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Steve Jang

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first: 2023-11-29
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“Does it come from? Who is producing and paying for that? The money is coming, the capital is coming from the Jevils, the conglomerates. Production companies behind K pop, they're all publicly traded companies.”
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
“Until very recently, and I was like, oh, this is kind of boring. Me put it this way if you were to take all of these stories You were to look at them as these are commercial activities where you want the audience to engage with it and to pay for tickets, right?”
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“Look at Squid Game. Class struggle In Intense, crazy, dystopian game makes hungry games look like a kids show. Really does. I remember watching Hungry Games. I hadn't seen it actually.”
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“That the populism here is about class struggle and about workers' rights and about having a little bit more of a flattening out so that people have opportunities to be upwardly mobile. The thing that you're seeing today in film, the thing that makes parasite become a global phenomenon and win Oscars is that story. It's a great film. It is a great storyteller and cinematographer, but it is the writing and the acting. You can take that story as different as it is in it's a Korean family, two Korean families Basically, fighting with each other for the entirety of the film in quiet and sometimes loud ways. But you empathize with both and you're critical of both. There's not a good versus bad. There's no hero versus villain. And you take that out into the US, you take that out into Europe, you take that out into any country.”
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“Though the US is turning more into Korea style of politics. We'll leave it at that because I don't like politics, but I am recognizing this, which is”
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“That's the, I don't want to say the underbelly or the dark side, but it is really the trade-off of having on one side a very optimistic and High growth in terms of GDP country in the history of the planet in the last 50 years. I mean, it is a leader in wireless technology, it is a leader in chip manufacturing. It's a leader in heavy industrials, steel, and it's also now a leader in entertainment media, fashion, beauty industry. So it's doing a lot. It's accomplishing a lot. Great. The other side of that is that there's still a class divide. There's not a lot of upper mobility. And that's changing for sure. But it's still very much, and you see this in the stories that are told. These stories are told and they're popular not because they don't exist. It's because that people feel that. They empathize with that. They feel that in their bones that this is their condition in their life. So the populism here is different than in the US. The political spectrum, actually, is different. There's not a left versus right in the way that we think about it in the US.”
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“Moving around Seoul and killing people. But from a Western mindset, you're like, what is going on? This is almost silly, but it's actually, if you look at everything that's happening, it's talking about class struggle. This is part of what Korea has been since the very beginning of its own sort of political self-governance post-Korean War is the populism here. You saw that in the demonstrations. It's a demonstration activist society and it's constantly battling with the fact that there are very large companies that own so much of the economy and your success to raise a family and to have a nice apartment and to put your kids in great schools and things like that all reside on whether or not you can get a job and keep it at these large companies.”
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“This class struggle is this is the theme of so many movies, books, TV series. It's the suffering and the struggle to move out of their condition and that society and the upper crust of society won't allow it. And this tension is in music. It's in movies. It's in literature. It's in TV shows. It's all around. And you might say, oh no, it's around every country. Sure, it is, but it's really strong and consistent in Korean movies and literature. Parasite is an example of that. You look at Bong Jun Ho's, all of his films, they're all very different. Some feel like a horror thriller. Some feel like a psycho thriller. Another one feels almost like comedic sci-fi fantasy, like the host. If you see his original films, like a giant monster.”
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“It's the true KF Korean culture, I think when Westerners or outsiders come and they actually experience it and they see it in movies and K-pop and they come here and what they see is something that's a lot more realistic and nuanced.”
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“The intensity of Korean film then is also balanced with this polar opposite of these crazy rom-coms that are so sugary and saccharine but funny. And that's really Korean culture, right? It's this crazy full of friction opposites that you didn't think would coexist in one culture because I think people, Westerners, outsiders look at Japan and they say this is ideal culture. This is ideal society. This is utopia almost to a lot of Westerners. Everything is clean. Everyone is polite. Everything is in its right place. And they do things like take Italian pizza and actually make it better. They take”
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“Right, and it's not sort of like it comes to a conclusion Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, and now I feel good. And actually, one of the things I would say consistently about Korean film is that It's both, and this is a conflict that can exist together at the same time, it's both entertaining. And moving and inspiring. And you can also walk out feeling terrible. You can walk out feeling confused and like you need to go outside and get a breath of fresh air, sit down. If you're a smoker, you probably need a cigarette. If you're not a smoker, you probably need to take a walk and listen to some happy music.”
