Brand Singapore
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Without nation branding, there would be no Singapore.
Reputation is precious. Top talent and hot money gravitate only to the most attractive, respected nations. For a country as small and as young as Singapore, its brand is its most valuable asset.
Singapore’s stunning ascent from Third World to First World in
a matter of 30 years was spearheaded by a concerted, closely-coordinated programme of nation branding. Brand Singapore helped to attract the investments, business, trade, tourism and talented human resources that are the lifeblood of a successful nation. Today, the city-state is known internationally as a dynamic, safe, corruption-free place to do business, a Garden City, and increasingly, a vibrant city of culture and the arts. In global surveys of quality of life, Singapore regularly tops the charts.
How did Singapore create this country brand, cultivate and
guard it, sell it to its “shareholders”, and make it known to the world? Drawing on two decades in the nation branding game, Koh Buck Song offers an illuminating inside look at – and candid critique of – a country brand that is as rich in resource as it is potent with promise.
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Koh Buck Song born 1963, has an MA in English from Cambridge University, UK. He went to Harvard University in the United States in 2003, to do a Master in Public Administration degree as a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. His poems have been featured in publications and on Singapore TV and radio, and also at the National Museum and the Esplanade- Theatres on the Bay arts centre.
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- About the Author
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Without nation branding, there would be no Singapore.
Reputation is precious. Top talent and hot money gravitate only to the most attractive, respected nations. For a country as small and as young as Singapore, its brand is its most valuable asset.
Singapore’s stunning ascent from Third World to First World in
a matter of 30 years was spearheaded by a concerted, closely-coordinated programme of nation branding. Brand Singapore helped to attract the investments, business, trade, tourism and talented human resources that are the lifeblood of a successful nation. Today, the city-state is known internationally as a dynamic, safe, corruption-free place to do business, a Garden City, and increasingly, a vibrant city of culture and the arts. In global surveys of quality of life, Singapore regularly tops the charts.
How did Singapore create this country brand, cultivate and
guard it, sell it to its “shareholders”, and make it known to the world? Drawing on two decades in the nation branding game, Koh Buck Song offers an illuminating inside look at – and candid critique of – a country brand that is as rich in resource as it is potent with promise.
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Koh Buck Song born 1963, has an MA in English from Cambridge University, UK. He went to Harvard University in the United States in 2003, to do a Master in Public Administration degree as a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. His poems have been featured in publications and on Singapore TV and radio, and also at the National Museum and the Esplanade- Theatres on the Bay arts centre.
