It's not just Samsung. The post-WW2 idea that children *must* be net losses for decades, with the expectation that they move the hell out immediately has been rather tragic for all modern family units. It turns kids from an essential part of life - in fact, the measure of whether the life was worthy of continuing - into a high value commodity, like a muscle car. (Except the car is paid off in a few years.)
To be fair, it is a huge crisis. Japans less demographically screwed than Korea, and they’re still going though an enormous debt crisis bc of the pressure having too many elderly people offers.
In 200 years, historians will be baffling how Koreans became prosperous, crushed the price of a TV by 1500% and then suddenly and mysteriously vanished
Nah. His entire video keeps the presumption that the fertility rate won't increase. Thats a flawed logic. As the fertility rate causes the population to lower, people will become more confident having children and that fertility rate will increase again.
@@teelo12000 Fertility rate itself is decreasing because of lack of confidence among the population to thrive as they did before. So your point of argument is not valid. Decreasing fertility rate will age out the population and the aged population will lack potency and fertility, which will further accelerate the fall of population in future. Population will thrive only in the region where the mentality of the people reaches to the point "we got nothing to lo lose or gain" and still happy with the available resources, mainly natural resources. In such regions even a family without a penny income will breed multiple children among which all will dwell among the dirt and fittest ones will survive into adulthood (mostly all will survive). Most of the Africa and South Asia falls into such region, with plenty of arable land and natural resources, boomer population will mature into adulthood without much of external aid.
@@teelo12000 The reason for low fertility rate in SK is not just confidence but also increase in radical feminism among the female youth of SK and also the decline of traditional(Religious) value of marriages to just a sexual relationship.
As a South Korean living in Seoul, there are too many reasons for this crisis. The competitive nature of Korean society, the conflict of men and women, an almost mad way of comparing each other and never finding peace, and so on. The accumulation of dozens of problems created a society where people don’t want to get married and have children. And the most horrifying thing is that people don’t even care and are even ridiculing their own country for this. In the internet there are so many comments that say “it’s still higher than 0.6? lol let’s keep it up until it’s 0.1 boys“
Well, eventually there will be such a labor shortage that having kids will actually turn out to be a profitable activity. It just might require the collapsing of the current economy and society
You work as a Samsung drone for 60 hours a week, then return to a tiny hole of an apartment to watch K-pop while slurping down cheap noodles. And then the government calls you up and asks you why you don't have 2.1 children yet.
Even Samsung drone is very successful case in Korea. Over 80% of people are working the same or more hours while receiving only 50% of the wage of Samsung drone.
@@desmasic ㅋㅋㅋ인종차별이 아닌 행동에 따른 차별이다ㅋㅋ인도인들이 주장하던 클럽사건도 인도인이 돈을 안내고 한국여성을 괴롭혀서 입장금지됨 그리고 인도인들은 다른나라에서도 공공장소에서 시끄럽게하고 질서와 매너가 부족한 것으로 유명하다 일본어,태국어,독일어 등으로 인도를 검색해봐도 비슷한 댓글을 확인할 수 있다 인종차별을 얘기하기 전에, 다른 나라 사람들도 공통적으로 얘기하는 본인들의 단점을 먼저 살펴보는게 더 나을것이다
"Offering 90 days parental leave" is that supposed to be a lot? Most European have around this level of maternal leave and we're still all far below replacement rate
I always wonder how it comes to be such a ridiculous amount. I mean, children would receive just pennies during ww2. The most you would spend on a kid would be food and entertainment(optional). I just don't get, how is it such a high number?
@@kevinkarlwurzelgaruti458 education. Lots of it. They start private education since kindergarten and 70% of them get college degrees. Hell, the SK government is actually saying lets keep the elementary kids at school even later than they already are so that, ya know, parents have time to make more babies.
hi South Korean 3rd grade of high schooler here, very accurate and well summarized vid the country is full of hatred against the counterparts(men vs women, liberal vs conservative, rural student vs urban student etc...) it is truly a mess and I myself plan to emigrate to us after graduating university(I used to live in us for 2years and I felt like the place I lived was far better than Korea) it is a truly depressing country and I am certain this country will meet the fate this video suggests one more thing I'd like to add to the education problem is because children are forced to compete too early in lives, jobs requiring mental skills are treated far superior to jobs that require skills and the pay gap between them is extreme. Also competing from an early age doesn't help our mental states. I am sure this leads to the large amount of hate produced against other groups in society(the ones I mentioned above). thank you for making this vid
As an immigrant to the U.S., you likely won't be considered as playing much of a part in this, but the same issues, minus the intense competitiveness at a young age, all exist in the U.S. right now as well. But we have a more individualistic culture, which is why we've not had the same birth rate problems. Just saying that if you're joining this country in part or in whole because you believe neighbors here get along with each other and we're all friendly with each other...you're sadly very mistaken and we're a very, very divided nation. I would add the words "right now", but we've always been heavily divided, be it racially, financially, politically, religiously, etc.
Since you are already very well educated and very thoughtful, because you are able to see some causes and effects, some patterns, I would suggest that you and other young people do NOT plan to emigrate but to remain and to haul the country around into a better future. This will mean getting together with like-minded peers, brainstorming extensively, seeking out adults who think similarly and wish for change, writing and publishing articles, making videos, talking with politicians, business people. ONLY Koreans can create a new future for South Korea. Why not plan to do 'Great Work' in your own country? Obviously that will require a lifelong commitment, dedication, love for the people and the country, and a determination to solve the problems. Your lives are wasted as competitors only. Time to move on from this demeaning and damaging vision / compulsion. 🥰🙏🤜🤛
and i heard they have an insane night life too, really sucks alcohal is the drug of choice for humanity, be so much better if was just weed. and koreans tend to have WORSE hangovers than other demographics. and if dont drink its considered rude i think.
Yeah, if they liberalise the economy, open free and fair elections, open the country for foreign investment, stop absolute reliance on china and normalise relations with other countries, then they might have a small chance.
As a South Korean man in my twenties, I would like to share my thoughts on the income gap between men and women mentioned in the video. Currently, almost 95% of young South Korean men are conscripted into military service (as of 2023, only 2.5% are completely exempt from any form of conscription, and those who are physically unfit or disabled are assigned to public service during this period). As a result, their entry into society is delayed, and to compensate for this, they receive a salary equivalent to having worked two additional years compared to their non-conscripted peers when they join the workforce simultaneously. (Of course, the wage gap among the middle-aged and older generations is more significantly influenced by gender reasons.) In modern times, while patriarchy has rapidly collapsed and equal rights have been granted to both men and women, the obligations that came with those rights under patriarchy have not disappeared. The privileges of patriarchy were enjoyed by the current middle-aged and older generations, leaving men in their twenties to shoulder only the obligations of the old system, which is a source of their dissatisfaction. Today's young men and women in Korea value equality and fairness more than any other generation. Although women's quotas or additional points for women are implemented in many fields, the employment crisis in Korea is experienced by both men and women. It is true that there are more men than women in high-ranking positions, executives, CEOs, etc. due to gender discrimination, but this only applies to middle-aged people in their 40s and older, not young people in their 230s. They feel that they have become a generation that only suffers losses in the transitional period toward gender equality. Lastly, this comment is from the perspective of a Korean man in his 20s. There will be various thoughts and opinions.
Life is more nuanced than a polarized world view can handle and your post shows this nuance quite clearly. Good luck in life mate. I hope something in your country changes for the better.
When women earn more, they are more Lively to file for divorse, to feel like there are no good men, to remain childless, and, funnily, to be more unhappy.
Interesting. I'm an American, but still thank you for discussing a lot of the nuance behind the socioeconomic situations there (and for acknowledging your perspective as a young Korean man). I feel like important nuances like this often gets lost when discussing generational differences, especially when it involves people's cultures other than one's own. A small point though -- you mentioned 20-30 year old Korean men not having many of the same privileges and opportunities as those in older generations, while having many of the same obligations and responsibilities forced on younger generations. A few comments on that: 1) Is a lot of that influenced by a culture of assumed respect for older people, and more a matter of generations aging than society itself changing? For example, is that something that younger men even in your generation could reasonably expect to start benefitting from as they grow older? Or, from a different perspective, did older Korean men similarly struggle around your age until a select few managed to find that privilege in their 40-60s that you're seeing now? 2) You mention that patriarchy's privileges have collapsed, while keeping around the obligations for younger men. But actually, those obligations are very much a byproduct of how many feminists define patriarchy too -- the very same systems that widen pay gaps and lessen opportunities for career growth and autonomy for women are also the exact same ones that force harsh burdens on men, especialy those who aren't (set up to become) upper class in society. This is usually called "intersectionality", looking at common issues like this that negatively impact other classes of people (including men) alongside women, and how they often come from the same "source" or cause of societal issues. So, it could easily be that patriarchy still exists very strongly, just that you're seeing different but parallel negative impacts of it than women may see. And that challenging these issues helps not only women, but almost everyone in society. To use a common analogy, it might be that you're seeing the other side of the same coin. 3) Is conscription into the military, then, seen as a necessary way to climb the corporate or industrial leadership ladder in South Korea?
Why are all these babies (0:10) in a room together? This is an American scene from the 1950s. But why was it ever done? Why take the baby away from its mother right after birth? It’s insane. My daughter was born 32 years ago and this practice was already extinct.
This is happening in so many developed countries right now, people can’t keep up with the cost of living and raising families, so people are spending their time and whatever money they have on themselves instead of children.
I think COVID lockdowns showed people how utterly difficult it is to have kids when you don't have a job, you can't take your kids to school, and you can't even visit the grandparents for fear of spreading a deadly virus. No one knows when the next virus will makes its way into society again, so we are living it up like we don't believe we are ever safe again from another pandemic happening in the near future. Hence there is no future, hence no children.
A middle/high school friend of mine went back to Korea after finishing school. I asked if he was planning to have kids. He laughed at me and said he doesn’t have money to feed them. I haven’t researched the cost of living in Seoul but can only guess that it’s prohibitively high and not conducive to creating extra mouths to feed. His brother and sister at least have 1 but if I use this tiny sample size, it still has them below the replacement mark.
This appears to happen when productivity doesn't equal prosperity. You see it in the USA where the stats were rising post WW2 and then crashed in the 1970's when Nixon allowed good US MFG jobs to be moved to China.
Both sides of the establishment in the US have been committed to outscoring jobs (globalist based greed) and wealth away from the middle class for over 30 years now, that's why populist parties are rising on both sides.
This is life in 2024 Australia too. 16.3x average wage for the average apartment here. Best of luck. _PS: Driving rocks my world too, so I've got a mad modded Copen, an Alto Turbo RS & a Suzuki mb. What drives you?_
I can promise you that this is not the case in Sweden. If you want to live in luxury, yes, but not if you don't mind being poor (which is super fine in the modern age).
