The Korea Times
Here is a question for anyone who has a job: Who is your competitor? In our capitalist system, it’s the people selling rival products or services. For the hairdresser, it’s the other shop down the street. For the auto worker, it’s the foreign auto sales rooms. For the performer, it’s the other show. For the official, it’s the other person or agency competing for votes or budget. Rivalry of this sort is good. It fits the basic fact of life that living, let alone thriving, requires us to grow beyond who we were yesterday. In this sense we compete with ourselves. Meeting challenges, we grow and improve. We can see how, both personally and institutionally, over time we fester and decline when challenges are non-existent or avoided. This is not to say that everyone approaches life grimly with clenched fists. In meeting challenges and in competing, we cooperate with other people. But in Korea, we face a complication in that in many settings, people are disposed to compete with the very people they are also required to cooperate with. I was reminded of this recently when an industry ex
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