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[crazylemongirl]

I don't care where stuff is produced as long as it's of a reasonable quailty for the price I can afford. There's no point in propping up inefficent industries when better use of those people's time could be used on stuff that a particular country is efficent in producing.

For instance there's no point in New Zealand trying to produce cars for a small market when japan is happy for us to buy our second hand products. However Japan doesn't have much room for farming cattle so they'll take New Zealand's primary produce.

Korea is good at producing semi-conductors and cars for good prices but sucks at producing a lot of food cheaply. Why prop up an inefficent industry when the resources of the economy could be directed towards an efficent area or developing new ones?

And just out of interest isn't a tad hypocritcal of a western english teacher in korea to be complaining about globalisation when that very process is critical to giving you employment here in korea? You were freely able to move to a different country to work (the globalisation of labour) and the reason there are so many jobs is because korea wishes to be more comptetitive in the global market place.

[i can do]

Perhaps I lack a discerning palate, but Calrose rice tastes the same to me as Korean rice does. I ate it almost everyday when I lived at home. This issue is not about the taste.

[jinju]

[Dev]

[the_beaver]

*beep* protectionism right up the ass. It would be cheaper for society if the government pays the farmers to grow nothing and to import rice.

It would have been equally stupid to subsidize blacksmiths. Society changes and I think the most a government should do is to pay for training during a transition period (although, if the government hadn't interfered in the first place the transition period would have happened gradually as it did with blacksmiths).

[tzechuk]

Korean rice is BLANDER THAN BLAND!!!!!

Geez... I love going to Hong Kong where my mum buys Thai rice. Crikey, THAT'S REAL RICE!!!!

This thing they call rice here is shit.

[Wangja]

Global trade issues aside, I do agree 100% TZ.

Thai rice, Basmati, any long grain rice ..... but here "Would you like another slice of rice?"

But, if Korean rice is the only rice you have tried then it is the best rice in the world!!

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[coolsage]

Almost all rice is 'bland', with the possible exception of Thai 'fragrant rice'. There was a piece in today's Korea Herald on this topic. Check it out; page 9: "Korean farmers should diversify into horticulture, exports: advisor. Written by a Dutch agricultural expert, and the Dutch clearly know a thing or two about this field. It suggests that if Korean farmers would consider growing other high-value crops such as paprika, eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, and flowers, they could even create an export market with high-population countries like Japan and Korea nearby. That seems like the way to go. Growing rice in this land is a no-win. It remains to be seen whether Korean farmers have enough imagination to make the inevitable change.

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