At least some of them were not on the correct visas, and it's possible some may have overstayed.
The most egregious violation was that they were using Korean contractors for construction and there is no visa for that.
Also if you are going on a business trip, your company organises your visa for you. You cant really refuse, it's part of your job. So I feel quite sorry for these workers becuase they've been caught in the crossfire.
I happen to know someone well who works for a Korean Conglomerate building industrial/car batteries in the US.
When you do construction work, or operate the production line it has to be done by American Labour.
The visas they have only cover setup, repair and education of the production line.
At that LG/Hyundai factory they were using Korean contractors for construction. So there was some breaking of the terms of the visa for at least some of the people.
However, ICE didn't need to arrest everyone. All they needed to do was send a warning. These companies don't want the trouble, they would comply.
Now you have many Koreans very upset. And people in my friends company are now scared to go to America even though they are management.
It's not good for anyone, it's just so short sighted!
Agreeing with other comments.
I wouldn't take this too seriously.
Judging by the Korean score.
Korea's English proficiency is nowhere near that high. Among university age reading and listening is good. But Koreans even when they 'know' English can't string a sentence together.
(Source: live here)
For some context, you can't live in South Korea and not use Kakao, even your grandma has it.
So the fact that they have so many holes in their security is a cause for concern.
You grandma isn't going to know a fishy link when she sees one, especially with this exploit where domain looks legitimate.
A contributing factor is the hierarchical work culture in Korea. You boss gives you a deadline for a feature which is treated an non-negotiable so you cut corners to get it out. Your boss can't 'see' security vulnerabilities, but can see a UI. So you get told "good job" and then get given the next unachievable deadline.
This all amounts to an app full of security holes, and until Kakao stock drops because of it, they're not going to address it.
Is there anybody here using this now? How does using the FSRS plugin on desktop effect the usage on mobile? I'm curious but don't want to mess up my anki setup.
This is a nice article. I've used Ecto embedded schemas and nimble options separately but never thought to use them together.
Faced with this kind of issue, I'd use Ash with the `Simple` data layer. You can get all the power of an embedded Ecto schema and nimble options together in a single dsl.
If you need to validate with arbitrary logic you can do that with a 'validation'
If you need to transform the input data before you return the struct you can do it in a change set.
Get Korean teacher irl or on italki. At least once or twice a week.Try to speak and listen to much Korean as you can.
Watch Korean kids tv shows on Netflix with Korean & english subtitles (I use language reactor chrome plug in)
Real life Korean conversations for beginners by Talk to me in Korean is good.
When you get to an intermediate level (TOPIK level 3ish) the iyagi podcast is GREAT.
Ive been going through the sejong institute practical Korean textbooks. You can get them for free online. They focus on understanding and expressing youself in spoken Korean. The audio examples emulate Korean speech much more than other Korean textbooks I've used.
The sejong institute also to free Korean online courses with weekly zoom lectures.
How to study Korean, sells anki flashcard decks with audio attached. The lessons are free. They're quite dense but are BRILLANT as a reference to grammar you have forgotten or want to know in more nuance.
Vocab-wise when you do flashcards have two for each direction KOR<->ENG. Learn the words for 3 days before putting them into an Anki deck (e.g. 30 words a day, but every day 10 words 'graduate' to the anki deck)
I find Anki good for keeping words memorised but not learning them. When you are looking at the korean word play the audio, it helps SO much!
Remember Korean is one of the hardest languages for a English native speaker to learn. There are times when you will feel you're making no progress. Then one day you will realise you actually understand what you MIL is saying. Have a sacred time every day where you do some Korean. Ideally at least an hour, anything less you will not improve quickly enough to re-motivate you, or thats at least how it was for me.
Maybe Korea also had blue traffic lights in the past. But they still call green traffic lights 'blue' even though all of them use a green coloured light.
I think the use of blue to mean both blue and green has also been present in Korea for a long time.
I wonder where it came from? In my limited experience if Korea and Japan share something culturally it often has its common derivation in Chineese tradition.
Being from the UK, I feel its a generalisation to say the west is an ask culture. I really feel like there's more of a guess culture outside of close friendship in the UK, especially the higher up the social strata you go.
Also the further south you go the more guess culture it will get. The more north you go people will be more friendly but also tell you what they think. As a general rule of thumb.
In the workplace too, becuase asking is too direct sometimes commands are phrased as soft questions.
"Should this be here?" means
"I have figured out what is wrong and this clearly shouldn't be here, I will not approve your PR until you change this"
This irritates me, but I've only found on extreme ends of the guessing spectrum.
Generally I find guessing culture more preferable. It places the burden of "is it OK to ask this?" on the asker which is as it should be. Otherwise you're putting the burden of saying no on the requestee, and also gives the requestee the task of saying no nicely.
However if your at the table around a strangers house and you feel that you have to wait for the host to offer you ketchup. Well that's just manners gone stupid, thats obviously an OK thing to ask, it's on the flipping table!
I've also got this. It was some kid using ChatGPT to get around parental controls on their xbox. Very different to the Korean grammar question I was asking.
I make pretty heavy use of chat-gpt for language learning it's pretty good. But there's some overhead in tuning the prompting to get what you want, if this could cut down on that I'm interested.
I know this is a new product so it will come eventually, but the mobile experience is really bad, lots of people are gonna want to use this out and about, so it should at least be useable, atm it's not.
Cracking open the window isn't a Korean thing, no. But feeling safe to do it literally anywhere in the country (including deprevated areas) is something you can do in Korea and I'd warn against in the states.
My point is that when the people designing the cars consciously or unconsciously don't think of theft as a concern, their cars might be easier to steal.
So in Korea it's pronounced hyun-dae. But they spelt it 'hyundai' (said hy-un-dai) for western markets to sound more Japanese so their brand was associated with the quality of Toyota and Honda.
It's not surprising that both the cars have the same vulnerability as kia and hyundai are owned by the same parent company.
Its also not unsurprising it was the Korean car manufacturers with these security defects.
In Korea people have 0 converns about their car being stolen. Theft in general is seen as so low a risk that people leave their car windows open a crack in the summer so the car stays ventilated. When the cars are designed by people who live in a society like that, it's not surprising they have a blind spot when it comes to car security.
So I read the article having never heard of this before and then looked it up on YouTube.
Having not watched it the right way round. It does kind of change the narrative.
It kind of felt like society was disassembling itself, regressing which is sad in itself, but it was for a good reason?
Also as an aside it was the clearest look I've seen into what everyday like was like in the 80s having not been alive at the time in a way that hasn't been glossed over like the media we consume.
Shes a gentle soul and there are some very genteel K-Drama that don't include sex, violence, rude jokes or dark themes. Which is quite hard to find in UK and American programmes these days.
In Korean fashion too pretty much all writing is in English too. It's all grammatically correct-ish but it reads unnaturally to a native English speaker.
I live in Korea. In my experience pretty much everyone I know uses banking apps which you can do everything through, not online banking through a browser.
You would hope that these would be somewhat more secure as this may have required a 're-write' as the article suggested.
Though even with mobile apps you sometimes have to install some 3rd party 'anti-virus' software that probably amounts to spyware. But hey you can either lump it or leave it.
They do at least try to make you feel like it's secure. To set up mobile banking you need at least 3 different passwords and need to perform 2fa 3 times as well.
They have 'front end' security too, such as each time you enter a pass code the keyboard is in a different arrangement.