Entrepreneurship Before Free Market?

Recently, the Korean Ministry of Knowledge and Economy decided to hold annual "Entrepreneurship Weeks" to foster economic growth. I applaud the intentions behind this move, but entrepreneurship cannot exist without economic freedom, dreamers and risk-taking.
Everyone always hears about Bill Gates and how he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft. However, according to The Millionaire Next Door, 80% of America's millionaires are first generation rich. Self-employed Americans account for 2/3 of U.S. millionaires. The top 100 new companies in the U.S. had $5.7 billion in revenue and are projected to employ 15,000 workers by 2009. (Entrepreneur Magazine August 2008)

If you want to foster entrepreneurship, you need to create an environment where people can dream. This is not possible if everyone wants the safety and security of a civil servant position.

In addition, there must economic freedom without barriers to market entry. If government regulations designed to protect large corporations exist, then what chance does a start-up have? The very notion of taking on a chaebol seems absurd. Moreover, if everyone's dream is to work for a chaebol, who will be left to challenge them? First you dream, then you take calculated risks, but before that -- there must be hope.

Index of Economic Freedom 2008

Rank	Country	Summary index
1	Hong Kong	90,3
2	Singapore	87,4
3	Ireland	82,4
4	Australia	82
5	United States	80,6
6	New Zealand	80,2
7	Canada	80,2
8	Chile	79,8
9	Switzerland	79,7
10	United Kingdom	79,5
11	Denmark	79,2
12	Estonia	77,8
13	Netherlands	76,8
14	Iceland	76,5
15	Luxembourg	75,2
16	Finland	74,8
17	Japan	72,5
18	Mauritius	72,3
19	Bahrain	72,2
20	Belgium	71,5
21	Barbados	71,3
22	Cyprus	71,3
23	Germany	71,2
24	Bahamas, The	71,1
25	Taiwan	71
26	Lithuania	70,8
27	Sweden	70,4
28	Armenia	70,3
29	Trinidad and Tobago	70,2
30	Austria	70
31	Spain	69,7
32	Georgia	69,2
33	El Salvador	69,2
34	Norway	69
35	Slovakia	68,7
36	Botswana	68,6
37	Czech Republic	68,5
38	Latvia	68,3
39	Kuwait	68,3
40	Uruguay	68,1
41	Korea, South	67,9

The Heritage Foundation (http://www.heritage.org/index/)