No Uber or Airbnb in South Korea woah!!!!!!!

[TerrexLee]

But the government has been too slow to remove cumbersome regulations for start-ups, wary of upending the country’s economic order or upsetting powerful labor unions, according to interviews with a dozen entrepreneurs, investors and executives.

That has left South Korea surprisingly resistant to disruptive technologies despite its tech-savvy image, they say.

..............South Korean laws would entirely or partially block about 70 percent of the world’s top 100 startups by investment size from bringing their services to the country, according to joint research by Google Campus Seoul and the Asan Nanum Foundation. Those include giants Airbnb, Uber, and China’s Ant Financial.

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[zhihau]

plenty of Airbnb in South Korea, some pretty neat too.

How did the Koreans learn to line up for every thing? A single straight file- from buses to train stations...

 

[Hypocrite-The]

But the government has been too slow to remove cumbersome regulations for start-ups, wary of upending the country’s economic order or upsetting powerful labor unions, according to interviews with a dozen entrepreneurs, investors and executives.

That has left South Korea surprisingly resistant to disruptive technologies despite its tech-savvy image, they say.

..............South Korean laws would entirely or partially block about 70 percent of the world’s top 100 startups by investment size from bringing their services to the country, according to joint research by Google Campus Seoul and the Asan Nanum Foundation. Those include giants Airbnb, Uber, and China’s Ant Financial.

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More like protecting the chebols

 

[congo9]

It just encourage brain drain if government is too protective towards the big corporations.

 

[congo9]

plenty of Airbnb in South Korea, some pretty neat too.

How did the Koreans learn to line up for every thing? A single straight file- from buses to train stations...

Yes,place is good for Airbnb.

 

[syed putra]

How did the Koreans learn to line up for every thing? A single straight file- from buses to train stations...

The japanese taught them to be civilised. The taiwanese have fond memories of japanese rule too. More taiwanese visit japan than china. Taiwanese became worse when nationalist landed there.

 

[KuanTi01]

The japanese taught them to be civilised. The taiwanese have fond memories of japanese rule too. More taiwanese visit japan than china. Taiwanese became worse when nationalist landed there.

Stockholm Syndrome! History will still judge the japs as colonisers, oppressors, murderers rapists and plunderers. Queue so much but still blood on their hands.