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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Seoul comes up
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 1:05 Shane Parrish He left in the middle of the night, told no one, not even his father, and arrived in Seoul with only a sixth grade education and no connections.
- ▶ 8:04 Shane Parrish The second time, he was 17, and the destination was Seoul, the center of everything. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:17 Shane Parrish Seoul was not what he imagined.
- ▶ 16:03 Shane Parrish Kunjil Rice Store, which translates into number one in Seoul. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Shane Parrish And at some point during this stretch, his mother came to visit him in Seoul. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Shane Parrish He had done this already when he called a rice shop number one in Seoul, and now he was doing it on an even bigger scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:49 Shane Parrish In 1957, Hyundai won the contract to restore the Han River Bridge in Seoul. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:59 Shane Parrish Once he fell asleep on a train headed to a worksite outside Seoul and missed the stop, he got off at the next station, hiked back, and arrived at the middle of the night.
- ▶ 57:40 Shane Parrish In roughly 15 years, Chung had gone from a man fleeing Seoul with his family in 1950, scrambling for scraps of American military work in Busan, to the head of one of the top construction companies in Korea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:54 Shane Parrish When he left the farm for Seoul as a boy, Chung admits he was not thinking about Korea.
- ▶ 1:11:39 Shane Parrish The site was 65 miles south of Seoul. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:56 Shane Parrish Starting the next day, Chung and a team spent three weeks driving the entire route between Seoul and Busan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:07 Shane Parrish And then Ford's president for international operations flew to Seoul and proposed the next step, absorbing Hyundai Motor Company entirely into Ford.
- ▶ 1:31:45 Shane Parrish He would leave Seoul at four in the morning with one or two assistants for the long drive south.
- ▶ 2:00:14 Shane Parrish So in October of 1979, just three weeks after Presidential Park's assassination, the mayor of Seoul formally announced that the city would bid for the 1988 Olympics. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05:06 Shane Parrish And then all of them would walk two and a half miles to Hyundai headquarters in downtown Seoul in silence.
- ▶ 2:16:31 Shane Parrish The man who had wept in the dirt in a Seoul bookkeeping academy and told his teenage son he was a nobody never lived to see what his son became. 2 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:54:41 Rory Sutherland Deep down, do you know, do you know why the largest Episcopalian church in the world is in Seoul? 2 times in the scene
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 49:00 Pedro Domingos But, you know, DeepMind used enormous amounts of computing, not just while it was playing live, you know, in, in, in Seoul against Lee Sedol,