. You sound like those really old Vietnamese “researcher” who is out of touch with reality and have your own unfounded theory that would never be accepted by renowned international publisher. First of all, you do realize that if people, no matter where they are from, are going to excel in higher level research, they would usually need to have a good grasp of the English language, whether its in the hard science like engineering or soft science like politics, finance, etc? Thats because at the higher research level, they all need to interact with their peers, be familiar with the literature and research that has already being published. And most of those are published in English. And depending on the field, some researchers would also need to learn additional languages like German and French if the significant amount of the publications done in their field are published in those language. So reading you saying that learning English is bad make me see your theory is garbage.
Your theory sounds
And you are wrong, many scholars in Japan, South Korea and China do have a working knowledge of the English language or other important languages (out of all asian countries, SK parents probably pressure their kids to learn English the most). This is in big contrast to Vietnam where most old useless researchers cannot read English and therefore are not up to date with the contemporary and cutting edge research (excuse me @JaiMin, Im not talking about your old man, I can tell he is a good researcher since he is supporting nghiencuuquocte and want be up to date with contemporary foreign publications).
Anyway, I didn’t want to be harsh on you AViet. But seeing you mentioned that you have published 10 years ago about your theory makes me think that you are one of those old Vietnamese researchers who is out of touch with reality and is dragging down Vietnamese higher education with your unfounded theory and conservatism. I have already discussed this with another Vietnamese member and showed our disdain for these kind of “researchers” or “ professors”.
Are u for real? u should read history of Korea during 20th centuary and Asia that time in particular, if not the world. After Japan and Korea treaty in 1910, Korea is official annexed by Japan, but unlike Western colonialist (except mb Britain-only certain place), they basically suck up everything in colonialised countries and make local working in slave like condition, only certain amount of people in colonialised countries whose those colonialist see can co-operate and show loyalty to them can have education and have some right. Most infrastructure was build only for sole purpose of sucking all the resources and transport back to colonialist countries, which make output of colonialised countries basically very low. But it is not the case of Korea under Japan rule, from 1910 to 1945, economic output of Korea increased by ten to fifteen fold, see the chart: (or search economic production or output of Korea under Japanese rule chart)
Following the annexed, The public education for most of the period was taught by Korean educators under a hybrid system focused on assimilating Koreans into the Japanese empire while emphasizing Korean cultural education. It is basically the method of assimilate Korean into Japanese Imperial Empire. However, One point of view is that, although the Japanese education system in Korea was detrimental towards the colony's cultural identity, its introduction of public education as universal was a step in the right direction to improve Korea's human capital. Towards the end of Japanese rule, Korea saw elementary school attendance at 38 percent. Children of elite families were able to advance to higher education, while others were able to attend technical schools, allowing for "the emergence of a small but important class of well-educated white collar and technical workers... who possessed skills required to run a modern industrial economy." The Japanese education system ultimately produced hundreds of thousands of educated South Koreans who later became "the core of the postwar political and economic elite.
In Korea public school under Japan rule, it is teaching basically in Hanja-Korea script, not Japanese. For faster assimilate by rewrite history in school book ofc and make normal people seen no discriminate
About. North Korea, under Japan rule, most of the infrastructure project in Korea was build there because of rich potential resource, human capital mostly concentrate there,.... And many more reason. About 68% project go fot North Korea and 32% for South Korea i think. Japanese even build a big dam in North Korea that they still use today, much bigger than many Dam operate in our country
In Cold war era, Soviet also help them bulding Pyongyang with much infrastructure and industry, same for Eastern Europe (a lot of left over Soviet infrastructure there, especially in East Berlin, there are street name in Russia-Panlov alli,... and Karl Marx alli-very beautiful street, many more u can find in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary. Indeed volume of trade of North Korea with Soviet account 65% of their total trade, not counting annual 30 doctor, physician and scientist,... send to North Korea anually to help them building industry, particularly heavy industry. Until 1980's, North Korea still in many way better than South Korea, it is after Soviet collaspe and Soviet-Sino split, they suffer and got surpass by South Korea in 1980-1990
So your comparison of North Korea with Egypt and Philippine is completely irrelevant, they are not start at the same point.
Philippine under America rule before 20th centuary not exactly nice and help them i will say. The slogan "kill everyone under 18 is quite famous"
Also u know America like to make Allies with whoever benefit them, if no longer benefit or cost to maintain too high, then they will abandoned them like South Vietnam. There are many different group of US allies, only few of them regarded as core interest of US need to protect
True North Korea was indeed better than many developing countries, they are regard as middle power before the Soviet collapse, they even better off than South Koreain many aspect until late 1980's
But their consumer product and light industry is very bad. They mostly focused on heavy industry, and most revenue spend on defence i doubt standard of living for ordinary there as good.As i state 65% trade volume of N.Korea is with Soviet, i don't know why they support China during split and got suffer afterward. Not to mention the isolatation
See the balance of trade near Soviet collaspe
Figure North Korea’s Foreign Trade
north korea is basically a stagnant economy now after flat growth and negative growth over decades, not to mention their debt owned to Russia who are already written off many for them and no interest rate but still huge amount
Actuallt no, a person with insecure complex will alway feel insecure no matter what is the environment, you just point one minor sided of it, what about it create an motivation and aim for the employees to excel to become more like their boss? Family and growth up environment play more major role in shaping their character and complex.
About your second point, they all first let's MNCs set up business in their countries and learn experience from them, at the same time acquire skill, know how and management skill. And lastly excel themselve. In a market, there are many different demand and not all products require strict ISO. Most customers want to buy cheap with acceptable quality. ISO process require a lot of money, it can increase cost and made product more expensive.
About your third point, a lot of students from those countries study foreign language and studying oversea when their countries is developing, still now many study foreign languages, make them inferior? Really? You know President Ho Chi Minh right, he can speak fluent 16 languages, what do you think of his ability and competent? Lee Kwan Yew even don't speak fluent Maderin, at home his family speak English most the time. Again it is all up to family, growth up environment and education
Agree with you for the first point, most research pdf are publish in english along with origin language
I disagree with you for second, China is prob the country where people willing to study English most and parent pressure their children to do so also. South Korea also yeah, a lot of them go to South East Asia countries like Philippine, Singapore, Malaysia,... To study English, but in number can't match China. See these article:
China Moves to Protect Its Language From English - Businessweek
(@mike2000 is back you may interested in the article)
My father is no more working as researcher and his English language fluency is alright only, he was only study since he got invite to work in Kuwait. He mostly done research in French and Russian since he was gaining degree in those two countries before. Alot of our researcher are fluence in Russian and lesser extent French really, but you know they got overwhelming by those "corrupt" researcher or professor. Many young generation researcher now fluences in English so it is a good sign, more people access to quality work, the better the knowledgr and education of the mass
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