“In essence, shamanism is the belief that all happiness stems from harmony with nature.” — Euny Hong Faith 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“Dissatisfied with North Korea’s propaganda films, which he apparently admitted were artistically substandard, this François Truffaut of northern Asia did what any… — Euny Hong Human rights 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 Copy Share Image
“University entrance anxiety is regarded as one of the reasons that Korea has the highest suicide rate of any nation in the… — Euny Hong Death 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[Hooni Kim] is pleased at the global Hallyu phenomenon, but he doesn't think that food has a place in Hallyu. "For me food is so much more real than a pop song or a video," he said. As with all great chefs I've met, he talks about food as a man would talk about a woman he's in love with. Once more…” quote by Euny Hong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/euny-hong-10249_food_hooni-kim-is-pleased-at-the-global-hally_1485511.jpg)
