However, I would like to see that Taiwan and South Korea have more relationships with God and Jesus Christ, and they will be prosperious in all their ways.

God Bless Japan and Taiwan :).

Happy pre-Valentine Day :).

Talking to my buddies who have been to Taipei and Tokyo as well as Seoul (and linking them with my casual observations in Koreatown, Monterey Park and Torrance here in Southern California), the concensus that I’ve gathered in the female “hottness” department is that Korea generally has a higher mean and a greater standard deviation, meaning that Korean women are not only generally hotter but there are also more of them…

That being said, the hottest girl I’ve seen in my life, regardless of race or whether or not I’ve seen her from two dimensions or three is a 5-8, C-Cup Cantonese girl I met in college.

It’s not normal, for example, to charge a minimum of $1000 ($700+$300 bribe) for an emissions test on foreign car imports. This test is rarely passed the first time, so an emissions test which would cost $19 in the US would end up costing $2-3000 in Korea.

Korea’s protectionism seems to extend to people as well. In what other country would random strangers glare at you if you were seen simply talking to a native of the opposite sex? This doesn’t really surprise me, after all it is Korea, not Taiwan, that has been known historically as the “hermit country.”

Although off-topic, the CIA and IMF figures I checked for 2006 had Taiwan at about $30K and South Korea at $25K. (I would think, though, that Korea’s higher trade barriers and high food prices would diminish comparative per capita GDP when calculated by PPP.)

Slim, those CIA stats were already calculated in PPP. In actual per capita income GNI, S.Korea surpassed Taiwan in 2004, and the gap has been increased since to $3000. This is mostly due to the fact that the Korean won gained rapid strength, while Taiwan dollar became weaker.

I’ve lived in Taiwan for over a year now, and I’ve never had anyone treat me with anything but kindness. It’s not paradise, of course. There are lots of things I complain about in Taiwan, but it’s never anything to do with an ill-spirited, condescending Taiwanese person.

As was mentioned, S. Korea is much talked about in Taiwan and oft-used as a comparison when talking about the economy, but that really has very little to do with the people treat foreigners.

Also, I beg to differ about the girls. I saw much fewer attractive girls in Korea.

Robert
The Only Redhead in Taiwan

Korea has way hotter women than Taiwan — plastic surgery or not, I’d say.