Question about public education

[Xavier_Onassis]

Does Japan design its own stuff? Does Korea?

The Japanese seem to be rather good at robotics.

Neither Japan nor Korea build ugly cars, like the Subaru 360 or the first Honda Civic or the first Toyota Corollas.

It will likely take China as long as to did Japan and Korea.

Ergonomics seems to me to require as much artistic ability as mechanical savvy.

Look how long it took to finally put turn signal flashers on the back of rearview mirrors, or to include a storage place for sunglasses for cars.

[kimba1]

Japan and korea has massive comtemporary art culture so it's designing own tech is very viable.

I'm very familiar with chinese comptemporary art and it's growing but japan is pretty much dominating the youth of china so it'll be kind of mixed.

Korea got no cultural influence on china. Most of the time chinese will say hey! They use our old language. Or nice clothes

[Xavier_Onassis]

Influence is likely to be personal, not national.

It's not that every Chinese must be impressed by every Korean design.

The key would be more like one Chinese designer seeing some design by a Korean and then improving upon it. 

Korea is more isolated from China than Japan, but of course, there are rather a lot more Koreans than Japanese living  in China.

Modern devices are rarely the invention of just one person. Building upon past ideas and collaboration between the designer and the engineers are more common.