Victoria
I’d like to begin this post with a sincere apology to anyone I may have insulted tonight by calling South Korea “second world”. I’ve been replaying that moment since I got out of class and could kick myself. In an effort to express how much incredible change the Korean senior citizens had seen in their lifetimes, I somehow decided it was a good idea to regurgitate something a prof had once told me back in my Asian Studies undergrad days about the country not having “proper plumbing” and thus being a “second world country” (not attempting to pass the buck here, as I should have done my due diligence and independently verified this, which I did not.) This was almost 10 years ago, and a quick Google search reveals that this is well and truly untrue, but for some reason, I never reconsidered this “fact” or even word choice until today.
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