Monday, December 03, 2012  The scramble  A perceptive
observation by Kevin Kim:   Kevin Kim said...  A honor to be
quoted by a respectable blog. Many thanks.  I agree: we have our
share of procrastinators in the West, and I suppose an argument
could be made that, on the whole, Western culture is sliding
more toward the "procrastinator" end of the spectrum as we lose
our post-World War II can-do spirit. But I still think the
cultural non-linearity is more visible in Korea than in the
countries bordering the North Atlantic: Koreans often have a
hard time giving straight "yes" or "no" answers, and are often
masters of finding the most indirect route of accomplishing a
project. And I've never seen a Korean either walk or drive a
perfectly straight line.  If there's an aspect of Western
culture that parallels Korean culture, it's the theater: theater
folks in the West are some of the zigzaggiest people on the
planet. It's a miracle that they manage to get anything done,
what with all the interpersonal drama, the b