Originally posted by: tcsenter
Originally posted by: taltamir
20 minutes on a bike? DAMN!
You can live one to ten city blocks from a business district here, too, if that is what you want. But the bigger point is that you can't live further than one to ten blocks from a business district in South Korea, if that is what you want, unless you're wealthy or want to be a farm laborer. They're packed-in like sardines over there. South Korea has 50 million people crammed into an area that is 1/4th the size of California, with an averaged population density over five times higher than California (12th most population-dense state). It is almost exclusively urban metro living.
In Seoul, there is no such thing as downtown or business district becuase the whole city is downtown and business district. Thus, you can't live "further than one to ten blocks from a business district." Rich people live in the core of the city and that's just the way it is. Outside of Seoul, of course, isn't all farm labor sector. There're other cities and the farm labor sector is quite far from Seoul and they're small.
Korea is, in fact, 1/2th size of California but more than 1/3rd of the whole population live in the Grand Seoul area.
Of course, that something like 20 times more of the labor force in these countries are employed in the electronics manufacturing sector probably has something to do with the higher rates of technology adoption there as well. I don't get this guy's major malfunction. I cannot think of a single case where the following statement would not be true if filled appropriately:
You seem to think majority of Koreans are working in the electronic manufacture sector but they're not. Electronic factories are mostly automated. It's not a labour intensive industry. The technology adoption rate is high because of other reasons rather than the reason you guessed.
"More than 85% of the world's [insert product here] is manufactured in or by companies based in [insert country here], where general pricing, selection, and availability of [insert product here] are vastly better than in [insert different country 12,000 miles away here]."
There should be practically nothing manufactured in South Korea, Tawian, or China that is NOT significantly cheaper there than in any country that is 10 days away by ocean freighter, and then has to be distributed throughout a country the size of the US.
When I moved from Michigan to the Central Valley of California, specifically the San Joaquin Valley where so much of the produce is grown that gets shipped to the rest of the country, I couldn't believe how much cheaper produce and other food items were compared to Michigan. The grocery/produce bill here is a full 1/4 ~ 1/2 as much for the exact same cart than you would pay on the other side of the country.
And the really weird thing is, you can actually see the prices on these items increase the further you travel from California. Isn't that totally strange? Gosh, I wonder why that is. I cannot figure it out. I mean, the stuff is freaking grown, harvested, and packaged here, 10 miles from me in every direction. But that shouldn't have anything to do with it being much cheaper here than 3000 miles away. :roll:[
As I said in the beginning, most of electronics that are made in Korea is, in fact, cheaper in U.S. Even cars that are made in Korea are a lot cheaper in U.S although they have to go through the hassle of shipping and import tax issued by U.S. Why do you think that is? I have already told you so.
And, comparing organic products to matrial products in this case is just silly. I'm sure you know why if you think about it one more time. BTW, organic products that are from U.S to Korea is even cheaper than those of Korean's. Can you figure that out?
