Is our country an advanced country?

Architect Yoo Hyun-joon's shorts I watched the video.
To sum up the video very briefly,

Our country focuses only on being number one in the paths of success that others have defined, such as the College Scholastic Ability Test, Netflix, and the Billboard charts.
And while we shout K-culture, we claim that our country is an advanced country.
But isn't a true advanced country not the country that ranks number one on Netflix, but the country that creates Netflix and the country that creates Billboard?

This short video of less than a minute shocked me.
I want to organize the shock I received through this article.

This short video of less than a minute shocked me.
I want to organize the shock I received through this article.

What is the path I truly want?

Recently, I've been spending time thinking about what kind of person I want to be.
I had imagined the kind of person I wanted to be by looking at the people around me and what I had read in books.

But now, after watching this video, I've looked back on that time.
Looking back, it seems like I didn't think about the kind of person I truly wanted to be during that time of pondering.
It seems like it was a time when I chose what fit me best from among the few forms that others had defined.

What do I really want to do?
Why couldn't I think beyond the image of success that others talk about?

To be honest, I think I was scared.
I was afraid that the career I had built up until now would crumble.
I was afraid that I would waste time if I challenged myself for no reason.

YouTube was also ignored and criticized at first

I want to tell you about YouTube, to the me who's scared.
I want to tell you the success story of YouTube, which takes up more than half of my day.

In 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.6 billion.
That's about 2.17 trillion won in current exchange rates.

After the acquisition of this enormous amount, many people expected the course of YouTube.
But in 2009, it recorded a deficit of about 47 billion won.
It was a deficit of over five times YouTube's revenue at the time.

People criticized Google and YouTube for this deficit.
Countless articles and criticisms were published stating that the YouTube acquisition was a wrong decision by Google.

But Google believed in YouTube's potential.
It believed that a world based on video would eventually come after a world based on text.
With that belief, Google didn't give up on YouTube and continued to develop it.

As a result of that trust, YouTube created today's video advertising model.
(This model distributes revenue from ads to content creators.)

Thanks to YouTube's advertising model, the number of high-quality video content gradually increased.
YouTube has become the world's largest video platform, escaping the massive deficit.

The true path to success is one that no one else takes

As you can see from YouTube's story, the true path to success is one that no one else takes.
And people criticize and ignore that path.

So, let's not be afraid.
If you have a path you truly want to take, let's try it with courage.
It's okay if people criticize and ignore you.

YouTube, Netflix, and SpaceX were all ignored and criticized at first.