HeyJaredAtypical Asia with Debbie Yong
Atypical Asia is a podcast spotlighting the founders, creatives, leaders, and thinkers shaping Asia in ways that don’t fit the usual playbook.Hosted by Debbie Yong, former business journalist and branding and communications strategist, each episode goes beyond surface-level…
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The K-Wave Is Just Getting Started: What Korean Brands Are Doing Right - Vatos' Sid Kim (opens the original)
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Everyone thinks the K-wave happened overnight. It didn't. It took 50 years — and the world is only now catching up. Sid Kim is the co-founder of Vatos Urban Kitchen, which started as Korea's first Korean-Mexican restaurant and grew into an international brand. He now runs Sage Partners, helping Korean brands expand into Singapore and the US. As a Korean American who has lived and built businesses across Seoul, Singapore, Manila and Bali, Sid has a front-row seat to what the K-wave actually looks
How to Build a Viral F&B Brand: Seoul, Singapore, and What Actually Worked - Vatos' Sid Kim (opens the original)
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A stranger walked into Sid Kim's Seoul restaurant for a week straight. On the last night, he handed over his card: president and CEO of Marina Bay Sands. Sid Kim is the co-founder of Vatos, a Korean-Mexican restaurant that started as a 28-seat taco joint in a Seoul back alley and ended up drawing three-hour queues almost every night for nine years. He has also built and exited two education businesses in South Korea, founded GolfX, Singapore's largest indoor golf facility, and now runs Sage Part
Urban Farming and Singapore's Food Security Shift - Edible Garden City's Bjorn Low (opens the original)
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He grew up sneaking out past curfew, running the streets of Singapore. He ended up in a Welsh field with a five-figure salary behind him and no plan ahead. Bjorn Low is the co-founder of Edible Garden City, the social enterprise that has built close to 300 edible gardens across Singapore — schools, care homes, hotel rooftops, HDB car parks — since 2012. Started with $10,000 of seed capital. Now a team of 44, of which 95 per cent are Singaporean. Bjorn argues that Singapore's food security proble
Adaptive Reuse: Shophouses, WeWork, and Going Hyper-Local - The Working Capital's Ben Gattie (opens the original)
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Ben Gattie went after a 1920s biscuit factory nobody else wanted. He won. His next bet was $30 million against WeWork. He lost. Ben Gattie is the founder of The Working Capital and Triple P Group. He started his career converting SoHo lofts in New York, came home during the Global Financial Crisis, and has quietly built a neighbourhood institution across 41 shophouses in Singapore's Chinatown district. He was born in Brussels, raised in Singapore from the age of four, and spent his early career
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