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Seoul man : a memoir of cars, culture, crisis, and unexpected hilarity inside a Korean corporate titan / Frank Ahrens.
Lippincott Library HD9710.K62 A37 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahrens, Frank, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hyŏndae Chonghap Sangsa (Korea).
- Automobile industry and trade--Korea (South).
- Automobile industry and trade.
- International business enterprises.
- Korea (South).
- Corporate culture--Korea (South).
- Corporate culture.
- International business enterprises--Korea (South).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperBusiness, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Heartbreaking and hilarious, Seoul Man is Frank Ahrens' story of the three years he spent in Korea as the highest ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai, shedding light on a business culture very few Western journalists have been able to experience"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Almost, not quite
- Three midlife crises
- At work: alien planet
- At home: alternate universe
- Detroit: showtime
- The Korean codes
- Reading the air
- Constant competition
- Admiral Yi: Korea's greatest Japan fighter
- Sejong the Great: give-and-take with China
- The dangerous cousins Kim
- "This doesn't rattle"
- The chairman arrives
- Seoul surprises
- Almost, not quite English
- Car of the year
- Bye, bye, baby
- Not here, not now
- Sang moo waygookin
- The 2013 model
- Genesis and Sonata
- Jakarta is no Seoul
- Escape plan
- The judgment of Genesis
- Finding home
- Epilogue.
- ISBN:
- 9780062405241
- 0062405241
- 9780062405258
- 006240525X
- OCLC:
- 945884393
- Online:
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