Visions of the Future in Korea

Korea likes to present itself as a technological nirvana to the outside world, and things like phones you can watch TV on the subway with or really fast downloading of porn are certainly all well and good, but anyone spending more than a week can tell you that Korea still has a lot of unglamorous but simple bread and butter issues to deal with that won’t get mentioned on CNN any time soon. Having said that, there is enough of a cyberpunk, Blade Runneresque feel to Korea that it more than adequately qualifies as a fantasy of the future.