I once got a 12-hour lay over in S Korea. The airport boasts itself as ” a world best airport hub”, w/ picture of a janitor-on-duty in men’s bathroom. Every hour, there were a procession of some sort, complete with traditional gowns and ceremonial hats. Passengers-turn-shoppers (the airport was designed as a Mall) paused and expressed curiosity, but only to resume window shopping.
A flight to Istanbul was full, not with Turks going home from S Korea, but with Koreans vacationing or visiting Turkey, their launching pad to Europe.
The Financial TImes ran a piece on how for the first time, a new release was sold more in e-version than hard cover. Paper or I-Pad?
And social networking turned intranet, turned outsourcing product for other companies to adopt social networking as an official backroom function.
Steven Hawking argues that gravity and other natural forces alone created the Universe (via Big Bang).
Babson (later Babson College) wrote a book entitled “Gravity is our greatest enemy”.
When we buy a pair of Jordan Air, we conspire that “I believe I can fly..touch the sky”.
Anti-gravity urge. Immortality urge. Anti-inertia urge.
I know one thing: I heard so much about Korean ubiquitous broadband connection. So, here I am, with Samsung notebook access for free.
Blog-in-the-air. On the ground, and everywhere.
The new Korean airport appeals more upscale than Korean American Mall in Los Angeles. Perhaps their success lies in grand design, homogeneous work units and morale -average work week of 50 hours, as compared to the French 35.
It rained slightly at noon here in S Korea and made the place seems surreal.
I read about the bomb scare in Miami airport. And hurricanes in N Carolina.
Hope my plane can land in Atlanta as planned.
There will still be another short hop before I get to sleep in my bed at home.
Unemployment figures are still bad. Made the Federal Reserves frown.
They should send us money, hence turning jobless folks into active shoppers
(by sending vouchers good only for shopping, similar to cash-4-clunkler). The Korean airport certainly did this by having it built into their architectural design. People were crowding at the tobacco and malt counters. I remember that Korean’s GDP growth, the last time I looked, was somewhere positively .01 percent. At least, in this part of the world, one can find some positive signs, besides the janitorial logo which boasts “a world best airport hub”. I concurred, since I took a nap undisturbed (unlike chairs that were designed to deter such activity in Miami airport or others). In marketing, it’s called differentiation and late mover’s advantage. You can change marketing practices, but you cannot change the man and his habits. Much less 7 habits of ineffective people.
Thang Nguyen 555 