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>Kim Gwang-ho, an automotive engineer, did something last year that many South Koreans saw as an act of betrayal

Is this really the Korean mentality? It makes me wary of buying anything from that country if it is, let alone something expensive and potentially dangerous like a car.

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If you're going to exclude purchasing products from an entire nation based on perceived issues of "mentality", you'd better ditch all of your American goods:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-18/gm-recall...

Sure, I can do that :)

That article about GM says nothing about how the US public thinks about whistleblowing, does it? Could be wrong but I think they generally respect it.

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