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Brian Kim

American former hedge fund manager

Aug 28, 2026

13:44
What are the things that inspire you to, you know, create a new dish? I mean, of course, based on authentic Korean flavors, but how do you get inspired?
13:54
So me and our team has a too strong philosophy when we do the R&D that we never compromise.
14:06
we should have a core authentic flavor, Korean flavor, traditional flavor.
14:14
Second is, we want to serve creative dish.
14:19
So traditional or authentic and then creative is kind of conflict.
14:27
Yeah, yeah.
14:28
So it's our menu R&D process really, really tough.

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29:48
Tell us a little bit about how you went about choosing all of the different elements, all the details.
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0:18
Let's hear from him now.
0:21
Classically, people thought of atopic dermatitis as just a rash.
0:25
And I think now people recognize that the central symptom of atopic dermatitis is the itch.
0:31
Really, that came about because the therapies that were developed in the last 10 years were have shown to be very, very effective at alleviating itch.
0:40
And then downstream of that, what people start to recognize is that when you actually improve itch, the patients seek out that treatment.
0:48
This was not a phenomenon that was actually driven by physicians and providers.
0:53
Changes come in medicine not because of physicians, actually.
3:26
How do you think this contributes to the debate over fries, that it can be served in so many ways?
3:33
Yeah.
3:33
You know, I don't think there's any one wrong way to serve a fry.
3:38
The thing about fries is everybody likes their fry a little bit different.
3:41
If you love waffle fries, great.
3:43
If you love curly fries, wonderful.
3:45
I love both of those things, but I'll usually take a classic fry over those, or a cottage fry.
6:56
Can you describe this place for us?
8:29
Was that the original sort of pitch for frozen yogurt versus ice cream?
8:34
I think definitely yes.
8:36
So like I was saying, it, um, kinda started out in 1975 at 40 Carats in Bloomingdales, which was, like, a health food bar, and people would talk about it as something that maybe had less fat or less calories than ice cream, right? And I would say that was true through the first wave and the second wave.
8:54
Healthiness was just a big part of the marketing.
8:56
You wanted to eat fewer calories.
8:58
Um, ice cream maybe tastes better, but frozen yogurt is allegedly better for you.
9:03
And nowadays you see that marketing has kind of disappeared-
10:25
Oof

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