‘Forget the BRICS, invest In ‘Breakout Nations’

[chauism]

Times have changed. Japan is now the Britain of Asia, an island nation with declining manufacturing but a strong finance industry. The title of "The Germany of Asia" has been passed onto Korea.

Again don't insult Japan with you comparing it to UK. Has Japan sold any of its brand to Korean companies? No...

 

[Korean]

Which roles will India, Pakistan and China taken you imagine?

China is the "Soviet Union of Asia". It will eventually implode.
India is India, a strange country with world-class scientists and engineers, but also with incredible poverty.
I decline to put a description on Pakistan.

 

[Archdemon]

Well, "the Germany of Asia" is no developing nation.

Well actually the Germany of Asia is indeed Japan, S.Korea is the France of Asia

 

[Korean]

Well actually the Germany of Asia is indeed Japan, S.Korea is the France of Asia

German manufacturing is not declining like Japan is. The reason the author described Korea as the Germany of Asia is because of Korea's strong manufacturing, which is still growing at a fast pace, and Korea is set to overtake Japan in export in three years with just 40% of population.

 

[chauism]

It is not my description, but the description of the author of "Breakout Nations", the head of asset management at Morgan Stanley.

Then I have to say that the author is an idiot just like many of those who work for Morgan Stanley. Again he or you is also insulting Japan by comparing it to UK. Has Japan sold off any of its brands to any Korean companies? Germany and UK are comparable with each other for the most part of 20th century. Where does Korea even come close to compare with Japan???

German manufacturing is not declining like Japan is. The reason the author described Korea as the Germany of Asia is because of Korea's strong manufacturing, which is still growing at a fast pace, and Korea is set to overtake Japan in export in three years with just 40% of population.

One thing I found actually quite similiar between Korea and UK. Both of them has their car brand owned by other countries.

Japan's export in 2011 is 800.8 billion USD witch is only 13% of its total 5.855 trillion GDP. Korea's export is 558.8 billion USD which is 36% of its total GDP. This is a very dangerous indication that Korea is heavily depended on international market and there is not enough domestic force to drive its economy.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Well, "the Germany of Asia" is no developing nation.

Get real! Germany is not built on a few chaebols, our economic foundation is the thousands of mittelstands churning out high-tech products that are mostly invisible inside other high value products. Our machine tool and car industry is second to none and Korea is decades behind us. Korea has yet to produce an Einstein, Robert Koch, Röntgen, Carl Benz, Rudolf Diesel, Bunsen, Adolf von Baeyer, Carl Bosch, Max Planck and not to mention the many Nobel Prize holders in literature.

 

[Raphael]

Welp, it looks like the German has spoken, and he's pretty damn offended that Deutschland was compared to a nouveau riche wannabe-country filled with plastic quasi-people and eunuchs (Koreans adopted all the worst aspects of American culture like 80%+ circumcision rate and Christianity), who have the most pathological inferiority complex imaginable.

 

[chauism]

Get real! Germany is not built on a few chaebols, our economic foundation is the thousands of mittelstands churning out high-tech products that are mostly invisible inside other high value products. Our machine tool and car industry is second to none and Korea is decades behind us. Korea has yet to produce an Einstein, Robert Koch, Röntgen, Carl Benz, Rudolf Diesel, Bunsen, Adolf von Baeyer, Carl Bosch, Max Planck and not to mention the many Nobel Prize holders in literature.

Not to mention that it is estimated that about 1500 German companies occupy a top three position in their respective market segment worldwide if not number one. In about two thirds of all industry sectors German companies belong to the top three competitors. For premium automobile segment, Germany has a combined world market share of about 90 %. Basically people can live without a Korean car, but not a German car. The only Korean company that is competitive in its segment is Samsung, but how many company like it are there in Korea. Interestingly that Japanese economy and its business was actually modeled after Germany's during Meiji restoration period alone with its military and consitiution.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Well actually the Germany of Asia is indeed Japan, S.Korea is the France of Asia

Where is the Korean equivalent of LVMH? Do they have anything like Airbus or l'Oreal? Can the ugly concrete jungle Seoul ever be compared to the city of lights, Paris? If one thinks of refined taste and savoir vivre, do you think of Korea or of Château de Versailles, which has been copied a douzen times throughout European royal courts. Does Korea have a museum as famous as the Louvre?

