“In fact, the most common cause of death for Koreans under the age of forty is suicide;” — Euny Hong Death Copy Share Image
“In essence, shamanism is the belief that all happiness stems from harmony with nature.” — Euny Hong Faith Copy Share Image
“Psy will go down in history as the first real twenty-first-century entertainer: who else could combine Confucianism and farting?” — Euny Hong Confucianism Copy Share Image
“You may have an iPhone, for example, but its microchips are made by Apple’s biggest competitor—the Korean electronics company Samsung.” — Euny Hong Business Copy Share Image
“Korea was my Zion. I had read too many British novels about wretched children finding out they were actually of noble birth… — Euny Hong Books Copy Share Image
“Being Korean in America when I was a child was like being a smoker now. We were pariahs with filthy smelly habits… — Euny Hong Children Copy Share Image
“South Korea knew that it was a poor country not long ago, and they had learned that defeating poverty was a national… — Euny Hong Long ago Copy Share Image
“Psy is the paradigm shift within the paradigm shift. And his life and bewildering rise to fame are an embodiment of the… — Euny Hong Life Copy Share Image
“The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Korea has five television channels devoted to gaming twenty-four hours a day; the United States only has one well-known gaming channel, G4.” — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the person who best expressed Korea's fearlessness, ambition, and never-ending gall was Korean music mogul Jin-young Park (head of the record… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“For the first time in Korea history—perhaps in any nation’s history—the Korean government is putting huge financial and political resources behind something… — Euny Hong Discovery Copy Share Image
“July 1998, CEO Yun and nine other Samsung executives locked themselves up in a hotel and wrote their resignation letters. They made… — Euny Hong Business Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, Korea has become quite a welcoming place for foreigners; many westerners visiting Korea share glowing reports about Korean… — Euny Hong Hard time Copy Share Image
“Korea has no natural resources and very little arable land. Compounding the problem is that labor costs have risen so dramatically in… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“Samsung still needed to refashion its brand image. There was a worrisome phrase floating around the business world in the 1990s, the… — Euny Hong Business world Copy Share Image
“Gulliver arrives in new land and discovers acrid smell; finds whole country massaging cabbages; concludes they are doing it in service to… — Euny Hong Gulliver Copy Share Image
“According to Kim, 1998 was the turning point for Korean films entering the international arena. “In the fifty years up to 1997,”… — Euny Hong Cannes film festival Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables was required reading in Korean schools, as was Alphonse Daudet’s short story, “La Dernière Classe,” for both my… — Euny Hong Education Copy Share Image
“I asked him about what it was like growing up as a Korean American in northern New Jersey in the 1970s and… — Euny Hong Asian american Copy Share Image
“I was teased constantly by children calling me “Yankee,” which was slightly amusing, and mimicking my Korean, which was less amusing. I… — Euny Hong Children Copy Share Image
“K-culture has the potential to be a powerful diplomatic tool. I'm convinced that the late Korean president Kim Daejung will be proven… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Confucianism made its way into every aspect of life—even food. Food is based on the theory of the yin and yang, and… — Euny Hong Confucianism Copy Share Image
“[Hooni Kim] is pleased at the global Hallyu phenomenon, but he doesn't think that food has a place in Hallyu. "For me… — Euny Hong Food Copy Share Image
“The no-foreign-school-supplies rule was enforced by way of surprise inspections, heralded by the teacher suddenly yelling midlecture: “Everyone, put your hands on… — Euny Hong Thailand Copy Share Image
“Many people outside Korea subscribe to the belief that Korean food contains mystic healing properties. The SARS bird flu epidemic of 2003… — Euny Hong Faith Copy Share Image
“By “good deal,” Lee is referring to the world’s worst-kept secret: North Korea makes these threats to extort money from the rest… — Euny Hong Humanitarian aid Copy Share Image
“Very few countries have ever attempted to sell their pop culture to the United States. Even Japan didn’t try.” Korea” — Euny Hong Japan Copy Share Image
“Samsung digital TVs depended on countries making the switch from analog to digital television, which is why Samsung TVs did not take… — Euny Hong Investing Copy Share Image
“First-worlders have the luxury of not having to think about waste elimination very much. But for a third-worlder, poop is a big… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Hallyu started with Samsung.” In other words, the popularity of Korean music and movies is hard to separate from the confidence that… — Euny Hong Music Copy Share Image
“The South Korean economy is a paradox: it is utterly capitalist, yet at the same time it is in some ways still… — Euny Hong Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Please write your name on the envelope before you put your poop in, because you’ll find it difficult to write on it… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Korean-made video games now constitute a quarter of the world market. Even most Koreans have no idea how big Korea’s gaming industry.” — Euny Hong Investing Copy Share Image
“the Japanese nonetheless viewed kimchi as a sign of Korean peasant primitiveness. We were cabbage eaters, like the Irish. We delighted in… — Euny Hong Food Copy Share Image
“K-dramas are soft power in action; they subtly and overtly promote Korean values, images, and tastes to their international audience.” — Euny Hong Dramas Copy Share Image
“culture critic Lee Moon-won opined, “Hallyu started with Samsung.” In other words, the popularity of Korean music and movies is hard to… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“I’ve made much worse gaffes, like the time I accidentally spilled hot soup on a Nobel laureate’s lap and then set fire… — Euny Hong Hot soup Copy Share Image
“Koreans know from experience that everyone must rise together, or not at all. Another important lesson from Korea’s success is this apparent… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
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