I happened to come across a Korean Blog today. It is a blog of an exchange student, which I quite enjoyed reading. Korea is a place that has fascinated me. Next to Vietnam, the people of Korea are the most hard working people on earth, and the Americans know that as they have taken over South Korea, and the North Korean area is communist. The life in South Korea is luxurious, while it is not so really in the north, as it is run by a dictator, and the punishments are quite severe if you let out a loose word against the dictator, and the whole of your family including your parents, spouse, kids, cousins, brothers, sisters, and their spouses and children, and any one at all in your family circle will be sent to jail. And the conditions at the jail are not quite good. People have to live on mice there.

Or so says Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel. Well, we never know for sure. Journalists always give out their points of view, which need not be true. Everyone would have their own view, and TV channels would make programs in a way that would make them the most money from advertisments and give them a good viewership. If you want the facts, you should be reading an induvidual’s blog like this, and he will give you the real picture of Korea.

South Korea is a good place. Quite a famous place for all sorts of hardware and electronics stuff, and it is quite popular for several other Industries as well. Thanks to the Americans who supported them during the Korean War. Life in the North is miserable though. It is a communist country, and the rations are very low, and if someone hears anyone complaining about the dictatorship or the rations, the person along with hsi entire family which would include everyone he is related to would go straight to jail, and at jail, life is horrible. One who enters the jail in North Korea very rarely makes it out, and there is almost no food that is provided in the jails. The dictator of North Korea however has a very good collection of sports cars and stuff, but all these things are what American TV channels tells us. North Korea would naturally have a different version.

But to get the real information about Korea, its culture, people and others, I chose to subscribe to a blog of an exchange student, which gives a very clear individual and impartial account on what really goes on in Korea, and why it is really not like what we see on TV.