레이블이 economy인 게시물을 표시합니다. 모든 게시물 표시
레이블이 economy인 게시물을 표시합니다. 모든 게시물 표시

2015년 1월 4일 일요일

Born with silver spoon.

Yes. Nut rage is real. Worse thing is that it is not just an incident. It clearly shows how company and society of Korea deal with those who born with silver spoons. She didn't think that she did anything wrong. Even more, The Aviation authority tried hide her fault. The ordinary people just have to be patient all of these. The reign of those born with silver spoon seems not to come to an end in Korea. I want people around the world pray for the steward. He made TV appearance to tell the truth to the people, prepared for losing his job. He is a man of dignity and honour. I wish God bless him. All of you care for him. And, I am going to tell you to read the article "Seoul's Chaebol Fixation" by WSJ. This will help you better understand Korea.

2014년 5월 4일 일요일

Unexpected score of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'



  'The secret Life of Walter Mitty'(2013) has been released at January in Korea. Hollywood movie distributors sometimes fail to predict Korean movie market. It is true. I mean it. Nobody expected this movie could hit even a minor success. But this movie did some. Only some, but unexpected score. What made this small success? Audiences of Korea knew it instantly that it will touch their heart of the middle aged, living undedr job insecurity. I've been to the theatre and saw many of them in the audience. I can not rate this is a wonderful movie, but this has something for those who are in similar situations like the 'Walter' in the movie. 

2014년 3월 26일 수요일

Anachronistic.

  Economy. Many countries of the world is in recession. Korea is not so good, either. But, there is a particular aspect if you are in business in Korea. The polarization of income. The middle class is disappearing fast. Not exactly 'middle class'. I would rather define 'working class with spendable income'. High-quality markets will not feel any change. However, the markets for working class will face the change. That is why I expect success of IKEA. Before, funiture dealers imported IKEA products and sold them in bigger price. (Each consumer cannot be import expert.) But, IKEA opens its shop in Korea and sell more affordable price, working class who want to save spending will choose IKEA. And, any kind of outletmalls with similiar price position will face the same.

  Society. Economy affects society. I am noticed one symptom of social pathology. Anachronistic. We do educations like other civilized countries. But Confucian ideas are so deeply rooted in Korean society, democratic values like freedom, equal of all men, charity are often overwhelmed when economy is not good. Child is a mirror of adults. It can be found in a school. In a class of public grading school, kids from fancy town don't hang around with kids from not so fancy town. Their parents teach them to do so, and they learn it like a social rule. People from western world don't know that Confucial teaching has it that a class(caste) system is fair. It has 10 classes(caste) from king to slave, and Confucian teaching is that each doing duty of their class will make the society work, peaceful, and beautiful. Revolutions are evil. He didn't though of equal of mankind. Today, in a capitalism society, money replaced caste. It combined with this old habit, made an odd concept that the economic level is worth respected as a social level. This is not so much Confucial tradition in real, rather monster of half breed with mammonism. I feel like as technology is developing, society is getting anachronistic. Koreans has only half century length history of capitalism. They only experienced it's good to make more and more money for their own sake. Koreans need to learn by experience more about distribution, welfare, and, of course, democratic republic. What they are for.