BS Most today don’t know poverty. I slept in the same bed with two brothers and we wore “hand-me-downs” that had patches on the holes. Today’s kids are “snowflakes” and whiners. 😂
Before you read, just know these words are not mine. Rather, this rant came from a friend of mine who worked in both a hagwon and public school: "South Korea's problems widen through every part of their society. Whether it being their social structures (age hierarchy, nepotism, class system) or the ever-growing costs of housing, rent, and insurance. I know they have Universal Health Care, but I'm talking property insurance, car insurance, etc. Also, the minimum wage in South Korea (~$7) is horrible. Even for foreigners, income is pretty scarce. For example, it's true that English teachers make as low as ~$1600 a month while having free housing (which is pretty decent in South Korea), but the hours and energy needed to work are absolutely insane. For native Koreans, they are struggling heavily with student loans and housing. The struggle is extremely different for a foreigner, but there are many aspects where both groups can relate to. Prices are now skyrocketing, and for many Koreans, the dream of having a family is just too expensive to manage. All of this, mainly due to the pressured standards and social critiques within Korean people. From the hagwons (which have already been facing a very noticeable decline of students) for children that can go on for hours into the night, to the anxiety-raising world of College Exams that have been one of the main causes of suicide for Korean teens. Seeing my students sink into pressure and feeling hopeless made teaching extremely hard, as the "bright" students are either too naive or egotistical, and the many other students who are trying to learn are basically on survival mode. Doing anything just to get them a chance to make it somewhere. Also, don't forget the recruitment process for job hunting in Korea. From my Korean best friend who recently moved to Australia for work -- "If you know a guy who know's a guy, just hope you might get a job if that person knows someone with a higher position." If you're a woman with a job, and you get pregnant with a child, well you better say goodbye to your job because the likelihood of going back to work after pregnancy is basically impossible. The discrimination these women face are just unfair, and that made me blessed to be born a male -- let alone a foreigner. Korean male's have conscription and the requirement to go to military service is soul crushing for many Korean men who want to jumpstart in life already. Many of my co-workers described coming back from the military as being "lost" and "dejected" from life. Just going with flow, and hoping for some decency. It's no wonder why the population is declining, children are being burnt out from the system and as they grow up they are basically left to fiend for whatever they can get. If you're a woman, the pressure of marriage and pregnancy is contradictory to Korean society's norm of work culture, while Korean men having to join the military and being spit out after service are just left to dry looking for a way onward. These problems lead to the growing necessity to work in order to survive, rather than to live happily. The only way to live happily is to either be born in a chaebol family, know a chaebol, work with a chaebol, or miraculously meet a chaebol." I asked him if being an English teacher was really bad, and he just told me from his experience, that working for a hagwon was a nightmare while working for a public school was okay but the parents can really make teaching hard if they don't like your teaching style. You can be nice and caring to the students, but some parents, often than not, will give you "recommendations" and try and teach you how to parent their child. As if being a teacher was enough. I wanted to ask him more, but he got drunk and knocked out lol. Bro was ranting like crazy though. Just to let you all know, his experience was different. Some English teachers have had great experiences in South Korea. However, that doesn't change the fact that South Korea's problems are only worsening for its people and the need for change needs to be more pronounced.
The math of population become 0 won't become reality. People have less children and fertility rate because of worsen economy, high competitiveness. When the population is reduced to a certain number, people are comfortable and happy to have more children, then the population will increase again. This is assuming there is no big increase in immigrant population.
It's difficult to pinpoint a favourite youtube channel as there are so many different types of channels oit there, but I do label Real Life Lore as my personal favourite. Another banger of a video. My one criticism of RLL is it's clickbaity titles sometimes but the content is generally to an exceptionally high standard.
Income inequality is such a problem, they've turned the subject into great cinema. "Parasite" was the first foregn film I've ever seen in the theater (and glad I did).
Not that bad. Korean economy is export oriented. Shrinking local population will have little impact on the economic performance. Also, the new generation will have plenty of jobs to choose from, as the applicant/vacancy ratio will be favorable!! Slow down-sizing is the way to go! Do not panic and succumb to the mass immigration that will impact on the national identity.
@niendeiv9898 China's economic growth is slowing down dramatically... China is also having the exact same low birth rate problem as S. Korea aggravated by decades long 1-child policy. Chinese population is aging rapidly. China is no longer "emerging fast" as you are saying. China has already emerged and probably nearing its peak! So, I don't share your pessimistic outlook about S. Korean export future.
A lot of it is about appearances - you don't leave until the boss does. Then you often go to a bar with your boss and colleagues to "network" (this isn't "fun" for a lot of people - it's a social expectation and your career can suffer if you don't do this). But yeah, it's less about actually having that much work to do, and more about being physically present.
@@万恶共匪毒害中华 Except they aren't. They used to be a lot more efficient, but they have stagnated hard. The insane work hours drastically lowers work efficiency as workers burn out too the point some die from overwork. They even have a term for this: Karōshi People are not robots. People require rest. People require a social life outside of work.
@@万恶共匪毒害中华 Does it really matter? Both apply just as much. Overwork is causing lower effectiveness and efficiency. People don't get the necessary rest that allows them to return to work well rested with a clear mind and this stress builds up over time which leads to lower output of work done and lower quality of produced work. The Japanese are very disciplined. Their potential is squandered by overwork. What is happening in Japan is unsustainable. Same in South Korea.
The solution is actually very simple, it is not that young South Koreans do not want kids its is just that kids are way too expensive. If the government were to announced that all newborn babies healthcare, education and food will be fully paid by the government, I am sure this problem will be resolved in a few years time. At the end of the day, it is all about the money.
Well, I'll give one of the reasons that Americans can also resonate: We need some bold and innovative policies that clearly benefit the parents who decide to have children, but our old and incompetent politicians are so distanced from the reality of the Korean people that they just pull out bulls*** policies out of their a**es.
Think it was Hungary that an idea that was quite solid imo and i may not be getting it verbatim. A woman that has 4 or more kids with the same man and they stay together gets a tax credit where one income in the house is tax exempt. It'd be a solid start to addressing the fertility crisis we are starting to face and It'd also incentives family to stay together.
Hi, I'm from Germany and doing Taekwondo from my earliest ages because my father does so too. I guess Germany and Korea deos share a lot of similarities on an economic level. In fact a lot of our politicans claims that South Korea is capitalism done right. Sorry, but if South Korea is the future of humanity I know why suicide rates there are that high.
@@darthmaul8912 Well if you only focus on economic index related to growth, then it can be said that South Korea is a successful country, but it can be also easily overlooked that because the economic growth in SK was more rapid compared to other countries, problems associated with capitalism are also more prevalent, such as severe wealth inequality, employees being overworked in companies, monopoly of megacorporations, excessive emphasis on education causing high stress on children (fueled by the fact that SK is a resource-scarce country), etc.
@@stellacollector It seems that in capitalism on big growth is always followed by hughe inequality and aocial decline sooner or later. I hope you and your loved ones do well and that SK will overcome this corporate dystopia.
If you think North Korea is the literal prison on Earth, then the same goes for South Korea functioning exactly the same except for the fact that the prison doors are always open for both entering and exiting.
The two are not even comparable. You might be annoyed by SK decisions but don't let it cloud your judgement of how terrible life in NK would be under a communist dictator.
Uhhhh people in NK have starved from famines, are sent to brutal labor and prison camps for the most minor of offenses, cannot leave, are significantly poorer, the electricity isn't even reliable and oh yeah their leader is a dictator the are forced to spend their life worshiping. This isn't even remotely comparable to South Korea, and it's insulting you think anyone is stupid enough to think so.
TBH, a lot of this goes back YEARS before even the Boomers. In the US at least, a lot of the dumb suburb planning, gutted public infrastructure and excessive focus on certain urban areas (while rejecting rural or small town spots) goes back to some selfish, corrupt or reckless members of the World War II generation or even the World War I generation (the problems I mentioned were already starting to develop around the late 1950s, in some places even the 40s). When most of the Boomers entered the workforce around the early 70s, America's once great rail network and passenger service was in shambles, inner cities were falling into ruin, and many smaller towns were literally dying from job and population loss and/or economic woes. My Boomer parents remember it vividly in Iowa, it was devastating. Things briefly got a bit better in the 80s and early 90s, but soon went into decline again and with few exceptions have mostly continued on that path since. Sounds like much of the western world and East Asia took a rather similar path to us, even if on a different timeline.
The real maniacs are their seniors, both bosses and elders. It's a very hierarchical society and those seniors demand so much that young Koreans literally have no time to care for themselves.
One of the other reasons why birth rate is dropping so much is people making sex as if it was this disgusting taboo that is the ultimate sin of the flesh that no one should know about. I constantly see sex or lust being displayed as something negative that you need to be ashamed or feel disgusted about and this will only hurt us in the end because we need those two things to survive as a species.
Lol what? Western societies are hypersexualized and completely pornified yet fertility rates are in the dump. Sex is done purely for pleasure and babies don't even enter people's minds.
This. This attitude is really contrary to trends world wide. It doesn't help that many people don't have space for privacy to discover and develop intimacy with the opposite sex. Meanwhile people do have physical urges that are being surpressed or channeled into anger and frustration.
I'm currently at 5:38, and you keep cycling the same information with just different number percentages or years over and over again. Get to the point man
Perhaps the greatest weakness of TH-cam presenters is the inability to EDIT. As a retired newspaper editor, I find it frustrating that so many 40-minute videos could be effectively presented in 20 minutes. This is what we miss from the professional news organizations of the old days.
50 years ago the world population was less than half the current level. There was affordable housing, less crowding and jobs for life. What's wrong with halving the population back to that level?
Why? Here is why it’s not good for everyone: Population 1900: Africa = 100 million. Europe = 400 million China = 500 Million. British India = 300 million. US = 68 million. Mexico = 15 million. Philippines = 9 million. Islam worldwide = 198 million. 2024: Africa = 1.5 billion! = growth of 1500 % Europe = 750 million-> didn’t even double! China = 1.4 Billion -> not even 300% growth. Former British India = 1.9 billion = over 600% growth. US = 300 million-> 400% growth but in 1910 the population of the US was already 100 million so less than 300% growth in 100 years time. Mexico = 127 million = 900% growth. Philippines = 110 million-> 1000% growth. Islam = 2 billion-> 1000% growth. You see which countries have exploded with continuous babyboom? Japan had 50 million in 1900 while Indonesia had 40 million. Until the 60s about equal population. Now Japan declines and has 122 million while Indonesia still grows with. 280 million. Here an extreme example: Niger 🇳🇪 had 1 million people in 1950. Now it has 27 million! In about 70 years time a growth of 2700% sick and insane! That’s the danger, Islam will continue to grow while you are talking bs about halving the population. Africa will continue to explode to 4 billion! I suggest to check what the population was per country in 1900 or 1950 and then check the current population then you can see which countries are responsible for the growth and which countries aren’t. If China and Europe grew like Africa both would have now over 4-5 billion people! Let that sink in. Islam was the 5th largest religion in 1900. Now it will become the largest! Christians for example only doubled from around 1 billion in 1900 to a little over 2 billion now. Buddhism declined because of China -> communism and irreligious. Same for the other Chinese traditional religions, Hinduism went from 220 million to about 900 million.
Because it’s increasing in some areas, while decreasing in others. African nations have the highest birth rates in the world. So while their population is booming, the Koreans on the other hand may go extinct. It’s kinda of a macro vs micro view
This. It's such a simple concept to grasp, the world was doing a lot better when we were 6 billions... What's with the weird thought of growing the population to infinite instead of keeping it steady or losing some population to bring it back up later? There's a reason China had the one-child policy for 5 years.
I feel like the government should pay companies to move out of Seoul where living can be more affordble, establish programs to let people who have children get houses for cheaper. Run a campaign to promote living outside Seoul, maybe even five tax breaks for dramas set outside the city that promote the lifestyle. If people are able to get out of Seoul, they can have a more affordable life, and therefore will find it easier to support kids. But those areas need to put effort into making it liveable, because no one wants to live where it takes an hour to drive to the store because all the stores closed and there are no hospitals and schools.
It’s crazy to me that a country seen as a pinnacle of technological progress hasn’t adapted to just maximize learning through online means and instead still uses tutors
Beating a dead horse here, but its crazy to me in under 3 years this channel went from insane joke vidieos about daming the mediteranian sea to some of the most put together documentaries on the platform.
