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American View On Korean Broadband Leadership
prostoalex writes "South Korea remains the world's undisputed broadband leader (in terms of penetration) with 25 broadband lines for every 100 people as of year-end 2004. But how did it come to that? Joel Strauch moved there to teach English and in his letter to PC World he portrays the everyday life in broadband heaven as well as names the reasons for Korean broadband dominance: 'An ambitious, nearly $11 billion program, it appears to be working. Studies have shown that over a quarter of Koreans have broadband and that anyone who wants it can sign up--with some ISPs charging as little as $19 a month for DSL. I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection--twice the speed of my $50-a-month service back home in the United States.'"
Korean Broadband leadership ON MARS?!
Whether or not these claims are true; it is seldom wise or accurate to stereotype/villify an entire country's people. While it may be true that many Koreans place an undue emphasis on blood lineage, statements like "Koreans decline to adopt because they view people outside their family as inferior vermin" are more telling of the author's view of the world than they are of the world's people.
Hopefully the two very different Koreas will be reunified in my lifetime (I can't imagine how the current North Korean 'government' will survive after 'Dear Leaders' passing, but if NK is good at nothing else its good at surprising people!), and I am really looking forward to it. Its gonna be really intersting to see how 20 million North Koreans stuck in a 50 year cultural and technological deep freeze will react to finally seeing how the southerners live. I mean for God's sake, for all intents and purpopses NK has no internet or cell phones!
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What about you and me , you losing time answering at nitpicking and me at a lame get-a-life posts ?
Add to that list the huge number of slashdot users who can't separate than/then and other similar words. Very annoying to read for a non-native speaker.