Korea -1 Kim = China + 1 Zhang
My friend Brendan Carr over at Korea Law Blog just re-ran an excellent (and very blunt) post he wrote back in 2005 for The Marmot's Hole. The post is entitled, "How to Get Cheated Every Time: Ignore These Warnings," and though it deals exclusively with how to avoid getting cheated on a Korean business deal, it starts out by saying, "probably this is good advice for China too, but I don’t know the patterns of doing business with Chinese. What I describe below is absolutely typical for disaster-story credit losses based on my experience."
It is also typical for China and I left a comment on Brendan's blog saying that the only changes one would need to make for his post to apply to China would be to change "Korea" to "China" and "Kim" to "Zhang." The real point of the post is not to criticize Korea, but to try to temper the irrational exuberance to which foreign companies too often succumb when confronted with the possibility of doing business overseas. The lesson is that when doing business in countries without highly developed commercial law systems (and this is truer of China than of Korea), you need to be on your guard at the outset. Or, as I like to say, "don't check your brains at the gate."
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