Seoul and Incheon City We took the metro out to Incheon City, moving from the 10 million person Seoul to the 2.7 million person industrial town of Incheon. In the wake of the unemployment created by the IMF currency crises 10 years ago, there was unemployment particularly in the manufacturing sector that had been …
Category: Personal Writings
Vladeck and Na Plans
Seoul The Sunday conversations that I really did have in and around the Y in Seoul were valuable enough in their own right. First, I finally connected with Liza Vladeck, whose name had been on everyone’s lips when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) first reached Moscow. She had seen my blog and reached out …
Warren, Naomi, and I in Korea
Seoul I did not realize that Warren Buffett, the 2nd richest billionaire on the planet, and I were going to be in Seoul at the same time. We could have had a chat about how to reduce poverty? Maybe not? He seems to have arrived ahead of me from what I read on the plane …