How can they have kids if they're expected to work so much in the capital? They literally don't have the time to raise them. This is what they say in interviews
As someone who has lived in South Korea for almost a decade, let me just point out one thing: Housing in South Korea is actually affordable, as long as it's not in Seoul. Every city in South Korea except for Seoul is actually experiencing a massive aging and depopulation crisis right now, similar to Japan. Many elementary schools are closing because there simply aren't enough young people to populate them, and the working age group have all moved to Seoul to find jobs. The heavy urbanization and focus on Seoul is one of the major reasons why the country is in this predicament. Many young South Koreans would actually prefer not to live in Seoul if given the choice. The problem is, they simply cannot because all the jobs are there. Therefore, all the areas with cheap land and housing goes unused while prices for homes in Seoul skyrocket and more and more young people are trapped in a nightmare of servitude to the chaebols unless they marry rich, win the lotto, get rich on bitcoin (which was a whoooole thing back 2016-2020). The government has tried to alleviate this centralization around Seoul by building Sejong City an hour south of Seoul to house most of the government functions, but it's been a failed project so far. Seoul remains the place where everything happens while the rest of South Korea is left to die.
@@Jambudvipa-ug6ygcould be a solution but currently extremely unaccepted in Korean working culture. Better to watch Netflix at work (without being caught) so it seems that you spent many hours there than work productive from home...
@@Jambudvipa-ug6yg should have been a game changer but employers decided they don’t like their worker drones having too much power and autonomy, so 2022 comes along and it’s back to the office 🙄
Not really failed. Hundreds of thousands live there. Mostly from rural towns. Many families split rather than relocated. That won’t help fertility rate though.
Exactly! The rich can only squeeze the poor and middle class so much, until they give up on hope for a brighter future for their kids. At that point, you destroyed the future for your society.
Its not that they lost interest. Its that filling the need to become a parent is not economically viable anymore. Including the real and opportunity costs. Were facing a similar problem in Finland. Having a child usually means your housholds income has to either decrease by 25-50% while your expenses increase by a significant margin. Or you have to hire someone else to raise your child for a lot of money. Because of the way our tax system is structured however, we just don't have the disposable income level required to make those sacrifices. The result is a 1.3 fertility rate. I know lots of people who have "i want children" as a life goal. Something they've wanted since they where teens/young adults. Who are entering their 30s without their first one because they could never afford to raise the child.
@@Erowens98 I want to have a family as well. However, I am 24 years old living at my parent's house after having "done everything right". I have student loan, car debt, and coming in the future, a mortgage? I feel like most people are priced out of having a home and have to become perpetual renters.
This generation in South Korea are living better lives than ever before. Back in the 1970s, North Korea and South Korea had the same quality of life. In the 80s, a dictator ruled South Korea. In the 90s, most Koreans did not have HVAC, phones, and computers
Love how North and South Korea fought a brutal war to see whether Capitalism or Communism would rule their country. Now 70 years later both of them have developed to show the absolute worst case scenario of both economic models
@@AndRei-yc3titurns out women get the option leave toxic men if they're educated and have a career so when women don't accept their abusive circumstances it triggers toxic men.
@@erenb.2806 🤦♂️ or it turns out that women get manipulated to chase the next shiny thing because they think it gives them social status and become insufferable and impossible to live with or marry Theres a reason why women were "liberated" in capitalist socities as they are viewed as the ideal consumer lel
@@erenb.2806 it turns out that women are the best consumers and pursue the next shining thing to try to increase their social status because they saw it online. Theres a reason why women were liberated, because they make the best consumers lel
I was a teacher at a private English academy for five years. It was often said amongst the staff that we needed to be understanding and compassionate toward our students because for many of them, we see them more than their parents do.
that's very sad. and also a sad way to live. Also the reason why I'll probably be childfree, there's no point having kids if you have to work you ass off to pay for them and don't even get to see them much.
@@xcrazypopprincess The point is so that the entirety of civilization as we know it does not collapse. The point is that generation upon generation sacrificed to bring children into the world so you could live. Why do you get to be the one to give up?
Is assisted reproduction legal in S. Korea? Is it covered by standard health care or health insurance provisions? America continues to struggle to get insurance to cover fertility assistance and it is very expensive to get full on medical help in the US. Does S. Korea have the same culture as Japan and China where multiple generations tend to live together? I know this mega family living structure creates space issues that can discourage adding space taking children.
Government: "Work long hours with low pay and then have a family of five in a two-room apartment with no garden or personal space, please." Young South Koreans: "How about no?"
That's the most depressing thing about this. All North Korea has to do is tell it's population that South Korea and Japan have the highest suicide rate in the world and how their population suffers under hyper capitalism in order to actually legitimize their rule and show that there is no alternative system. There is no guarantee against suffering and you might as well live in a communist dictatorship.
@@dansmith1661 I'd wonder if this is happening to SK if this is also going to happen to NK as they have it even worse with starvation and people actively dying from not only natural means but from simple lack of nutrition and I imagine many may not want children for the same reason of lack of nourishment
South Korean Life: - Elementary school: spend around 30 hours a week in school, then spend another 5-10 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 35-40 hours of study a week. Basically, a full-time job. - Middle school: spend around 40-45 hours a week in school, then spend another 10-20 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 50-65 hours of study a week. Yikes. - High school: spend around 50-60 hours a week in school, then spend another 10-20 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 60-80 hours of study a week. Double Yikes. Work Life: Statistics are very tricky. It is often quoted that South Korea has an average of 1967 hours of work per week, roughly 37.8 hours per weeks. However, this number considers part-time work, and holidays. It also doesn't account of illegal unpaid overtime. The reality is a lot grimmer. - Work for 40 ordinary hours a week with 12 hours of overtime, which in most cases, they are almost mandatory. This is only the "legal" amount. Often you will work even more and will have to work overtime illegally unpaid. The average for a full-time employee is around 60 hours. How is that life? Where do you even find to time to properly date? If you are a parent, would you want your child to fucking study 60-80 hours a week? Hell no.
@@Cha4k Plenty of Koreans were on the breadline until the 70s and 80s. Since then, they've tended to put with various hardships to achieve prosperity. It's ironic that now they've reached a higher standard of living and international recognition that they've always craved, they're facing an uncertain future.
@@Cha4k imagine comparing modern day society with post war era. If they're somehow doing worse now after nearly 100 years then they should just merge with the north to share the suffering.
Came to say maybe it's societal trauma. It dropped off after the war. Humans are the terrible species. Earth doesn't need us for anything and will transform herself and begin again.
And the ones doing it the most are people at working age. They are screwd. But it's part of the civilization circles. Nations rise and desapear during the whole human history. The mayans, for exemple, desapeared doing to low birth rate. They were shirinking and emigrating later on.
@@coltentackett892Cyno is a character from Genshin Impact (a gacha, open-world video game), I assume the OP meant Sino-Nippon, Sino referring to the China and China-adjacent cultures, and Nippon meaning Japan and Japan-adjacent cultures
I feel bad for those new generations, they'll experience hell to support the older generations and going to be blamed for being "lazy" and "irresponsible" just for being born in that society.
Thank you for your opinion. I was born in 1995 in Korea and I am not lazy at all. There are no jobs in Korea even after graduating from university. In Korea, if you can't join a major company like Samsung, you have to join a trash company, which forces you to work a murderous hours at very low wages.
In reality, such discourse is going on in Korea. The Korean media has created a completely new artificial word called Generation MZ, which combines Generation M and Generation Z, and subtly claims that MZ does not integrate well into the workplace.
@@S-OIL_Koreahe wasn't saying they are lazy, he is saying that unfortunately the younger generation will be thought of as lazy by the older generation for not being able to keep up with supporting them or trying to break the pattern
As a South Korean, I can confirm our society is very competitive. However, it’s not just to get into the chaebols; most parents think doctors are the best job since they pay very well. As a result, the race for medical school is so high that getting into them is deemed harder than getting into the SKY universities. I would also like to add as a high school student that our private education is very fierce. Last year, after school ended at 4:30, I would immediately go to private academies, and move between them until midnight(the government bans academies to teach over 10pm, but few actually follow). It was very tiring😢
Midnight seriously ?! That's damn some serious study load No wonder your country has the highest suicide rates in rich countries. Obv ppl won't be able to keep up with this pressure and also if they don't get a goodUNI or a good job the sense of Disappointment form the society would be intensely soul breaking.
as a korean i also agree its competitive af and its not even beneficial most koreans just study a lot and just forget after the test is over,so whats the point.
I think the doom loop is at least partially a product of a shift in values. While people in the past might have seen the number of children as a primary sign of success, nowadays the number in your bank account has become the sign of success. Money has turned from a means to succeed into the primary kind of success.
We won't go to space, or cure diseases, and build better infrastructure, or do literally anything to improve the lives of average citizens because it's not profitable.
SK isn’t known for immigration encouragement. The culture is pretty hostile to outsiders. People pan immigration on the internet, but immigration is the only reason the USA and some European countries are successful. Look at European countries with no immigration (Serbia, Moldova, etc.) and they’re not doing well.
Encouraging immigration won't solve the problem, it will just delay its consequences. Also you don't want your nation to get replaced over time by another nation.
@@AA-vr8ez it is similar in Japan from what I heard. I would also agree that the imporance and positive effects of immigration are often overlooked and it is instead only regarded as a problem. Germany is a good example for this. There is already lack of workforce because of low fertility rates and yet support for anti immigration parties and sentiments are rapidly increasing. Serbia Moldova are not bad off because they lack immigration though in my opinion. They lack immigration because their economies do not provide enough insentives for immigration in the form of opportunities. So the lack of immigration is rather a sign that these countries are not doing very well. One sign for this is that many citizens of the countries you mentioned work in other EU countries as a cheap labor force often being exploited.
Another thing is that South Korea has a really tough parenting culture, and a lot of kids decide to su!cide because of the stress and expectations their parents pressure on them, the same also works for China, India and Japan
If you are rich you can afford expensive hobbies. If you are in the middle you expect to put a lot into education and well-being of your kids, but you don’t have rich people money for that.
@@mikhailryzhov9419 Middle... in the context of countries being in the literal 1% of global wealth. But yes, in modern Westernized societies, children are literally not allowed to legally work. This forces them to be a net loss for decades. And with modern society, there isn't an expectation for them to repay anything, until retirement years, where the expectation has instead been shifted to the state.
South Korea has tried, and let me get this correct, 90 DAYS OF MATERNITY LEAVE? Canada is one of the fastest growing developed countries in the world and we offer upto 18 months of maternity leave. I get the sense that South Korea isn't taking the whole thing serious enough. They refuse to give up their work culture that has led them to this demographic collapse.
The fact is, there are a lot of companies that even 90 days of leave is socially banned.. they have to walk on eggshells if they use their maternity that long…😢
Yup. At a company I used to work at, there was a lady based in Canada who took 1 year maternity leave, then immediately had another child and took another year maternity leave (no gap in between). After that year, she left the company. So in this case, it definitely did increase "birth-rate" but also opens up to "abusing the privilege" I'm sure offering mandatory 1 year parental leave will help birth rates in Korea, possibly even a new baby boom. But would the Korean government, companies, economy be able to stomach footing the bill? Not sure. But yes that's the dilemma facing Korea.
@@accordblaze Well I mean, companies in Canada don't pay for maternity leaves. The company you are talking to never paid a dime to that lady during her maternity leave, that would have come from the employment insurance program in Canada, Korea as a country has no choice but to stomach it, because their country is facing demographic collapse unlike any that has ever happened in human history. I'm sure the expense of a similar employment insurance program, roughly 5% paid by both the employee and the company, is probably a small cost in comparison.
