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I always felt that something's amiss when you name your Korea fund "500 Kimchi" and let that hit media headlines. I mean wouldn't people in South Korea find th
by hkmurakami 9y ago
I always felt that something's amiss when you name your Korea fund "500 Kimchi" and let that hit media headlines.
I mean wouldn't people in South Korea find this to be derogatory?
- Scoundreller 9y agoGood question: would they? If you named your Canadian fund “500 Maples”, nobody would have a problem. “500 Poutines” just wouldn’t get taken seriously.
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- hateduser2 9y agoI think when you swap south korea for canada, which is pretty culturally identical to america, you lose all the history of racism against eastern people and countries. So I wouldn't blame them if they did, and I would kind of expect them to actually, and would consider alternate views exceptions or even misguided. Its not necessarilly bad but it looks pretty bad.
- GordonS 9y agoIt works both ways though - there is plenty racism from many in the east against western people both black and white. As a (very!) white person I've experienced this first hand in several places in Asia.
- gcatalfamo 9y agoCan’t seem to find a translation: what does kimchi mean in Korean? Edit: never mind. Found it. Haha.
- AznHisoka 9y agoI thought it mean "love" for some reason... maybe I'm thinking of a different Korean word.
- gcatalfamo 9y agoIt’s a local dish/recipe...not very startup-py I’d say...
- sincerely 9y agoFor anybody else curious, it's a fermented cabbage side dish, really delicious in my opinion :)
- dboreham 9y agoHmm...either I haven't found it or...it means "Kimchi" but you didn't originally know what Kimchi was (seems unlikely..)
- eric-hu 9y agoI'm in Thailand and there's a fund here called 500 tuktuks. The local startup people I talked to didn't find it offensive.