Manulife Da Nang Marathon 2023
With more than 9,000 runners, including 1,500 international athletes, coming together, it was a true celebration of fitness, unity, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Category: Asia
Overcoming Diabetes Management Challenges in Vietnam: Addressing Awareness, Access to Care, and Affordability
Managing diabetes in Vietnam presents unique challenges related to awareness, access to care, and affordability. Cultural factors, such as traditional beliefs, coupled with economic factors like limited healthcare infrastructure, contribute to these challenges.
The Rising Concern of Diabetes in Vietnam
Vietnam is facing a dramatic rise in diabetes cases and an alarming increase in complications.
Happy Wife
I was recently asked to speak about humans vs. machines in customer and decided to share the story of how I set out to make Japanese women happy.
Techfin Asia 2019 Keynote
It was a pleasure to speak about MetLife’s innovation efforts at Techfin 2019 in Seoul last week.
Hustling Under the Radar: Onions, Pet Shampoo, and not-so-sexy Startups
While most people are drawn to flashy startups, Ritz Chu has spent the past few years building and running stable businesses.
Health Partnerships
This week, MetLife Korea signed MOUs to build out its 360 Health offering with four Korean health care partners.
Book recommendation: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
While its by no means a new title, this gem by Joe Studwell provides a great macroeconomic look at a number different countries in Asia. Studwell explores how interventions (or lack thereof) in agriculture, manufacturing and capital have impacted nine Asian countries including Japan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Hypertension in Korea
There are an estimated 11 million adults with hypertension in Korea.
29% of Koreans over 30 suffer from hypertension.
KLIA conference on the future of insurance (July 8th, 2019)
The Korean Life Insurance Association hosted a conference on the future of insurance and invited me to present on how
Nico Eggert 