Once again Kim of Hanwha is sending “messages“:
Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn sent a special pep-talk e-mail to all employees via the company intranet yesterday… “After the takeover of Hanyang Chemical Corporation [in 1999] and Korea Life Insurance [in 2002], this [acquisition of DSME] will become the biggest challenge in the history of Hanwha,” Kim wrote in the e-mail.
Kim added that the group’s business expansion into the shipbuilding industry would provide Hanwha the chance to position itself as a global company, but it would require all of its employees to exert painstaking efforts for at least the next three years.
You know if I was working for Hanwha my “biggest challenge” would not be integrating DSME, it would be waking up in the morning with the knowledge I would have to look-up to a common thug. Also, with the history Kim has, I would be very leery of any “pep-talk” by him that says he requires I take “painstaking efforts”.
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Dram: Are you sure this guy doesn’t have your address?
I’ve often wondered why Korean TV dramas would so favorably portray gangsters as having some uncommon virtue without showing the contradictory and flawed nature of their personality. It demonstrates a lack of insight, maybe.
The real irritant would be when I saw trinkets from those same shows in the local kid shops, like that was cool! I wonder what message do these kids get when they see these things for sale?
Probably the same message American kids get from watching the Sopranos now, Goodfellas in the 80s, Godfather in 60-70′s…
Dram_man: showing your age, again? You missed more notable “cool” gangster movies like Goodfellas, Scarface, and Reservoir Dogs. Point taken, of course, but I think Americans always had a good contrast of Gangster movies with cop shows… You think there’s a reason that Korean TV lacks justice shows, Law & Order, CSI, Perry Mason, whatever… Maybe its because K-gangsters are more intelligent than K-cops…
I agree with #4, obviously.
When will Koreans not look down on the police who perform a needed task? This mindset that despises the police is still the mindset of those who were repressed as Koreans were repressed during the Colonial Period and the strongman period. It is a victim’s way of thinking.
The country needs a good psychiatrist, a continuing effort to create a more efficient legal and enforcement system and effective citizenry education (not the kind the politically-tainted garbage the KEWTU has been sneaking in either).
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