旺旺英语Lesson 8Here Comes Korea, Inc.Like Japan in the 1960s, the old “Hermit Kingdom” is poised for将迎来an assault 冲击on the world’s markets像20世纪60年代的日本一样，一个古老的“闭关自守的国家”已准备好向世界市场发起冲击。
The ritual begins shortly after dawn. As the early morning light filters through the windows of Lucky-$8 billion conglomerate, issues instructions that echo around the world. In Huntsville, Ala., 200of things to come. As one of Koo’s lieutenants puts it: “Our future lies in becoming a truly global company.”黎明后，仪式开始。
当晨光透过汉城乐喜金星公司高耸的总部大厦的窗户时，这家拥有80亿美元资本的跨行业公司董事长具滋暻向全世界发布了引起反响的指示。
在阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔，200名产业工人每年生产100万台“金星”彩电。
在加利福尼亚的硅谷，身着白色工装的研究人员在探索目前最先进的半导体技术的秘密。
在沙特阿拉伯的著拜尔，该公司正在进行一个新的宠大石油化学企业的最后试验。
这充分显示了其全球的势力范围，也是即发生的许多事情的预兆。
正如具滋暻的一名下属所言：“我们的未来就是成为一个真正的全球性公司。
”For South Korea as a whole, that seems as much a prophecy as an ambition. Like Japan in the 1960s, the country is poised for an assault on the world’s export markets. Its surging $81 billion economy is churning out a flood of increasingly sophisticated products, from shoes, toys and telephones to video recorders and microprocessors. Korea’s mighty conglomerates dominate Middle East construction, and they command key shares of the world’s shipbuilding, textile and steel industries. Their affiliates, joint ventures and subsidiaries girdle the globe, stretching from Australia, Indonesia and India to Norway, Spain and Gabon, Hyundai and Daewoo, with annual sales of $10 billion and $6 billion respectively, are pushing into the U.S. auto market, riveting the attention of American and Japanese manufacturers. Another colossus, the $9 billion Samsung, has started marketing a “super-tech” 256K computer chip—encouraging some Koreans to speak confidently of the day when they will become the world’s second largest manufacturer of basic electronic components, outstripping America and running just behind Japan.对整个韩国来说，那似乎不仅是个预言，也是个理想；像20世纪60年代的日本一样，这个国家准备向世界出口市场发起攻击。