I've just shocked when I visited my elementary school again a year ago. There were only 33 students in the entire school even though I was living in a third largest city in korea. There were over 150 students when I attended. This is literally a disaster
@@mazzy_vc That's overall, however, local population of certain nations certainly are decreasing. The other developing nations are making up much of the rising global population whether we like to admit it or not.
@@mazzy_vc It is a disaster for South Korea though, the domestic social issues don't seem to be going away for a good few decades more and hostility to immigration doesn't help in the slightest. If a country doesn't have people to work, it has no economy nor means to produce goods for itself. The world will be fine, but not so much South Korea...
It is difficult to see South Korea's development as the worst outcome. South Koreans are richer than most people on earth. It is natural that they have many shortcomings compared to traditional developed countries.
NK will still be there in 100 years so maybe communism does in fact work in the long run. And I really doubt South Koreans are happier even if they are "richet". I was just in SK and ppl seem fuking miserable. Ever commie country I've been ppl seem happier contrary to what the Western CIA media tells you
@@yuchan063 No matter how difficult it is to see it's not unwarranted to say that despite all its riches South Korea is essentially becoming a failed state. I do not see how they can turn this around, not only is the birth rate falling fast but its population is aging fast too. The average age has gone up by 15 years from 30 to 45 in less than 25 years.
The United States has often functioned as a “gerontocracy.” The median age of congress and the judiciary has always been far greater than the median age. Young people are less likely to vote.
Pretty much every modern democracy is a gerontocracy. The assumption is that the elderly will care for their children and grandchildren, but this system stops working when the voters and representatives don't have any.
It messed with my head so much until I realised that the 0.67 isn't a value between 0 and 1, but rather a value between 0 and 2 since it takes 2 to make anything.
It's not so much poverty that makes having kids seem terrible, but our expectations. We stop having kids when we think that our kids will live in a world worse than we did, and future doesn't seem that bright to many 20-40 year olds around the world.
The combination of all the factors makes having kids extremely unappealing. The fact that some nk defectors regret leaving indicates how out of hand everything is
We are literally been threatened by the rich owners of been replaced by AI, automatization, outsourcing and cheap immigrants. How on earth are we expected to plan to have chidren under such instability?
As a foreigner who lives and works in South Korea, it is wild to see the problems firsthand. I am a teacher and if I were to ever have kids it would not be here. Crazy amounts of pressure on the kids and the costs associated with having a kid, both time wise and monetarily, are just not feasible for most people.
Wow, then it is really extreme over there.. I hope they will turn that around. They should make it more lucrative and cheaper/cost efficient for the families to have kids. Take the pressure off from schooling, and make the family important again and not the career opportunities. Or the government can incentivize young people to first have kids before they are allowed to study or work of course with government aid for their living expenses. The older generation is large and has the capital to support the future of their country. Only through similar policies like that South Korea will continue to thrive and even exist in the next century.
2023 birth rate 0.72 2024 birth rate 0.68 We have 50 million populations and there's only 200000 babies meet the world per year. This is crazy. People don't want to have babies and I don't know why. I just can't understand.
@@shottyddwhy are you talking like government is like a company? They don't grow food, they don't produce goods, they don't provide goods, they are literally money sucking machines that makes rules for you to follow. Give them places to live? Who's paying for it? Why are you talking like South Korea is this huge area with lots of land? 😂 Do you even know where they are?
As a resident of South Korea I must say that this is one of the best and most comprehensive overviews of the major trends in our society that I’ve seen. Very well done!!
9 to 9 work hours (one of the highest work hours in OECD), incredibily competitive society (highest depression rate), soul-breaking education pressure (highest student suicide rate) is all accumulating into this huge economical, cultural, political disaster that is the fertility rate.
How can they have kids if they're expected to work so much in the capital? They literally don't have the time to raise them. This is what they say in interviews
pretty much, which knocks on to have negative effects on economy which means more people need to work to survive which means they more prioritized in their own situation than growing a family... its not all that surprising but certainly not a good thing
@@beardedlonewolf7695again. You want someone to give up their class status for a lower less powerful class status on purpose for no benefit to themselves? White men, those with the highest privilege in the world, don’t even want to be drafted and yet you want 50% of the population with, essentially, 45% man status, to give up that small privilege to be subjected to domestic violence, poor health care, no divorce coverage, no benefits if your husband dies and no rights to property unless it’s in their name. For what in exchange? Your husband isn’t obligated to take care of you, treat you properly or leave you money if they die. You are essentially a baby factory with no benefits to yourself whatsoever and honestly the treat for being invaded when you’re 80 isn’t super important when you’re 25 and don’t want to be beaten, cheated on and left broke by your husband.
Governments around the world are forgetting to create a society that people actually want to LIVE IN. They are too busy looking at the bank balance, instead of if their people are living healthy and worthwhile lives.
Cyberpunk as a genre has become known as a thinly veiled showing of the western fears of Asian dominance since Blade Runner, so literally yeah thats what Cyberpunk 2077 was going for. its an 80s-90s idea of high tech Japanese monolithic companies like Sharp and Sony, which could be compared to chaebols
@xymaryai8283 I don't know how I missed this angle all this time given how obvious it actually is.... I mean, the big bad in CP77 is a Japanese corporate emperor who wants to nuke America, lol.
They basically are. SK supreme court has actually set a precedent into law that board members of certain companies are Too Big to Jail. As in, convicted, sentenced and then simply told to walk out because their going to prison would be too harmful to the economy of the nation. Dystopian AF. But they do make good monitors for cheap prices tho so I'll allow it if their own people allow it. Over there.
In a country like South Korea i think the mindset is: why have kids and subject them to the suffering you had to go though and you are being worked to death therefore you have no time for kids
That's how it is everywhere. If all you can do is hand your wages over in rent because you don't come from the property owning class why would you want to repeat that situation.
I am a graduate of a SKY university. My mom paid for private tuition which amounted to a chaebol employee's entire salary, despite that she was a single mom and was living in a pathetically small house with only one room or two, with two children. It was a unpleasant enough childhood that I would rather have no kids that to witness my child suffer through the same shit. Now I am a DINK, but the depressing degradation of the country is forcing me to seek retirement abroad. I might have to leave the country if I want any help from an able bodied person in my bedridden days ahead of me.
So the reasons summarised by this video are very real. Kids are not even wanted from a SKY person like yourself. Imagine what about the rest of the 98% who are not admitted to SKY?
@@mariam-bk510Thankfully in those 98% we do get marriage, but just extremely rarely. Let's be real; the wealth heritage is evident in every single country, and we Koreans just value them to the extremes and do NOT want to inherit our generation's "socially poor state" created by all the dystopian internet nerd addicted to the competitiveness of out society. I gotta say that these "social inequality" catastrophes happening rn are outgrowth of the sadly prevalent social networking services' toxic cultures.
@@mariam-bk510 In other countries, less educated people tend to have more kids. But in Korea, wealthier people tend to have more kids and wealthier peole are usually more educated. So yeah, the fact that I chose to have no kids and that it's not that uncommon among my peer group is very concerning. I don't expect to see Korea's fertility rate bouncing back up any time soon.
It's quite amazing how they were able to fit two dystopias in one peninsula.
The Arabian peninsula has at least three 😩
1984 in the north and a techno-dystopia in the south lmao
South Asia has like 5
Islamist
Hindutvadi
Ultra-rich techie
Dirt poor
Language based wars
Jean-Claude Van Damme wishes he could split like that
@@ChineseKiwi is based Korea really a dystopia or is that gringo propaganda?
Babies, unfortunately, do not provide short-term benefits for Samsung shareholders
Avarice
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@@matheussanthiago9685 But no future customers to buy the products? "Money today, who cares about tomorrow." mentality.
@@Vegibyte they’re not thinking that far ahead
It's not just Samsung. The post-WW2 idea that children *must* be net losses for decades, with the expectation that they move the hell out immediately has been rather tragic for all modern family units. It turns kids from an essential part of life - in fact, the measure of whether the life was worthy of continuing - into a high value commodity, like a muscle car. (Except the car is paid off in a few years.)
Least alarmist RealLifeLore title
@@idk-99114 I see reading comprehension isn't your cup of tea
To be fair, it is a huge crisis. Japans less demographically screwed than Korea, and they’re still going though an enormous debt crisis bc of the pressure having too many elderly people offers.
Watch him change it 6 times in the next hours lol
40min video that can be summed up in 5min...
@@crocogab3674gotta chase that ad revenue
In 200 years, historians will be baffling how Koreans became prosperous, crushed the price of a TV by 1500% and then suddenly and mysteriously vanished
maybe it was just an invisibility potion 🥱
Nah. His entire video keeps the presumption that the fertility rate won't increase. Thats a flawed logic. As the fertility rate causes the population to lower, people will become more confident having children and that fertility rate will increase again.
@@teelo12000
Fertility rate itself is decreasing because of lack of confidence among the population to thrive as they did before. So your point of argument is not valid. Decreasing fertility rate will age out the population and the aged population will lack potency and fertility, which will further accelerate the fall of population in future.
Population will thrive only in the region where the mentality of the people reaches to the point "we got nothing to lo lose or gain" and still happy with the available resources, mainly natural resources. In such regions even a family without a penny income will breed multiple children among which all will dwell among the dirt and fittest ones will survive into adulthood (mostly all will survive). Most of the Africa and South Asia falls into such region, with plenty of arable land and natural resources, boomer population will mature into adulthood without much of external aid.
@@teelo12000 The reason for low fertility rate in SK is not just confidence but also increase in radical feminism among the female youth of SK and also the decline of traditional(Religious) value of marriages to just a sexual relationship.
hmmm... i smell a Serket heh 88888888
As a South Korean living in Seoul, there are too many reasons for this crisis. The competitive nature of Korean society, the conflict of men and women, an almost mad way of comparing each other and never finding peace, and so on. The accumulation of dozens of problems created a society where people don’t want to get married and have children. And the most horrifying thing is that people don’t even care and are even ridiculing their own country for this. In the internet there are so many comments that say “it’s still higher than 0.6? lol let’s keep it up until it’s 0.1 boys“
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So south koreans have basically given up on the country and are accelerating the country to its inevitable end?
@@HR4_ cringe
@@HR4_ nah that's crazy
Well, eventually there will be such a labor shortage that having kids will actually turn out to be a profitable activity. It just might require the collapsing of the current economy and society
You work as a Samsung drone for 60 hours a week, then return to a tiny hole of an apartment to watch K-pop while slurping down cheap noodles.
And then the government calls you up and asks you why you don't have 2.1 children yet.
Lol it seems that both koreas are shit
Even Samsung drone is very successful case in Korea.
Over 80% of people are working the same or more hours while receiving only 50% of the wage of Samsung drone.
@@shlee5261 totally agree, Marconius is insane to think Samsung drones are bottom of food chain ...
This is just wrong…
현실은 삼성 드론으로 일하는것은 한국 사회 상위 10%에 속하는 사람입니다. 절대 다수의 사람들은 하청의 하청의 하청 노동자로 평범한 임금을 받고 삽니다.
Imagine paying all that money for a house and then 30 years later the value of your house crashes because nobodies around to buy it.
If housing is so expensive, a declining population should help lower the prices making it easier to get by
oh no?? shouldnt have planned with infinite growth in mind lmao
@@stant7122Japan has relatively low house prices thanks to population decline
Welcome to Japan😂
Imagine having a house.
This is literally why Squid Games was commentary on SK society. Even the old guy was running the whole show.
