What year is it.....?.

I thought Korean’s were up to date with all the latest electronic gadgetry?
Everyone fights to get the latest must-have wizzbang product with all the bells a whistles on. Step onto a train on the subway, and you will find people partaking of the national sport of a) sleeping, b) watching DMB TV on their gadget, c)texting on the latest I-Pone or Korean clone version.

There is one industry which refuses to follow suit – this is the national car makers of Korea, such as Kia, Hyundai, or Ssang-yong. I got into a brand new taxi the other day, smelling of that lovely new car smell, along with fake leather vinyl seat covers and noted something strange. It had a glove box full of cassette tapes. I looked at the head unit in the dash, and saw it only had a cassette slot! Where was the CD player? The head unit looked like it was out of place, and belonged in a 1980’s ford escort, not in a latest model 2010 Sonata. What was going on? I know car prices are much cheaper than the equivalent European prices, but a steam driven radio cassette player? Come on! Get with the technology, we need to see MP3’s USB slots, Power sockets. Not this rubbish!