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“It's about the wealthy and the entitled and their mistreatment of the poorer working class that are immobile, but also there's complexity. It's not just good versus evil in that dichotomy. Both sides in those character sets are doing weird, crazy off-putting things to each other, right? And so that's why I think Korean movies are... Are really like well embraced because they don't follow a formula.”
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“A lot of them, you might look at it and say, Oh, this one's like a murder mystery. This one's a psychological thriller. This one is something else. But if you look at a lot of his movies, it's about class struggle.”
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“This is what we're talking about, which is in language. In stories, you get a sense for the people, maybe without even meeting in real life a person from that culture and society Tropes are the themes, the storylines that you hear in movies. One is about North South Korea. There's literally rom-coms about it. There's action thrillers about it, spy thrillers. There's historical film, you know, detailing a biopic, something that happened in the past. There's every kind of genre. But applied towards the north south. History and conflict. Another one is the class struggle. Probably seen parasite, which obviously won an Academy Award and was seen globally, but that is. Director Bong, Bong Jin Hall, is one of the greatest Korean directors of all time. A lot of his films are very intense psychological thrillers.”
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“Just like five years before that. And so five years before that, they spent 40 years, 1905 to 1945, under Japanese rule. And that was, we've already talked about that. That was very oppressive. It was a forced assimilation. And there were a lot of deaths that occurred as part of that and impression. And there are a lot of movies, by the way, that detail this.”
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“That it was Korean War. Millions of Koreans died in that war between Russia and China and the US. And the battleground was their country, their homes, their farmland, their cities. So the number of people that died in that war, I don't think people really talk about it. I appreciate the magnitude. There's something about like 10 million Chinese soldiers came across at some point or something like that. They're just numbers that people don't really think about. We talk about World War II. We talk about Vietnam, but there's not much about the Korean War. So, and then the Korean civilians and families that died. Right before that, they were liberated from Japanese rule.”
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“So, is that cathartic or is that actually more trauma? Yeah. And so I remember watching this as a child. I was in LA and my parents were watching it. LA had a big enough Korean-American community where you had Korean TV. You had a channel. I remember watching it and my parents were like broke down crying. And for me, it was like absorbing it as a child, but understanding it for the first time. That history and what that would feel like. And I think that's like a very strong moving example of how Korean people feel in the last 120 years, they have not had their own whole country and people. It's north and south.”
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“So first off, this is the last of the divided countries by Western capitalism and Eastern communism. So Germany, they've sorted it out. Vietnam, they've sorted it out. At this point, North Korea and South Korea is the last sort of evidence of the really like caustic, divisive Cold War. And so there are families. It's not two different people. It's not by religion, which we see a lot of today, unfortunately. It's the same people and the same families that are split and torn from each other. So imagine if you have an opportunity to be reunited.”
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“I'll try to do some great olive branch moves to reunite families. And they had a TV station film it and they set up a whole area and they brought buses down And it turned out to be not cathartic at all, but reopening pain.”
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“Not relief of trauma, it's new trauma on top of longstanding trauma. We're talking about is you'll put it in this, you put it in the show notes, but the North and South Korean governments had at certain times when they get along.”
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“That is a beautiful word with a beautiful meaning incredible. When I first heard it, I think it was my wife who had lived in Japan for 10 years with a friend and she had explained it to me. And I was like, that's so idealistic and just lovely, right? But I was like, there's no such thing in Korean. The experience of the Korean pupil, you know, it has not been an independent and whole country since 1905. It is divided since the Korean War, and there's a lot of pain and struggle that happens with families divided by North and South.”
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“I think it's still difficult to integrate in any of these cities. You're always going to be the other. But I think that you can get more direct response and that blunt energy of an actual response rather than a polite response.”
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“And especially in cities, and you have to make a distinction between the countryside in Korea, rural areas, in smaller towns, and then Seoul and Pusan, the big cities. It's a very different experience. You may not enjoy living in a small town in Korea because it really is still stuck in that 60s and 70s environment, both from a material aspect and utilities and just lifestyle. It's very modern in the cities. a really harsh divide to the point where everyone wants to move to the big city. And so these smaller towns are emptying out. And there's a big problem with that. There's some pluses to that, but there's some really strong minuses as well.”
