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Are you ready for 2012 and Korea's new address system ?
From July on, people and companies will start using both systems, and eventually everybody will adapt, including navigation systems.
That's great (except for some nice existing street names which will disappear), but you have to take it into account. For instance, I would strongly recommend to use both addresses next time you make name cards.
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Permalink Reply by Brian on -
Looks like it's going to be delayed until 2013.
According to the ministry and the National Assembly’s public administration and security committee, both agreed to delay implementing the new system until Dec. 31, 2013.
“A bill to delay the system is pending in the Assembly,” a ministry official said.
Grand National Party Representative Lee In-ki said the delay is in response to criticism that people could get confused by the new system because the ministry’s Web site explaining it has only been operating for five months. The ministry has also been airing television commercials about the change.
“After discussing the matter with the government several times, we reached a conclusion to delay completely switching to a street-name-based address system for two years,” Lee said.
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Permalink Reply by Lara Tosh on
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So WHY is the address system changing anyway?
In the article referenced by Stephane, the author says it's more "logical" and that it'll "change Korean's lives for the better"
...I disagree.
It's simply based upon a western logic. This isn't any more logical than the current system -in fact, I think that imposing a western addressing system upon a non-western physical layout / city design is the farthest thing from "logical".
Can anyone tell me how this change will enrich Korean citzens lives?
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Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on -
It's definitely a Western import of course, but that, in itself, doesn't make it bad. I think Stephane mentioned the key reason, which is that it will impose a smaller cost burden on the Korean economy. If that's true, then it seems like a persuasive reason to change.
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...I missed that point, thanks Steven ^.~
I don't think that it's inherently bad because it's Western -I do think that it's a miss-match given the way that neighborhoods have been constructed.
Perhaps it will motivate re-development / reconstruction in different (hopefully beneficial) directions?
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Permalink Reply by stephanemot on -
What I don't like in this reform is the oversimplification that goes with it. Changing for a street name / house number system is one thing, renaming all streets at the same time goes too far.
My guess is that in the medium to long term, some streets will be progressively nicknamed and ultimately renamed. Seoul is not Manhattan, the map is not that simple.
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Permalink Reply by Joshua Davies on -
While about Korea-this thread on the 2012 address change reminds me of Derek SIlver's TED talk on addresses in Japan (similar system)- it's a SHORT video and well worth a watch!
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Permalink Reply by Pilar Perez-McKay on -
Yes,
thank you Joshua for sharing this video.
I had seen it when used as reference at a presentation, and thought then it was a very good way of highlighting how it's all a matter of interpretation, either as individuals or as a community/culture. And how it's best not to jump to conclusions before fully understanding the whys and hows of different cultures/traditions... or ways of doing things that are different to what we are used to.... :)
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