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Re:TouchEn nxKey: The keylogging anti-keylogger solution by AYBABTME on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:07AM (#34309424)
Wasn't controlled by the landlord, but by the management team which is paid by the condo fee. If you own the condo, you pay that fee, if you rent it from a landlord you also pay it. The management team I believe is hired by the residents committee which is elected by the residents. Sort of like an HOA, I guess? There were elections during my stay and we were invited to participate, but I didn't care enough and this was a temporary situation.

This was in a large apartment tower complex in the semi-countryside. Not sure if it's always like that, it's the only apartment I stayed in. In Seoul I've only lived in villas.

Perhaps it's a countryside thing because I've also noticed noisy public speakerphones in the streets blasting PAs about random stuff, but I haven't seen it in Seoul.

Overall though, the local governments do spam your phone with alerts about all sorts of remotely relevant (IMO) things on a daily/hourly basis. I find it annoying but it's just how it is here. Today they were spamming about possible debris from a NASA satellite deorbiting.

Here is a very collectively oriented society. That's my take on it. High trust communities, so much so that things like this are possible: https://mobile.twitter.com/AntoineGrondin/status/16123864859...

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Re:TouchEn nxKey: The keylogging anti-keylogger solution by curling_grad on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:43AM (#34309694)
Apartments in Seoul is mostly similar to your experience in countryside.
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Re:TouchEn nxKey: The keylogging anti-keylogger solution by shard on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:47PM (#34342655)
It was very interesting to me that South Korea is a high trust society in terms of crime (cash boxes left unattended, bicycles unlocked, people feel safe to walk the streets alone late at night), however it is very tribal and low trust in terms of providing assistance (less help provided to strangers in the streets compared to the US.. I've had to step in multiple times as I noticed that local Koreans were not helping). Maybe it's a big city thing (above experiences were in Seoul).
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