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Steve Jang

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first: 2023-11-29
most recent: 2023-11-29
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“The last couple of decades that this has happened. And it's happened in a way where Koreans are holding still onto the past. There are cafes that are beautiful cafes that are built and bombed out shoe factories. And it has so much character and history. It kind of reminds me of when I visit Berlin, that vintage classic architecture, almost brutal from that era. And then very modern progressive concepts of architecture and culture coexisting together. And I see a lot of similarities between Berlin and Seoul. More than I would see it in, let's say, Hong Kong and Seoul. In Tokyo, it's like you said, the taxi cabs are classic cabs, but they are immaculate.”
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
“There are definitely modern parts of what is happening here in the economy and society, but it's a city of opposites. I see the modern parts that you see, but I think that there's also a dichotomy between the old and the decay, as well as this very modern and very futuristic aspect in one city, in one country. It's a city in transition. It's a country in transition. We walked around neighborhoods where these were buildings that were a hundred years old. And then we saw buildings that were recently put up with steel and glass and with giant LED screens. This balance or this sort of conflict that you see out there is really a function of something that didn't happen in Japan, really. I think Japan rebuilt very quickly after World War II and became modern very quickly. For Korea, it's really...”
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
“It was kind of a, I don't want to say a derogatory term that Koreans had for Koreans who left, but it had sort of a negative connotation. I remember it was a little bit of a negative connotation when I was in Korea in the 80s and 90s as a kid. And then now it's become like fully accepted. It's an accepted and used and practical term, right? It's not something that... Considered negative anymore”
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
“Going into the Middle East because of industrial jobs and the labor needs of those countries. South America has one of the largest Korean diaspora populations. You go to Brazil, Chile, Colombia. There's a lot of Koreans in South America. And then in Europe, France and the UK or in Germany were also landing spots. So all of this is happening more recently in time.”
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
“As an outsider. And then the Korean War happens and the country is destroyed and split into two. Again, not something you want to visit, but it had the fastest rate of economic growth of any country across three decades after that. And so what happened there is that it was an industrial country that was still rough, that was still trying to rebuild. And again, not a place that you would go for tourism, not a place that you would go to experience culture. But that really changed in the 80s. You started to see Korean movies and music become something that was very unique and very Korean and not something that was sort of formulaic from another country. And so I think in the 90s is when K-pop really started to become a thing and expand outward. And there was a diaspora happening of Korean immigrants going outward, especially to the US, but also for decades.”
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
“I mean, I think people have been fascinated by going to Japan and going to Onsense in Kyoto and Tokyo and experiencing all of that for three, four decades now. Has become a favorite for people who love Eastern culture. They love design, food. In Tokyo and Kyoto are amazing, right? And then Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong have been on the map for a century. Korea was a developing country. You have to remember that from 1905 to 1945, it was annexed and colonized by Japan. And so it was a poor country Was in an oppressed state. So it wasn't a place that you would want to visit.”
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