Does it show how racist South Koreans are towards Indians? Wonder if the show has that "commentary" as well.
@@desmasic Nice "what aboutism" 😂.
@@desmasic
ㅋㅋㅋ인종차별이 아닌 행동에 따른 차별이다ㅋㅋ인도인들이 주장하던 클럽사건도 인도인이 돈을 안내고 한국여성을 괴롭혀서 입장금지됨
그리고 인도인들은 다른나라에서도 공공장소에서 시끄럽게하고 질서와 매너가 부족한 것으로 유명하다
일본어,태국어,독일어 등으로 인도를 검색해봐도 비슷한 댓글을 확인할 수 있다
인종차별을 얘기하기 전에, 다른 나라 사람들도 공통적으로 얘기하는 본인들의 단점을 먼저 살펴보는게 더 나을것이다
@@desmasic That guy wasn't even Indian he was Pakistani
@@JelloOnWebin real life he's indian though.
"Offering 90 days parental leave" is that supposed to be a lot? Most European have around this level of maternal leave and we're still all far below replacement rate
Capitalism is shortsighted and sociopathic. To it even one day off is one too many.
In Ontario, Canada there's a 17 week pregnancy leave plus 61 to 78 weeks parental leave. The birth rate is still at 1.33 or so
@@doujinflip you assume socialist countries are different? Lol Lmao even
imo parental leave should be 3 years
Meanwhile the U.S offers 0 days parental leave. Capitalism is pure evil.
Government: "Why isn't our cattle having offspring??? REEEEEEEEEE".
They will just repopulate with N.Koreans or even worse, Africans. They don't care about Koreans.
The way Koreans pronounce it, it comes out more like "Rhee-eeeeee"...
Kids are expensive. People in the US seem to prefer dogs and cats.
becuase the evil system made it so expensive :/ hate this world's systems always have!
Which are getting expensive too.
@@NightmareRex6 No people don't want kids because they are selfish.
Bullshit. Compared to any other period in history, our living standard, even on the poorer end, is one of extravagant opulence.
@@bulldogsbobI agree that this is actually the main reason. We want instant pleasure and avoid sacrifice like the plague.
Why would they have children if it costs $260k to raise one, you can pay off half your house with that or buy a frickin Ferrari.
Heck, with that money you could reasonably emigrate to a different country altogether.
Yes better to have a paid off house and car
I always wonder how it comes to be such a ridiculous amount. I mean, children would receive just pennies during ww2. The most you would spend on a kid would be food and entertainment(optional). I just don't get, how is it such a high number?
@@kevinkarlwurzelgaruti458 education. Lots of it. They start private education since kindergarten and 70% of them get college degrees. Hell, the SK government is actually saying lets keep the elementary kids at school even later than they already are so that, ya know, parents have time to make more babies.
As a German I think they are more expensive.
hi South Korean 3rd grade of high schooler here, very accurate and well summarized vid the country is full of hatred against the counterparts(men vs women, liberal vs conservative, rural student vs urban student etc...) it is truly a mess and I myself plan to emigrate to us after graduating university(I used to live in us for 2years and I felt like the place I lived was far better than Korea) it is a truly depressing country and I am certain this country will meet the fate this video suggests one more thing I'd like to add to the education problem is because children are forced to compete too early in lives, jobs requiring mental skills are treated far superior to jobs that require skills and the pay gap between them is extreme. Also competing from an early age doesn't help our mental states. I am sure this leads to the large amount of hate produced against other groups in society(the ones I mentioned above). thank you for making this vid
어디서 구라치노 ㅋㅋㅋ 느그집안이 잘못됏겟지 ㅋㅋ 내동생은 학교끝나면 매일 놀더라 ㅋㅋㅋ 공부좀 시켜줘라 제발
US CIA thing is divide and rule.
As an immigrant to the U.S., you likely won't be considered as playing much of a part in this, but the same issues, minus the intense competitiveness at a young age, all exist in the U.S. right now as well. But we have a more individualistic culture, which is why we've not had the same birth rate problems. Just saying that if you're joining this country in part or in whole because you believe neighbors here get along with each other and we're all friendly with each other...you're sadly very mistaken and we're a very, very divided nation. I would add the words "right now", but we've always been heavily divided, be it racially, financially, politically, religiously, etc.
Since you are already very well educated and very thoughtful, because you are able to see some causes and effects, some patterns, I would suggest that you and other young people do NOT plan to emigrate but to remain and to haul the country around into a better future. This will mean getting together with like-minded peers, brainstorming extensively, seeking out adults who think similarly and wish for change, writing and publishing articles, making videos, talking with politicians, business people. ONLY Koreans can create a new future for South Korea. Why not plan to do 'Great Work' in your own country? Obviously that will require a lifelong commitment, dedication, love for the people and the country, and a determination to solve the problems. Your lives are wasted as competitors only. Time to move on from this demeaning and damaging vision / compulsion. 🥰🙏🤜🤛
The replies to this well written comment are sad and misguided. I welcome you back to the US and I hope you have a happy life here.
It's crazy to ask people who have no free time or money to give up their free time and money to have kids.
NOT JUST THAT WHY DO THEY WANNA SPEND MISREABLE LIVES TO TAKE CARE OF ANOTHER PERSON
and i heard they have an insane night life too, really sucks alcohal is the drug of choice for humanity, be so much better if was just weed. and koreans tend to have WORSE hangovers than other demographics. and if dont drink its considered rude i think.
Thank you for diving into the WHY so deeply. I love your videos.
"South Korea is in fact going extinct" - Caspian Report, 4 days ago.
Two leftist bots copying eachother
@@technobladeleakedclips1827wrong
Don't read my name
@@technobladeleakedclips1827i bet you miss the old idubbbz
@@technobladeleakedclips1827 caspian report is not leftist lol
What I learned from RLR is that 90 percent of countries have existential problems
The other 10 percent are going to have existential problems in the near future.
It’s almost as if a lot of countries are facing unprecedented problems
@@fiiral5870 it's almost as if infinite growth isn't possible or something
@@matheussanthiago9685 no way *surprised pikachu face*
It's almost as if America is the most well off country in the world we're just really obnoxious sore winners and mega rude about it
Guys... I think the North may actually stand a chance in the long run.
Yeah, if they liberalise the economy, open free and fair elections, open the country for foreign investment, stop absolute reliance on china and normalise relations with other countries, then they might have a small chance.
Wow I didn’t even think about that..all they have to do is wait
Stand a chance in what?
large armies aren't everything
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson"... Ideological purity and shiny power armor don't count for much when you're outnumbered 15:1."
- Rober Edwin House
No wonder why Koreans call themselves the “Republic of Samsung “
As a South Korean man in my twenties, I would like to share my thoughts on the income gap between men and women mentioned in the video. Currently, almost 95% of young South Korean men are conscripted into military service (as of 2023, only 2.5% are completely exempt from any form of conscription, and those who are physically unfit or disabled are assigned to public service during this period). As a result, their entry into society is delayed, and to compensate for this, they receive a salary equivalent to having worked two additional years compared to their non-conscripted peers when they join the workforce simultaneously. (Of course, the wage gap among the middle-aged and older generations is more significantly influenced by gender reasons.)
In modern times, while patriarchy has rapidly collapsed and equal rights have been granted to both men and women, the obligations that came with those rights under patriarchy have not disappeared. The privileges of patriarchy were enjoyed by the current middle-aged and older generations, leaving men in their twenties to shoulder only the obligations of the old system, which is a source of their dissatisfaction.
Today's young men and women in Korea value equality and fairness more than any other generation.
Although women's quotas or additional points for women are implemented in many fields, the employment crisis in Korea is experienced by both men and women. It is true that there are more men than women in high-ranking positions, executives, CEOs, etc. due to gender discrimination, but this only applies to middle-aged people in their 40s and older, not young people in their 230s.
They feel that they have become a generation that only suffers losses in the transitional period toward gender equality.
Lastly, this comment is from the perspective of a Korean man in his 20s. There will be various thoughts and opinions.
Now a woman has to spend her life slaving away for a corporation instead of at home raising the kids. Yay equality.
Life is more nuanced than a polarized world view can handle and your post shows this nuance quite clearly. Good luck in life mate. I hope something in your country changes for the better.
When women earn more, they are more Lively to file for divorse, to feel like there are no good men, to remain childless, and, funnily, to be more unhappy.
Interesting. I'm an American, but still thank you for discussing a lot of the nuance behind the socioeconomic situations there (and for acknowledging your perspective as a young Korean man). I feel like important nuances like this often gets lost when discussing generational differences, especially when it involves people's cultures other than one's own.
A small point though -- you mentioned 20-30 year old Korean men not having many of the same privileges and opportunities as those in older generations, while having many of the same obligations and responsibilities forced on younger generations. A few comments on that:
1) Is a lot of that influenced by a culture of assumed respect for older people, and more a matter of generations aging than society itself changing? For example, is that something that younger men even in your generation could reasonably expect to start benefitting from as they grow older? Or, from a different perspective, did older Korean men similarly struggle around your age until a select few managed to find that privilege in their 40-60s that you're seeing now?
2) You mention that patriarchy's privileges have collapsed, while keeping around the obligations for younger men. But actually, those obligations are very much a byproduct of how many feminists define patriarchy too -- the very same systems that widen pay gaps and lessen opportunities for career growth and autonomy for women are also the exact same ones that force harsh burdens on men, especialy those who aren't (set up to become) upper class in society. This is usually called "intersectionality", looking at common issues like this that negatively impact other classes of people (including men) alongside women, and how they often come from the same "source" or cause of societal issues. So, it could easily be that patriarchy still exists very strongly, just that you're seeing different but parallel negative impacts of it than women may see. And that challenging these issues helps not only women, but almost everyone in society. To use a common analogy, it might be that you're seeing the other side of the same coin.
3) Is conscription into the military, then, seen as a necessary way to climb the corporate or industrial leadership ladder in South Korea?
South Korea is amongst the most sexist developed countries. You stating that equality has been achieved is a joke in very poor taste.
Why are all these babies (0:10) in a room together? This is an American scene from the 1950s. But why was it ever done? Why take the baby away from its mother right after birth? It’s insane. My daughter was born 32 years ago and this practice was already extinct.
South Korea prioritizes mother's recovery and increases time with children when she recovers
When a career is more important than family, one tends to die alone without the latter.
40 years ago sounded like ancient history, and then he said 1984.
That hurt because I was already a teen in 1984.
This is happening in so many developed countries right now, people can’t keep up with the cost of living and raising families, so people are spending their time and whatever money they have on themselves instead of children.
I think COVID lockdowns showed people how utterly difficult it is to have kids when you don't have a job, you can't take your kids to school, and you can't even visit the grandparents for fear of spreading a deadly virus. No one knows when the next virus will makes its way into society again, so we are living it up like we don't believe we are ever safe again from another pandemic happening in the near future. Hence there is no future, hence no children.
Their philosophy "Buy a dog and die alone"
It's just an excuse, usually the poorest people have the highest birth rates
Promoting careers for women instead of families and kids collapses the birth rate.
@@Boppy00When you have nothing to lose why not
Moral of the story is take more sick leaves and spend time with family.
new drinking game: have a shot everytime RealLifeLore says 'unprecedented'
You owe me a liver :(
To be fair, talking about precedented things tends to be less interesting
say "rapidly" again!!
A middle/high school friend of mine went back to Korea after finishing school. I asked if he was planning to have kids. He laughed at me and said he doesn’t have money to feed them. I haven’t researched the cost of living in Seoul but can only guess that it’s prohibitively high and not conducive to creating extra mouths to feed. His brother and sister at least have 1 but if I use this tiny sample size, it still has them below the replacement mark.
