Tokyo vs Beijing vs Seoul - City Comparison

[@roman_maniaimmaorisamoan5891]

Tokyo_To Metropolitan The Name is #TokyoJapan🇯🇵❤ 1:46

[@Juli-kn9ct]

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[@행원의하루]

come on.. beijing cant be here…..

[@amazingmomenttop3700]

？joker，Find out how much higher Beijing house prices are than Seoul, Seoul concert safety can not be compared to Beijing, South Korea's fragile self-esteem

[@Hunt68]

This is Chanel Most of informations are not true. Totally wrong ingredients

[@elerick3918]

🇨🇳 el verdadero y único grade de Asia

[@MarkMiller304]

Seoul is the least impressive and most boring.

[@englishab]

I visited both three cities in 2016.. well seoul was the best place ever I traveled to.

[@MarkMiller304]

@@englishab depends on what your interest are, if you like kpop maybe. But if you’re into history and architecture it’s definitely the last.

[@sl2861]

Try to keep the discussion positive or neutral, not a bash and trash-fest. Why are you singling out Seoul with “most-(negative)” and “least-(positive)” attributes? Axe to grind?

[@MarkMiller304]

@@sl2861 cause it’s true, it’s the capital with the least amount of history and it’s not even the most modern. The not the most anything, that the problem.

[@stevenlee4854]

