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I will bring this up the next time, someone laments about the lack of digitalization compared to other nations.

• maeil 4y ago
  Not a great example since this really is purely a Korean thing not seen elsewhere. Afaik Brazil had similar issues for very long but they've finally been fixed in the last few years (maybe a Brazil-based user can chime in).
• goranmoomin 4y ago
  Honesty (from what I’ve heard) AFAIK the South Korean society itself is much more digitized than other first-world countries. It’s just that… digitalization happened a bit too fast with a bit too much legacy. One can request a passport and receive it the next day from a machine without ever seeing a real person for more than 5 seconds… if you can tolerate installing these strange anti-keylogger programs.
  • nwiswell 4y ago
    > One can request a passport and receive it the next day from a machine without ever seeing a real person for more than 5 seconds… This seems more like properly functioning government than advanced digitalization. I have no idea what takes the US State Department 6 weeks. In fact, I'd guess the internal processes to issue a single passport are quite fast and that there would be no issue with achieving turnaround less than a week. The issue seems to be that the US Government regards any government function that takes less than a week to be "wasteful" or "overfunded" and reduces resources accordingly. Slowest wheel gets the grease, so to speak. It doesn't pay to be fast -- literally.