They have hotter girls.
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Plasticsurgery what?
Taiwan has fewer people. Is now way more free and comfortable, hus less drove to actually work hard. And still cares about money. Our Olympics is engineering and logistics. We have gotten so lazy, even the prostitution quality level here has gone down due to wanting to sit down and gossip or watch a screen 
Pros and cons.
Yea, they donāt give a damn about sports in Taiwan, except in gyms or something.
American universities dedicate quite a significant portion of their budget to sports, billions of dollars in revenue, etc.
In Taiwan universities itās barely an afterthought.
There are some universities that actually do the sports thing. I have a couple friends from abroad that are actively getting scholarships based on sports here. Itās night and day compared to countries like the USA. But it is certainly a thing here. Honestly, I feel the sports aspect here is more of a marketing campaign for just basic level respect from foreign nations. And I donāt blame them for doing this. Itās not really a push for ego to say we are the best in Roma. More of a push for the recognition we actually deserve as a leader in democracy and as a nation.
A place forgotten gets zero help, that kinda thing.
Thing is, I got zero interest in sports, at least not the popular sports. The only sports I am interested in is possibly archery. If finding basketball courts here is hard enough (yes I know riverside park is full of them), good luck finding an archery range here. I know among westerners sports is what gets them talking.
Iām going to go out on a limb here and assume that this thread is a little bit about the Olympic prowess of the other 23.5 million people in Taiwan as well. Obviously the question as to why you arenāt participating in the Olympics is a very important one and should be a key focus of the discussion, but donāt forget that there are other Taiwanese people too. 
There are some serious older guys and gals in Taiwan who cycle, run ultramarathons, compete in triathlons, etc.
A guy I know did the extreme triathlons in Norway and Scotland a few years ago (first in Taiwan), there was that seriously good ultramarathoner about 7-8 years ago, a girl who swam the English channel last month (another first for Taiwan), a friend who broke 10 hours in the Ironman distance triathlon a few years back, and many cyclists get very good here on the mountains. These people are doing these things on their own time and using their own money.
The Taiwan government needs to support sports more, and the society needs to place more importance on sports beyond elementary school years. Then maybe Taiwan could do better on the international stage.
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One of the gold medal badminton players is retiring because he has a job offer. If he were getting more financial support, would he be going for a third gold medal? He is only 30.
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Thatās what I mean, the government is only willing to support the olympics only as far as letting people know Taiwan exists, but no more. Society here in general donāt care about sports, itās barely an afterthought. Sure thereās plenty of people, for one reason or another really loves sports, but theyāre all doing it with their own resources, and it means those who donāt have the resource to do it, donāt.
Do you really think any average Taiwanese making around 30,000 a month can afford to take sports seriously at all, when sponsorship simply do not exist? Sponsorship is the only way for non rich people to take sports seriously, or their parents helping (which in Taiwan is highly unlikely, not for sports).
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I know plastic surgery is huge in S. Korea but I donāt see any conclusive evidence in that particular girl. Iāve seen quite a few Asian girls with natural boobs of that type.
In general, Korean women seem to take more care for their appearance. Chinese tend towards chabuduo-ism in regards to fashion as they do everything else.
I agree with you for the most part, but there are stories of people making it by themselves. Quincy Hall, the 400m gold medal winner.
There was no cafeteria, no free housing. He had two jobs and paid for school on his own dime.
āEverything you do,ā Hall said, āyou have to do it yourself.ā
But Iām sure it helps to have good runners all around you, good competitions to attend, etc. But I like stories like Quincy Hallās.
She is mixed (Dad of German and Dutch descent, Korean mum). Also, she started out very young in the K-Pop industry and looked pretty much the same, so I doubt she had any major surgery. (Her name is Jeon Somi if you want to look her up)
According to Wiki, Taiwan offers the 3rd most in the world for gold medals, something in the equivalent of USD 720,000. That does not even include the money each county gives medalists from there. How much do you think it cost the government to send those fighter jets to spunk flares over the Eva airliner carrying some Olympic athletes? Just imagine what that money could do if invested in youth sports programs. As Iām sure all parents are aware, there are zero free resources for kidsā sports in Taiwan, and even after-school programs cost money. If you want to win medals at the Olympics, you need to find and train talent. Doing this costs money that the government would rather spend on meaningless gestures than actually identifying and solving the problem. So, to use a sports idiom, thatās par for the course in Taiwan.
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Chabuduoism is perfect for most things in the modern world.
Japan canāt compete in anything computer-related because things move too fast and theyāre too deliberate, conservative, and perfectionist. Thatās why theyāve been weak for a generation.
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They might make a ministry-level sports governing body.
Korea has one (sports+culture)
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After every fukking summer Olympics, Taiwanās president, no matter which party, seeks āadviceā to advance sports domesticatally. It works for about 1 week, and then put in a corner cabinet along with all the other meeting minutes on same subject in the past. Nothing changes, just remains the same.
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I dispute this one. Have you heard Kpop? It is irredeemable trash. Popular yes, good, NO.
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For their idols possibly.
Iāve yet to go to Korea so i canāt really speak. Based on my classmates, only one was a hotty. The rest were not close.
Corruption in sports, unless gambling, equals very little value compared to all the other government subsidies provided.
Is corruption in sports really bad in Taiwan?