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Korea a leader in innovation: OECD
Korea is a "leading country" in innovation, on a par with such advanced countries as the the United States, Japan, Switzerlandand and the Nordic countries according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Feb. 7 report.
By Hwang Si-young, Korea Herald (February 28, 2006)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/02/28/200602280013.asp

[ulsanchris]

RR what are you doing? This article isn't negative about Korea.

[anyway]

Interesting. I don't know how they can say that investment equals innovation, but it does seem that Korea spends a larger percentage of GNP on R&D. Too bad they have to bring in all the scientists from other countries to do it. Otherwise, the Koreans might actually get to take the credit for all that innovatin'.

I have had numerous conversations with my international graduate student friends from several different countries. With no exceptions, they all have the same story. Professors invite them and then screw them over once they get here. Withholding funds, materials, lab access, etc. Uncooperative is an gross understatement. It seems that the Korean professors figure that the longer it take the grad students to finish, the more labor they can squeeze out of them.

I know two Iranians who came to do their doctorates. These guys are really sharp, thoughful, and speak flawless English. After many conversations about their (and the other international students') troubles as well as all the corruption/academic dishonesty that they had experienced in their three years here, they said that they simply could no longer believe that Koreans had the mentality or the discipline to produce high technology research on their own.