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BN: You mentioned kind of this very different style from your dad's generation to your generation. Do you think there's as much of a difference between your generation and your kids' generation?

DA: Oh, yeah. I get into it with my son all the time. His thought process is a lot different than mine, and not to say it's any better or worse, it's just different. So some of it, I think, is just terminology. But yeah, they have a whole different set of values, I think, or how they process information. So I don't know if it's any better or any worse.

BN: So he could write the same article you wrote about your dad and uncle.

DA: I'd be interested to know how he would, yeah, or write something like that.

BN: Yeah, yeah, not the little ones, but the differences between the generations.

DA: That's right, that's right.

BN: You should show that article to him. [Laughs]

DA: Yeah, maybe I should. [Laughs]

BN: Interesting. When you were talking about your kids not necessarily wanting to go into the insurance business, it made me think of the gardening business, too, where the same thing happens. The next generation doesn't want to do that. Farming, the next generation doesn't want to farm anymore, so there's this transition happening once you get to the Yonsei and beyond. Certain occupational niches are just not, no one wants to do that anymore.

DA: Nope. None of my kids wanted to get into insurance.

BN: I think often just going into businesses or family business in general, whatever it might be, whether it's insurance or restaurants or whatever, farms. Yeah, interesting.

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