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[Real Reality]

Korea lags on labor, education
Among the 60 countries ranked by the International Institute for Management Development in 2004, South Korea ranked 35th overall. South Korea's labor relations ranked at the bottom of the total 60 nations; quality of college education ranked 59th.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200405/06/200405060013383039900090409041.html

Here are some of the rankings from the World Competitiveness Yearbook.
== OVERALL RANKINGS ==
1. USA
2. SINGAPORE
3. CANADA
4. AUSTRALIA
5. ICELAND
10. IRELAND
15. NETHERLANDS
20. BAVARIA
25. BELGIUM
30. FRANCE
35. KOREA
40. SLOVAK REPUBLIC
45. SLOVENIA
50. RUSSIA
Ranking list available for download (format: pdf).
http://www02.imd.ch/documents/wcy/content/ranking.pdf
Do you you need Adobe Reader for reading portable document format (pdf)? Here is the download site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the world's most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation's environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.
= Features 60 national and regional economies
= Includes 323 different criteria, grouped into four Competitiveness Factors
= Hard data are taken from international and regional organizations and private institutes
= Survey data are drawn from the Executive Opinion Survey (4,166 respondents)
= Aggregates data over a 5-year period
= Ensures accuracy through collaboration with 57 Partner Institutes worldwide
= Published without interruption since 1989
http://www02.imd.ch/wcy/

[Zed]

Strange that they would rank national and regional economies together.

[Zed]

I can't seem to find the information on education on that site. where is the list for that?

[Real Reality]

Zed buy the CD or book.
Price (All in Swiss Francs) WCY 2004 with CD-ROM CHF 850.-
until end of May 2004
https://www11.imd.ch/wcy/OrderForm/

[Zed]

I don't need to know that badly.

[Real Reality]

A closely watched annual poll conducted by a Swiss business school finds that South Korea's economic competitiveness showed little sign of improvement last year. The lower-than-expected performance came as Korea ranked near the bottom in many individual categories: 60th place in labor relations, 55th in foreign direct investment and consumer price inflation, 49th in labor force growth and 36th in government efficiency. But the country managed to secure the top spot in broadband subscription and fourth place in credit card issuance.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200405/200405050004.html