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I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of SouthKorea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in SouthKorea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.
This came to mind a couple of years ago when I had the chance to sit down with the president of SouthKorea and she asked a small gathering of 19 tech & business leaders for opinions about how to make the Korean economy more “creative.”
The company started out in SouthKorea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet. And I believe the torso is much more valuable than people perceive because it is growing rapidly with globalization and with the breakdown of physical distribution barriers. I became more aware of it by my friends at Viki.
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R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after SouthKorea. Global mindset – Israel’s local market is negligible, so founders have to think globally (typically that means US first) from day one.
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That’s right, there are no cubicles or private offices for senior staff – you can imagine how a senior executive transplanted from an Asian office culture (say from Japan’s Sony or SouthKorea’s Samsung) breaking down in an apoplectic fit when they first find out they’d be sitting next to a low-level code monkey.
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The company then started its international expansion, and today has presence in 15 countries around the world in especially in Latin-speaking countries (which isn’t a surprise considering its Spain roots), but also covers parts of Asia including Japan, Hong Kong, SouthKorea and Singapore. million euros by 2011.
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