What happens when a country democratises and modernises in half a century? South Korea’s development is an impressive history of exponential growth and hard work, but in the last decade the manufacturing sector has been struggling and the corporate business sector forced to rethink and innovate. This episode’s guest, Reagan, has made a profession out of exactly that, advising, consulting and teaching Korean businesses and students about corporate strategy and innovation. The official image of Korea is a dynamic, global and high tech society, but making it in the Korean business scene is complex as foreigners aa they are considered decorations, not talents, as Reagan puts it.  In this episode, we talk about the homogeneous Korean society, how diversity leads to collaborations of ideas and Korean laws, bureaucracy & top-down culture