An Overview of Indonesia
Against this background, it is a pity that Indonesia hasn't been properly presented to South Koreans yet. Publications on Indonesia have mostly been focusing on tourism to Bali or Indonesian language learning. This is where 'Why the World Pay Attention to Indonesia' initiates.
This book aims to introduce still-unfamiliar Indonesia to South Korea in an easy way. 3-year-long experience in Indonesia mixed with curiosity of a former journalist produced 35 stories over Indonesian politics, economy, society and culture.
Brief story of how I became interested in Southeast Asia including Indonesia
After closely monitoring the poor public transportation infrastructure in the country, they introduced passenger transportation service to Indonesia by recruiting ideas from the Korean intercity bus system.
Not only expansion of business but also accumulation of knowledge on the local transportation practice was gained while I was serving as a marketing director for 1.5 years. In particular, as a one and only non-Indonesian staff, I tried my best to adapt myself to the Indonesian society by acquiring local languages and learning local culture for survival.
This turned out a big hand to my book for the general public, 'Why the World Pay Attention to Indonesia' and other columns and lectures on Indonesia later.
An Overview of Indonesia
Relationship between Indonesia and South Korea is getting closer as well. More and more young generation in Indonesia goes wild with South Korean celebrities while South Korean electronic goods, IT gadgets and food gain huge popularity among the public.
In fact, the number of Indonesian visitors to South Korea already reached 200,000 in 2014. On the other hand, as many as 2,200 South Korean businesses have been actively involved in Indonesia to navigate a new growth engine such as Halal market to cope with the 21st century.
Against this background, it is a pity that Indonesia hasn’t been properly presented to South Koreans yet. Publications on Indonesia have mostly been focusing on tourism to Bali or Indonesian language learning. This is where ‘Why the World Pay Attention to Indonesia’ initiates.
