10 things South Korea does better than anywhere else
Pinned this summary up from CNN.com
- Wired culture
- Whipping out the plastic
It's technically illegal
for any merchant in the country to refuse credit cards, no matter how low the
price, and all cabs have credit card machines.
All that flying plastic
makes Seoul one
of our top shopping cities in the world.
3. Workaholics
According to 2012 data from South Korea's
Ministry of Strategy and Finance, South Koreans work 44.6 hours per week,
compared with the OECD average of 32.8.
- Business boozing
The South Korean distilled rice
liquor manufacturer outsold Smirnoff vodka, which came in second by 37.48
million cases.
- Innovative cosmetics
When it comes to makeup and
cosmetics, South Koreans can't stop experimenting with ingredients or methods
of application
- Female golfers
The top 100
female golfers in the world, 38 are Korean. Of the top 10, four are Korean.
- Starcraft
Since the game launched in
1998, nearly half of all games have been sold in South Korea, where boys, girls, men
and women drop by for a night of gaming in giant video game parlors.
- Flight attendants
Flight attendants from airlines around
the world come to Korean airlines' training centers to learn proper airborne
charm.
Ask anyone who's ever
flown a Korean airline and dare them to say the service isn't the best they've
ever had.
- Blind dates
Of the top four matchmaking
companies in Korea
(there are 2,500 companies in the country), Duo has a 63.2% marketshare.
- Plastic surgery
Whether it's a lantern jaw,
wide forehead or long teeth, there's no feature doctors can't beautify in the
Asian capital for cosmetic surgery.
..
"An average -- not
excellent -- face-lift in the United States
will set you back about $10,000," Seoul National
University Hospital
plastic surgeon Kwon S. taik told CNN. "But in Korea you can get the same service
for $2,000 or $3,000."
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