I've been yearning and praying for months that something like this would happen and tonight, as i was taking my daily walk through the park close to my workplace, it finally happened!
Some older gentleman saw me walking without a mask and instead of staring, checking to see his mask is on tightly or even crossing to the other side of the road...he pulled down his own mask and for the first time in months, breathed God's air!
Very very small in the grand scheme, but after more than a year of disappointments, this was amazing!
I was there doing some field research near the DMZ, on the west coast, in a little fishing village. We worked with some Seoul University students and they got great laughs when I read from a English-Korean translation book. I could have been the greatest American standup comedian in the country just by trying to read phonetic Korean phrases :). I really liked all the Koreans we worked with; most spoke English fairly well. I guess I might not like it too much if I were to ever go back to visit. It's so sad that leftist mentality ruins everything it seeps into, whether a business, a city, a state, or a country.
Our trip to the DMZ was a highlight of our travels. We went to the Korean War museum as well and it was totally empty except for a few guards.
We were blown away at the time (2007) about how fast the internet was in Japan and Korea...when you are able to build infrastructure from the ground up, you can use new tech at the outset. Here were are slowly upgrading systems in use since the 70s. I think most Americans do not realize how big our country is compared to other countries in the world.
Perpetuates false equivalencies when comparing US to Sweden or US to So Korea.
I wonder if the So Koreans have had any luck beating wokism back, Especially since that presidential scandal and billionaire woman cult was found to be pulling the strings....
so Korean president faces calls to quit
Sadly Korea is teetering on the edge of socialism, it already has the right attitude for it. The number 1 issue before this started was Moon Jae-In's successor looking to implement UBI.