“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
“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
“In fact, the most common cause of death for Koreans under the age of forty is suicide;” — Euny Hong Death 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
“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
“In essence, shamanism is the belief that all happiness stems from harmony with nature.” — Euny Hong Faith 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“dramas are now beloved by Asia as a whole. In Taiwan, the airtime devoted to Korean dramas was getting so out of… — Euny Hong Korean Dramas 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 American movie 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
“[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
“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
“When I asked why StarCraft 2 in particular was so popular in Korea, he said, “The game ends quickly, so you can… — Euny Hong Koreans Like 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“My memorization skills were so well honed at Korean school that it's now become an involuntary and automatic reflex. I have almost… — Euny Hong Almost perfect 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 Mutually assured destruction 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
“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
“The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a… — Euny Hong Debt 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
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