“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
“Lee Kun-hee, the third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull, took over as chairman of Samsung in 1987. In 1993, he held… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Kim Jong-il also invented the hamburger. Almost touchingly, North Koreans have a lot of pride in their heritage, though it’s for absurd… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“In recent decades, the biggest enemies of shamanism have been Korea’s many fervent Christians. Which, said Mason, is highly ironic, since Korean… — Euny Hong Christianity Copy Share Image
“The Korean wave of popular culture is called “Hallyu.” You should learn the word, since you’ll be seeing a lot of it.… — Euny Hong Around the world Copy Share Image
“Onerously, Korea still has not managed to wean itself off its reliance on the chaebols—the mega conglomerates like Samsung and Hyundai. True,… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Koreans are good at engaging in crisis,” he said, pointing to all the times the country had been invaded—by Britain, Russia, China,… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“There is another, bleaker reason why Korea has little reason to fear that other countries will try to emulate the K-pop export… — Euny Hong Constant criticism 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
“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
“Whenever kids asked me, “Are you Chinese?”—which was often—I would invariably respond yes. My mother heard me doing this once and gave… — Euny Hong Asian Copy Share Image
“Lee believes, as do the vast majority of South Koreans, that North Koreans are not so stupid that they fail to see… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
“Kim Jong-il had real cultural ambitions. He was a known cinephile who fancied himself a rare blend of canny Hollywood producer and… — Euny Hong Art Copy Share Image
“The Chosun Dynasty adopted Confucianism in all walks of civil and personal life at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The nation’s… — Euny Hong Confucianism Copy Share Image
“K-pop export model: the star-making process is so unpleasant that there are not many countries whose aspiring stars would put up with… — Euny Hong Constant criticism Copy Share Image
“2002, three years ahead of schedule and just one year after Forbes called the idea “off the wall,” Samsung’s market capitalization exceeded… — Euny Hong Investing Copy Share Image
“When I asked why StarCraft 2 in particular was so popular in Korea, he said, “The game ends quickly, so you can… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Han reminds me of Carl Jung’s concept of racial memory—the idea that the collective experiences of a race are hereditary. Thus, the… — Euny Hong Memory Copy Share Image
“Samsung, “They did market research and came up with good news: nobody had heard of Samsung.” So the name stayed, even as… — Euny Hong Good news Copy Share Image
“Say what you will about the quality of K-pop music, but Lee Moon-won, Korea’s most influential pop culture critic, made a shockingly… — Euny Hong Creativity Copy Share Image
“Korean dramas also have huge audiences in Latin America—perhaps because of their emotional similarity to telenovelas. In South America, Korean dramas have… — Euny Hong Dramas Copy Share Image
“dramas are now beloved by Asia as a whole. In Taiwan, the airtime devoted to Korean dramas was getting so out of… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Koreans are better at packaging and marketing. Look at Samsung, for example. With K-pop, the songwriters are not Korean. They’re European. The… — Euny Hong Korean Copy Share Image
“Lee, like most South Korean officials, approaches the issue coolly. “The North Korean regime is not crazy. They are very calculating. They… — Euny Hong Korea Copy Share Image
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