Stores in shopping districts like Myeongdong have added Chinese-speaking staff, their headquarters are using Korean celebrities popular across China and Southeast Asia in advertisements, and glitzy duty-free stores are dropping European luxury brands to give more space to Korean cosmetics chains that are less expensive but more popular in the Asian region.
In this new focus on error-free medicine, hospitals are dropping age-old assumptions that their doctors are doing a good job and instead are measuring performance and issuing report cards.
What good is a world when we have all these snazzy machines and we listen to music for free but we have no gainful employment and kids dropping out of school?
By the time the opposition Labour Party took power in 1997, its leader, Tony Blair, had forced his party to accept much of her legacy, dropping its commitment to nationalized industries and embracing free markets.