On the Cartels and Sustainability of Surviving Traditional Industries

Success is hard to sustain.
Because experience, regardless of whether the outcome is success or failure, carries its own constraints and limits with it.

Organizing and maintaining a taxi association isn't easy.
Those who've managed to survive until now stayed afloat thanks to their own strategies and accumulated know-how.
In the meantime, various mobility-app operators appeared.
Users cheered the new mobility app services, but the existing associations did not. Their survival, their sense of fairness and equity, were all under threat. It even came to the point where someone, like Jeon Tae-il, attempted suicide to express how serious they were -- and confronted with that sincerity and desperation, users gave up the convenience, and mobility-app operators either folded or withdrew.
Looking at the situation in 2022, we're probably onto the third generation of mobility apps by now.

Recently, tax services are walking a similar path.
And there's news that attorney services are dealing with similar friction.

It seems the incumbents have no method other than erecting legal restrictions and barriers.

Honestly, what would have happened if the taxi associations themselves had built a mobility-app service internally? Was there never any attempt? Or were there attempts, pursued internally, that got shut down for various reasons?

That's why organizational culture matters.
Because experience, regardless of whether the outcome is success or failure, carries its own constraints and limits with it.
And since each member has their own life cycle as an individual, the situation naturally leans more conservative (minimum change that assumes stability).

So in the end, it's hard for the success of one generation to sustain itself into the next.



Amid all of this, in the medical and healthcare field, the atmosphere is a bit different -- unlike the business actors (taxi, logistics, tax, law) who used to dominate their traditional markets, people inside are leading change first.