This appears to happen when productivity doesn't equal prosperity. You see it in the USA where the stats were rising post WW2 and then crashed in the 1970's when Nixon allowed good US MFG jobs to be moved to China.
This is such a profoundly effective comment at addressing the issue in as little words as possible. 👏
Both sides of the establishment in the US have been committed to outscoring jobs (globalist based greed) and wealth away from the middle class for over 30 years now, that's why populist parties are rising on both sides.
The world as a whole: cost of living is very high, cant afford to have kids, both parents have to work. Simple to understand.
Feminism is ruining the First World
This is life in 2024 Australia too. 16.3x average wage for the average apartment here. Best of luck.
_PS: Driving rocks my world too, so I've got a mad modded Copen, an Alto Turbo RS & a Suzuki mb. What drives you?_
I can promise you that this is not the case in Sweden. If you want to live in luxury, yes, but not if you don't mind being poor (which is super fine in the modern age).
BS Most today don’t know poverty. I slept in the same bed with two brothers and we wore “hand-me-downs” that had patches on the holes. Today’s kids are “snowflakes” and whiners. 😂
“Population” or “manpower” will soon be MEANINGLESS.
How many ROBOTS and DRONES will SC have?
Before you read, just know these words are not mine. Rather, this rant came from a friend of mine who worked in both a hagwon and public school:
"South Korea's problems widen through every part of their society. Whether it being their social structures (age hierarchy, nepotism, class system) or the ever-growing costs of housing, rent, and insurance. I know they have Universal Health Care, but I'm talking property insurance, car insurance, etc. Also, the minimum wage in South Korea (~$7) is horrible. Even for foreigners, income is pretty scarce. For example, it's true that English teachers make as low as ~$1600 a month while having free housing (which is pretty decent in South Korea), but the hours and energy needed to work are absolutely insane. For native Koreans, they are struggling heavily with student loans and housing. The struggle is extremely different for a foreigner, but there are many aspects where both groups can relate to. Prices are now skyrocketing, and for many Koreans, the dream of having a family is just too expensive to manage. All of this, mainly due to the pressured standards and social critiques within Korean people. From the hagwons (which have already been facing a very noticeable decline of students) for children that can go on for hours into the night, to the anxiety-raising world of College Exams that have been one of the main causes of suicide for Korean teens. Seeing my students sink into pressure and feeling hopeless made teaching extremely hard, as the "bright" students are either too naive or egotistical, and the many other students who are trying to learn are basically on survival mode. Doing anything just to get them a chance to make it somewhere. Also, don't forget the recruitment process for job hunting in Korea. From my Korean best friend who recently moved to Australia for work -- "If you know a guy who know's a guy, just hope you might get a job if that person knows someone with a higher position." If you're a woman with a job, and you get pregnant with a child, well you better say goodbye to your job because the likelihood of going back to work after pregnancy is basically impossible. The discrimination these women face are just unfair, and that made me blessed to be born a male -- let alone a foreigner. Korean male's have conscription and the requirement to go to military service is soul crushing for many Korean men who want to jumpstart in life already. Many of my co-workers described coming back from the military as being "lost" and "dejected" from life. Just going with flow, and hoping for some decency. It's no wonder why the population is declining, children are being burnt out from the system and as they grow up they are basically left to fiend for whatever they can get. If you're a woman, the pressure of marriage and pregnancy is contradictory to Korean society's norm of work culture, while Korean men having to join the military and being spit out after service are just left to dry looking for a way onward. These problems lead to the growing necessity to work in order to survive, rather than to live happily. The only way to live happily is to either be born in a chaebol family, know a chaebol, work with a chaebol, or miraculously meet a chaebol."
I asked him if being an English teacher was really bad, and he just told me from his experience, that working for a hagwon was a nightmare while working for a public school was okay but the parents can really make teaching hard if they don't like your teaching style. You can be nice and caring to the students, but some parents, often than not, will give you "recommendations" and try and teach you how to parent their child. As if being a teacher was enough.
I wanted to ask him more, but he got drunk and knocked out lol. Bro was ranting like crazy though.
Just to let you all know, his experience was different. Some English teachers have had great experiences in South Korea.
However, that doesn't change the fact that South Korea's problems are only worsening for its people and the need for change needs to be more pronounced.
your friend must suck to talk to
@@AlmostNamedOne that was a rant, not a conversation.
The math of population become 0 won't become reality. People have less children and fertility rate because of worsen economy, high competitiveness. When the population is reduced to a certain number, people are comfortable and happy to have more children, then the population will increase again. This is assuming there is no big increase in immigrant population.
But their economy is hosed. Declining consumption base + end of globalization = a whole new world.
It's difficult to pinpoint a favourite youtube channel as there are so many different types of channels oit there, but I do label Real Life Lore as my personal favourite. Another banger of a video. My one criticism of RLL is it's clickbaity titles sometimes but the content is generally to an exceptionally high standard.
Least click bait RealLifeLore thumbnail
And title
Don't read my name
Doesn't feel like clickbait to me
TH-cam: "South Korea is Literally Going Extinct"
Kim Jong Un: "It's a good news, prepare to invade 😎"
Stay upto date kim said he wants nothing do with South in fact not even wanting to take over or rule south anymore.
Until Trump steps in.
Income inequality is such a problem, they've turned the subject into great cinema. "Parasite" was the first foregn film I've ever seen in the theater (and glad I did).
Not that bad. Korean economy is export oriented. Shrinking local population will have little impact on the economic performance. Also, the new generation will have plenty of jobs to choose from, as the applicant/vacancy ratio will be favorable!! Slow down-sizing is the way to go! Do not panic and succumb to the mass immigration that will impact on the national identity.
@niendeiv9898 China's economic growth is slowing down dramatically... China is also having the exact same low birth rate problem as S. Korea aggravated by decades long 1-child policy. Chinese population is aging rapidly. China is no longer "emerging fast" as you are saying. China has already emerged and probably nearing its peak! So, I don't share your pessimistic outlook about S. Korean export future.
Long hours at work does not necessarily mean "hard working". There's a lot of wasted time and inefficiencies in both South Korea and Japan.
Japanese are actually known to be efficient, many modern corporate and manufacturing practices came from Japanese companies
A lot of it is about appearances - you don't leave until the boss does. Then you often go to a bar with your boss and colleagues to "network" (this isn't "fun" for a lot of people - it's a social expectation and your career can suffer if you don't do this). But yeah, it's less about actually having that much work to do, and more about being physically present.
@@万恶共匪毒害中华 Except they aren't. They used to be a lot more efficient, but they have stagnated hard. The insane work hours drastically lowers work efficiency as workers burn out too the point some die from overwork. They even have a term for this: Karōshi
People are not robots.
People require rest.
People require a social life outside of work.
@@Ozzianman What you describe is effectiveness, not efficiency
@@万恶共匪毒害中华 Does it really matter? Both apply just as much. Overwork is causing lower effectiveness and efficiency. People don't get the necessary rest that allows them to return to work well rested with a clear mind and this stress builds up over time which leads to lower output of work done and lower quality of produced work.
The Japanese are very disciplined. Their potential is squandered by overwork.
What is happening in Japan is unsustainable. Same in South Korea.
Brilliant documentary. Love your very instructive videos.
The solution is actually very simple, it is not that young South Koreans do not want kids its is just that kids are way too expensive.
If the government were to announced that all newborn babies healthcare, education and food will be fully paid by the government, I am sure this problem will be resolved in a few years time.
At the end of the day, it is all about the money.
Haven’t they considered using the money to rise payments and lower living and school costs, so people can have more time to have a family.
Well, I'll give one of the reasons that Americans can also resonate: We need some bold and innovative policies that clearly benefit the parents who decide to have children, but our old and incompetent politicians are so distanced from the reality of the Korean people that they just pull out bulls*** policies out of their a**es.
Think it was Hungary that an idea that was quite solid imo and i may not be getting it verbatim. A woman that has 4 or more kids with the same man and they stay together gets a tax credit where one income in the house is tax exempt. It'd be a solid start to addressing the fertility crisis we are starting to face and It'd also incentives family to stay together.
Hi, I'm from Germany and doing Taekwondo from my earliest ages because my father does so too. I guess Germany and Korea deos share a lot of similarities on an economic level. In fact a lot of our politicans claims that South Korea is capitalism done right.
Sorry, but if South Korea is the future of humanity I know why suicide rates there are that high.
@@darthmaul8912 Well if you only focus on economic index related to growth, then it can be said that South Korea is a successful country, but it can be also easily overlooked that because the economic growth in SK was more rapid compared to other countries, problems associated with capitalism are also more prevalent, such as severe wealth inequality, employees being overworked in companies, monopoly of megacorporations, excessive emphasis on education causing high stress on children (fueled by the fact that SK is a resource-scarce country), etc.
@@stellacollector It seems that in capitalism on big growth is always followed by hughe inequality and aocial decline sooner or later.
I hope you and your loved ones do well and that SK will overcome this corporate dystopia.
If you think North Korea is the literal prison on Earth, then the same goes for South Korea functioning exactly the same except for the fact that the prison doors are always open for both entering and exiting.
Lol True,But At least The DPRK Is Honest About It & Don't Harp The Facade Of Democracy Like ROK😂😂😂😂
The two are not even comparable.
You might be annoyed by SK decisions but don't let it cloud your judgement of how terrible life in NK would be under a communist dictator.
Uhhhh people in NK have starved from famines, are sent to brutal labor and prison camps for the most minor of offenses, cannot leave, are significantly poorer, the electricity isn't even reliable and oh yeah their leader is a dictator the are forced to spend their life worshiping. This isn't even remotely comparable to South Korea, and it's insulting you think anyone is stupid enough to think so.
Even in Korea, it's the damn Boomers
36:27 He is perfectly correct! Feminism is the only reason that Western nations are dying demographically. Repeal the 19th!
TBH, a lot of this goes back YEARS before even the Boomers. In the US at least, a lot of the dumb suburb planning, gutted public infrastructure and excessive focus on certain urban areas (while rejecting rural or small town spots) goes back to some selfish, corrupt or reckless members of the World War II generation or even the World War I generation (the problems I mentioned were already starting to develop around the late 1950s, in some places even the 40s). When most of the Boomers entered the workforce around the early 70s, America's once great rail network and passenger service was in shambles, inner cities were falling into ruin, and many smaller towns were literally dying from job and population loss and/or economic woes. My Boomer parents remember it vividly in Iowa, it was devastating. Things briefly got a bit better in the 80s and early 90s, but soon went into decline again and with few exceptions have mostly continued on that path since. Sounds like much of the western world and East Asia took a rather similar path to us, even if on a different timeline.
65 is pretty young for retirement in a country facing an aging population.
If you had a maniac staying next door, you wouldn't wanna have kids either
That's a shockingly small part of it. I guess you get used to it.
The real maniacs are their seniors, both bosses and elders. It's a very hierarchical society and those seniors demand so much that young Koreans literally have no time to care for themselves.
Most younger south koreansdon't care about north-korea
There's good ole thumbnail skull! Missed you buddy, haven't seen you in months!
One of the other reasons why birth rate is dropping so much is people making sex as if it was this disgusting taboo that is the ultimate sin of the flesh that no one should know about. I constantly see sex or lust being displayed as something negative that you need to be ashamed or feel disgusted about and this will only hurt us in the end because we need those two things to survive as a species.
Exactly
That obviously not the problem.
Lol what?
Western societies are hypersexualized and completely pornified yet fertility rates are in the dump. Sex is done purely for pleasure and babies don't even enter people's minds.
