“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Cinema is yet another area in which government intervention in culture paid off in spades. Korea once again demonstrated its unique magic… — Euny Hong Cinema 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
