I guess he hasn't been to Eastern Europe yet.
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But Korea has their superior fried chicken and the corn dogs with potatoes on the outside. It can't possibly be bad.
Korea is surprisingly dystopian and no other country is exactly like that tbh.
The internet (and many other areas) are completely captured by monopolies that control everything. There are so many inhumane, draconian laws too. This all contrasts with advance tech and pop production so starkly it kinda breaks people's brains.
Behold the corporate state.
Nicholas Plot, an American StarCraft professional commentator who has lived in Korea for 15 years, said, "One of the things that surprised me when I first came here was work ethics. They almost collapsed from overwork but didn't say anything. In an apartment in suburban Seoul, 15 to 16 game players trained in an environment similar to a PC room, using bunk beds, he said. "When there is a small ecosystem where everyone pushes each other to get better and better, Koreans completely dominate (the environment). At the same time, I had no choice but to think about the psychological slump it created," he said.
This is reasonably accurate. Korea is very heavy on the grind. If you ever want to learn work ethics and how to have fun with the short amount of free time you get, this is the place.
Source: 대한민국에서 살고 있어
Source: 대한민국에서 살고 있어
No, YOUR mother is a craven harlot!
It doesn't sound like the kind of work ethic I want to learn. That's basically voluntary slavery.
Individualism is great.
Seems very similar to Japan except South Korea has been gaining popularity in the West more recently.
AFAIK Japan is also pretty bad but not as much as Korea.
Where is Korea worse?
For the Koreans I met who moved to Japan, the work culture can be less bad, as can be working at certain companies despite where they graduated from. My sample size is small, though, and I am neither Japanese nor Korean.
Korea and Japan are in the same general situation, but in Korea it's taken to the extreme. So suicide rates, average working hours, etc etc.
Lowest birth rate in the whole world, too. 0.84 births per woman.
Which Korea are we talking about here?
South Korea or Best Korea?
When people say “Korea”, they probably mean the south one (unless they’re a fan of Kim Jong Un).
You are joking, but it took me about 15% of the article to figure out definitively he was talking about ROK not DPRK.
From the article:
He also expressed regret, saying, "It is the result of Korea maximizing the bad points of Confucian culture and the shortcomings of capitalism."
I don't really understand what that means.
So to be safe, you are now banned from /c/Pyongyang
You are now a mod of c/Pyongyang