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Openness

Here's a question for you: what is the indicator that best represents the OPENNESS of one country? Music? Cuisine? Or law? Growing up in the country of confucianism, I spent long time thinking about the best indicator that depicts the openness of South Korea. Fashion sounded good in the beginning, but I soon realized that rapid development of social media and the extreme generation gap between Gen-Z and others made it difficult for fashion to be an accurate indicator. I tried to come up with the best answer that explicitly shows the level of openness, but it was not easy as I expected. However, few weeks ago, I came up with my final answer in a very unexpected manner when I went to a supermarket and listened to a conversation between a mother and a son. I was bored waiting in a long line and my ears hurt so badly since I was wearing sunglasses, face mask, and my Airpods altogether for so long. So I turned the music off and opened myself up to the rest of the world and started liste...