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Steve Jang

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“On the concept of whether it's what's happening right now with the technology industry here arts. Food, like all of that, it feels really like it's peaking. This K w Across all these things. And I can't think of a more exciting time to be here than literally right now For the next five, ten years. If I didn't have a family that's in schools and a fund that is headquartered in San Francisco, This would be the best place definitely in Asia. It's like groaning and squeaking and screaming as if bursting at the themes.”
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“The one thing we were eating mandu the other day? Mandu is a Mongolian word. That's Mongolian word China uses certain parts of China use Mundu, Korea uses Mandu, Turkey uses Mundu, Pakistan uses Mondu. Food is the original spice. Carried by Mongolians, Romans. It's the original cultural export. Korean food, Korean music, Korean beauty, all of this is the only thing that will keep Korea alive in perpetuity. This could all be gone Too small of a country, too small of a population on too tenuous of a peninsula, literally in the geographic center. All the tension in the region. And so that export, that pollen, that is the existence, right?”
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“I mean, there'll be a lot of differences. The director, Amanda Kim, of the documentary, the Dimjin Peck documentary, she lived in New York and she lives in Paris now. We did a premiere screening here. And she said that it was so emotional. Though she hasn't spent a lot of time in Korea so emotional to have been the director to present to Koreans this film about the most important artist of all Korean people in the modern era to present that back and she said it was just not only a mind-blowing experience for her as a director but as a Korean Gyopo coming back to present that and so this is something that I think a lot of you know any of your listeners who are Korean American or Asian American or even from India and thinking about that reverse brain drain as they call it”
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“They brought it back. And improved it And cooking the same thing. A lot of chefs that have come back from the US or France or UK come back this whole. So there's this export, but then there's also this reverse immigration happening. They're coming back. So it's a really exciting time to be in Seoul. Startups are rising. That's now a new career option. There's still huge problems with North and South Korea, the tension and the geopolitical fear and anxiety that happens. But there's something really dynamic and it feels like we don't know how long this will last. Just because of the danger of geopolitical stuff, but also because of Does it get dialed in like Tokyo one day? Becomes everything gets really locked in, defined”
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“Outskirts' hole, and it was government supported. Which is the craziest thing. And it was an incredible moment, but it was very clear that dance culture here, which is very strong today, Came from the Korean Kyopo. Had come back. They brought it from New York. They brought it from LA.”
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“And all the best B Boy crews from around the world, France. It was all country based, it was like an Olympics. It's like France versus Japan, US versus Korea, right? And everyone convened.”
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“Government sensors are there, right? Yeah. So I want to. Call out that the diaspora is really important to a lot of what's happened too. So if you look at a lot of K pop, a lot of K-pop pupil are coming back from the US Coming back from other countries where they've learned something, another culture, and they're bringing it back and they're adding to it here. So a lot of the dance groups, I actually sponsored the first World Boy Championships called R16 In Seoul in 2000.”
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“Not only subversive, but they were dancing to this, enjoying this inside of small clubs and bars and apartments because this couldn't be a thing that you could do in a big concert hall.”
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“looked like flowers and blue sky and clouds and just really weird fluffy covers. But the music inside was serious. And it was trippy. It was intense. And so”
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“Edgy and yeah, counter to the counterculture, yeah, represented counterculture at the time. So they would put out these album covers on the LPs.”
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“with relationships with his own art and his own identity and failure. And in a weird way, it's sort of a, he represented the unexpected hero to a lot of artists and thinkers of the time. There was a thing in Korean music before K-pop. There was an extremely underground small but amazing jazz and rock scene, especially psych rock. There was a band called High Five and High Six.”
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“In the show notes, you got to put a link to this. There's a free streaming link, I think, somewhere. So it won't be about like a commercial thing. He became such a popular figure in Korea despite doing that out there. And it was something that if he had done it here, it would have been panned, right? May be censored, right? And I think that that is part of that Han. He struggled with mental health.”
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“Right. But they embrace them, which is really interesting because if he had done all that here, he would have been shut down. But the fact that he did it on the world and became well known. And did these live broadcasts that ended up looking like the future YouTube variety show?”
