What kind of a country is South Korea?

[Jack Brown]

Socially Korea is still a third world country. Its economy is booming but social changes are slow. I found Koreans asocial, extremely egoistic and indifferent people. For example Korean drivers don’t yield right of way to ambulances or fire engines, like they don’t care about those sick and dying. Drivers run red lights and they’d rather run over a child than be a little bit later at home. They make constant noise even in the middle of the night, and obviously don't care about neighbours.

Seoul city is a very ugly city which looks like East Berlin in the 60s with its thousands of ugly block of flats. Strangely enough Koreans don’t wash their windows what makes their cities look filthy. And Seoul streets are dirty, especially back streets. And those ugly panels on most of the city’s building.

The underground system is pretty good but people on the tube are being obnoxious – they get on before others get off, they muscle in like rugby players to be first on an empty seats, they yell to their mobile phones, men don’t give up their seats to their women, and they often turn the tube cars into a market, selling things. Koreans drink and smoke a lot and eat smelly kimchi so the underground is really smelly too, especially in the evening.

There’s also an amazing number of love-motels and different kinds of brothels in Korea, where one can buy a woman. I’ve read that amazing number of about 1 million Koreans work for this dirty business. Unbelievable. You can find more on the topic in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitutio...outh_Korea

I’ve also read that Korean men are among the most unfaithful husbands in the world. Even government encourages companies to pay their employees for not going out for prostitutes on holidays.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200...ll_pa.html

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e...98846.html

Koreans are prone to various addictions – they are alcoholics, huge number of Koreans smoke, they beat world records in computer and internet gaming, they cling to their mobile phone like their lives depended on them, there are TV sets literally nearly everywhere in Seoul, they can’t live without Korean soap-operas and infantile TV shows.

There are many foreigners who love Korea but at the same time really a lot of those who can’t stand Korean culture and its people.