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There have been some other articles in this vein about SK. These are all HN headlines: South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax | South Koreans lock themselves
by starpilot 7y ago
There have been some other articles in this vein about SK. These are all HN headlines:
South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax | South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life | The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea | Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers | South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork | South Korean President Impeached (!) | South Korea scrambles to avoid going the way of Japan | South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste | South Korean government to switch to Linux (!) | South Korea's program of higher wages and taxes – so far, it's not working | Harried South Koreans pamper pets instead of having kids
One gets the impression of a neurotic, radically changing country that is trying to course correct with varying levels of success. Other than the overworking and business corruption, which I think are exceptionally bad in the country, most of these do seem like issues that other developed nations will face (or are facing) in the near future.
- elamje 7y agoMaybe SK is tackling these issues head on, but from my experience international news tend to always come with a <country> tag in the title, whereas local news comes with a <state or city> tag more accurately. It might be that some countries are doing federal level moves, but I have a feeling we get a foreigner perception bias as news we see from those countries get the country name appended to the title, even if it is a more local or regional phenomena. In the US for instance there might be similar things to the above, but it would read: New York considers cryptocurrency tax | Californians lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life | The Suicides in Denver, and the Suicide of Denver But when it comes from a foreign news source, it might contain the country name in the title, rather! Again, not sure about SK here, but I’ve been curious how much our perceptions are biased by foreign news reaching us in a way that makes the reader think the entire country is doing something great, or terrible.
- thiago_fm 7y agoIf you are reading this from "international" news in English, I'm sorry to say that, but you're being brainwashed and the news rarely correlates to reality.