Tag: southkorea

South Korea Composting

How did South Korea achieve this success? Sometimes it is attributed to the fancy technology that weighs and tracks the compost, and to the R.F.I.D. chips used in some municipalities to insure that households pay in proportion to the amount of waste they produce. That is important, but also I say the government shouldn’t act directly. There needs to be an intermediary between the government and the people. Groups like us.

Mandatory dating class

South Korean universities have courses that make it mandatory for students to date their classmates. Students have to date each other in 3 randomly assigned pairings. Courses on dating, sex, love and relationships are trying to increase coupling and eventually birth rate. Most young korean woman and men don’t want to have kids. They reason it would be too difficult to balance family with work pressures. They would consider trying to have children “if the economic conditions were right.”

South Korea War Games

This seems to be something of a regular occurrence now. In the recent past, several foreign countries have celebrated how stunningly real video game graphics have become by using them to pretend they are really great at war. The Egyptians did it to pretend that Russia was fighting ISIS, the Iranians did it to pretend that their forces could shoot people from a really long way away, and the North Koreans did it to pretend that they could deliver a nuclear ICBM to our soil. Well, perhaps there is some synergy to be found over Korea’s DMZ, because the South Koreans recently released footage detailing how super-awesome their new fighter jet program is, and that footage included several clips from both Battlefield 3 and Ace Combat.

this should be more widely adopted, so we can replace super-expensive pretend programs like F35 with the much cheaper just pretending.

SK Plastic surgery

If you want to feel bad about your looks, spend some time in Seoul. An eerily high number of women there—and men, too—look like anime princesses. Subway riders primp in front of full-length mirrors installed throughout the stations for that purpose. Job applicants are typically required to attach photographs to their résumés. Remarks from relatives, such as “You would be a lot prettier if you just had your jaw tapered,” are considered no more insulting than “You’d get a lot more for your apartment if you redid the kitchen.”

Plastic surgery in SK is so good, people need to get new IDs

as body modification becomes more powerful and more mainstream, we’ll see much more of this kind of stuff. related, male actors now work as hard, if not harder, on their chiseled 6packs than on their acting.

KumGangSan

for fun korean times, head to KumGangSan on W32th.

open 24h, large portions, tasty, not too expensive. i think i have found my to-go korean place. the only downside was that the service was a bit slow even though the place wasn’t packed. as an extra bonus, they have a wall with fake rocks and 2 musicians perched on it playing piano all night.

Hangul

Hangul, Korea’s “Great Script,” is perhaps history’s only effort at alphabet reform that is both scientifically rigorous and universally successful. As a result of careful planning, Hangul is easily learned, comfortably written, and infinitely flexible. Consonants are linear (ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ), vowels are horizontal or vertical lines (ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅜ, ㅡ, ㅣ), glottalized letters are doubled (ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ). their shapes are related to the sounds they symbolize.