I have an issue with YOU. I have read the discussions between you and lakshmix and your prejudices are appalling in this globalizing 21st century. I have read all the references carefully. They are statistics from the OECD, Goldman Sachs, IMF, Britannica, NSO...etc. Plus, I am not Korean. Yet I think S Korea is a very historic and cultured country, not at all like Western countries. You are making inappropriate assumptions again here.