Korea jumped up three places in this year’s national competitiveness rankings by the International Institute for Management Development [Chosun Ilbo, English].
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Korea jumped up three places in this year’s national competitiveness rankings by the International Institute for Management Development [Chosun Ilbo, English].
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Well…I’m not sure I would call 3 places a “jump”. China went from 27th to 15th in 5 years, India from 42nd to 27th. Those are jumps. I would think that Korea might be a little embarrassed to be ranked now as LESS competitive than these two countries.
While Korea, perhaps ‘inched’ or ‘edged’ its way up overall, it stayed 10th in Asia, where it has been for years, ahead only of Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. Perspective.
Studies based on perspectives like this are what they are, perspectives - they are opinions of the people who are doing the rankings. Korean media is so extremely unhealthily obsessive about international rankings.
@cm: are you saying that based on this news article alone or what you’ve observed in general? Because I’ve seen hardly any major media coverage on this topic at all. Sounds hardly “obsessive”.
I noticed a report on the same in the JoongAng Ilbo, entitled “Science surges forward but technology suffers”, however it seems the more negative “suffers” part was excised from the article. I am seeing a more aggressively selective editing throughout all South Korean media on issues that could be (are) critical of conditions in Korea.
Not that one wants to look for dirt but the lack of objective criticism in media (as in America right now) is a unhealthy thing.