam vacuum developed and invented.

             The invention of Steam vacuum changed the quality of life. Most importantly, steam vacuum made the life of housewife more comfortable. Due to the invention, instead of wiping the floor by bending our knees, we can now clean our room in a very comfortable way by just standing still. Steam refers to the hot mist that forms when water boils. Therefore, steam vacuum means the vacuum that contains the function of turning on the steam. Before the invention, people had to get wet towel and then wiped the floor. This was a very uncomfortable way to clean that made mother tired. However, Han Gyeong Hui was the person who noticed the mind of mom so well and devised the invention which brought to a big success. Not only Steam vacuum, there are other invention like steam iron, humidifier, or wet mop iron. Her invention is famous now days throughout the world like China and USA. Therefore, the invention of the steam vacuum relieved the hardship of the housewife.

             Furthermore, the innovator had brought lots of change of thinking to the women. The remarkable point of this invention is the person who made this invention. Most of the CEO that had big success was mostly men. However, in this case, the CEO is the women. The fact has brought lots of hope to other women, especially to every mom in the house. She gave hope to women to start new life as a business women. Also, she told people to do innovative thinking. She insisted to get rid of the habit of settling in the present. In fact, after the success of Han Gyeong Hui, many women started their new business and tried to live challenging life. Her success broke the stereotype of the role of housewife. The stereotype that housewife should  work all day only for their family broke and gave many opportunities to the women. Therefore, she contributed to the change of the stereotype of people.

             To sum up, the innovation of Steam vacuum changed the quality of housewife life. Due to the innovative thinking of one common housewife, every housewife of the world could be comfortable whenever they clean their house. Not only that but it also led to change of the thinking. We should thank to her contribution and always try not to settle for the present and think creatively. Thinking creatively could make our life more comfortable than today.