In4ser
Junior Member
Yeah, Koreans may be smart and hardworking people but they're also stubborn and stupidly trying to be perfectionists. It's not practical to compete with China as a small country. It is like a cat comparing itself to a tiger. Sure the cub and kitten start off as small felines but the cat could never realistically compete with a tiger once it's fully grown. Japan seems to have given up trying to match China absolutely and aside from historical and territorial issues has more or less accepted China's economic predominance in Asia.
Yet the Koreans, instead of trying to hone their advantages into a specific field as Taiwan did with semiconductors, they're trying to do everything anything to be like China which dulls their sharpness. S. Koreans are now trying foolishly to build its own military industry with a stealth aircraft, an aircraft carrier, and even a space program with a much smaller population and fewer resources which is causing them to lag behind in other areas where they've traditionally had a lead like cars, shipbuilding, semiconductor. For S. Korea to be comparable to China, they would need each S. Korea to do the work of 20 Chinese persons and they're already suffering from overly high expectations in a society of high levels of stress, anxiety, and debt trying to maintain a delusional image of themselves. Instead of making Korea great, they are slowly committing suicide by grinding their own people into dust with work and expectations for something that is completely impractical.
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