🧵There’s a Korean bakery chain called Paris Baguette (PB) which is as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Korea. They have your café offerings like below-average coffee and mediocre French-style pastry ubiquitous with Korean bakeries. #1u
PB is owned by a conglomerate called SPC Group, which also owns the factories that bake the bread and pastries they sell at PB. SPC Group also operates foreign brands like @shakeshack@BaskinRobbins@dunkindonuts@JambaJuice in Korea. #1u
Here’s the list of brands ⬇️
Mar 9, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
The South Korean presidential election is today.
A few things: 1. The current president is ineligible for reelection as the Korean constitution forbids it: Single term, five years.
2. Plurality wins. There is no ranked choice or runoff.
3. Korea does not have a Vice President
The Ballot:
There are 14 candidates on the ballot, but 2 dropped out of the running and endorsed one of the major candidates.
They’re assigned a number according to their party’s seats in the National Assembly. 1-5 hold seats, and parties with no seats are listed alphabetically.
Mar 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Let’s dive into “education inequality” he’s asking us to cancel.
Cuomo was the singular reason why even though New York had a Democratic legislature for at least a decade, it couldn’t pass the New York State DREAM Act.
1. He empowered and encouraged Jeff Klein, et al. to form the Independent Democratic Conference, caucusing with the Republicans and giving them control of the Senate. It locked out Democrats from being able to set the agenda, despite the clear majority.
I think about the yuppie 2nd gen-type Asian Americans who are driving the current conversation on the violent attacks on our elders who are on the side of developers in driving gentrification in Chinatowns and Asian neighborhoods across the country.
Our elders, if they can't afford to live in the communities, are driven to the fringes where they don't have the necessary protection or access to in-language and culturally competent resources.
PB is owned by a conglomerate called SPC Group, which also owns the factories that bake the bread and pastries they sell at PB. SPC Group also operates foreign brands like @shakeshack @BaskinRobbins @dunkindonuts @JambaJuice in Korea. #1u 
