But he has chosen to be rich over to be human. If Park had any morsel of humanity in him, he would be treating those workers with thankfulness and respect. If it wasn't for those Korean workers who wasted their life for Park and his Cort bass, he would not be where he is now. However, I find his actions to be a violation to humanity. Park's decision may have been rational in the business world. As a result, Cort bass guitars remain very competitive. Park responded to this consumerism and moved his plants to Indonesia to bring down prices. We all know that the world is more and more affected by consumerism, where people are looking for cheaper products. Obviously, the workers were very very angry they have now been protesting for 2 years, even following Park all the way to Germany to make a deal with him. They received hardly anything in compensation. Recently all of Korean plants were shut down, leaving the Korean workers jobless. He thought that the minimum wage he was giving to those Korean workers were too high, so he started moving the guitar plants from Korean to Indonesia, where wages are cheaper. However, Cort's owner, Park Young-Ho, who meanwhile became one of the richest man in Korea thanks to the workers, had other thoughts.
They were hopeful that someday, their hard work will pay out, that they will work in better conditions and receive higher wages. However, they kept on working hard because they were simply happy at the fact that the acoustic, electric and bass guitars made with their own hands were being distributed all over the world. Some worked in Cort bass for more than 20 years withough ever having enough money to own a Cort bass guitar. They also always received minimum wages($1000 a month).
The workers had to work in windowless factories, under the constant risk of getting their fingers cut in machines and getting respiratory diseases. However, I came to know something about Cort which made me dislike it since.Ĭort started as a very small company with little capital. If you've read all my reviews on Cort bass guitars, you would have seen that most of the reviews are favourable(Cort bass guitars ARE actually good). I used to be a fan of Cort bass guitars, mainly due to the fact that Cort is a Korean company and I am a Korean, and also because Cort bass guitars seemed to be the best bass guitars for beginners, being cheap but with quality.
If I have time, I'll try to upload some pictures of my new bass guitar later.Ĭort's darker side - why Cort bass guitars repel me now The only hitch is that the battery connection for the pre-amp is a bit unstable, but on the whole, I'm very pleased. what can I say, my bass guitar sounds great, just as I expected. As a consolation to my embarrassment, I bought a Cort B4 bass guitar that was made in Korea not in Indonesia(luckily there were few Korean Cort bass guitars left). *blush* *blush*Īlthough I'd rather have bought a bass guitar from some other company, there were no other bass guitar which had the qualities that I needed(lightweight, non-jazz bass guitar, and of course good sound quality) that met my budget(around $500). I recently bought a Cort bass guitar myself. The main reason I just said this is because. In fact, there are lots of bass guitar companies which don't produce bass guitars in their home countries, so Park's decision is more acceptable to me now. Since then, I have developed a more mature view of the events, and although I am very unhappy about the plight of the Korean workers, I faced reality and accepted that Park's decision was a rather unkind, but a sensible one. Few months back, I uploaded a post in which I was very angry about how the Cort's owner, Park, moved his guitar plant from Korea to Indonesia ignorant of the plight of the Cort workers in the Korean factories.