Who: Adrian Lee, 35, founder and chief executive of Chinese mobile payment platform Wipay, which is popular with tourists from China.
The Singapore-owned company launched its payment platform in South Korea in 2016. These days, Wipay is also used in Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on May 27, 2018, with the headline Bowled over by soup. Subscribe