Solongus - The Wedding in Monaco
Solongus - The Wedding in Monaco
  • By Hwang Kyu-ho (info@koreaittimes.com)
  • 승인 2012.10.08 20:08
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Prologue

1 The Wedding in Monaco

Kyu-ho, Hwang

On 1 July 2011 a big event took place in Monaco. It was a luxurious wedding between Prince of Monaco, Albert II, and an Olympic swimmer, Carlene Wittstock, from South Africa. For the wedding the dukedom bought a 600L for the new weds. After the bridal the couple was to march on the street with the convertible open chariot. So the royal household hummed in preparation for the wedding. The kingdom, also, prepared a mass of BMW-7 series for numerous European royal families and worldwide celebrities including Sir Roser Moore, a former James Bond 007. They were invited for the centennial binge with drooly carriages of BMW-7. Characteristically, the fabulous festival was famous for the contest of fashion, jewel, design, and luxury in the world.

As to the nicely prepared wedding proceedings, the spokesman of Monaco, like a wag, grinned with a ludicrous smile. Then he told the curious foreign correspondents in a humorous tone:

 

“The image of luxury is the very important product (VIP) from Monaco. The precious image kindles richest and big-headed tycoons to see the marvelous marriage. So they come from all over the world and splurge their bundles of cash here. The bewitching event is part of the national strategy focused upon the very point. It is the mortal lock.”

Plus the newly weds and the spokesman, there were two figures who were deeply delighted at the fairytale wedding. They laughed heartily. Then they thought inside and aloud:

“We‟ve won the classic beauty and luxury. The wedding ceremony of Monaco was really a blockbuster. It is a bigger grosser than any other exciting movie.”

They wereToyota and BMW.

By exploiting the exciting historic event the two big men could have outmatched the longtime prestige of American Big Three and other Europeans. It was quite shocking news. So-called worldwide big men with shiny and luxurious chariots like Cadillac, Lincoln Continental, Chrysler, Benz, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Porsche, Lamborghini, Jaguar, Ferrari, Bugatti, Maybach, Maserati, Acura and other attendants were surprised and discouraged.

Shortly before the turn of the 21st century, Toyota unveiled Lexus as his secret weapon under the Olive Tree. It was his most efficient, downsized but luxurious chariot. At the time, American vaudevillians, Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio and/or Meryl Streep, attended the show. Then the famous actors posted its advent in the world stage. So the world people got together to see the actors and his chariot. There he said to the people proudly that:

“I have poured out every effort to create the neat chariot for many years under my lifelong motto, the Pursuit of Perfection. It was meticulously designed, powerful, smooth and quiet. Also I have devised other chariots such as Prius, Camry, and Corolla series for „Smile for Tomorrow‟ with my eco-friendly craftsmanship.”

It was the revolutionary proclamation to the world people.

And it was the beginning of globalization.

Watching over the event, Thomas L. Friedman, a most popular American economic columnist, threw significant comments in his book, the Lexus & the Olive Tree:

“The Globalization world would tend to turn all friends and foes into competitors, unlike the Cold War structure, a world of friends and foes.”

By using the insight into the world eco-climate, the columnist may have wanted to point out that:

“The world has rapidly changed. The globalized world has become more uncertain, complicated, and colorful than ever before.” Indeed the earthly world theater has been already filled with lots of dangerous life-risks and misfortunes. Therefore, he might have noticed the people that:

“Yesterday's foe may be today's friend,

and

Today's friend may be tomorrow's foe.”

In the same context, far earlier than now, 25 hundred years ago the eastern Indian Sage, Buddha, realized the simple truisms about the past, present and future trend as follow:

“Do not dwell in the past,

Do not dream of the future,

Concentrate the mind on the present.

Destiny appointed it so.”

Then the Indian prince might have taught it as the Buddhahood to the people to warn it.

In fact, a political journalist, Robert D. Kaplan had posted the advent of World Powers in December 1997 through his book, “Was Democracy Just a Moment” As if he had been a seer, the journalist took the big picture of the Earth and prophesized that:

“International corporations will replace incumbent nations and/or the UN (Unites Nations) as the world powers. And then they will create the New Order of the world.”

Specifically he predicted the globalization in concrete ways as the following:

“(Now international or multinational) corporations (like Toyota or GM) are in the forefront of real globalization as the vanguard of a new politics. (Indeed) Corporations are like feudal domains. Historically they have evolved into nations or states. Now the internationalized corporations appear as a new 'World Government' with the real New World Order.”

Like his prediction and/or Friedman's prophecy, multinational corporations are to replace the current World and build up a new Order in the world. Already they have changed the world into the globalization at a gulp. Then they have wielded their big sticks over the world as if they had been big-time operators. As a result, the entire world has become a new frontier for new and real world powers to play acts. Either self-seeker or success-seeker, they will meet together in this huge World Plaza. Then, they will fight against each other. Some will survive and others will perish in this fiercely brutalized warfront in the world. In this relation, there are some passages in China:

“There is a trend in the world. The world revolves at its two axes, which are unification and division. Unification will be divided. Division will be unified. Unification and division replace each other. And they repeat themselves like day and night. It‟s the rule in the world. There is no exception.” (天下大勢 合久必分 分久必合)

The passages have been delivered from thousands of years ago. Now the world is severed into lots of blocks in the name of world powers. In origin, the world was only one. Over time, the severed world powers will be one with the shape memory. They have already begun competitions and struggles fiercely and bloodily. So, unlike the incumbent UN a new integrated world Power will appear as the real "World Government" with the almighty power.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hwang, Kyu-ho (황규호 黃奎浩), author of ASIAN DREAM & BLUE, RED, SAFFRON which were written in English, has worked for the Korean Government for more than thirty years. A native of Taejeon, he has lived in the US, Thailand, and Germany. Studying economics at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN with Master of Art, he has also worked for the UN-ESCAP and acted as a free-lance writer in the Korea Times. While traveling abroad, especially the North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe, he has felt how huge the world is and savored the depth of life, human mindset, and modern civilization in this mortal life – that is; East & West, Ideal & reality, War & peace, Truth & fake, Love & hatred, Success & failure, Rise & fall, Belief & betrayal, Nationalism & cosmopolitanism, and their nexus.

Also he has learned of the greatest creatures by the God in heaven such as Kangxi, Caesar, Henry Ford, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Hannibal, Lee Soon-shin, Carlos Ghosn, Honda Soichiro, Tata, and so on. Still the author is confident that such human beings are „nest eggs‟ as the crown of God‟s creation. Through using the kaleidoscope set by his imagination, the author badly wanted to picture the on-going auto industry into a novelistic form together with the nest eggs. He and his family live in Seoul, the Republic of Korea.

 


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