Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 32 VTMBH Article: Article Order 5 VTMBH Article: Title We are partners, not competitors: Korean nail salons cooperate to survive together VTMBH Article: Author No-yeol Kim VTMBH Article: Publication Korea Times New York VTMBH Article: Original Language Korean VTMBH Article: Translator Jeongwoo Han VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Korean nail salons suffer from severe competition as their numbers increase in New York and New Jersey. Owners in Closter, New Jersey have decided to hold monthly meetings to resolve the problems in a cooperative manner. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Korean nail salons are suffering from severe competition with each other. Its the most troublesome problem in the nail salon business, as the number of salons increase in the New York and New Jersey area. Nail salons in Closter, New Jersey, began experimenting with the strategy of surviving together several years ago, and its now becoming a model for nail businesses in New York as well. The owners of the nail salons in Closter have regular monthly meetings to discuss the current issues facing nail businesses and to try to resolve the problem in a cooperative manner. Especially, they fix a fair price during the meeting in order to prevent underselling, one of the most chronic problems in the nail business. The main issue for them is to prevent the overhead, including labor costs, from rising so much that shops close. Owing to the one of characteristics of nail service, there is a tendency of a nail service workers regular customers to follow that her worker when she moves shops. To prevent this phenomenon, the Closter nail salon owners agreed to restrict employees from transferring; in effect, they refuse to hire nail workers who attempt to move from another area shop. Besides, the owners also decide some issues such as which days to close and details about seasonal promotions through open discussion. It has been seven years since they held their first meeting. It was 1992 when the nail salons in Closter had severe competition; prices were so low that salon owners felt their businesses were in a state of crisis. They realized they would lose the entire Korean nail market if they persisted in competing. This realization turned into the owners meetings that continue. The owners explain that because of the meetings, there are no longer conflicts among nail salons in this area, in contrast to other areas, where severe competition creates a lot of conflict and strife. Hyun-suk Kim, the owner of Nail Boutique in Closter says that as we discuss and share our business problems once a month, we form a relationship not as competitors, but as partners, and she contends that as its already hard to manage in this recession, a self-destroying competition in which prices are lowered at all costs even to ones own detriment should disappear. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-08-13 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 189 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource We are partners, not competitors: Korean nail salons cooperate to survive together 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. Korean nail salons suffer from severe competition as their numbers increase in New York and New Jers Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-08-13