Young South Koreans have been dubbed the ‘N-Po generation’, forced to give up marriage, having children and more — thanks to job insecurity and high living costs. While they can only hope their sacrifices pay off, the future is not entirely bleak.
Strong honor culture makes it hard to move, you would cut contact with just about everyone you know if you’re not moving to attend a prestigious university or taking a high end job, which is not on the table for the vast majority.
This is how it feels as a leftist from Texas. Family is too important to leave, but the scales feel like they keep tipping towards moving for climate and politics.
Weird how there is no mass exodus of Korean youth to countries with better living standards considering the have very strong passports.
Language is always a barrier. Without good German skills you have the opportunity of being a cleaning lady or building Autobahn here in Germany.
Also uprooting ones life to a different continent can be expensive
Are there no job positions where English could serve as an fallback language, like in STEM fields. (tech, healthcare, electronics, architecture) ?
That’s kind of the same problem. People whose native languages aren’t indo-European tend to be bad at English, but Asians are a whole different breed.
Korean people suck at English. At least compared to Germans.
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Lots of people want to leave, but so many have never even left South Korea, let alone gone to the West.
Where will you go? China? Working conditions are even worse. Japan? Lots of Koreans go there, but it’s hardly a massive change.
Koreans go to Europe, the US and Canada, but the poorer class certainly can’t afford that opportunity.
Strong honor culture makes it hard to move, you would cut contact with just about everyone you know if you’re not moving to attend a prestigious university or taking a high end job, which is not on the table for the vast majority.
This is how it feels as a leftist from Texas. Family is too important to leave, but the scales feel like they keep tipping towards moving for climate and politics.