This. This attitude is really contrary to trends world wide.
It doesn't help that many people don't have space for privacy to discover and develop intimacy with the opposite sex. Meanwhile people do have physical urges that are being surpressed or channeled into anger and frustration.
I'm currently at 5:38, and you keep cycling the same information with just different number percentages or years over and over again. Get to the point man
Thats all of this dudes vids, leftist maoist propaganda yet drawn out for as long as possible so he can make the most money off it 😂
I don’t think you realize the video you’re watching, you the one who clicked on a 40min+ stats TH-cam channel
Perhaps the greatest weakness of TH-cam presenters is the inability to EDIT. As a retired newspaper editor, I find it frustrating that so many 40-minute videos could be effectively presented in 20 minutes. This is what we miss from the professional news organizations of the old days.
„Soilent Green“ becoming an creepy possible reality.
50 years ago the world population was less than half the current level. There was affordable housing, less crowding and jobs for life. What's wrong with halving the population back to that level?
Why do you hate people? We need people, lots of people.
Why? Here is why it’s not good for everyone:
Population 1900: Africa = 100 million. Europe = 400 million
China = 500 Million. British India = 300 million. US = 68 million.
Mexico = 15 million.
Philippines = 9 million.
Islam worldwide = 198 million.
2024: Africa = 1.5 billion! = growth of 1500 %
Europe = 750 million-> didn’t even double!
China = 1.4 Billion -> not even 300% growth.
Former British India = 1.9 billion = over 600% growth.
US = 300 million-> 400% growth but in 1910 the population of the US was already 100 million so less than 300% growth in 100 years time.
Mexico = 127 million = 900% growth. Philippines = 110 million-> 1000% growth.
Islam = 2 billion-> 1000% growth.
You see which countries have exploded with continuous babyboom?
Japan had 50 million in 1900 while Indonesia had 40 million. Until the 60s about equal population. Now Japan declines and has 122 million while Indonesia still grows with. 280 million.
Here an extreme example: Niger 🇳🇪 had 1 million people in 1950. Now it has 27 million! In about 70 years time a growth of 2700% sick and insane!
That’s the danger, Islam will continue to grow while you are talking bs about halving the population. Africa will continue to explode to 4 billion!
I suggest to check what the population was per country in 1900 or 1950 and then check the current population then you can see which countries are responsible for the growth and which countries aren’t.
If China and Europe grew like Africa both would have now over 4-5 billion people! Let that sink in.
Islam was the 5th largest religion in 1900. Now it will become the largest! Christians for example only doubled from around 1 billion in 1900 to a little over 2 billion now.
Buddhism declined because of China -> communism and irreligious. Same for the other Chinese traditional religions, Hinduism went from 220 million to about 900 million.
Because it’s increasing in some areas, while decreasing in others. African nations have the highest birth rates in the world. So while their population is booming, the Koreans on the other hand may go extinct. It’s kinda of a macro vs micro view
@@nathanmielke1977 If I said that owning 60 pet dogs is too many, would that mean that I hate dogs?
@@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy Are we supposed to own humans? I don't get your reasoning comparing living breathing humans to pet dogs. People matter.
Kim Jun Un smiles contentedly and muses.. my work here is finished.
South Koreans to RealLifeLore: "You're telling bullsh*t!".
Population doesn't need to continually rise
This.
It's such a simple concept to grasp, the world was doing a lot better when we were 6 billions...
What's with the weird thought of growing the population to infinite instead of keeping it steady or losing some population to bring it back up later? There's a reason China had the one-child policy for 5 years.
Yeah, cause each person will be immortal forever
@@butterfox7442 no because a stable population is better than a one which raises at all costs
@@mikerphone.it’s not stable
@@americanloyalist4599 not the system is not stable. Capitalism is not stable.
First the Dinosaurs and now South Korea.....
feel like I watched a lore video on the history of Cyberpunk 2077
Give us a fucking livving wage and work with benefits. Stop treating me as an expendable asset. Then I'll have a kid. (This is the case everywhere)
Koreans watching this: 👁️👄👁️
I feel like the government should pay companies to move out of Seoul where living can be more affordble, establish programs to let people who have children get houses for cheaper. Run a campaign to promote living outside Seoul, maybe even five tax breaks for dramas set outside the city that promote the lifestyle.
If people are able to get out of Seoul, they can have a more affordable life, and therefore will find it easier to support kids. But those areas need to put effort into making it liveable, because no one wants to live where it takes an hour to drive to the store because all the stores closed and there are no hospitals and schools.
It’s crazy to me that a country seen as a pinnacle of technological progress hasn’t adapted to just maximize learning through online means and instead still uses tutors
Interactive Micro-Testing
Or maybe they’re right and you learn better with tutors than online. Maybe that is the real advanced way
@@rvoloshchukify advanced way to create worker bees yea.
No chat, RealLife Lore is rizzing me up rn
Beating a dead horse here, but its crazy to me in under 3 years this channel went from insane joke vidieos about daming the mediteranian sea to some of the most put together documentaries on the platform.
Korea will be THE prime real estate on the planet, check back here in the 50's. Huge.
So North Korea just wait and walk in? 🤔
I swear I just watched the same video just a day or two ago from Caspian Report
They got inspired by the same news of Korea's birth rate falling under 0.7
@@doujinflip I am embarrassed that I did not consider that lmao, thanks.
How can they have kids if they're expected to work so much in the capital? They literally don't have the time to raise them. This is what they say in interviews
YOU RIGHT MAN
THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER SUCCED THE NORTH IS THE NUMBER ONE
@@NigerianCrusader Your capslock is stuck.
@@themurmeli88 NO
I JUST SPEAK IN CAPS TO GET MY POINT ACROSS
Don't read my name
@@NigerianCrusadersir, maybe people understand the wrong point from your all-caps
As someone who has lived in South Korea for almost a decade, let me just point out one thing: Housing in South Korea is actually affordable, as long as it's not in Seoul. Every city in South Korea except for Seoul is actually experiencing a massive aging and depopulation crisis right now, similar to Japan. Many elementary schools are closing because there simply aren't enough young people to populate them, and the working age group have all moved to Seoul to find jobs. The heavy urbanization and focus on Seoul is one of the major reasons why the country is in this predicament. Many young South Koreans would actually prefer not to live in Seoul if given the choice. The problem is, they simply cannot because all the jobs are there. Therefore, all the areas with cheap land and housing goes unused while prices for homes in Seoul skyrocket and more and more young people are trapped in a nightmare of servitude to the chaebols unless they marry rich, win the lotto, get rich on bitcoin (which was a whoooole thing back 2016-2020). The government has tried to alleviate this centralization around Seoul by building Sejong City an hour south of Seoul to house most of the government functions, but it's been a failed project so far. Seoul remains the place where everything happens while the rest of South Korea is left to die.
You've got an extreme case of London Syndrome.
London is a cancer on the UK. It guzzles up all the money, people and resources and gives nothing back.
is it not an option to work from home?
@@Jambudvipa-ug6ygcould be a solution but currently extremely unaccepted in Korean working culture. Better to watch Netflix at work (without being caught) so it seems that you spent many hours there than work productive from home...
@@Jambudvipa-ug6yg should have been a game changer but employers decided they don’t like their worker drones having too much power and autonomy, so 2022 comes along and it’s back to the office 🙄
Not really failed. Hundreds of thousands live there. Mostly from rural towns. Many families split rather than relocated. That won’t help fertility rate though.
It’s almost like when you make living standards worse for each successive generation, people lose interest in becoming parents.
Exactly! The rich can only squeeze the poor and middle class so much, until they give up on hope for a brighter future for their kids. At that point, you destroyed the future for your society.
Its not that they lost interest. Its that filling the need to become a parent is not economically viable anymore. Including the real and opportunity costs.
Were facing a similar problem in Finland. Having a child usually means your housholds income has to either decrease by 25-50% while your expenses increase by a significant margin. Or you have to hire someone else to raise your child for a lot of money. Because of the way our tax system is structured however, we just don't have the disposable income level required to make those sacrifices. The result is a 1.3 fertility rate.
I know lots of people who have "i want children" as a life goal. Something they've wanted since they where teens/young adults. Who are entering their 30s without their first one because they could never afford to raise the child.
it's the other way around, an increase in living standards leads to lower birthrates
@@Erowens98 I want to have a family as well. However, I am 24 years old living at my parent's house after having "done everything right". I have student loan, car debt, and coming in the future, a mortgage? I feel like most people are priced out of having a home and have to become perpetual renters.
This generation in South Korea are living better lives than ever before. Back in the 1970s, North Korea and South Korea had the same quality of life. In the 80s, a dictator ruled South Korea. In the 90s, most Koreans did not have HVAC, phones, and computers
Love how North and South Korea fought a brutal war to see whether Capitalism or Communism would rule their country. Now 70 years later both of them have developed to show the absolute worst case scenario of both economic models
They are the same people after all, that might have to do with the result
@@万恶共匪毒害中华ok racist
Animals under stress don't breed.
@@万恶共匪毒害中华Least racist asian:
@@eva3414Yet somehow less developed countries got the highest fertility rates
Turns out people wont have kids if you have to work 80 hours a week just survive
even 40h is too much nowadays when you have internet
Turns out people dont have kids if you encourage women to pursue education/work over families and aggressively promote it in media they watch
@@AndRei-yc3titurns out women get the option leave toxic men if they're educated and have a career so when women don't accept their abusive circumstances it triggers toxic men.
@@erenb.2806 🤦♂️ or it turns out that women get manipulated to chase the next shiny thing because they think it gives them social status and become insufferable and impossible to live with or marry
Theres a reason why women were "liberated" in capitalist socities as they are viewed as the ideal consumer lel
@@erenb.2806 it turns out that women are the best consumers and pursue the next shining thing to try to increase their social status because they saw it online.
Theres a reason why women were liberated, because they make the best consumers lel
I was a teacher at a private English academy for five years. It was often said amongst the staff that we needed to be understanding and compassionate toward our students because for many of them, we see them more than their parents do.
Literally and figuratively. A lot of parents either: Physically cannot be in their presence, or simply wont put in the effort to.. have kids.
that's very sad. and also a sad way to live. Also the reason why I'll probably be childfree, there's no point having kids if you have to work you ass off to pay for them and don't even get to see them much.
Lies again? Shadow Kick Silat Keris
@@xcrazypopprincess The point is so that the entirety of civilization as we know it does not collapse. The point is that generation upon generation sacrificed to bring children into the world so you could live. Why do you get to be the one to give up?
“How many children do you have?”
*0.68 children*
I guess that means the woman got pregnant but the baby died sometime after (If were to take it literally like that)
Yes averages can be really hard to understand
@@angelsalazar7936lmfao
"Im sharing with my neighbour, sharing is caring"
Is assisted reproduction legal in S. Korea? Is it covered by standard health care or health insurance provisions? America continues to struggle to get insurance to cover fertility assistance and it is very expensive to get full on medical help in the US. Does S. Korea have the same culture as Japan and China where multiple generations tend to live together? I know this mega family living structure creates space issues that can discourage adding space taking children.
Government: "Work long hours with low pay and then have a family of five in a two-room apartment with no garden or personal space, please."
Young South Koreans: "How about no?"
*Capitalism
It's worse in Tokyo but has better country smh
Thats how most Koreans lived in the past back when they had more children
@@tuomasronnberg5244exploitation is not capitalism.
The government of south korea has had to resort to paying people to have children lol
Kim Jong Un: "I will destroy your population"
South Korea: "No, I'll do it myself"
Kim Jong Un: "How is Democracy working out for you?"
