I love how so many western 'news' articles will still unconsciously represent the communist country as the massive specter looming over them
some things never change
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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a specter is haunting capitalism!
Other reasons for the deficit are growing tensions between Washington and Beijing and China's economic slowdown.
No shit honorary Aryan, THAT IS THE REASON! If you sanction a country, they'll find a way to bypass it. In this case, funding indigenous products.
The price in Korea is so high that many people smuggle rice through commercial flights between China and South Korea.
That sound like something Yeonmi Park would say about north korea.
Everything I've read about South Korea in recent years makes it sound like hell on earth.
https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/south-korea-69-hour-workweek-overtime/
The government will also expand the maximum amount of overtime an employee can take a week to 29 hours, meaning a maximum workweek of 69 hours. South Korea's government argues that the new scheme allows for greater flexibility, and expressed hopes that workers might work fewer hours overall
On Thursday, South Korea’s labor ministry even tried pitching the new rules as a way to support the country’s flagging fertility rate, which at 0.78 births per woman is the world’s lowest. Ministers suggested that staff might work longer hours one week in exchange for longer holidays elsewhere in the year.
Korean business groups have welcomed the plan, while unions and women’s groups have criticized the proposed rules.
meaning a maximum workweek of 69 hours
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On Thursday, South Korea’s labor ministry even tried pitching the new rules as a way to support the country’s flagging fertility rate
We made your work week the funny sex number. Please fuck.
South Korea's government argues that the new scheme allows for greater flexibility
Flexibility for who, motherfucker?! 
which at 0.78 births per woman is the world’s lowest
The actual birthrate genocide is done by the US to occupied Koreans
The Korean government does not know how babies are made, does it?
are you implying the fertility rate isn't directly proportional to the amount of time spent in an office? preposterous