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“Yeah, in a sarcastic way, call me Mr. Chairman, you probably should go on a diet so your back doesn't hurt, which is, you know, I love my food, but I really didn't need to hear that from the well-meaning Ajuma with the Yakuza perm. The experience that people will have is that it's not as lonely as it might be being an expat in Japan. My wife lived 10 years as an expat in Tokyo. And when we were dating, I'd visit her a lot. And before that, I would visit Tokyo a lot because I had an investor there and we were working on something. And so I was there frequently for years. And I got to understand a little bit about the experiences of her and her expat friends. It's one part elevated because they're expats, they're foreigners. But one part sort of, they're not part of main society, right? And so”
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“It's my fault. And because I'm still an American at heart. And so, what we're talking about here is the other part of me, my family's history. But so I have to try, right? Yeah. Because it's that different. Totally. And so in Korea, they're much more likely to say no.”
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“When I'm in Japan, I have to definitely take on a much more reserved and polite stance more than I would in the US, more than I would even in Korea because of that. And I respect that. In Korea, there's still a little bit of that”
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“Very hard because it's very impolite for them to do that. It's almost a dishonor for them to behave that way towards you.”
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“So the culture here is less polite in the protocol definition of the word. In Japan, it is very difficult for a Japanese person to say no very directly and bluntly to you.”
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“You spend more than a few days here in Seoul, you'll realize that what you are looking at is a city that might on the outset look like you're walking into Tokyo, but is actually the other side of the coin. They exist in the same dimension, but is a very different vibe.”
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“And you saw it, there's actually real painters out with their easel painting nature and streets and life. It's so fun to see that, but when you see that, you'll think, oh, it's just like Tokyo, right? Because it's very quaint, it's very precise, it's very safe.”
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“I walked in that neighborhood that I took you to Samchung Dong. I brought the blue bottle, brought one of the blue bottle coffee founders, and we had both invested in that company a long time ago, and they were interested to come to Japan and Korea. And so I met up with them in Japan, walked around different Tokyo neighborhoods with them, came to Seoul, did the same. They fell in love with that neighborhood because it had that very classic old school vintage. This is real Korea, real soul.”
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“I mean, I come like three, four times a year, and I don't feel the differences between each of those times, but I can look back and say, oh, three, four years ago, these things did not exist.”
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“Sor Oppression The way I describe people who have been to Tokyo a lot and they ask, they go, Should I go to Seoul? I'm like, absolutely. It's so fun. It's so electric right now. The ideas are new. They're embracing outside influences. You should go now. You'll miss it when it's fully dialed in.”
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“But where it diverges is it's these unique phrases and words that capture part of the feeling or the psyche in the soul of those people that is really fascinating. And we were talking about this. So explain what Natsukashi. In Japanese language”
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“There's great harmony and diversity in that, and people move back and forth between Seoul and Tokyo as easily as we move between San Francisco and LA or New York and San Francisco. But it's interesting to see those influences. And I think when you look at the things that you've seen, Your deep understanding of Japanese culture and language and Chinese culture and language, you will see that there are influences. You may not know the origin point, but you're like, that word sounds very similar.”
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“And so I have a different view and experience with that Korean-Japanese relationship through history. All the pictures, all the photos, we have old photos in my parents' home of my great-grandfather and my great-great-grandfather. My dad's side there in the very southern tip of Korea and they're wearing very Korean peasant clothing. And you can tell it's 1800s Korea. My mother's side is wearing a three-piece suit with a fedora, a bowler hat, and a neatly trimmed mustache and is clearly living in Japan. And they lived in Tokyo, in Kyoto. And so I have a very sort of ambivalent, complicated thing. I love going to Tokyo. I have a lot of Japanese friends. I have Japanese startup portfolio founders and I love chatting with them. So for a younger generation of Koreans and Japanese.”
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“Incredible from multiple people. I will admit this wholeheartedly it's one of the few books where I just immediately am like in tears reading because it touches not only the history of Korean people but also Koreans who moved out Gilpot, though, right? And it takes place in Japan. It's during the early 20th century, and it follows a generational story about a family. That's living in hardship in Japan. My mother's side actually was educated and raised in Japan.”
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“But the hog ones are a very particular Korean thing, and I have a friend Minjin Lee, who's the author of Pachinko Which is an incredible book.”
