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MRUniversity - The opening slide

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    This is our opening slide
    for all of the lectures.
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    So what does it mean?
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    It's called Incheon Bridge,
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    and it's located
    in South Korea, near Seoul.
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    This bridge was finished in 2009,
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    and now it connects
    the airport serving Seoul
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    to what's called Songdo Business District,
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    which was built on reclaimed land.
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    The private contract owner
    behind the bridge was Samsung.
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    One reason we chose this particular image
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    is simply that South Korea
    has itself been successful
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    in terms of economic development.
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    When it comes to development,
    Alex and I are very much optimists.
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    But look more carefully at this picture,
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    which was taken before
    the bridge was finished.
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    You can see the bridge is incomplete.
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    We view economic development
    as something which is always in process.
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    Most importantly, this image reflects
    an underlying philosophy of education,
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    namely that we should always be trying
    to bridge gaps in our knowledge.
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MRUniversity - The opening slide
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