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“If he had done what he was doing in Korea, he would have been censored. It was too weird. It was too out there. It was too counterpolitical. And even when he visited, you saw that footage, he was nervous that he would not be able to leave Korea and that he would get locked up.”
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“What his story is really interesting. He is one of those breakthrough moments for Korean culture and society in that he was the only internationally known artist In the 70s, 80s, 90s, and even into the 2000s, and then he passed away in that decade, he was the ambassador or the representative as crazy as he might have seemed to everyone. That in the art world, he was appreciated, admired, and followed for that. And it's very uncorean for that time period. You have to remember that at that time period, Korea was under essentially a dictatorial, a somewhat elected administration.”
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“The most famous Korean artist of the 20th century was the father of digital and video art. So whenever you see TVs all set up in an array like displays and he did the TV Buddha, which is probably his most famous work with a camera constantly taking video on a cathode ray tube of a sitting Buddha statue and the Buddha's looking at himself. And he coined the term information superhighway and kind of predicted social media. He is a well regarded in the art world, but not really known outside, which is kind of interesting. So it was a film out of passion for his story. And you got to see it. So I would love to hear kind of you coming in without knowing. I don't think you knew about him.”
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“The title of the documentary of this Korean artist is Moon is the oldest TV. It's on Apple and it'll be on Netflix probably by the time this podcast comes out, which will be great. And the quick background, the high level background is Namjun Pike or in Korean we would say Bek Namjun because we say the last name first Beknamjun is”
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“Oh no, sorry, the collective we or ours, the great director and team, including Steve Yun, actor, but also executive producer on this film with me. And you came to that. But I would love to hear some of your thoughts on this because he is the most famous Korean artist.”
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“I wanted to talk a little bit about the Beckdam June film Just talking a little bit about film. We were at Sundance together in Utah, Park City, great city. Time to go skiing or snowboarding is during sundance”
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“Yeah, that's like Take off your shoes bow. Say the food is good. Finish your plate in bowl. All is good. Everything's good. Everything's great.”
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“You get a thousand points of credit from any Korean if you try to speak the language. They love it. It'll smooth all rough edges on anything that you're talking about with them if you try, if you at least try.”
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“He can get murky You can get murky, like, you don't, unless you're Korean or unless you've looked at the recipe and the preparation, kind of don't know what's in there”
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“There are a lot of people trying to make upscale food, and there are people like Corey Lee at Bennu in San Francisco and David Chang at Mokufuku that have perfected an upscale version of Korean food. But cream food is comfort food. It's home cooking food. We had food the other day, and I was like, you got to eat the stuff that's like, this is a poor country's food. And that's the best stuff. The other stuff is great. So, anyways, I wanted to give kudos to the original Korean export that everyone loves, which is Korean Korean.”
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“Export other than the skilled labor from the 60s and 70s Whenever you see a Korean restaurant, If you go there, this is like learning Korean when you go to Seoul, when you visit Seoul. If you find a Korean restaurant in your town, Wherever you are, go up to them and practice your Korea. Say, ask them what would you eat? You can speak English to them. It's fine, but say, what would you eat? And say, I heard that Koreans have great stews. Do you have a stew? Sundubuchige. These stews, Korean food is comfort food.”
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“Look, I will not be that overly proud Korean, Korean-American, and say this is better than everyone else. I will say that Korean food is the best food on the planet. I've tried everything. I love Japanese food. I love Mexican food. I love Italian food, French food, obviously, and fine dining. And I think Korean food is the original.”
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“And everyone said, What's in that? And I said, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, right? I said, I'm sorry I don't have any kimchi for you, but it would just top it off. And so I really feel like of all the soft power.”
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“Garlic. Sesame seeds, everything. And I made a Korean barbecue marinade, and then I put in the tomatoes, and I put in, I got some molasses, put that in there, and I made this whole big pot and put some onions in there too, just to give it a little bit more kick. And I put in the pot. I didn't describe it to anyone. So I made a Korean barbecue marinade in a Texas style and put in this big pot. And I had a friend there, Michael Galpert, who was from New York at the time. He was watching me do this whole thing. Everyone else had done some sort of like Carolina barbecue or Memphis barbecue. And you go up and you take these grilled chicken drumsticks and these baby back ribs that were unsauced and unseasoned, but grilled and people would go try it. And everyone loved it. My pot, the whole thing was like, whose pot would get lower first?”
