# 🥇 🇰🇷 South Korea | Why is South Korea better than Taiwan in the Summer Olympics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Sports\ **Tags:** olympics, korea\ **Created:** [August 1, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765 "2024-08-01T10:45:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quesito](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Quesito](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Quesito)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/41 "2024-08-02T04:36:11Z")
> [@OysterOmelet](#): > > What? My wife told me that. Probably before 2004, they spend way less money. ---
**Author:** ![superking](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/superking/32/197217_2.png) [@superking](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/superking)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/42 "2024-08-02T05:24:28Z")
More investment. It has to be. If it was by population the olympics would also be dominated by Indonesia, and India, which it isn’t. I’m always surprised how relatively poorly the USA do in week one each time. Once the athletics start though… BOOM. ---
**Author:** ![BigDave](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/bigdave/32/181371_2.png) [@BigDave](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/BigDave)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/43 "2024-08-02T05:26:08Z")
> [@Quesito](#): > > accesible Every sport becomes expensive when a coach is involved in Taiwan. In the UK, Sunday league is run by volunteers. In Taiwan, it gets expensive fast and the parents have to do a lot of running around. ---
**Author:** ![the\_bear](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/the_bear/32/192391_2.png) [@the\_bear](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/the_bear)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/44 "2024-08-02T06:46:57Z")
Because the infrastructure is missing. It’s mostly foreigners earning a salary coaching. I got at least eight friends doing nothing but coaching. ---
**Author:** ![taiwandude](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@taiwandude](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/taiwandude)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 7:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/45 "2024-08-02T07:41:04Z")
Science & Math ---
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 7:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/46 "2024-08-02T07:48:19Z")
Same reason they are generally superior in music and movies and the arts as musicians South Koreans are not just dedicated They are fanatics ---
**Author:** ![Gmu](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gmu](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Gmu)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/47 "2024-08-02T08:33:51Z")
Taiwanese are very good at sports playing in front of a computer or cellphone.!! ---
**Author:** ![the\_bear](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/the_bear/32/192391_2.png) [@the\_bear](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/the_bear)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/48 "2024-08-02T08:43:47Z")
That was actually the government policy. The DoE told parents and teachers to encourage boys to play computer games and not to play sports. They wanted to produce a generation of engineers. And they did. Greasy maladjusted engineers with no motor skills and no social skills. (Sorry venting, I have to work with the maladjusts on a daily basis. ) ---
**Author:** ![CTaitung](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/ctaitung/32/100105_2.png) [@CTaitung](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/CTaitung)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/49 "2024-08-02T08:45:32Z")
Definitely no social skills ---
**Author:** ![OysterOmelet](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/oysteromelet/32/219695_2.png) [@OysterOmelet](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/OysterOmelet)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/50 "2024-08-02T09:48:02Z")
> [@HenHaoChi](#): > > I think that’s because Taiwan has not produced too many world class brands… so there is nothing to be overly proud of in the tech sphere. Branding is not the most important thing in tech. Taiwan owns technological leadership in the what are the hardest things to make. Although there are strong cultural reasons Taiwan isn’t good at branding, it’s commonly known that God chose Asians to do engineering and white people to do marketing. Samsung’s chief marketing officer, for example, was a white guy for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![OysterOmelet](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/oysteromelet/32/219695_2.png) [@OysterOmelet](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/OysterOmelet)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/51 "2024-08-02T09:50:15Z")
> [@taiwandude](#): > > Science & Math +Cooking competitions +Whisky competitions ---
