Thursday, August 19, 2010

Preorders for the iPhone 4 in South Korea were so overwhelming Wednesday that they brought down the servers of carrier KT Corp., which sold 130,000 handsets by 7 p.m. local time. Interestingly enough, this article indicates that Koreans due to their cultural upbringing don't really like to blab:


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/culture-and-genetics/
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2 comments:

Vincent said...

There is a section of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers dedicated to Korean Airline pilots and culture as a cause of poor communication which lead to their having a high accident rate. It inadvertently speaks to how each culture manages "authority."

7:14 AM, August 20, 2010
my love said...

Vincent, read it ...interesting stuff.

8:55 PM, November 01, 2010

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