@kentwillard I don’t know enough to comment really intelligently, but there is definitely a lot about South Korea that is very weird. The brutal working hours, the desperate tutors and study-til-midnight grade school competitiveness, a divide/culture-war over gender roles and collapse of total fertility that puts our circus to shame.

Yet their food is amazing, they produce remarkable popular culture, they managed COVID beautifully.

I’d love to spend time there to make sense of it all.