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...average among the top 60 releases, for a cume of $6,821,000. The bomb-squad thriller The Hurt Locker was right behind, with a five-week total of $6,757,000. The weekend's most highly acclaimed newbies - the save-the-dolphins doc The Cove and the South Korean vampire-priest horror movie Thirst - opened well, with about $55,000 each at four theaters...
Much of Nokia's emerging market dominance boils down to cost management - a crucial advantage when it comes to selling smart phones to price-sensitive consumers in India and elsewhere. Nokia will likely ship more devices worldwide this year than the next three biggest cell-phone makers - Korean rivals Samsung and LG, and London-based Sony Ericsson - combined. Manufacturing on that scale brings enormous purchasing power, making it possible to squeeze the cost of everything from memory chips to plastic casings...
...youngest person in the company. When a seat opens up during rush hour on the Seoul Metro, the older men in suits stand by, and I only have to fight with the other young women in the car for it. When I go out with my Korean friends, the older ones take the lead and organize things while the rest of us sit back and relax...
However, on a societal level, the age hierarchy infantilizes younger workers. They become unwilling to even consider challenging their elders. The consequences can be severe; as Malcolm Gladwell relates in Outliers, Korean Airlines had a terrible safety record in the early 1990s because co-pilots would not correct their pilots. Korea also loses a lot of potentially excellent, young leaders because of this cultural issue. They feel under-qualified not by their lack of clear reasoning but by their lack of gray hair. On the flip side, older leaders become complacent in their positions not because of their abilities...
...Korean-American friend and I were sitting in a restaurant with a large group of people. It was getting late and everyone was becoming restless as they talked about going elsewhere. “Let’s go figure the check out,” I said. “No, wait for one of the guys to do it,” she said. I turned to the one sitting across from me. “No, not him, one of the oppas,” my friend said, referring to the Korean term for an older, male...