Why Korean Made is better than (North) American Made

"bourgeoisie" (bourgeoisie) 08/21/2013 at 11:17 • Filed to: My Stigness

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Korean cars are built better than those built here in America, or in Mexico, or Canada. People usually have their certain tastes in cars, and mine lead towards Korean cars, and nothing else, but I’ll only buy cars built in Korea, and there’s a very good reason for that. Read on to see why.

When I set out to buy my first car at the ripe old age of 19 several years ago, I only had one criteria, it had to be Korean. I did not confine myself to Hyundai or Kia, I looked at both. After looking around I was set on a late 2000s Sonata. I didn’t know anything about cars, except I hated driving American cars. I didn’t know the difference between a Sonata and a Tiburon, except that a Sonata was more expensive. After a few weeks of searching, I had only found one Hyundai that wasn’t either complete shit, or too expensive, but I didn’t have the cash I was waiting for to buy it, so it slipped away. A few more weeks of searching, I ended up buying a 2000 Kia Amante I actually passed up the first time I found it on Craiglist because they were asking too much, mainly because of the stereo. My friend insisted we look at it since we didn’t have anything else to do. Long story short, I talked him down a grand, and walked away with a pretty bitching car, and would later find out it was a blessing in disguise because my car turned out to be hugely reliable, while my girl friends 2003 Santa Fe turned out to be a pile of unreliable crap, but oh my god I loved to drive it, and it had no muffler so it sounded amazing.

Anyways, fast forward a few years, and I find myself working at a local Kia dealership as a factory tech, and I had just bought a brand new Veloster. From the time I bought my Amante, to working at Kia, I had begun attending automotive classes and become obsessed with cars, and knew a lot, and the technical knowledge followed. In my time at Kia, I got a lot of cars in with service campaigns, which aren’t conventional recalls because Kia initiated them without any involvement from the Feds. The campaigns were mainly software updates, diesel miss-fueling countermeasure recalls, and, most important to my point, quality control issues. The quality control campaigns consisted mainly of checking if bolts were installed, or tightened properly. The vehicles that came in with these service campaigns were, surprise surprise, either made in Mexico, or America. There were no quality control campaigns on Korean made cars. This is the main reason for my argument, and I’m sure a lot of you will disagree with me that these small cases aren’t enough to condemn the entire North American auto factories. But I will argue, that if a car being built in Mexico or Tennessee is following the same process as one is in Korea, then why does the car in Korea not have any quality control issues? I believe the answer lies in the culture of the workforce. Koreans are paid more, treated better, and therefore enjoy their job more, and put more effort into it. Americans, on the other hand, are not paid as well, they’re treated like shit, and therefore, their work suffers because they don’t give a shit. I also think most American’s are lazy and Koreans and other Asians have a better work ethic. I’d also like to point out that I’m American, so it’s not like I’m biased.

Korea has always been known for their cars, and how well built they are. American’s are not. I’m not trying to insult the North American auto workers, but I think cars built in Korea are better.

The preceding post is satire, intended to gently poke fun at His Stigness, in an effort to demonstrate what it was like to read !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . No offense is intended, but I do hope he gets the point that so many of us were trying to make.

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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:22

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I LOLed hard on that one.

Blondude > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:22

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Casper > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:23

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Edit: Couldn't read the last post script on my phone. I fully approve.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:25

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My first car was a '96 Kia Sephia with Mazda Engine.

The best thing was the MSRP was 2k in 1996 money. 2k for 120hp car is.. not bad.

That's the coolest car kia ever made. Because cheap.

highmodulus > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:26

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I see what you did there

bourgeoisie > Casper 08/21/2013 at 11:30

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Thanks for reading all the way to the end of the post.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Casper 08/21/2013 at 11:31

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C'mon Casper it's a complete spoof of the d-bag from yesterday posting how german cars were better. The article is a direct lift with everything german changed to korean.

Tekamul > Casper 08/21/2013 at 11:32

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I hope you read the italicized post-script

Casper > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:33

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Sorry, couldn't see that on my phone. When I get near the bottom my scroller bounces on my S3.

Casper > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/21/2013 at 11:33

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I went back and read it on my PC and the PS now. I couldn't scroll there on my S3.

bourgeoisie > Casper 08/21/2013 at 11:36

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Well I do hope, for your sake, that your phone didn't cheat you out of the awesome Judge Judy Eyeroll Gif that I so generously gave you.

ColoradoTaco > Blondude 08/21/2013 at 11:36

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Seconded. Read the whole thing with a shit eating grin

Casper > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 11:38

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It did not... except she wasn't moving for about the first 10 seconds. The 4G here is garbage in the meeting rooms.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Casper 08/21/2013 at 11:53

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Ahhhhh. Makes more sense. Glad you're on board now!

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 12:16

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I laughed quietly to myself on this one.

Destructive Tester > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 12:29

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Well Played!!!!

In all seriousness this spring when my G/F was looking for a new car I was a big proponent of both Hyundai and Kia. Bottom line is that they both make better appointed cars to their comparable Honda/Toyota counterparts with the best warrantee in the buisiness. They did make total crap-cans not long ago, but I respect the amount of sack it took to back themselves into a corner with the 10 year/100k mile warrantee; it was either make better cars or cease to exist.

Chteelers > ColoradoTaco 08/21/2013 at 13:46

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Oh this was rich. Very well played.

pdthedeuce > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 14:57

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dogisbadob > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 20:42

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Hi

His Stigness > bourgeoisie 08/21/2013 at 21:49

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Clever, you substituted German for Korean. I get your point, and everyone else's. I don't disagree with your criticism, or anyone else, at least those who remained civil, like yourself.

Can you remove the first tag so it doesn't show up with my other posts please? You can keep it on their, but I use that tags for all my main articles so they populate at the bottom.

bourgeoisie > His Stigness 08/22/2013 at 11:34

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There is some mild irony in not wanting this post associated with your writing, while keeping your other post associated with your writing, but I'm happy to oblige.

His Stigness > bourgeoisie 08/22/2013 at 13:57

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Thanks. And the reason I want to keep those failed attempts attached to the tag is so I don't forget the mistakes I made and learn from them. It's too easy to just delete them and move on, I think it's probably better to keep them there.

bourgeoisie > His Stigness 08/22/2013 at 14:14

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Keep on keepin' on, my friend. I look forward to reading your future work.