Seoul Ranked Among Most 'Honest' Cities
Seoul Ranked Among Most 'Honest' Cities
Seoul scored high marks in an informal test to measure just how honest people are around the world.
For its annual "Global Courtesy Test", monthly magazine Reader's Digest left 30 mid-priced mobile phones in busy public places. Reporters observed the phones from a distance, called them and waited to see if anyone would answer. Would the finders return the phones?
Not in Kuala Lumpur or Hong Kong. Those cities ranked in the bottom of the survey with just 13 phones of 30 returned in each city.
Seoul did much better with 27 phones returned, ranking it third on the list of 32 cities. Ljubljana in Slovenia ranked first with 29 phones returned and Toronto came in second with 28 phones returned.
Several cities known their citizens' civility ranked lower than expected -- Amsterdam placed 29th with 14 phones returned, Lisbon ranked 28th with 15 phones back, and Sydney and London tied at 21st with 19 phones returned each.
The Seoul test was executed on busy streets in the metropolitan area, including the underground square in 63 Building in the Yeouido financial district. Details of the test will be published in the August issue of Reader's Digest.
A member of the magazine's editorial staff said, "It seems that Seoul citizens have a high level of honesty. Of course, in Seoul where high-end cellphones are common, it could be assumed that people thought the cellphones weren't attractive enough to keep."
The staffer added, "The most important thing is global honesty was found to be higher than expected. We guessed that most phones wouldn't be returned, but the results showed that 654 of 960 phones came back."
Source: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707240023.html
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