‘Tis the age of 末法

There is such a thing as a "committee on committees" in the world of academia.

I almost had a $3000 grant expire after sitting around unused for ten months because of the university's insistence on sticking to their own definitions and not bothering reading the grant agency's own words.

For a time in Jeju, the English announcements were actually accurate. Then they "upgraded" to a robo announcement system so 함덕 (Hamdeok) wound up as "Ham-dee-ok" and 구좌 (Gujwa) wound up as "G-U-J-W-A" where each letter of the Romanization was spoken instead of the name.

Definitely true. My spouse was shocked at the low quality of Korean fried chicken in the US even at a shop part of a legitimate Korean franchise. The standards in the US are pretty low.

Or "Asian-inspired" anything for that matter.

I live in a mostly agricultural and conservative region in California. There’s more crime here than I have ever seen in Los Angeles.

McDonalds in Singapore and South Korea are by far better than any McDonalds here in Americastan.