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“I was down there for south by southwest. My service just launched. It was a music app startup. And a friend from Food and Wine magazine asked me if I wanted to be a contestant in a barbecue sauce contest in Austin as part of South by Southwest. I said, sure. I said, what do I need to do? Well, you need to go out and get your own materials at the grocery store. And then you're going to compete and we're going to grow. Everyone's going to be around there. There's going to be a whole audience. And it's going to be an audience participation and vote. So I was like, I only know how to cook one type of barbecue, but, you know, I'll try. So I basically did an American barbecue recipe and I took a cream barbecue recipe, which my mother taught me. And I knew like the back of my hand, I could do that in my sleep. So I got soy sauce, got sesame oil. I got pears. I got like Bartlett pears because they didn't have the Asian pears in Austin. And then brown sugar, Coca-Cola.”
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“There's not one person that I've taken to Korean barbecue for the first time that hasn't said, I cannot believe I've never eaten this before. This is incredible. I'll give you a funny story about Austin, your current city. Back in 2000.”
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“And I think that that is actually the most important part of Korean soft power if we're talking about this as an export economy. Is the first thing that people loved even before K pop.”
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“Scissors By the way, that annoys my wife so much because I will just. I cook a lot of barbecue. Yeah, yeah. I'm a self-professed grill master for my family.”
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“Asking for food, I mean, so what's been your thought about Korean food so far? I mean, you've had Korean food. In the US, or that version of it. So, what do you think so far?”
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“Come in as a half insider, half outsider, I get the sense, and it's very emotional for me actually. Like in the US, I feel very stoic about all that's happening. I feel like I was raised in that. But when I come back here, it's like I'm going into this other dimension where everyone here is moving twice as fast. It's like the feeling like when you go to New York, the physical kinetic aspect of what's happening there, you're like, wow, LA people are so moving so slowly. Physically moving slowly. And in New York, you're like, you feel tired after like a couple days in Manhattan. You come to Korea. I think only New Yorkers can really understand living in Seoul because you have to move fast.”
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“And so this living in the moment or achieving for just tomorrow. This impatience That to me is this Han that's looming in the background of everyone's mind and this is angst about upper mobility and being able to achieve that pushes out in the diaspora. Become Gyopo because they can't do it here because the system won't allow it. It's kinetic and it's sometimes ugly and painful, but it's kinetic and it's the craziest thing. And when people come here, even me, for me, like who understands this somewhat,”
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“My opinion on this, and people can disagree, and many, many would, is that they are designed in their mindset and raised with if you don't do it now, you may never have a chance to do it again later. And so they are living in the moment knowing that 17 miles away or millions of soldiers and artillery and missiles pointed at them.”
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“Do we not? And I think because tomorrow is not guaranteed, they're living in the moment to do exactly what they want as fast as possible with an impatience that expresses itself as so industrious, so productive. Look at them cranking out such a small country, cranking out films that are winning a can film festival, the palm d'Or there, Oscar's here, you know, largest and most successful artist, music artists in the world, most high growth, cosmetic, beauty brands, largest mobile smartphone manufacturer other than Apple. Why is this coming from the small country?”
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“Which you would never expect ATT and Verizon to go compete with OpenAI. And so there is this accelerated sense of we must achieve something tomorrow because we're already behind. And that is a very Korean mentality. What we were talking about with Hananjang, I'm going to try to bring this all together in a theory, in a grand theory. But this grand theory is also that tomorrow is not guaranteed for South Koreans. There's a well understood tension with North Korea that at any moment this could all be over. I don't truly understand it because I'm an American. I live in California. But my parents, the older generation, they feel it. They talk about it. They obsess over it. If you look at newscasts, you look at books, you look at YouTube. This is like the hot topic. What to do about this? How do we reunify?”
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“Both wireless and fiber broadband. I was speaking with one of the leading wireless telcos here, and they're not like AT&T and Verizon back home. They are like the big tech companies that have software. News telling me that Singtel and other regional wireless companies, mobile carriers in Asia, often come to them to ask them about the newest technology, how they should approach their own strategies around this, around LTE, 5G, and now around AI. And so wireless telecom companies here are building their own language models.”
