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Originally Posted by noclue
Yeah there’s no more western superiority and not a lot of east asian emigrate to Canada anymore. South Korea sells more Mercedes than Canada and strangely it’s cheaper there too.
Also Korea society is pretty judgmental especially the rich so they just took one look at bic baws not wearing a made to measure tom ford suit with a lange & sohne timepiece and they made up their mind already.
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The amount of wealth in South Korea is insane. I met billionares today, "poors" who wear 500K bracelets, an internationally acclaimed artist (who did a performance that looks like my niece did finger painting) that had a bunch of young women around him decked out in jewelery and shit going like "oooh" "ahhh" "WAAAA" ... its so fucking fake.
I'm staying at the Grand Imperial Mercure Hotel in Gangnam, and only see Hyundai/Kias as Ubers. Mercedes is definitely everywhere - there's almost as many Maybachs as there are ubers here. I've seen one Alphard, one Lexus LM, a few BMWs (usually all diesel - 20d 30ds), but definitely like 5-6 Maybachs per side street, some being used as delivery vehicles. There's more Rolls Royce here than BMWs. I've seen one MC20, two ferraris, 1 lambo, a handful of Bentleys.
I definitely felt like charity today. But I think I did well with the few normal Korean people and have a couple of dates planned for next week.
My experience of Korea this week has been eye opening to the amount of wealth in Asia. Now I know what other people mean by there's no real wealth in Vancouver (compared to Asia). I've been spoiled this week and I definitely don't think I would have experienced this without my connections. On the other hand, I met a billionare yesterday and I got him an arrangement of flowers, and he was genuinely speechless and grateful for the gift. So it's definitely not one size fits all, but seeing first hand true high society.. is fucked up.
Oh for the data center/hardware folks - I toured a facility the other day that had several Linux One's , both the $1M and the $2M ones.