Comments on: Plane Crashes and Korean Culture

By: Hyeon soo, Kang

Hyeon soo, Kang — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:38:23 +0000

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

By: mstrum

mstrum — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:24:11 +0000

@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.

By: Hyeon soo, Kang

Hyeon soo, Kang — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:23:33 +0000

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

By: mstrum

mstrum — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:27:55 +0000

@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.

By: Hyeon soo, Kang

Hyeon soo, Kang — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:01:53 +0000

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.

By: 박준범

박준범 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:47:07 +0000

its rlly fascinating thx for sharing it with us