Author Topic: Asia's most sinful cities (Read 1821 times)

red · « **on:** May 13, 2011, 10:33:26 am »

South Korea has been ranked the 15th laziest country in the world (and the first in Asia)
I thought they are workaholics

http://ph.travel.yahoo.com/inspirations/279-asias-most-sinful-cities

jh162 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:41:29 am »

The article is identifying gaming with sloth. Obviously the author doesn't realize how many sleepless nights it takes to make a lvl 85 wow character.

Artist Formerly Known as Moderator Jason · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:42:15 am »

People in south korea work long long hours. But when you look at the actual work completed it does not justify the hours worked. That is the typical arguement anyways.

giannispk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:56:14 am »

I think they work very very hard. Have you ever been there after a parade or street event? As soon as the crowd subsides and the police men tell everyone to get on the sidewalk... a large entourage of people with brooms and other cleaning supplies, trucks, vaccuums, hoses etc come and clean the whole street within minutes. In Canada the street looks like crapola for 4-5 days after a festival. Games and drinking shouldn't be the primary criterion.

Damien · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:01:01 am »

They forget to add there are a lot of Americans living in Seoul

PS - I am American and it is a joke, so don't be like "YOU DON'T KNOW ME!"

sweet_potato · « **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:16:40 am »

Quote from: Ectofuego on May 13, 2011, 10:42:15 am

People in south korea work long long hours. But when you look at the actual work completed it does not justify the hours worked. That is the typical arguement anyways.

Yep.

I wouldn't give anyone in my office any credit. Yea, they sit here 8h/day, and come in on every other Saturday - but they teach like 16 classes per week, don't make lesson plans, and spend each day online shopping, eating, yelling and playing board games. It's hilarious how they're all yawning and telling me how tired they are at 5pm!

Very unproductive workers.

GLondonful · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:20:43 am »

Quote from: jh162 on May 13, 2011, 10:41:29 am

The article is identifying gaming with sloth. Obviously the author doesn't realize how many sleepless nights it takes to make a lvl 85 wow character.

I think we Koreans are genetically predisposed to get addicted to computer games.

Sticks · « **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:28:44 am »

Quote from: GLondonful on May 13, 2011, 11:20:43 am

Quote from: jh162 on May 13, 2011, 10:41:29 am
The article is identifying gaming with sloth. Obviously the author doesn't realize how many sleepless nights it takes to make a lvl 85 wow character.

I think we Koreans are genetically predisposed to get addicted to computer games.

I think i've been caught out.

numberonegood · « **Reply #8 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:43:33 am »

Here's the link to the article listing the laziest countries. They use four factors when making their list: calories per day, television viewing, "sports aversion", and internet usage. Unsurprisingly, America and Canada were numbers 1 and 2, respectively.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-17/the-laziest-countries/

Interesting, but hardly very thorough or scientific.

numberonegood · « **Reply #9 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:45:49 am »

Also note, that the article on the laziest countries does not even consider average number of hours worked or "quality" of work done. It only looks at free time.

Incredagogue · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:52:57 am »

Terrible, terrible article.

Seol-ites are lazy because they play online games?
Shenzen is greedy because the likes of Apple, IBM, and Dell contract huge companies to overwork their cheap labor to churn out electronic goods for us to buy?

Thanks Andrew Willis!

scottdk · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2011, 12:15:15 pm »

I like the first sentence to the article, totally proves their point (sarcastic tone)

"When South Koreans are not racking up overtime, they're collecting bandwidth fees"

not worded as: putting in, or just plain working overtime, but RACKING UP . . . yeah laziness right there.

adriansergiusz · « **Reply #12 on:** May 24, 2011, 08:24:59 am »

Sinful? I don't know.... but places like Bangkok I would definitely rank up higher on the "sinful" list.

lorabora · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2011, 02:19:34 pm »

I find yahoo articles totally unreliable. most part time jobs here get underpaid and most places don't even provide benefits.

wesharris6 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2011, 05:28:37 pm »

Seoul is a pretty sinful city, I'd suspect. Sinshi maybe? Where ever you go, in Seoul it'll be a complex of Church / WaBar / Jimjibang.

atmosphere · « **Reply #15 on:** June 08, 2011, 10:28:29 pm »

This definitely isn't a light-hearted article that's intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

ooyum · « **Reply #16 on:** June 22, 2011, 01:36:27 pm »

Quote from: atmosphere on June 08, 2011, 10:28:29 pm

This definitely isn't a light-hearted article that's intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

i see what you did there

calioril · « **Reply #17 on:** June 22, 2011, 01:53:03 pm »

These kids have been learning English from the age of 6+ they should all be fluent, by the time they get to high school.

Wish I had learnt French from that age.

hankmcmasters · « **Reply #18 on:** June 22, 2011, 01:53:57 pm »

i guess we'll all have to do our part to sin enough to make it to #1.

GOD sinning is hard work.

maybe that's why we all look so tired. all that sinning.

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Author Topic: Asia's most sinful cities (Read 1821 times)