Euny Hong Quotes

#1. You may have an iPhone, for example, but its microchips are made by Apple's biggest competitor - the Korean electronics company Samsung.

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#2. Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia.

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#3. Irony is that special privilege of wealthy nations;

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#4. If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex.

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#5. The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a national bedwetting.

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#6. These kinds of mini-enterprises...prolonged the precious, Elysian period of childhood in a way I did not see in the US, where kids started hanging out at the mall and acted like teeny boppers from age 9 or 10.

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#7. First-worlders have the luxury of not having to think about waste elimination very much. But for a third-worlder, poop is a big preoccupation.

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