Here in korea, logical sense doesn't have much to do with anything. Koreans will continue to pirate M$ windoze for their desktops because:
a. They've been doing it for years.
b. Starcraft runs on it.
c. Windoze was written by foreigners, and koreans have nothing but contempt for foreigners and their intellectual rights. Just don't say anything bad about them or their stuff, though.....
I live in korea and AC is right!
One of the niftier features of the korean economy is that the average korean citizen's bank deposit is subject to being transferred at government direction to a chaebol to keep it's (inept) management afloat and partying. Sweet deal, huh!?
Koreans in general, have no tolerance of anybody saying anything negative about them, they further lack the ability of self examination, preferring to blame ALL their problems on foreigners (which can bring on some interesting mental acrobatics at times)
I'm standing by for the oppa gangsters, now.....
I live in Korea, and I gotta agree with tavon79 with an additional precondition. The Koreans make much of how they hate the Japanese, but they imitate them at every opportunity (especially the not so good stuff): xenophobia, idiotic youth fashions, fiscal obfuscation, inefficient domestic goods distribution, provincialism, etc....
They generally don't adopt any concept from the west unless it arrives in Seoul via Japan.
A couple of years back one of those PC rooms opened up as the "Linux PC-bang" Guess I don't have to tell you what they're running now....
Until the japanese port some games to linux, you won't see it on their desktops. As soon as it arrives from Tokyo, they'll claim it as their own idea.................
Perhaps the Korean government is enlightened on this particular issue, but if you were over here in Korea, you might be inclined to call them a lot of things, but "enlightened" probably wouln't be one of them...........
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Here in korea, logical sense doesn't have much to do with anything. Koreans will continue to pirate M$ windoze for their desktops because: a. They've been doing it for years. b. Starcraft runs on it. c. Windoze was written by foreigners, and koreans have nothing but contempt for foreigners and their intellectual rights. Just don't say anything bad about them or their stuff, though.....
I live in korea and AC is right! One of the niftier features of the korean economy is that the average korean citizen's bank deposit is subject to being transferred at government direction to a chaebol to keep it's (inept) management afloat and partying. Sweet deal, huh!? Koreans in general, have no tolerance of anybody saying anything negative about them, they further lack the ability of self examination, preferring to blame ALL their problems on foreigners (which can bring on some interesting mental acrobatics at times) I'm standing by for the oppa gangsters, now.....
I live in Korea, and I gotta agree with tavon79 with an additional precondition. The Koreans make much of how they hate the Japanese, but they imitate them at every opportunity (especially the not so good stuff): xenophobia, idiotic youth fashions, fiscal obfuscation, inefficient domestic goods distribution, provincialism, etc.... They generally don't adopt any concept from the west unless it arrives in Seoul via Japan. A couple of years back one of those PC rooms opened up as the "Linux PC-bang" Guess I don't have to tell you what they're running now.... Until the japanese port some games to linux, you won't see it on their desktops. As soon as it arrives from Tokyo, they'll claim it as their own idea.................
Perhaps the Korean government is enlightened on this particular issue, but if you were over here in Korea, you might be inclined to call them a lot of things, but "enlightened" probably wouln't be one of them...........