Suna in Wonderland

Recently I got to know about website called whatdoestheinternetthink.net. This website let you find out what people think of search terms. Of course, I got curious and tried to see how people think of Korea.

First I typed “South Korea”

Was I too proud of my country or can it be serious? The result was really shocking. It said, 87.8% think South Korea negative, 12.1% positive and 0% do not care.

I thought this is because many of people do not know the difference between South Korea and North Korea. So I tried “North Korea” which  gave me second shock!

Only 0.2% negative, 0.6% positive and 99.2% were don’t care.

With term “Korea”, 1% negative, 19.2% positive and 79.8% don’t care.
This is better result than “South Korea”, but still it represent that Korea generally do not have positive reputation. Plus compare to other neighbouring countires, Korea is definately low on positive side.

It is so heartbreaking to see all these result, however, we can learn from the painful result.

Even if, negative reputation could be cause of ‘North Korea’ it is clear that  still a lot of people do not know or don’t bother to know about Korea.

It was also irritating for me to serach 3 times to find out about my country yet other countries needed to be typed only one starndard name, which is pretty normal.

Well Korea!! We gotta show the world how good pleasant and positive Korea can be and hopefully in near future, I can search Korea with one name not seperated.