Dwell from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Comfortable Energy,” The Poverty-to-Energy Playbook, Ok-Pop, “Han” Vitality, Should-See Motion pictures, Export Economies, and A lot Extra (#707)

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Dwell from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Comfortable Energy,” The Poverty-to-Energy Playbook, Ok-Pop, “Han” Vitality, Should-See Motion pictures, Export Economies, and A lot Extra (#707)

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Dwell from South Korea — Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Comfortable Energy,” The Poverty-to-Energy Playbook, Ok-Pop, “Han” Vitality, Should-See Motion pictures, Export Economies, and A lot Extra (#707)

“For Koreans, ‘han’ could be a drive to do nice issues, to bond collectively, to know one another, to empathize. However it could additionally simply be anger and Ok-rage which, channeled appropriately, means that you can construct a complete business and succeed on the worldwide degree to create pop-culture phenomena that win Grammys and flicks that win Oscars and light-weight up the world to what’s occurring on this little nation that was once poor, that was damaged after colonization and a struggle.”

— Steve Jang

Scroll right down to the present notes part to see Steve’s must-see Korean motion pictures and must-do issues in Seoul.

Steve Jang (@stevejang) is the founder and managing associate at Kindred Ventures, an early-stage enterprise capital fund based mostly in San Francisco. He’s additionally a longtime good friend and one of many founder-now-investor technology of VCs that arose out of the final expertise cycle. Steve is among the high 100 enterprise capital traders on the planet, based on Forbes Midas Record of high enterprise capital traders, and was ranked #45 in 2023. He’s additionally a Korean-American, a gyopo, who’s deeply invested and concerned in each the technological and cultural worlds within the US and Asia.

Beforehand, Steve was an early advisor to, and angel investor in, Uber, after which an early-stage investor in Coinbase, Postmates, Poshmark, Tonal, Blue Bottle Espresso, and Humane, the AI gadget platform. He helped Uber, Coinbase, and Blue Bottle Espresso, amongst others, to develop into Korea and Japan. As an entrepreneur, Steve co-founded firms within the shopper web, cellular, and crypto area.

Within the movie and music world, he’s an govt producer, and his most up-to-date movie is Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV, which tells the story of the best Korean artist, and father of digital video artwork, and which premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant in 2023. His subsequent movie is a documentary about Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum.

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Steve’s Prime “Should-See” Korean Motion pictures:

Steve’s “Should-Do” Issues in Seoul:

Stroll and discover the outdated city areas of Samcheong, Insa, and Hongdae. Meander round these hills and small streets and alleys filled with small retailers, cafes, and tea homes.
Headbob or dance with native people at small DJ bars in Hongdae or Itaewon. Favorites are Cakeshop, Hills and Europa, and Gopchang Jeongol.
Eat at a Hanwoo beef specialty restaurant. Hanwoo is the Korean model of Wagyu.
Take a look at small artwork galleries, craft boutiques, and enormous museums together with the Leeum. The artist group in Korea is a core component of Korean society, in historic, counterculture, and superb artwork spheres.
Eat lunch within the meals court docket of a significant division retailer like Hyundai, Galleria, or Shinsegae. Fully completely different high quality than what you’d count on within the US.
Train on the outside park by the Han River. The colder the climate, the higher.
Get Tongdak (Korean fried rooster) and beer. In case you aren’t consuming subsequent to taxi drivers and ajummas, then it’s not OG.
Discover Dongdaemun Market, the biggest impartial clothier market on the planet.
Exit for cocktails, makkoli (fermented soybean liquor), and karaoke (which known as “noraebang” in Korean) in Apgujeong, the cool child space of Gangnam.
Join a Ok-pop boot camp for 3 months and pay to discover ways to sing, dance, and costume to be within the subsequent BLACKPINK or BTS.

