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Ryan Bridge: We need more than agriculture to be successful · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's nothing quite like watching a well thought out strategy
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  Speaker 1: coming together and working. And hats off to South Korea
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  Speaker 1: this morning, because they're absolutely caning it. On tourism. The
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  Speaker 1: government set a goal there are thirty million visitors a
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  Speaker 1: year by twenty thirty. In two thousand and five, they
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  Speaker 1: had six million last year, sixteen million. This year they'll
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  Speaker 1: hit twenty. And this is not by chance, it's by design.
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  Speaker 1: They've got government and business coming together and going all
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  Speaker 1: in on infrastructure and law changes, a whole bunch of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They're extending an electronic visa free travel pass. They will
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  Speaker 1: have integrated ticketing for all your public transport by the
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  Speaker 1: start of next year. You can use the same pass
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  Speaker 1: for major tourist attractions. Imagine catching the Wahiki ferry and
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  Speaker 1: doing the luge all on one pass. Big push on
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  Speaker 1: regional tourism. But their secret source is a cultural takeover
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  Speaker 1: of movies, TV shows and music. That's another industry that
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  Speaker 1: they bought into big time, and now it's paying massive
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  Speaker 1: dividends for them, dividends we could only dream of. We
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  Speaker 1: know this works. We had Lord of the Rings. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: almost four hundred million people around the world have watched
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  Speaker 1: a little show called k Pop Demon Hunters. Go and
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  Speaker 1: watch it on Netflix or don't, but it's their most
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  Speaker 1: watched show ever, and now every kid is begging their
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  Speaker 1: parents to go to South Korea. This is not to
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  Speaker 1: bitch and moan and say that we should be doing
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  Speaker 1: better or something our government has or is at least
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  Speaker 1: trying to pull together similar schemes here. This is simply
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  Speaker 1: to say, what an impressive operation to watch the Koreans
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  Speaker 1: planning and executing and getting results. It's something that should
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  Speaker 1: excite us. The Saudis are going big on gaming. The
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  Speaker 1: Irish rolled out the red carpet for Big Tech. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Judith Collins this week reckons our next big thing should
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  Speaker 1: be space. We are world leaders in agriculture, so what
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  Speaker 1: do we want to add to that list? And how
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  Speaker 1: can we follow South Korea's lead and make a plan
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  Speaker 1: to get there? For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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