Seoul Man: A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan

[Frank Ahrens] ✓ Seoul Man: A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Seoul Man: A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan Entertaining insights into Korean business culture and car marketing according to Jim in Oregon. This is a readable, informative and entertaining volume that heads down several paths: the culture and history of Korea; fascinating material about the auto industry; making the leap from journalism to marketing; the mechanics of making a new marriage work; making sometimes hard decisions within the authors Christian fai. Indespensible Guide to Working in S Korea B. Crosby What would happen if you

Seoul Man: A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan

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Rating : 4.62 (799 Votes)
Asin : 006240525X
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 288 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-04-12
Language : English

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"Entertaining insights into Korean business culture and car marketing" according to Jim in Oregon. This is a readable, informative and entertaining volume that heads down several paths: the culture and history of Korea; fascinating material about the auto industry; making the leap from journalism to marketing; the mechanics of making a new marriage work; making sometimes hard decisions within the author's Christian fai. Indespensible Guide to Working in S Korea B. Crosby What would happen if you had a Washington Post reporter embed in a huge S Korean Chaebol? (Chaebol being a government sanctioned and subsidized industrial oligopoly). While Ahrens was actually hired, this could well be a series of Washington Post articles, each chapter being an article. The only drawback is Ahrens' digres. S. S. said Great book, did an amazing job for only having been there three years. I think Frank Ahrens is a great writer and I would happily buy another book he wrote if he does so in the future. His book is entertaining, satisfying, and a wonderful personal memoir. His insights do not go so very deep. You can tell that by how little he writes about any relationships he had with any Koreans there. I do

While his appreciation for absurdity enabled him to laugh his way through many awkward encounters, his job began to take a toll on his marriage and family. Following his new bride to her first appointment in Seoul, South Korea, Frank traded the newsroom for a corporate suite, becoming director of global communications at Hyundai Motors. In a land whose population is 97 percent Korean, he was one of fewer than ten non-Koreans at a company headquarters of thousands of employees.For the next three years, Frank traveled to auto shows and press conferences around the world, pitching Hyundai to former colleagues while trying to navigate cultural differences at home and at work. Eventually he became a vice president—the highest-ranking non-Korean at Hyundai headquarters—but at an untenable price.Filled with unique insights and told in his engaging, humorous voice, Seoul Man sheds light on a culture few Westerners know, and is a delightfully funny and heartwarming adventure for anyone who has ever felt like a fish out of water—all of us.. Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir.When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the Washington Post, fell in love with a diplomat, his life changed drama

Frank Ahrens was a reporter at the Washington Post for eighteen years before joining Hyundai Motor Company, where he eventually became a vice president. He lives in Washington, DC.

This is a nuanced look at a nation where an image of Western modernity is reflected and illuminated by an off-kilter mirror.” (Publishers Weekly)“Ahrens’s great strength is that he is sensitive to the people around him…. Ahrens gives the reader an accessible primer.” (Washington Times)“A fun take on exactly what the subtitle promises.” (Tyler Cowen, Holbert C. “Written with humor and warmth… Amid the author’s personal journey reside priceless cultural and professional insights.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Like Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, Ahrens gets good mileage out of his many gaffes as a naïve American bred to act quickly, blunder through problems and disregard authority… Seoul Man also looks into the history, culture, politics and business of the remarkable success story of modern South Korea.” (Shelf Awa

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