SHOW NOTES

(09:37) Why has Korean tradition been globally missed till just lately?
(13:36) In Seoul, the long run is now.
(17:23) Gyopo and the Korean diaspora.
(19:15) Trendy relations between South Korea and Japan.
(21:07) Christianity and Confucianism in South Korea.
(23:17) The depth of Korean (together with gyopo) hagwons.
(25:46) Why Steve finds Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko notably transferring.
(28:07) Japanese nostalgia.
(29:25) Seoul: the Bizarro Tokyo?
(39:49) Generations of Korean households traumatized by North/South separation.
(44:32) Class wrestle and cultural dichotomy in Korean cinema and literature.
(50:22) Activism in a chaebol-dominated panorama.
(54:25) How Korean tradition resonates on a common degree.
(56:50) How massive cash funds the inventive class wrestle towards massive cash.
(59:57) Is the Ok-wave a fad, or is it right here to remain?
(1:05:24) Getting a deal with on the untranslatable han.
(1:08:13) Jeong and nunchi.
(1:14:38) What’s going to it take to treatment South Korea’s disastrously low beginning charge?
(1:25:05) Why I’ve been so fascinated by the Ok-wave.
(1:36:02) How I’ve been studying the Korean language.
(1:47:04) Why so many Japanese ladies go to Korea.
(1:47:57) The profitable energy of Korea’s export financial system.
(1:52:07) Why the primary street in Gangnam is known as after the capital of Iran.
(1:54:19) The actual motive Steve believes South Korea is so industrious on a number of fronts.
(1:58:02) How studying simply 10 sentences in one other language can basically change your expertise.
(2:00:28) Korean meals!
(2:09:35) The unforgivable insult of leaving meals uneaten.
(2:11:25) Why you owe it to your self to see Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV.
(2:17:46) Why you owe it to your self to take heed to “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Korean psych rock band He5.
(2:18:15) How gyopo affect on the humanities bypassed dwelling censorship insurance policies.
(2:24:20) Why you owe it to your self to go to Seoul sooner reasonably than later.
(2:26:30) Parting ideas.

MORE STEVE JANG QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The North and South Korean governments at sure occasions, after they get alongside, they’ll attempt to do some nice olive department strikes to reunite households. And so they had the TV station movie it, they usually arrange a complete space they usually introduced buses down. And it turned out to be not cathartic in any respect, however reopening ache.”
— Steve Jang

“Class wrestle is the theme of so many (Korean) motion pictures, books, TV sequence. It’s the struggling and the wrestle to maneuver out of their situation, and that society and the higher crust of society gained’t permit it. This rigidity is in music, it’s in motion pictures, it’s in literature, it’s in TV reveals, it’s throughout. And also you would possibly say, ‘Oh, no, it’s round each nation.’ Certain it’s. But it surely’s actually robust and constant in Korean motion pictures and literature.”
— Steve Jang

“Han might be essentially the most talked-about collective trait of Koreans. What it basically boils right down to is this concept of collective struggling that the Korean individuals have via historical past, and manifests on this very sophisticated feeling of we’re struggling and we share that ache with one another, but it surely’s in some way not at all times a adverse. It will possibly generally drive us to specific ourselves in robust methods. It will possibly drive us to endure collectively collectively.”
— Steve Jang

“For Koreans, han could be a drive to do nice issues, to bond collectively, to know one another, to empathize. However it could additionally simply be anger and Ok-rage which, channeled appropriately, means that you can construct a complete business and succeed on the worldwide degree to create popular culture phenomenons that win Grammys, and flicks that win Oscars, and light-weight up the world to what’s occurring on this little nation that was once poor, that was damaged after colonization and a struggle.”
— Steve Jang

“There’s this accelerated sense of ‘We should obtain one thing tomorrow as a result of we’re already behind.’ That may be a very Korean mentality.”
— Steve Jang

“Tomorrow shouldn’t be assured for South Koreans. There’s a well-understood rigidity with North Korea that at any second this might all be over.”
— Steve Jang

“Of all of the cultural exports, Korean meals is crucial one.”
— Steve Jang

“You get a thousand factors of credit score from any Korean in the event you attempt to converse the language. They like it. It’ll easy all tough edges on something that you just’re speaking about with them in the event you not less than attempt.”
— Steve Jang

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