Taiwan versus South Korea (infrastructure in general, green areas, etc.)

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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I appreciate your posting those nice (and sometimes breathtaking videos).

Taiwan will have what Taiwanese people want.

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I always thought Korea was some open society or something. So I guess both Koreas are restrictive in terms of law and culture… just one of them is friendly with the US.

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You can’t be serious

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Koreans are quite tribalistic.

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Actually i find taiwanese are not willing to push for what they want. They complain about their environment but when push comes to shove, the scooter ride to 7-11 wins out every time.

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Speaks to just how badly they want it, doesn’t it?

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Peculiar thing about Taiwan. They’re OK with people being gay, as long as it’s not their own kid.

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They will only control their own family. They are not interested in being busybodies.

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Also speaks to ‘nobody is going to stop you and there are no consequences for yourself, then why not?’

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Hell ya, I wanna ride my scooter, I ride my scooter.

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We need a Taiwan vs. South Korea technological supremacy thread. Semiconductors, cars, displays, biotech, laptops.

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Taiwan versus South Korea

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I lived and worked in South Korea for 7 years, and Taiwan for 3 years.
I see a similarity between the two, the differences are:

  1. South Korea’s infrastructure is more advanced because they have
    more access to public transit to a point that if you live and work in a
    rural area where you need a car, you can still opt out of driving to
    use trains or busses to get around Korea.
  2. The buildings in Korea look dull because they are always the same
    in their styles, but they are cleaner than the buildings in Taiwan.
  3. Climate: Korea has 4 seasons.
  4. Beaches: Korea has more beaches for you to go to. Taiwan which is
    a tropical island country only has 2 good beaches I can come across.
  5. Koreans drink a lot more often, the fact of the matter is Korea has
    the highest number of drunkards in Asia. (I’ve seen more drunkards in
    Korea than I did on the Indigenous reservation in Canada where I used to
    work).
  6. Taiwanese society is not as rigid compared to Korea. Koreans are more
    die hard on Confucianism.
  7. Women in Taiwan have more rights and self determination than women in
    South Korea.
  8. Taiwan cannot claim to be a racially homogeneous society, because Taiwan’s
    population consists of an Indigenous population which creates more cultural
    diversity in Taiwan.
  9. Taiwanese food tastes better and is more vegetarian friendly than Korea. But
    there is room for improvement.
  10. Taiwan has a lot of Japanese cars on the road. In Korea, Japanese cars are
    extremely rare. 90% of all cars in Korea are Korean.
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Thanks for posting that, I love it. Accuracy is a bit off.

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Thats one way of putting it.

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From what I observed at work, Korean workplaces are quite hardcore and stressful and very seniority based.
They also put too much focus on education from top unis such as Seoul Uni.

Taiwan seems a more laid back working environment by far even if still overly deferential to senior managers.
Korea is a more ‘macho’ culture , worse than Taiwan which is also a bit macho, although no worse than Japan. I used to visit all of them for work regularly.
In Korea women are still expected to act as hosts for after work party, getting everybody drinks doing the shots etc. They look like they may enjoy it too but who knows…The commute in Seoul can be much worse than Taipei I’ve heard.
Koreans are into drinking at bars more than Taiwan . Which I like. :grin:

In Korea the stresses on people are probably a bit more magnified than Taiwan because it is quite dog eat dog and little social support for older people who lost their job.

Overall though the society is really quite similar to Taiwan ! Far more similar than to Japan. Koreans are also very concernbed about Face whereas in Japan it’s already kind of living in a post industrial society and I met coworkers in Japan who had well…Odd hobbies and personalities …and nobody really cared that much . Japanese seem to have realised that it’s not all about money (even if they work very long hours ) whereas Koreans and Taiwanese generally are still mostly about making the big bucks.

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Reason is because Korea hates Japan, full stop. They see Japan as enemies. I bet if you cruise around in Korea with Japanese cars it will likely get keyed or vandalized in some way.

As for Korea being dog eat dog, they eat dogs!!

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Do they still, or is it mostly old people who do?

I know they don’t care about Taiwan.

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Taiwanese people love Japan, seek to emulate them, etc., and older people actually speak japanese. I think it’s because Japan built up infrastructure for Taiwan while they are here.

But I just know Korea doesn’t like Japan, and neither does China.

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That bus fitout really resembles a Taipei bus. He pulled up pretty fast too. :slight_smile: