Korea the most high tech country on earth?

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klah

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Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak

Makes North America look medieval :eek:
Well, perhaps not medieval, but definately by a few years.
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Considering their entire country is about 1/2 the size of Florida but with a population of 50million people, that concentration of technology is not very suprising.
 
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manly

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LMAO LG built an "internet fridge" running Win98. We all need one of those. ;)
 
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0roo0roo

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still, its sad usa doesn't work harder to bring cheap fast reliable broadband to the masses:p i mean seriously.. even in densely populated areas we totally %#@ up. i live in silicon valley and my area was not dsl capable until last year. i don't live out on a farm or something good god. no cable access either. and now i get gouged 50+ bux a month for so so speed.
 
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Darein

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I don't think they are more hi tech then the US, they just have more broadband. I bet a lot of the electronics they use are from foreign companies.
 
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yoda291

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I'm not surprised in the least. Think about it. You have a country chock full of people, with little natural resources to draw upon. Korea has no particularly outstanding exports. So, it seems logical to me that it would focus on developing its service based industries and the end result is that people are more educated and can better utilize technology. Furthermore, you have an education system that promotes fierce competition between students who are not geographically spread out. On top of that, you have almost complete globalization of knowledge with the boom of the internet. Anyone who's posted in tech support from Utah, and gotten a solution from a nerd in Jersey knows what I'm talking about here.

In this country, we have the exact opposite situation. We have lots of resources, lots of people, lots of land to cover. There isn't a pressing need to push technology either, as it was in Korea. Taking this into acct, we are also a country that has this terrible tendency to repeatedly hinder technological advance. I could go on for hours about this one thing alone...but suffice it to say, I'm not surprised in the least.
 
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rh71

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Amazing the jealousy some of you show in your answers. If the U.S. were number one, would you be saying the same things about yourselves ?
 
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Booster

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Also, 54% of Koreans play online games.
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These are some pretty embarrasing figures. I mean, fifty four percent of the entire population, including babys and old people? Oh man... When do they find time?
 
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LongCoolMother

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i can also see the immense jealousy. making these excuses...
tsk tsk tsk...

the USA obviously isnt the best in everything, and theres nothing wrong with that...
 
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Cyberian

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, its sad usa doesn't work harder to bring cheap fast reliable broadband to the masses:p i mean seriously.. even in densely populated areas we totally %#@ up. i live in silicon valley and my area was not dsl capable until last year. i don't live out on a farm or something good god. no cable access either. and now i get gouged 50+ bux a month for so so speed.
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Would you like the US government, or US industry to work harder in this respect?

 
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Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, its sad usa doesn't work harder to bring cheap fast reliable broadband to the masses:p i mean seriously.. even in densely populated areas we totally %#@ up. i live in silicon valley and my area was not dsl capable until last year. i don't live out on a farm or something good god. no cable access either. and now i get gouged 50+ bux a month for so so speed.
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Would you like the US government, or US industry to work harder in this respect?
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you choose. the phone company has a monopoly no matter how you cut it. just like the cable systems. these are public/private ventures:p i live two miles from cisco, its sad.

not to mention that up tot he momment i had dsl, i could never connect faster then 26.4, regardless what modem i used. phone company didn't care, they only garrantee 2400baud. hahahahhaah.


ack.
 
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Booster

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Broadband is cool, though. Wish I had such a fast, and at least a few gigabytes per month connection. Sigh. :(

On the other hand, what's so good in spending so much time looking @screens, when life is so short, instead of going out with girls and making money? Too much technology is just as bad as too little of it.
 
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Booster

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Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Two best things about Korea

1) The women.
2) Kalbi. mmmmm:)
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I second the first one. Just think about it, while all the guys are playing online games (maybe even the infamous StarCraft as everyone here says), girls are dying from boredom, alone.
 
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yoda291

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but korean girls play starcraft too!

Originally posted by: Booster
Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Two best things about Korea

1) The women.
2) Kalbi. mmmmm:)
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I second the first one. Just think about it, while all the guys are playing online games (maybe even the infamous StarCraft as everyone here says), girls are dying from boredom, alone.
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