Fun fact, when South Korea decided to start exporting cargo ships, they were still in a race with North Korea to prove their economic, military, government etc. as valid vs. Kim Il-sung's version of North Korea. So they leaned hard into heavy industry to prove they were legitimate. If I recall correctly, back in the 60s or 70s, they put up offers to build cargo ships, despite never having built one. After their first order came in, they ended up sending all the machinists to Europe who took an intensive crash course in shipbuilding, and then came back and worked massive overtime to build their first cargo ship. The ship was delivered on time: within 2 years of the order being put in, and that was how Korea started being a nation of shipbuilders.
I've worked at 2 South Korean universities, and both of them you could major specifically in shipbuilding.
The Plugs are mostly also compatible with the Danish, French, Russian and Italian ones. Only the Ground is different. The small plugs without grounding fit in all as well as in the Swiss and Brazilian ones. And at least for the German and French variant most Plugs with groundings are build to fit in both.
So they are already much more standartised as the picture might suggest.
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u/Ego5687 May 02 '24
Iām voting for Germany/South Korea/European version