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An LRP
Aqua Series
Report |
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The
Emergence of
Brand Korea:
Five Key
Milestones |
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In January
2009, the
government
of South
Korea
implemented
an
aggressive
plan for
developing
the
country's
identity and
promoting
that
identity
abroad.
While this
top-down
program has
made some
notable
strides, its
potential
for boosting
long-term
GDP growth
appears
limited. Meanwhile,
Brand Korea
is emerging
from the
global
economic
crisis much
stronger
than it went
in, a result
of rapid and
spectacular
bottom-up
achievements
having
little to do
with
official
efforts.
(Coming
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An LRP
Aqua Series
Report |
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The
Nation-Brand
Ecosystem:
A New
Approach |
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Nation-branding
emerged as a
professional
discipline
in the late
1990s. Since
then, its
development
has been
haphazard
and the
quality of
its practice
has been
inconsistent
at best.
Most
recently,
nation-branding
has been
invaded by
product
brand
managers
sensing a
new growth
opportunity,
and LRP is
generally
underwhelmed
by the
results. In
this report,
LRP
redefines
the
nation-brand
ecosystem
and provides
a new
approach to
nurturing
nation
brands and
optimizing
GDP growth.
(Coming
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Economy
+ US Q2:10 GDP up 2.4 pct SAAR; sharp slowdown from
Q1:10 3.7 pct puts H2:10 in doubt (Los
Angeles Times)
+ Japan June unemployment 5.3 pct SA, up 10 bp from
May 5.2 pct; unemployed count down 1.1 pct YoY (RTT)
+ Japan June factory output down 1.5 pct MoM; marks
biggest fall in more than one year (Reuters
India)
+ Japan June core CPI - excludes fresh food - falls
1.0 pct YoY; sixteenth straight month of decline (Nikkei)
+ OPEC July compliance hits lowest level since
current supply targets adopted in December 2008 (Maktoob)
+ US St. Louis Fed president Bullard ups specter of
Japan-style deflation (The
Washington Post) (Exec
Summ)
+ Japan June retail sales up 3.2 pct YoY on autos,
clothes, petrol; sixth straight gain (San
Francisco Chronicle) |
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Asia
+ China urbanization to fuel growth; urban
population to account for 50.0 pct of total by 2015 (Zhongguo
Ribao)
+ Korea Samsung Electronics reports 83.0 pct YoY
jump in Q2:10 profit on memory-chip demand (Bloomberg)
+ Korea PM Chung to resign on failure to get
parliament approval for science-business hub (The
Korea Times)
+ North Korea Kim Jong-Il secret bank accounts to be
frozen by US on Liechtenstein tip (The
Chosun Ilbo)
+ Japan Nissan Motor aims for 20.0 pct SoM of global
electric vehicle market by 2020 (The
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Social Media
+ Personal details of 100 M Facebook users collected
and published online by security consultant (BBC)
+ Japan Yahoo to use Google search tech; tie-up
looks to deal domestic blow to Microsoft (The
Japan Times)
+ Facebook reaches 500.0 M users; current trajectory
implies 1.0 B by year-end 2010 (Los
Angeles Times)
+ Facebook hits traffic record in US in June; 141.0
M unique visitors, up 11.0 M MoM, up 64.0 M YoY (Forbes)
+ Google cloud computing engineering effort to be
led by centers in Bangalore, Hyderabad (The
Times of India) |
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Homeland Defense
+ Germany plays down leaked Afghanistan intelligence
files, but plans investigation (Deutsche
Welle)
+ France PM Fillon declares war on al-Qaeda on
execution of France hostage Michel Germaneau (France
24)
+ Japan advisory panel urges tougher defense stance
on China, North Korea, weakened US (Asahi
Shimbun)
+ Germany, Israel fail to agree on sale of submarine
by Germany to Israel on discount request (Ha'aretz)
+ Iraq calls on oil companies to act on contracts;
aims for 2016 output of 12.0 MB/D (The
Mainichi Shimbun) |
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Entertainment
+ US runaway film, TV productions cost California
36,000 jobs, US$2.4 B lost wages since 2000 (Renmin
Ribao)
+ Iran government-linked studio plans to make TV
movie about "abducted" Iran nuclear scientist (Maktoob)
+ Vietnam control of online gaming to be tightened;
list of permitted games due in September (Vietnam
Net)
+ India Bollywood film Lamhaa, hard hitting
story of life in Indian Kashmir, banned in five Gulf
states (Maktoob)
+ KSA billionaire to launch 24-hour Arab news
channel; will compete with Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya (Maktoob) |
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Laguna Research Partners
Core Languages
The primary geographic
markets served by Laguna Research
Partners are Asia, Europe, the
Middle East and the United States, and our firm's primary language is
English. In order to
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maximize reach and impact, we provide
our research and consulting services in ten
additional
languages... Arabic
(MSA),
Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), French,
German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
and Vietnamese. LRP's 11 core languages
provide our firm with exposure to a total
native speaker (L1) population of 2.478
billion. Mandarin, the world's leading L1
language,...
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LRP
Data Focus
(Archive) |
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United States of America
New Privately-Owned Housing Units
Started
Monthly, Change versus Previous
Year
January 2008 through June 2010
Percent, Not Seasonally
Adjusted, Not Annualized |
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Source: Census Bureau, USA.
The chart above
shows the year-on-year change in the
monthly number of new,
privately-owned housing units on
which construction was started
during January 2008 through June
2010. The chart below shows the
monthly number of total starts for
the same period. This data is not seasonally
adjusted and not annualized.
United States of America
New Privately-Owned Housing Units
Started
Monthly
January 2008 through June 2010
Thousands of Units, Not Seasonally
Adjusted, Not Annualized |
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Source: Census Bureau, USA.
US June housing starts - SAAR, or
seasonally adjusted annual rate, not
shown above - dropped 5.0% MoM
and 5.8% YoY to 549,000 units. On a
raw, non-adjusted and non-annualized
basis, shown above, US June starts
fell 4.9% MoM and 8.3% YoY to 54,200
units. For both data sets, the
decline in starts was particularly
pronounced in the multi-unit
structure market. LRP focuses
primarily on the non-adjusted,
non-annualized data set as being
most reflective of real-time,
on-the-ground realities regarding
both builder and lender confidence.
In the view of
LRP, US June housing start data sets reflect a US
economic recovery that is currently
stagnant.
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