Evzen Korec

Evzen Korec (born September 16, 1956) is a Czech scientist and businessman, owner of the property developer EKOSPOL and owner and director of Tabor Zoo.[1] He is the co-author of 11 patents and more than 20 research articles published in international scientific journals. Korec has also written four books, one of which (Co je v domě, není pro mě!) became a bestseller shortly after publication.[2]

Education and scientific career

Korec graduated from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in 1981, in Molecular Biology and Genetics. His Master's thesis was an Analysis of Susceptibility and Resistance to Rous Sarcoma Virus in Inbred Line of Minor Poultry. Between 1983 and 1986 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he received a PhD in Oncology, with a doctoral thesis on the Expression and Detection of Virus Proteins of Tumor Viruses.

After 1986, Korec completed long-term research fellowships at universities across Europe, including the University of Göttingen in Germany, and universities in London and Paris. He was the co-author of 11 patents in the field of Molecular Biology and Genetics. In this field he published more than 20 research articles in international scientific journals.[3]

Business career

In 1992 he founded the development company EKOSPOL, and has served as its CEO and chairman since then. EKOSPOL is one of the two largest residential developers in the Czech Republic,[4] according to market share of apartment sales, and has also been listed among the 50 leading residential developers in Central and Eastern Europe by a trade magazine.[5]

Korec lectures regularly at the University of Economics in Prague,[6] and frequently comments on residential development, construction, housing market and the mortgage market in Czech media. Between 2010 and 2016 he was the most frequently quoted public figure in the Czech development industry, and EKOSPOL was the most frequently mentioned development company in the media.[7]

In 2013, Korec received the Top Manager of the Sector of Real Estate Development and Construction Award in the Manager of the Year 2012 Awards.[8]

Korec's rule

As the owner of Ekospol development company, Korec formulated Korec's rule, which says: "The final sales price of an apartment with the area of up to 50 m2 must correspond to a maximum of 20 times the annual rent in a given location. For larger apartments (large one bedroom apartment, two bedroom apartment etc.) the sales price should be on the level of a maximum of 25 to 30 times the annual rent."[9]

Korec's rule helps a person interested in buying an apartment to relatively precisely determine the maximum sales price of an apartment in a given location. This rule applies generally, independent of the location. The rent price already reflects the attractiveness of the location, and the current rent price of a given location can be easily found on real estate websites.

Animal protection

Korec is also active in the field of animal protection and preservation. In 2015, Korec rescued Tabor Zoo from liquidation, buying the zoo from an insolvency administrator. The zoo was re-opened to the public later that year, focused on the preservation of endangered species. Korec is himself a breeder of various animals, including koi carp and horses. He is the owner of Korec Corso kennel, home to the most successful bitch of the Cane Corso dog breed in the Czech Republic in 2015, Koleta Atison.[10]

Through his company EKOSPOL, Korec supports the civic association Společnost pro zvířata ("Society for Animals") and charitable trust Česká Krajina, as well as sponsoring Tabor Zoo.[11]

Korec also supports the animal rights campaign "Konec doby klecové" ("End of the Cage Era") organized by Společnost pro zvířata, with the goal of ending the cage farming of poultry and all other animal species in the Czech Republic,[12] and Česká krajina's biodiversity protection projects focused on the reintroduction of native Czech animal species, such as wild horses, European bisons or aurochs.[13]

Korec leads a scientific group in Tabor Zoo, which determined for the first time the average lifespan of Cane Corso dogs through a study of a statistically significant group in cooperation with 72 Cane Corso kennels from 25 countries. The research aims to extend the life of Cane Corso dogs. In this publication, the relationship between average lifespan and hair colour was described in mammals for the first time. The research results were published in the Open Veterinary Journal.[14] Korec is a member of the Editorial Board of the US veterinary journal Approaches in Poultry, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences.[15]

Personal life

Korec is married to Jana, and they have one son.[16]

Publications

  • Co je v domě, není pro mě! (Don't Get Your Honey Where You Get Your Money)
  • Koupě bytu pod lupou (Flat purchase Under the Magnifying Glass)
  • Pozemky ukrývají poklady (Land parcels are hidden treasure)
  • Jak jsem zachránil ZOO v Táboře (How I Saved Tabor Zoo).

References

  1. ↑ Businessman Korec bought Tabor zoo
  2. ↑ Unique book about investing in real estates
  3. ↑ pubmeddev. "korec e - PubMed - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Development market in Prague is heading to the triumvirate, market concentration will continue
  5. ↑ 50 leading residential developers in Central and Eastern Europe
  6. ↑ Report on the conference - Factors prosperity of enterprises in the local and global environment 2013
  7. ↑ Czech developers in media: Evžen Korec and EKOSPOL have strengthened positions
  8. ↑ TOP Manager of the Sector of Real Estate Development and Construction
  9. ↑ Miroslav., Škvára,. Finanční gramotnost (Druhé vydání ed.). Praha. ISBN 9788090482333. OCLC 965748296.
  10. ↑ "About us | Korec Corso - Chovatelská stanice Cane Corso Italiano". www.koreccorso.cz. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  11. ↑ "Podpořili nás | SPOLEČNOST PRO ZVÍŘATA ZO ČSOP". spolecnostprozvirata.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  12. ↑ "KONEC DOBY KLECOVÉ | SPOLEČNOST PRO ZVÍŘATA ZO ČSOP". spolecnostprozvirata.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  13. ↑ Tábor, Zoo. "ZOO Tábor Returns European Bison to the Czech Nature | ZOO Tábor". www.zootabor.eu. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  14. ↑ "Open Veterinary Journal" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "Approaches in Poultry, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences".
  16. ↑ Relaxing with koi carps
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