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“Hug ones that are owned and operated by Korean American immigrants. And the churches are the landing point to connect with your community. So when you move over, you may not have any friends or relatives. They would go to the church. They might not have even been very religious, but it was the immigrants sort of Ellis Island of that city meeting point to get connected to people that look like them and spoke like them and understood them.”
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“Well, I mean, even the Kyopo Korean diaspora, the Korean immigrants that move out, they create that in their landing city in Seattle, in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta. Atlanta has one of the largest Korean American populations. New York is the second largest Korean-American population, second to Los Angeles. But if you go to these cities, there's a whole network of businesses.”
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“And so Korea is sort of the last bastion of this Confucian idealism in this way. And I think that's where you get a lot of this people talk about the Korean education system and academics and the pressures. There's a lot of downsides and trade-offs for people. And that really comes from that. Even growing up in LA, I was born in Korea. We immigrated over to Los Angeles. It was very much this very pedantic academic thing that was forced and you see Hagwans, which are Korean tutoring centers that you won't see this anywhere else. We have friends in different cities that have kids. There's nothing like the Korean Hug one, which is the Korean word for a tutor or a tutoring center, a tutoring school. When school is done, Go to another school.”
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“From the outside, like the origin point. And so Korea received the Confucian value system, filial piety Strong, strong focus on education and academics and scholarship, which came from China. But China went through its changes in the 20s.”
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“And then everything changes on the origin continent. And then somehow this strain of plant or this species of animal has continues to exist. It's a very unique thing now, right? And because it hasn't been influenced.”
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“It's sort of when you talk about a species of animal that has gone off to cross the body of water and goes to a new continent or a new island”
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“Trading partners, they're neighbors, they're allies when it comes to outsiders. But there's a lot of historical beef between them. But there's a lot of appreciation and love, too, especially in the younger generation.”
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 you're trying to preserve some of that learning and culture as you go out. Now imagine in Korea, historically, in the shadow of China, and then more recently in the times of the 20th century under military rule and annexation by Japan. For them, in that time period, under Japanese rule, it was very harsh. Many Koreans were killed or forced to move to Japan to survive and make their way. But part of it was they were not allowed to speak Korean. They were not allowed to write in Korean. They were forced to take Japanese names. And so there was a whole diaspora that went to Japan in the 19th century, but also largely in the 20th century. So there are a lot of Koreans, ethnic Koreans that live in Japan. But it's a love-hate relationship today that I see with Japan.”
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
“Playing soccer. I went to Korean school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. I went to Van Nuis High School, public school, and this Korean school rented it from the LA Unified School District. And we go there, we learn Hungo. We'd learn how to write and read. And then you had a choice of an elective abacus, calligraphy, taekwondo, and the fan dance. So I picked Tekwondo and I tried Abacus. I tried calligraphy. Really enjoyed it. So the things that stuck for me were Tekwondo and calligraphy. This is my Saturday for eight years.”
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
“Now it's become a lot more of an in and out revolving door of different influences and foreigners. So it's become a lot more modern. But still, there's very much a Korean way to that. And I think that what's become very interesting over watching sort of the last 30 years of development has been this embrace of outside influences. Korea is called the Hermit Kingdom. I remember going to Korean school in Los Angeles when I grew up. Every Saturday when everyone else was watching cartoons or”
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
“They're trying to do something new in the future. This Korean diaspora, again, were called Gyopo, has fanned out globally, and we're always sort of in between. We're not fully American or British or French or Korean American or Korean-French. We're Korean-British. You're always a hyphenated thing. And then when you're back here, Used to be that people could pick you up, they could pick you out by how you walked, not even how you spoke, but how you walked and looked at people in your body language, your hairstyle, how you dressed. And they could pick you out as a foreigner.”
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
“Korea, the taxi cabs are changing by the days. It's this new Chyande car, this Kia car, and they're very modern, but they're almost disposable at this point because they're cycling through car very quickly. And so there's this sort of rush or need to constantly innovate and improve here that doesn't hold on to the classics very well. And so I actually like to see a lot of the old school classic things still thriving here. And I hope that it doesn't go away because it's part of the history. It's what makes Koreans really interesting today because like all the K-pop and the movies that you see, they're all rooted in the past.”
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