**Author:** ![HenHaoChi](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/henhaochi/32/237620_2.png) [@HenHaoChi](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/HenHaoChi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 10:07am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/52 "2024-08-02T10:07:18Z")
> [@OysterOmelet](#): > > Branding is not the most important thing in tech. Taiwan owns technological leadership in the what are the hardest things to make. > > Although there are strong cultural reasons Taiwan isn’t good at branding, it’s commonly known that God chose Asians to do engineering and white people to do marketing. > > Samsung’s chief marketing officer, for example, was a white guy for a long time. Definitely a lot of truth here. It might be infuriating for them to be sitting there, putting components together… and then some smooth-butter white guy comes along, stamps a logo on the box and 5x’s the price. That must drive them mad, haha. I wonder why they are not so good at branding? Maybe because honing a brand requires 100s of “No, that won’t work” conversations, and it takes them too long? European-Asian partnerships can work well if everyone sticks to what they’re good at. I noticed that we have a lot of respect for their craftsmanship, hard work, local wisdom, etc. But they seem to more grudging about our skills, which they see as black magic and demagoguery… They flounder in the marketplace cos they go ahead and make these cheeseball adverts that any 16 year old marketing student would laugh at. No attention paid to lighting, sound, script, originality. There was a big example in Korea a few years back, I can’t remember exactly what… ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/53 "2024-08-02T16:05:28Z")
> [@BigDave](#): > > > [@Taiwan202077](#): > > > > Besides Taiwan is not that well developed in terms of sport venues > > Are you joking? There are sports tracks everywhere. There are basketball courts everywhere. There are swimming pools everywhere. For reals. Literally no one even fails swimming class! ---
**Author:** ![OysterOmelet](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/oysteromelet/32/219695_2.png) [@OysterOmelet](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/OysterOmelet)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/54 "2024-08-02T20:05:19Z")
> [@marasan](#): > > > [@OysterOmelet](#): > > > > > [@Andrew0409](#): > > > > > > There’s more focus on sports accomplishments for children. > > > > > > Rich families in Taiwan don’t value sports accomplishments for kids like Koreans. I would say it’s the poorer places in Taiwan like the south where baseball thrives with less money. Rich Koreans will pay a lot for their kids to be good at sports. > > > > > > Sports is not just talent. It’s development and development takes time and often money these days. > > > > Little league teams in Taiwan are always strapped for funding. See it in the news every year, short on cash to travel. > > Yes, and then after elementary school, the money starts to disappear. I’ve seen this in the news too. My wife’s nephew recently got drafted to a pro baseball team in Taiwan. I should ask him about this the next time I see him. Sports are important to aboriginals, that’s for sure. Almost half of all pro baseball players are aboriginal now. ---
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/55 "2024-08-03T17:54:01Z")
Lol ---
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/56 "2024-08-03T17:54:50Z")
They are not in front of computer screens all the time probably ---
**Author:** ![DKaoshuing](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dkaoshuing/32/127142_2.png) [@DKaoshuing](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/DKaoshuing)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 10:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/57 "2024-08-04T10:14:56Z")
> [@Dr\_Milker](#): > > > [@chenshijie2015](#): > > > > Why do Taiwanese athletes perform far worse than South Korea in the Olympics? > > It’s the probiotics and chili pepper in all the kimchi the Koreans eat. so was checking, saw small Jamaica has more points than Taiwan, now i know its the peppers. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Milker](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dr_milker/32/181996_2.png) [@Dr\_Milker](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Dr_Milker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/58 "2024-08-04T10:42:12Z")
> [@DKaoshuing](#): > > i know its the peppers Jerk chicken! ---
**Author:** ![OysterOmelet](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/oysteromelet/32/219695_2.png) [@OysterOmelet](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/OysterOmelet)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/59 "2024-08-15T07:37:11Z")
Baseball is one sport Taiwan takes seriously. The number of high school kids who can clock 94mph and higher is way up. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pvWesuapUkU/maxresdefault.jpg "那些棒球教會我的事！國科會主委吳誠文要帶領台灣重返榮耀　國科會力推「晶創臺灣方案」　立基台灣半導體優勢　打造在地供應鏈｜對話新部長 #鏡新聞") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvWesuapUkU) ---
**Author:** ![DKaoshuing](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dkaoshuing/32/127142_2.png) [@DKaoshuing](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/DKaoshuing)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765/60 "2024-08-15T08:06:23Z")
> [@OysterOmelet](#): > > Baseball is one sport Taiwan takes seriously. Wrong. What city do see many people playing baseball? Taiwanese, and younger ones at that play other sports takes seriously like basketball and football and others… I get lots chat from Taiwanese mates about football in Japan (and Korean football stars in euro leauges) I like to play baseball, and it’s getting harder in Taiwan to find people to play…, younger people like whole lot other sports. [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765.md?page=2) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/south-korea-why-is-south-korea-better-than-taiwan-in-the-summer-olympics/242765.md?page=4)