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Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel? Sep 9, 2026 · 1 mention

They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath Jul 28, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 12:34 Matthew C. Klein So, uh, Korea, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:10 Ning Zhu I think I can see that certain other countries have issues with this model of growth, but then going back to what Matthew has said, I think whatever happened to South Korea or some other, uh, Southeast Asian countries during the financial…

Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath Jun 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

The World Bank President On Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Apr 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath Mar 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:39 Rishi Sunak Um, and it's nice to have created this, this series and it's been to South Korea, it's been to Paris, India, and it will, it will keep going.

The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath Jan 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:25 HE Omar Sultan Al Olama So the, the thing is, uh, ok, this service existed in Japan for a while, it existed in Korea, it's now moving around the world.

Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath Sep 20, 2025 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 6:25 unnamed speaker Uh, like, my teachers were from New Zealand, and Korea, and, and the US, and it was this fantastic, uh, upbringing.
  • ▶ 1:28:35 unnamed speaker So we manufacture, um, like Chompy is in India, obviously, but like our lip balms are in Korea, because I found the best lab there for it.
  • ▶ 1:59:55 Bhakti Modi So, um, that came out of Korea. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:03:58 unnamed speaker Korea is this new one that's come on where subconsciously, because they have good skin, we all are like, they must be good. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:27:30 unnamed speaker But that's why brands that are smaller like us, we need to go find that innovation in a Korea or in a Japan and then 3 times in the scene

India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath Sep 3, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 12:26 Ruchir Sharma Uh, for example, the 19 sixties, Korea, India, Brazil, they all had similar per capita income, which means that they were similarly rich or poor, uh, whichever way you want to look at it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:24 Ruchir Sharma Then it was Korea, Taiwan, you know, like, and, and these other, uh, economies. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:28:45 Nikhil Kamath South Korea has it, right?

Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 29, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 39:09 Debargo "DD" Das There's all these sorts of reasons why it's happening, but it's especially stark in, even if you go as far as, like, South Korea, you know, in two generations, that country may be, like, a 10th or less of the population it is today.
  • ▶ 1:07:24 Niko Bonatsos You know, I visited, um, I visited South Korea this past Christmas.
  • ▶ 1:17:04 Niko Bonatsos No, uh, but certain cultures like in India or in South Korea or where I come from in, in Greece, uh, they absolutely do because they see this as a viable path to, uh, improving their chances of their offsprings doing well.
  • ▶ 1:58:44 Niko Bonatsos And then like, if we want to take a glimpse into the future, we would go into, uh, South Korea, where indeed they have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, but they're massive exporters of culture. 2 times in the scene

From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath Aug 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:23:34 Dara Khosrowshahi I think that, you know, when you look at the Korean manufacturers, there, there's a ton of talent there, but I think if you look at my expectation is overall share, especially in the EV sector on a global basis of EVs is going to be, um,…

Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath Jun 7, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 32:37 Ted Sarandos I mean, the Korea team who picked it, they knew it was going to be a big hit in Korea. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:37:56 Nikhil Kamath So picking a microculture, like the Korean stuff, before it has blown up and making it mass, how do I learn to do that? 6 times in the scene

Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:09:26 Nikhil Kamath What's happening in places like Japan, Korea, and all that? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:00:34 unnamed speaker See what's happening in Japan, see what's happening in South Korea.

Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath Feb 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:30:10 Jitendra Chouksey No, Nikhil, but see, even if you make any high end manufacturing, take any high end device, 90% of all electronics is China, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath Jul 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath Apr 21, 2024 · 11 mentions

WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath Mar 6, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:39 Ghazal Alagh They know what's happening in Korea. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:37:05 Manish Poddar So this gentleman Noodle Kadir in back in those days took 16 men and, uh, took them to Korea on his expense to understand how to do line manufacturing system, not do one piece. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:41:31 Manish Poddar And you have Korea, China.
  • ▶ 1:49:54 Manish Poddar If someone is coming in from Korea to show you design of bottles, every week, five times, five new guys are coming and showing you bottles of designs.

Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath Dec 10, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath Oct 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath Oct 7, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:28 Raj Shamani There was an interesting space because this was really popping in China, Korea, and US. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:08:35 Raj Shamani This I'm only learning from Korea because Korea has been absolutely ahead of it, right?

Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath Jul 23, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath May 14, 2023 · 3 mentions

#1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath Mar 12, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:28 unnamed speaker Uh, see all is actually launching a virtual see all South Korea is working on it.
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