As a Korean-American, I feel the biggest problem with the Korean society is the opposing pressures that are placed on all individuals.

There is an enormous amount of pressure to succeed academically, and almost an equal amount of pressure to maintain integrity. This isn't to imply that other societies don't emphasize both success and integrity, but it seems that there's usually more emphasis on one versus the other. The Koreans seem to believe you can have both, but the result is often an emphasis on success at the expense of integrity, as seen by the recent admissions of falsification of data.

Since we should be learning from our mistakes, I hope the Korean society realizes that having success and integrity as two of the top goals in life can often lead to an internal conflict that compromises one at the expense of the other. It's time to accept failure, which the Koreans are known for not tolerating, as something that can be positive, and hopefully that will carry over into fewer issues with integrity.