Korean Flashback

A friend just told me he applied to a Korean University...I don't want to tell him not to take the job....but it brought back many memories...
This Document is very instructive, for instance.

e.g.:
For unknown reasons deeply rooted in their ethos, South Korean doctors misinterpret the recent decrease in American parents circumcising their newborn sons-down to 59 percent in 1992 - as recommending universal circumcision at about age 12, even though there is absolutely no evidence that American boys are now being circumcised at puberty. The doctors are also puzzled why such “advanced” countries as Japan and Denmark do not recommend universal circumcision. One advice columnist recently wrote that, “If a child feels different because he is not circumcised and his friends boast of having a superior penis because of circumcision, it is good to have him circumcised for psychological reasons.” Today, at least 95 percent of South Korean boys entering middle school have had been circumcised. For the other five percent, the question is not whether they should give up their foreskin, but when they should be circumcised. Korean boys simply take circumcision for granted. It is their right of passage to manhood.