“Do What You Can t” was a slogan of Samsung Electronics. Yet in this era of global boiling, the No. 1 Korean company needs to focus more on “Do What You Can” first.
On Sept. 19, the U.N. secretary-general delivered his address to the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York. The full speech is worth a read if you are concerned about “the most immediate threat to our future: our overheating planet” as the UNSG said.
Korea s power generation surpassed Germany s for the first time ever last year. It is surprising that Korea needed more electricity than Germany, considering that the European country has a population that is 1.6 times bigger, land 3.6 times larger, and a GDP that is 2.2 times bigger than Korea s.
“Nothing changes unless we do something.” This quote from a Korean TV series on Netflix, “D.P.,” reminds of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission estimates for 2022 from the Ministry of Environment on July 25.
Koreans were recently concerned about news that Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min was offered a whopping 100 million pounds from Saudi Arabia akin to the case of Cristiano Ronaldo. Fortunately, Son was not interested in the deal, saying “Money doesn t matter to me.”