Engrish and Piracy and Adultery

Yay! I finally got published!

And, it looks like ol' Hana Bank (translates to #1 Bank) is competing with China for pirating Microsoft code. In other news: South Korean companies are increasing IT spending this year by about 6%...ya, but it might have been up 26% if they had to actually pay for all of it.

UPDATE: Ha, we had a little gold company come in here for lunch. They have a few holes in the ground in a country called Burkina Faso. I had never heard of it, so I checked the CIA Factbook page on it. It has some pretty funny info in it:

Natural hazards:	recurring droughts
Environment - current issues:	recent droughts and desertification severely affecting agricultural activities, population distribution, and the economy; overgrazing; soil degradation; deforestation
Environment - international agreements:	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
Geography - note:	landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas

Ok, so it has a water problem...but that didn't stop it from signing agreements on Wetlands! Oddly, this landlocked country has even signed, but not ratified, the Law of the Sea...makes sense, I guess. They must be against piracy too.

The liars...I mean promotors...said that it has a stable government but neglected to mention this:

Disputes - international: two villages are in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border regions have become a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire rebels and an asylum for refugees caught in regional fighting; the Ivoirian Government accuses Burkina Faso of supporting Ivoirian rebels.

Hmmmm....I'll pass.

This article (another Economist one here) on adultery in Korea really floored me (you can find my understanding of the law here--it's not as simple as you might think). 75% of Korean men admit to cheating! Basically that means that 110% do it? Right!? Unreal. Why just 15% of women? Well, maybe they don't want to admit it (there are more women who are unfaithful) or maybe those 15% of women are 'servicing' the 75% of men who fool around (if it's a 5:1 ratio that's pretty brutal). All I know is that married women in Korea do walk on the wild side (all from stories from expats, of course).

Maybe they should make it legal (like pot in Amsterdam). People will probably still do it but that 'verboten/forbidden' stigma/excitment will be lessened.