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“If you look at the history of Korea, it was we will export our men and our women as nurses and our men as hard labor in these industrial roles. And then it was shipping, then it was steel, and then they moved up the pyramid in terms of becoming a service economy into a manufacturing economy. And then to a knowledge worker service economy, right? Started creating original chip designs working on broadband and being the leaders in broadband”
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“The 70s and the 60s too hired a lot of Korean workforce. So did Saudi Arabia and other countries to come be the skilled labor. Other countries like Koreans were the miners. Germany, they got exported there to be the miners because no one domestically wanted to be a miner because you had a high likelihood of death emphysema. So the reason why it's called Teerano is that it's in tribute to their friends in Iran who gave them all this economic uplift through labor and revenue and they named it after Tehran. And so that's why it's called Tejerando.”
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“And then there were contract manufacturers for Sony. Sony was originally a contract manufacturer for American consumer electronics companies. So there was a transition. But there was a moment in Korean history where the export of labor, this skilled industrial labor was what helped bring revenue and country alliances to Korea, which was a very poor country at the time. So the main road in Kangnal is called Teherano. The reason why it's called Tejerando is that Iran, when it was a capitalist liberal country,”
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“As Dungnum The most modern district in Seoul, it's the newest modern area of office buildings. We went there the other day. A lot of LED walls and fancy stores, things like that. It's the news hole. Korea's shifted from Economy of contract manufacturing. Samsung was a contract manufacturer for Japanese companies, electronics companies, as well as having all these other. Businesses in the larger conglomerate. But in the beginning, a lot of this was shipping, import, export, heavy industry, things like that.”
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“Or becoming luxury products there. Next to the LVMH and the caring group products, right? And so I think if there's anything to learn from that export mindset, I mean, you mentioned about how you felt like the book publishing and the design, there's bakeries that are, and this is really falling suit of what Japan did over the last 40 or 50 years. It was a contract manufacturing economy that became an original OEM design economy. They leveraged what they had learned and they did better, like the story of Japanese whiskey. Incredible, right They sent one guy to go learn from the masters in Scotland, and he came back and started Santori. And I think a lot of that was learned by Koreans. And they started learning that in heavy industry. The main street in Kangnam is called Teher”
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“They are shipping things like steel. They are shipping things like chips Wireless smartphones. They're now starting to ship software. Marketplaces, they're moving out, and they're also in that other side of soft power. They're exporting movies, books, TV series, music, fashion, beauty, Korean beauty products are growing like wildfire, not only in the US, where that's understandable because you have a diaspora Korean-American group and Asian American, but Europe where French and Swiss beauty That's the stronghold. The Eurocentric beauty concepts of beauty, Korean products.”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can do everything you want. So someone from Naver told me in a meeting that K-pop is so big and all the different, like, the digital artwork and media and content and all the things that you can buy and consume around. That type of artist, like think about all the merch, digital merch said France is actually a larger market than the domestic market. Wow. By dollars Said, are you sure? Do you mean by some other metric, some other thing? I said, no, by gross dollars, we do better with all of the licensed partnered content around K-pop bands and artists France than we do in Korea. So that might be just their business around K pop digital content, but It is interesting that Korea is Almost wholly across the board to your point about Netflix, to your point about what to learn, it is an export society, it is an export economy.”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the super app thing is real here, by the way. What Elon wants to do with Twitter has only been done really in Asia and maybe Latin America, right?”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Game of Thrones places. No, it's a whole travel tourist sector. Wow. And it's not just Japanese. It's, you know, other Asian groups, Europeans. Actually, here's a funny, interesting fact. Someone from Naver, Which is one of the big public internet companies here, kind of like Yahoo or Google”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of Japanese women. Love coming for tour guided trips in Korea, going to the locations in the storyline of Korean dramas and movies.”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. I mean, you really haven't had any time. I haven't. So you're actually giving samples of correct grammar Korean right now. I'm still impressed because you haven't really had much time to do this. No.”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tell me about what you are doing when you are learning how do you think about the material? How do you think about your method? On both those because I think that's really interesting.”
2023-11-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #707: Live from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power,” The Poverty-to-Power Playbook, K-Pop, “Han” Energy, Must-See Movies, Export Economies, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT