[Ben Sadley]

Lol, I know the metric system is old hat, but still: This is typical legislation that is disguised as "progressive". The UK has already taken similar steps toward indoctrinating people and business with the threats of legal action.

According to this law, possession of a "pound" scale could in theory result in 2 yrs jail time.

[kinoxi]

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said that business owners that do not follow the international standard of measurements _ meter-kilogram-second _ will be subject to up to two years in prison or a seven million won fine.

Uh ,OK.

[snarks_when_bored]

South Korea puts foot down on measurements

"Dammit, Suk Dong, it is 5 inches!"

[newgeezer]

I expect they'll be more than happy to make an exception for their wonderful, US-bound Kias, Hyundais and Daewoos to allow for MPH markings on their speedometers, PSI on their tires, etc.

[I see my hands]

IMO, the reason Jimmy Inbred Moron Carter's initiative to switch to he metric system failed is because the emphasis was on converting.

People would try to determine it the liter of grape juice for 99¢ was more or less than they had paid for a quart. Didn't want to be cheated, you know.

Multiply that by every other measure we use day to day. That's a lot of learning. Forget about it.

Better to have told people to look at the grape juice and decide if that much is worth the price asked.

(not an endorsement of the metric system)

[YouPosting2Me]

"South Korea puts foot 1/3 of a Meter down on measurements

[Cdnexpat]

There are no pound scales, or at least none that I have seen. I would say the measuring unit they are targeting is pyong, which is the measurement used for all real estate transactions. This is going to be very unpopular.

[JoeFromSidney]

Back in '62, when I was stationed in Thailand, one of the tasks I was assigned was testing a public address system that included a gasoline-engine-driven generator. One of the things I wanted to determine was how long it would run on one tank of gas. I told one of my Thai assistants to go buy a quart measure. He came back to tell me it was illegal to sell quart measures, but he'd bought a one-liter measure. It didn't matter to me, of course, but it emphasized how strict the local laws were on weights and measures.