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cmxc
Joined: 19 May 2008
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:54 pm Post subject: Korea's cultural recipe for failure |
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TLDR: Korea will never have a CREATIVE ECONOMY (it's just a bullshit pipe-dream)
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| When we examine South Korea's organizational ideology and architecture, it's pretty damning and speaks ill to her potential to transition to a "creative economy." |
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However, as we saw in the Sewol Ferry disaster, "growth at any cost" inevitably does have costs that are difficult to accept. Deification of material goods, putting profits before people's welfare, equating net worth with a person's respectability, and turning a blind eye towards anything that might impede a "fast and faster" philosophy of development are symptoms of the ideology that drives South Korean society today.
What about South Korea's organizational architecture? Well, it's one huge, traditional bureaucracy. From the central government to the corporations to schools, it's defined by the following classic recipe for a bureaucracy: "Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down. Big leaders appoint little leaders. Individuals compete for promotion. Compensation correlates with rank. Tasks are assigned. Rules proscribe actions. Managers assess performance."
This isn't just the organizational architecture. Combined with the governing ideology, this is South Korea's cultural architecture as well. How we are driven to behave affects how we learn to think and feel; and how we think in such cultural architecture is all about command and control since that's what the system is designed to do and rewards those who do it better than others.
South Korea reinforces this culture through the mandatory military training for all her young men ― who will most likely become the future leaders since South Korea ranked 111th in the world's gender gap index ― through which hierarchical bureaucracies are literally instilled at the point of a gun.
By design, such cultural architecture lacks governance, accountability, and transparency since only the top few are allowed to make any decisions of significance as priests of the ideology and keepers of the bureaucracy. And their natural instincts will be to maintain the status quo by using the bureaucracy to force everyone to conform in order to minimize irregularities, which by another name is called innovation and change.
Worse, such architecture is dehumanizing and disempowering, forcing away imaginative and innovative employees from the organization. And without them, who will drive the "creative economy" that will save South Korea from the future? |
Korea's cultural recipe for failure
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2014/11/352_168168.html |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I dunno. Give Korea 50 years to when the population is half of what it is now and we might start to see some innovation. It's either that or the whole place goes down the shitter. |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I dunno. Give Korea 50 years to when the population is half of what it is now and we might start to see some innovation. It's either that or the whole place goes down the shitter. |
Steelrails will still be around to defend it though, and Smithington will have lost all his teeth and be offering gummy BJ's for w10,000 (adjusted for inflation). |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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A bunch of people on the internet that don't innovate or create complaining about other people that don't innovate or create.
GOTCHA! |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Korea's cultural recipe for failure |
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| cmxc wrote: |
| TLDR: Korea will never have a CREATIVE ECONOMY (it's just a bullshit pipe-dream) |
It seems doubtful, but I wouldn't bet the house against Koreans. Countries, including Korea, have a knack to surprise naysayers. Think about it, 30 years ago your parents would have probably laughed until they were out of breath, if you told them Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore would be high-income countries by 2010. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
A bunch of people on the internet that don't innovate or create complaining about other people that don't innovate or create.
GOTCHA! |
I invite you to check out my collection of poorly made indie video games I make under a pseudonym on the side for fun:
http://gamejolt.com/profile/sally/153771/
MONOLITH is a definite highlight. I've made 17 cents through ad-revenue sharing! |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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I invite you to check out my collection of poorly made indie video games I make under a pseudonym on the side for fun:
http://gamejolt.com/profile/sally/153771/
MONOLITH is a definite highlight. I've made 17 cents through ad-revenue sharing! |
'Sally', I always thought there was something very feminine about you.  |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| CMXC why do you have such a hate on for Koreans? Did you get dumped by your Korean girlfriend and your broken heart has led you to dislike all Koreans ever since? |
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cmxc
Joined: 19 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:00 pm Post subject: I bear no ill will toward Koreans |
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In fact, I bear no ill will toward Koreans. In fact the opposite is the case.
I want Koreans to improve.
I want fewer Koreans to kill themselves.
I want fewer Koreans to feel the need to get plastic surgery.
I want fewer Koreans to commit acts of bribery, embezzlement, fraud, breach of trust, corruption, etc.
I want fewer Koreans to commit acts of plagiarism or other academic fraud.
I want fewer Koreans in positions of power to commit wanton acts of sexual harassment.
I want fewer Korean females to become sex workers.
I want fewer Korean students to drown an icy death so some alcoholic ajoshi can live another day drinking his two dollar national liquor (soju).
I want more Koreans to live safer lives.
I hope Korea and its people achieve their dreams and aspirations, but it is clear | |
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