Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Matt_22]

korean ingenuity led to the creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning. this scientific breakthrough is a source of great national pride for the korean people. oh wait...

[ChopChaeJoe]

They did clone those wolves though.

[Vicissitude]

[ChopChaeJoe]

I'm pretty sure the Koreans were the first to clone wolves. the aggies, back in Texas, were the first to clone dogs, because they needed sex.

[Cheonmunka]

[komerican]

as I've pointed out in my previous post on this topic, which is a popular one on esl sites, go figure, is that necessity is the mother of invention.

the west benefitted from various factors such as the break up of the Roman empire, a lucky happenstance of history, which allowed for the competitive feudalism that led to early capitalism.

Eastern governments were much more successful in maintaining their huge centralized bureaucracies which dampens inventiveness.

The west also, for centuries during their middle ages, absorbed much of the creativity and inventiveness of the Fertile Crescent and East Asia. A lot of this was reverse engineered and newly labelled as western inventions, go figure.

So the creative spark that created the modern world we live in today was created outside of europe, from the agricuture products to paper, to guns, to the crank shaft, to the domestication of plants and animals, all were imported from outside of europe.

Korea was for much of its history an amazingly stable bureaucratic state, much more stable than chine. If you look at the length of the dynasties you can see that korean dynasties lasted much longer than chinese dynasties. This "success" in stability while good for culture dampens creativity.

korea was by no mean alone in this. China and japan and other countries had strong central governments. In japan, for example, after the portuguese introduced guns to the japanese, japan was the leading producer of quality guns in the world. but after unification of the various warring factions the central bureaucracy decided that guns threated their power and also threatened the existence of the samurai class. so a country that had produced the best guns in world went to outlawing guns completely.

[cbclark4]

[endo]

[willneverteachagain]

my shirt says a korean invented it

[crazy_arcade]

To get into what Koreans recently you would have to delve deep into semi-conductors and nano-technology. They've developed all of the technology that now makes mp3 players, cell phones, and digital cameras so small. They've developed the technology that allows one small device to have a mulititude of functions and not burn the hell out of your hand.

I once had a student who was an engineer for Samsung. He held 24 unique U.S. patents alone.

Anyways, what have you invented?

[Guri Guy]

[wo buxihuan hanguoren]

Well, why do people get in such a knot, saying crap like 'What have you invented?' and 'People invent things, not countries'?

I'll tell you why - it's because of the way Koreans act about such things -
Jesus, I had no idea what my country contributed to the world until I came to Korea and felt bad about having almost nothing to brag about my country next to these chest-pounding fellas that went on and on about how great Korea is, that's why. First thing I did after crying in the toilets after said convos? Run back home and do mad google searches so I could show these rice lovers what's what is what I did.

I suggest you lads being outshined by the Korean water clock to do the same - never let these Asian upstarts try and get the best of us!

[PimpofKorea]

Korea invented the Starcraft Pro-Gamer. They took an outdated 1998 PC Game (designed by Americans of course)...and turned it into a career and way of life...Bravo my anus!!!!

[Guri Guy]

Honestly, I could care less if Koreans have invented anything or not. However if I see something that I think is historically inaccurate or maybe is in dispute I will post on it. It's not because I hate Korea as some trolls have said.
I think Koreans are innovative and have a talent for improving things. Nothing wrong with that. That takes a lot of skill in itself.

Maybe some extreme hyper nationalists in Korea might get pissed off but the average Korean doesn't care either.

I like how they adapted mag lev technology to make their slide phones even smaller. Kudos to the Korean engineers for that.

[Nicco61]