If you lived here you wouldn't need to see these lists to know.

So two new rankings came out today and I just had to blog the obvious.

First: Korea Ranks Among Worst in Traffic Fatality Rate

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200806/200806040024.html

Now anyone who has ever been here knows that the driving in Korea is probably the worst outside the 3rd world (at least they have an excuse). Combine a complete lack of consideration for other human beings ("Han" "Juche" "Jung" whatever the hell you wanna call it) with the complete lack of peripheral vision, mix in a little scooter on the sidewalk and students who have never been taught to look both ways before they cross and you have a recipe to reach the bottom of this great list!

Second: Korea Ranks Near Bottom in English Exam

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200806/200806040020.html

This is one is a hat tip to all you teachers out there who go to work everyday and pull your hair out struggling to get the students to say something other than "I'm fine thank you and you?"


Now, why is this a TiK post?

Well being in touch with your inner TiK means 2 things:

1) Loving lists, any lists that rank your country with every other country in the world. Since no one on planet Earth really cares about Korea (except Koreans of course) its important to have lists to explain to your foreign friends how great the country is. If the list is bad you would never mention, but you still need to have a list at least once a day in a major daily!

2) Despite the fact that list offers solutions to the problems (go visit the countries at the top and adopt their policies!!!) Koreans will never adopt those strategies, cause let's face it, the reason we are on the bottom is 'cause the OECD just "doesn't understand Korean culture"!