Tagged South Korea

Standardize “South Korea” before “Korean”

There is a tidbit racist commentary on the history of unicode, called “Korean mess”. It is completely unrelated to the topic on hand, and frankly I do not wish to comment on the subject as most op-eds I’ve read ended up in a blazing hellfire for most. To give some tastes of what is at…

Electrophobia Fueled EV-Phobia in South Korea

An EV in South Korea caught fire out of the blue; the car was parked and it was not charging. It burned down 140+ vehicles parked on the same underground parking and damaged the water main and power lines for the building. The reports so far fortunately said there were no injuries, and residents were…

How America Grades Samsung on Pass or Fail

Calling out on Galaxy Fold debacle as “graded on a curve” apparently was an understatement. It is time to face the ugly truth. Samsung already has a bad track record, and none of the reviewers had gull to question the product in their hand. These pre-launch reviews that had been published prior to the issue…

“Colonial Boomerang” Can’t be Worse Choice of Word

ORIGINALLY ON NYT, SEOUL’S COLONIAL BOOMERANG The issue of comfort women is devastating. Let’s leave it there. Because there hasn’t been a single article that dealt the issue with a proper perspective it deserves. It was Americans who decided to give Japan a slack in American military court, not Asians nor Europeans, both the victims of…