Which is, to the rest of the world, paranoid mentally unbalanced, and unlikely to change. They also tend to create a reality distortion field around themselves. This causes them to see certain things as far more important than they actually are. They have a tendency to confuse symbolism with reality.
I fail to see how South Koreans are "paranoid mentally unbalanced, and unlikely to change." If anything the south has embraced a lot of US ideals such as democracy, capitalism, free press, etc. North Korea has been a dictatorship for the last 50 years and reflects the prejudices of it's leadership.
So they invest huge amounts of money into basically symbolic projects that have marginal long-term benefit.
As opposed to the US? How about the space programs to put a man on the moon before the russians.
Like this one. What use is it to have 1 Gig bandwidth to every house in the country? There might be some military advantage, but I can't think of any. The whole project seems like a 'pissing contest', a 'anything you can do, we can do better'- type of project.
In South Korea you can literally stream live TV stations (KBS, MBC, SBS, etc) in HD to your PC. In addition to that things such as VOD, VOIP, mobile devices are popular. Perhaps it's just me but having 1 gig of bandwidth sounds to me like a sound infrastructure investment.
Maybe the North will launch their huge invasion of the South that they have been preparing for during the past 50 years.
They won't because of the military presence of the US and the fact that it would be in Japan's interest to support the US/South Korea. In addition to that I fail to see why China would support any attack on South Korea.
But, since Korea has an obsessive, violent, self-absorbed, and fanatical, and quite possibly, mentally unbalanced culture, it is very possible the entire country could fall into a huge suicidal bloodbath while the rest of the world watches helplessly.
Obsessive, violent, fanatical, mentally unbalanced ? I hope you realize that North Korea is a dictatorship and most dictatorships involve violence, fanatics, etc. South Korea is a thriving modern state just google some facts.
So before you call me a racist (and you will), let me define this concept.
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Which is, to the rest of the world, paranoid mentally unbalanced, and unlikely to change. They also tend to create a reality distortion field around themselves. This causes them to see certain things as far more important than they actually are. They have a tendency to confuse symbolism with reality.
I fail to see how South Koreans are "paranoid mentally unbalanced, and unlikely to change." If anything the south has embraced a lot of US ideals such as democracy, capitalism, free press, etc. North Korea has been a dictatorship for the last 50 years and reflects the prejudices of it's leadership.
So they invest huge amounts of money into basically symbolic projects that have marginal long-term benefit.
As opposed to the US? How about the space programs to put a man on the moon before the russians.
Like this one. What use is it to have 1 Gig bandwidth to every house in the country? There might be some military advantage, but I can't think of any. The whole project seems like a 'pissing contest', a 'anything you can do, we can do better'- type of project.
In South Korea you can literally stream live TV stations (KBS, MBC, SBS, etc) in HD to your PC. In addition to that things such as VOD, VOIP, mobile devices are popular. Perhaps it's just me but having 1 gig of bandwidth sounds to me like a sound infrastructure investment.
Maybe the North will launch their huge invasion of the South that they have been preparing for during the past 50 years.
They won't because of the military presence of the US and the fact that it would be in Japan's interest to support the US/South Korea. In addition to that I fail to see why China would support any attack on South Korea.
But, since Korea has an obsessive, violent, self-absorbed, and fanatical, and quite possibly, mentally unbalanced culture, it is very possible the entire country could fall into a huge suicidal bloodbath while the rest of the world watches helplessly.
Obsessive, violent, fanatical, mentally unbalanced ? I hope you realize that North Korea is a dictatorship and most dictatorships involve violence, fanatics, etc. South Korea is a thriving modern state just google some facts.
So before you call me a racist (and you will), let me define this concept.
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