Korean culture is changing more rapidly than any other country on the planet. They’ve industrialized and modernized so quickly since the Korean War cease-fire in 1953. However, regardless of the advances in technology, education, and the like, the people are still decades behind in their thinking. The modernization has left a huge gap in mentality which may not be filled for many years.
New technology such as computers, televisions, and the internet have become part of day-to-living for most people here, however they were given (or replicated) these things without learning the proper ways to take care of them. When she can’t figure out how to fix the computers, she turns off the entire school’s electricity at the breaker. She usually doesn’t warn anyone that we are about to be plunged into darkness, and she doesn’t turn off any of the machines that are running. I cringe in pain on behalf of the computers when this happens, who I’m sure would scream if they could.
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