​@@MarkMiller304 "cause it's true" is an argument I'm sure most debaters would love to use when they lack any actual power behind their words. However, you're just stating your opinion, with an unfortunate lack of any facts. The least amount of history? While Seoul existed as a city before it was even the capital of Hanyang in the Joseon Dynasty, it became the actual capital of Korea around 1400, depending on whether you consider the completion of the palace in 1402 to be the beginning. Tokyo became the capital of Japan in 1603, before which it was a small fishing village. And the divergence between your opinion and facts just get wider from there. Don't confuse your ignorance about Seoul with "fact" or "truth." Try to answer with something substantive. It would be fine if you simply stated, "I am most impressed by Tokyo, based on the little that I know, but based on my own personal impressions and my personal opinion." That is totally valid. Trying to claim things that are simply false is ignorant at best, revisionist at worst. And why do your comments need to bash? One has to wonder why you need to say, "Seoul is the LEAST ____" and only bring up criticisms. When you say that Seoul is the least modern, I suspect that you don't know much about Seoul, and you experienced it without speaking or understanding any Korean. If you spoke and understood both Japanese and Korean, you would see many ways that Seoul is actually much more "modern" than Tokyo. Of course, there are also many ways that Tokyo is also more modern than Seoul. It's a complicated calculous coming up with such a simplistic statement. Some examples that you seem unaware of that are obvious winners in modernization in Seoul: 1) Seoul has the highest and fastest broadband penetration into society in the world - much higher than the US, but also higher than Tokyo. If you traveled to Seoul without a Korean cellphone, you wouldn't have access to this incredible network that is omnipresent and free, so you wouldn't have any idea. 2) Better than Amazon in the US, you can get most things delivered in Korea ON THE SAME DAY, and at the very latest, the next business day for places that don't offer delivery on weekends. This is not a special higher fee delivery like what Amazon has for limited items. This is the standard. This lighting-fast delivery service is particularly for Korea's version of Amazon, which is called "Coupang." However, without a Korean cellphone or Korean credit card, you probably have no experience with this app that is a part of daily life for all people in Seoul. 3) Ability to use credit cards or cash cards for almost every transaction in Seoul (again, you need to have Korean credit cards to fully appreciate this, but my American credit cards work almost everywhere). In Tokyo, there are still so many places that only accept cash. 4) Train and subway timetables are available online and in electronic databases. In Japan, people working in regional "densha" train stations still prefer using the timetables printed on tissue paper-thin pages in books they keep behind their windows. 5) In Seoul, Koreans can open a brand new bank account with their cellphones within minutes 24/7. In Tokyo, the process takes hours, needing to appear in person at a local bank branch, only on operating bank days during operating hours. 6) When parking in a supermarket parking lot in Seoul, parking lots use cameras with AI without any human attendants to register when your car enters the lot. Then in the store, when buying something, you have the option to validate your parking. You enter the last 4 digits of your license plate, and the register shows the rest of your car information for you to confirm. If you confirm it, when you leave the parking lot, you don't need to show a ticket or receipt to anyone. Sometimes without even stopping your car, the camera at the exit reads your license plate and knows you bought merchandise, and that you validated your parking, so the toll gate automatically opens. 7) Seoul, and many other parts of Korea, so not have virtually no traffic cops, or rely on them extremely rarely. Instead, high-resolution cameras with AI scan every car passing them, so when you are over the speed limit, the camera takes a high-res picture of the car, the license plate, and the driver and front passenger, which get mailed to the driver's home with the speeding ticket. The resolution is so high that a social problem has emerged because several extramarital affairs were revealed when spouses opened up tickets in the mail, only to find high-res photos of their spouses driving with a mistress/man (or prostitute) in the passenger seat. 8) Speed cameras are also used to track people's "average speed" over long distances to catch people who only slow down before speed cameras, so if you drive slowly at all cameras but your average speed between cameras is too fast, you are still issued a ticket. 8) Unlike the US, Korea is less interested in making revenue from speeding tickets and more interested in keeping the public safe. For that reason, Korean GPS (built into cars, but also in Korean GPS cellphone apps) are set to detect the speed limit in all areas, as well as locations of speed cameras and even the location of all speed bumps. They constantly make audible warnings when people are speeding, as well as approaching speed bumps and speed cameras, or when they are in a zone capturing average speed over long distances. Unlike the US, the purpose of these notifications is not to help people elude the cost of speeding tickets as much as to encourage drivers to stick to the speed limit at all times. I've never seen people adhere to the speed limit as closely as they do in Korea, as this has proven to be incredibly effective. 9) All new cars are outfitted with dash cams that record everywhere that cars drive and everything happening in front of them. Because all cars have these, when 2 vehicles get into an accident, insurance companies do not need to or even want to get reports from the drivers, who both have a high incentive to misrepresent the events leading to the accidents. Rather, the insurance companies examine the dash cam footage to determine who is at fault and which insurance pays for the damage, as well as when the driver disobeyed regulations that are required for insurance to cover them. 10) The last comparison that I will make is an obvious way that Japan is not as modern as Seoul, but I actually admire this particular characteristic. Japanese tend to prefer the nostalgia of old model taxi cabs. Similar to the old "Studebaker-like" cabs that we used to have in NYC, Japan still maintains cabs that are like the old 1970s Toyotas, albeit retrofitted to have automatically opening doors and GPS. There is certainly something to be said for retaining things from our history. Ironically, this was the period of Japanese car production when Western countries considered Japanese cars to be like little, cheaply made toys. Clearly, the engines have been updated. However, in contrast, many of the taxis in Seoul are not only new models, but many of them are electric. Electric charging stations are omnipresent not, and in a newly built hotel that I went to, the underground parking lot had more than 20 electric car charging stations. Most places with even small parking lots will have at least one or 2 charging stations, and many convenience stores now have them, I suspect as a way to compete against other stores to get electric car drivers to shop at their stores. There is a distinct drive for cars to be modern. The list of ways that Seoul is modern goes on and on. Technology that South Korean subways used 20 years ago has only been integrated into the NYC subway system in the past 2 years. The only reason I am not continuing the list is that it would simply never end, and I think the extent to which South Korea is "modern" and far surpasses the US, and Tokyo in these certain ways, is already obvious. As a US citizen, experiencing what a truly high-tech society brought to the extreme can be like is at times frightening, seeing how very advanced technology can threaten personal privacy in almost every area of life. As someone who speaks and reads Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin, I am baffled at how you find Seoul to be less modern that Tokyo. Tokyo has larger buildings and skyscrapers, brighter flashy lights in the Shinjuku District, and some very cool robots on display. However, these are only the modern things that a child would notice, not the actual "modern" things that make up day-to-day life. If you had any experience with the way that day-to-day life is lived in Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, you would likely feel regret, if not embarrassment, by how grossly mistaken your simplistic reasoning of "cause it isn't" truly is. As to Seoul's history, having 5 palaces dating back to 1400, whereas nothing in Tokyo dates back before the 1600s, your statement that Seoul lacks the history of Tokyo, which didn't even exist until over 2 centuries after Seoul is misinformed. You clearly have an axe to grind in trying to highlight why Seoul is WORSE, rather than extolling the virtues of Tokyo without basking others. But if you are going to stick to the negatives, please do a little fact checking, and don't assume that the few pieces of knowledge you have about anything or any place are the only facts that exist. Have a little humility. And more love for the rest of the world, rather than solely your criticisms, which serve nobody.