I found an interesting article about how the Korean hierarchical society caused Korean Air to have a horrible record in the 1990′s. Go over to the Wall Street Journal to read it. They have identified the issues and have since fixed them. It’s interesting to see how cultural traits affect different things.
its rlly fascinating thx for sharing it with us
By the way, I came here through the network of SNU on Facebook. I am a SNU undergraduate student(’2013), Computer science & Engineering major. I was just interested about your biography, your passions and espesially “your professional you” wow! how could you accomplish all those things? I can’t believe it. I guess so did SNU’s admission officers.
Back to the point, we have to be careful when judging the word ‘cultural’ compared by ‘cultural generalization from several cases’. Like in the Statistics. Selected several cases can be distorted and would not be appropriate to be used as for either generalization or derivation of a theory.
Anyway, Korea’s hierarchical culture is much stronger than other countries(there are many analyses about this) and seems this has affected that plane crash, obviously(again, the essence of asian culture-especially, confucianism-does not teach us really hierarchical like in this case. It is hierarchical but does not urge the lower class(co-pilot, in this case) not to tell which is right or wrong. It is more like the co-pilot’s own personality has been involved and then the funky variation appeared, I guess). Still, this bad hierarchical culture has been changed gradually since 70′s til now and is also changing so it is interesting to witness this change btw generations and generation.
@Hyeon soo, Kang
Nice! I’ll probably see you in the engineering building or something. Your English is pretty good, did you study abroad? Thanks for your input on the story, it’s true that we must consider many possible variables which may have contributed including individual traits.
Nope. Never been to English-countries. I studied by my self watching fun vids on the ‘College humor’ website. Joke.
Yeah, I think we’ll meet each other in 301 building(Engineering building) or any other places. It’ll be nice. Looking forward to it.
Regards
@Hyeon soo, Kang
Haha, that’s awesome. Have you seen the recent trailer for the Minesweeper movie on College Humor? I literally laughed out loud when I watched that.
Checked it out! It’s great(LOL) and interesting. So, some kind of tiny mine sweepers there inside the windows.
So far(less than a week, actually), my favorites are ‘Jake & Amir’ and ‘All nighter 3′. They are sooo funny! Also very educational:]! Coz I could learn many slangs in “everyday english” with a lot of fun! Man.. I love them! @mstrum