 

[kawaraj]

German manufacturing is not declining like Japan is. The reason the author described Korea as the Germany of Asia is because of Korea's strong manufacturing, which is still growing at a fast pace, and Korea is set to overtake Japan in export in three years with just 40% of population.

do you know what you are talking about?

Korea for best is a cheap product maker without any leading tech in base.

I am tied this guy is continuously bragging S.Korea by comparing it with Japan, Germany, etc. You are not a a minimum level of being a world power, which either Japan and Germany has been through the history. do you know what is your constant course in history? a weak nation enslaved by Japan and China in majority of the mankind era.

 

[northeast]

korea is poland of asia，they got raped by all their neighbours in countless times in their whole history.
actually，even poland was more powerful than korea .

 

[kawaraj]

Get real! Germany is not built on a few chaebols, our economic foundation is the thousands of mittelstands churning out high-tech products that are mostly invisible inside other high value products. Our machine tool and car industry is second to none and Korea is decades behind us. Korea has yet to produce an Einstein, Robert Koch, Röntgen, Carl Benz, Rudolf Diesel, Bunsen, Adolf von Baeyer, Carl Bosch, Max Planck and not to mention the many Nobel Prize holders in literature.

I do agree that's quite an insult. As I said, S.Korea is no better than Turkey, the author is right in that regard,

 

[chauism]

Where is the Korean equivalent of LVMH? Do they have anything like Airbus or l'Oreal? Can the ugly concrete jungle Seoul ever be compared to the city of lights, Paris? If one thinks of refined taste and savoir vivre, do you think of Korea or of Château de Versailles, which has been copied a douzen times throughout European royal courts. Does Korea have a museum as famous as the Louvre?

Examing history, Poland of Asia is more likely. According to his own analogy, Korea was indeed vassalized by China(Russia) and occupied by Japan(Germany).

 

[Raphael]

Let's not pamper his ego with delusional comparisons anymore. If we insist on a European parallel to the China-Korea-Japan dynamic, it would probably be Russia-Poland-Germany. The middle country is the one that was politically distinguished for large stretches of history, annexed by more powerful neighbors, only to be very recently brought into existence thanks to modern notions of self-determination.

EDIT: holy ***, we came up with the exact same analogy. scary how accurate it is though.

 

[Korean]

Welp, it looks like the German has spoken

No he is not; he is a false flag Chinese.

REFILE-UPDATE 2-BMW, Hyundai in talks on engine alliance - source | Reuters

REFILE-UPDATE 2-BMW, Hyundai in talks on engine alliance - source

EARTHQUAKE

"Even in the premium car industry you will find increased competition over costs. Enormous investments are required and BMW as a small carmaker relative to Volkswagen will be compelled to cooperate simply to save money," said Stefan Bratzel, Director of the Center of Automotive Management in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

"Hyundai is one of the most agile and dangerous competitors in the global mass market car industry today. But any strategic alliance with the Koreans would be tantamount to an earthquake since the Rover disaster still haunts BMW," he said, referring to the 1990s acquisition of the loss-making British carmaker that almost threatened BMW's very existence.

Last February, BMW agreed to expand its long-standing engine partnership with French mass market carmaker Peugeot beyond joint development of small four-cylinder petrol engines to include hybrid electric components.

But Peugeot has been struggling heavily to compete against the likes of Hyundai, losing money and burning billions in cash last year. It chose recently to enter an alliance with rival Opel's parent in the hopes of lowering costs.