Today's article, written by Martin Fackler, illustrates the resilience of South Korea. After watching this video yesterday, I was thinking that (probably obvious) it is not in China's best interest competitively for North and South Korea to unite, or for this humanitarian disaster to be corrected. I am not pointing a finger at the Chinese government however, because, every country behaves similarly.
The apparent reason that I made this assumption was the incredible vitality of Koreans in general.
Speaking of the current financial crisis Naoko Nemoto (81) 3-3593-8720, a banking analyst in Tokyo for Standard and Poor's pointed out that "Korea did a better job of moving quickly to clean up its banking system once and for all."
Moving quickly to rectify problems seems to me the appropriate response to a crisis. The recent pig crisis, another example of getting something done quickly without all of the U.S.'s propensity to argue over political correctness. (Is suffocation by burial any less gruesome then a bullet or having their throats slit?)
In Seattle there are many Korean people and in general I have found living with them pleasant. They are usually highly educated, professional, clean cut, motivated, and a positive, moral community. They have many Christian churches here and attendance is high. There are many other superlatives that I could mention. It is a shame that their North Korean brothers and sisters cannot enjoy the same opportunities. Go to a library in this area after school lets out and weigh the racial demographic of who is studying. Our libraries are full of Korean kids studying hard and working together outside of teacher and parental supervision. Were are all the other kids?
Maybe in this next generation we will see a Korean president, speaker, or supreme court justice. Here is a list Wikipedia provided of all the famous US Koreans.
This video was interesting to me because it shows the high quality standard of living and it has educational value.
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