This make me question is north korea really that "evil" like all the western media potray ??
That's the most depressing thing about this. All North Korea has to do is tell it's population that South Korea and Japan have the highest suicide rate in the world and how their population suffers under hyper capitalism in order to actually legitimize their rule and show that there is no alternative system. There is no guarantee against suffering and you might as well live in a communist dictatorship.
@@dansmith1661 Well, there are a few more key parameters we should consider for that question. Like not vanishing into some camps. Or having food.
@@dansmith1661 I'd wonder if this is happening to SK if this is also going to happen to NK as they have it even worse with starvation and people actively dying from not only natural means but from simple lack of nutrition and I imagine many may not want children for the same reason of lack of nourishment
South Korean Life:
- Elementary school: spend around 30 hours a week in school, then spend another 5-10 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 35-40 hours of study a week. Basically, a full-time job.
- Middle school: spend around 40-45 hours a week in school, then spend another 10-20 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 50-65 hours of study a week. Yikes.
- High school: spend around 50-60 hours a week in school, then spend another 10-20 hours in hagwons. For a total of around 60-80 hours of study a week. Double Yikes.
Work Life:
Statistics are very tricky. It is often quoted that South Korea has an average of 1967 hours of work per week, roughly 37.8 hours per weeks. However, this number considers part-time work, and holidays. It also doesn't account of illegal unpaid overtime. The reality is a lot grimmer.
- Work for 40 ordinary hours a week with 12 hours of overtime, which in most cases, they are almost mandatory. This is only the "legal" amount. Often you will work even more and will have to work overtime illegally unpaid. The average for a full-time employee is around 60 hours.
How is that life? Where do you even find to time to properly date?
If you are a parent, would you want your child to fucking study 60-80 hours a week?
Hell no.
@@Cha4k In terms of out-of-work life, clearly.
@@Cha4k No but they accepted way higher child mortality rates 💀
and the fact that you have to compare this to literal (post) war time periods shows by itself ☠
@@Cha4k
Plenty of Koreans were on the breadline until the 70s and 80s. Since then, they've tended to put with various hardships to achieve prosperity. It's ironic that now they've reached a higher standard of living and international recognition that they've always craved, they're facing an uncertain future.
@@Cha4k imagine comparing modern day society with post war era. If they're somehow doing worse now after nearly 100 years then they should just merge with the north to share the suffering.
You forgot to mention that South Korea is also pretty much leading suicidal rates in the "developed" world.
@KalongCaves yes it is wtf lol almost on par with Japan
@@Sporkonafork1 not on par, Korea surpasses Japan
@@CBRN-115 wow that is bleak
Came to say maybe it's societal trauma. It dropped off after the war. Humans are the terrible species. Earth doesn't need us for anything and will transform herself and begin again.
And the ones doing it the most are people at working age. They are screwd. But it's part of the civilization circles. Nations rise and desapear during the whole human history. The mayans, for exemple, desapeared doing to low birth rate. They were shirinking and emigrating later on.
How did the Korean Peninsula manage to have two of the worst communist AND capitalist dystopias out there
Cyno-Nipon cultures have always been lands of the extremes.
@@janchovanec8624you mean Sino?
The worst capitalist dystopia after the US, you mean.
@@janchovanec8624 what does that word mean Google just shows some video game bs I don't understand 😂
@@coltentackett892Cyno is a character from Genshin Impact (a gacha, open-world video game), I assume the OP meant Sino-Nippon, Sino referring to the China and China-adjacent cultures, and Nippon meaning Japan and Japan-adjacent cultures
I feel bad for those new generations, they'll experience hell to support the older generations and going to be blamed for being "lazy" and "irresponsible" just for being born in that society.
Thank you for your opinion.
I was born in 1995 in Korea and I am not lazy at all.
There are no jobs in Korea even after graduating from university.
In Korea, if you can't join a major company like Samsung, you have to join a trash company, which forces you to work a murderous hours at very low wages.
In reality, such discourse is going on in Korea. The Korean media has created a completely new artificial word called Generation MZ, which combines Generation M and Generation Z, and subtly claims that MZ does not integrate well into the workplace.
@@S-OIL_Koreahe wasn't saying they are lazy, he is saying that unfortunately the younger generation will be thought of as lazy by the older generation for not being able to keep up with supporting them or trying to break the pattern
@@S-OIL_Korea무슨말같지도않은소릴해,한국은 회사가 삼성밖에없냐
More resources will become available to each individual in a smaller population. Especially renewable resources.
As a South Korean, I can confirm our society is very competitive. However, it’s not just to get into the chaebols; most parents think doctors are the best job since they pay very well. As a result, the race for medical school is so high that getting into them is deemed harder than getting into the SKY universities. I would also like to add as a high school student that our private education is very fierce. Last year, after school ended at 4:30, I would immediately go to private academies, and move between them until midnight(the government bans academies to teach over 10pm, but few actually follow). It was very tiring😢
Midnight seriously ?!
That's damn some serious study load
No wonder your country has the highest suicide rates in rich countries.
Obv ppl won't be able to keep up with this pressure and also if they don't get a goodUNI or a good job the sense of Disappointment form the society would be intensely soul breaking.
And are you any smarter for it? Wtf is with this insane studying that seems to yield no results
as a korean i also agree its competitive af and its not even beneficial most koreans just study a lot and just forget after the test is over,so whats the point.
I think the doom loop is at least partially a product of a shift in values.
While people in the past might have seen the number of children as a primary sign of success, nowadays the number in your bank account has become the sign of success.
Money has turned from a means to succeed into the primary kind of success.
@@vegbeg9170 It's easier for the parents to force their kids to study than it is to improve themselves.
“We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.” Donella H. Meadows
Yeah that's the thought behind western replacement migration
I'll start a family at 40. Now form a train. - Modern women
you likely 100% per cent right
Not if the West beats it to it.
We won't go to space, or cure diseases, and build better infrastructure, or do literally anything to improve the lives of average citizens because it's not profitable.
State sponsored dating app ✅
Tax breaks for having a kid ✅
Encourage immigration✅
Lower work week hours w/ enforcement❌❌❌❌❌❌
SK isn’t known for immigration encouragement. The culture is pretty hostile to outsiders. People pan immigration on the internet, but immigration is the only reason the USA and some European countries are successful. Look at European countries with no immigration (Serbia, Moldova, etc.) and they’re not doing well.
@@AA-vr8ez who wants to move to moldova lol
Encouraging immigration won't solve the problem, it will just delay its consequences. Also you don't want your nation to get replaced over time by another nation.
@@AA-vr8ez it is similar in Japan from what I heard. I would also agree that the imporance and positive effects of immigration are often overlooked and it is instead only regarded as a problem. Germany is a good example for this. There is already lack of workforce because of low fertility rates and yet support for anti immigration parties and sentiments are rapidly increasing. Serbia Moldova are not bad off because they lack immigration though in my opinion. They lack immigration because their economies do not provide enough insentives for immigration in the form of opportunities. So the lack of immigration is rather a sign that these countries are not doing very well. One sign for this is that many citizens of the countries you mentioned work in other EU countries as a cheap labor force often being exploited.
@@AA-vr8ezno just no in every way
Another thing is that South Korea has a really tough parenting culture, and a lot of kids decide to su!cide because of the stress and expectations their parents pressure on them, the same also works for China, India and Japan
I wouldn’t say India but yeah…
@@hi-lx7wr Wdym "I wouldn't say India"? Indian parents are next level when it comes to pressuring kids and having high expectations
I'm Chinese and... (let's not talk about it ;-:)
@@hi-lx7wr "Suicides during 2022 increased by 27% in comparison to 2018 with India reporting highest number of suicides in the world."
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 so true , specially comparing with other kids
When you're poor, kids are free labour.
When you're rich, kids are expensive hobbies.
only if youre a farmer or a similar career is this true
If you are rich you can afford expensive hobbies. If you are in the middle you expect to put a lot into education and well-being of your kids, but you don’t have rich people money for that.
@@mikhailryzhov9419 Middle... in the context of countries being in the literal 1% of global wealth. But yes, in modern Westernized societies, children are literally not allowed to legally work. This forces them to be a net loss for decades. And with modern society, there isn't an expectation for them to repay anything, until retirement years, where the expectation has instead been shifted to the state.
kids are always free labour. wink wink giant corporations with their child labour forces
@@SangoProductions21315,16 & 17 year olds aren't children?
As a Japanese person, I feel that Korea is an extreme version of Japanese society and is one step ahead of Japan. Both good and bad.
Not to mention, with far less affordable housing these days
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I actually think Koreans are more similar to Chinese than Japanese
@@万恶共匪毒害中华Didn’t Japan colonize the Korean countries tho?
Japan is just Cyberpunk 2077 minus the bugs. South Korea is Cyberpunk 2077 bugs and all
Thanos: "I will decrease the population by half"
South Korea: "No, I'll do it myself"
Thanos said ok
South Korea try-harding in yet another field.
Honestly education and egalitarian policies will do that for free
south koreas education is hard avg korean finds it hard mwaning they are no educated by korean standards so your point is invalid lol
South Korea has tried, and let me get this correct, 90 DAYS OF MATERNITY LEAVE?
Canada is one of the fastest growing developed countries in the world and we offer upto 18 months of maternity leave.
I get the sense that South Korea isn't taking the whole thing serious enough. They refuse to give up their work culture that has led them to this demographic collapse.
The fact is, there are a lot of companies that even 90 days of leave is socially banned..
they have to walk on eggshells if they use their maternity that long…😢
Yup. At a company I used to work at, there was a lady based in Canada who took 1 year maternity leave, then immediately had another child and took another year maternity leave (no gap in between). After that year, she left the company.
So in this case, it definitely did increase "birth-rate" but also opens up to "abusing the privilege"
I'm sure offering mandatory 1 year parental leave will help birth rates in Korea, possibly even a new baby boom. But would the Korean government, companies, economy be able to stomach footing the bill? Not sure. But yes that's the dilemma facing Korea.
You are not correct. I took the maternity leave in Korea more than a year. Dont know where you got that info...
@@Hanablueberry I got the info from the video we are commenting on. Did you watch it?
@@accordblaze Well I mean, companies in Canada don't pay for maternity leaves. The company you are talking to never paid a dime to that lady during her maternity leave, that would have come from the employment insurance program in Canada,
Korea as a country has no choice but to stomach it, because their country is facing demographic collapse unlike any that has ever happened in human history. I'm sure the expense of a similar employment insurance program, roughly 5% paid by both the employee and the company, is probably a small cost in comparison.
I've just shocked when I visited my elementary school again a year ago. There were only 33 students in the entire school even though I was living in a third largest city in korea. There were over 150 students when I attended. This is literally a disaster
It’s really not. 100 years ago the global population was basically half what it is today and the world didn’t end then, it’s not ending now.
@@mazzy_vc That's overall, however, local population of certain nations certainly are decreasing. The other developing nations are making up much of the rising global population whether we like to admit it or not.
@@mazzy_vc It is a disaster for South Korea though, the domestic social issues don't seem to be going away for a good few decades more and hostility to immigration doesn't help in the slightest.
If a country doesn't have people to work, it has no economy nor means to produce goods for itself. The world will be fine, but not so much South Korea...
@@mazzy_vc He was talking about Korea, not the whole world, besides it isn't about global population but fertility rate.
the same is happening in the west but in the west we are being replaced by blacks and arabs
so if you’re young open a funeral home business will boom in 10 to 30 years
Taking notes
So dark, but likely true.
Or start an elder-care business because they don't have offspring to take care of them in old age.
@@natashadickson4819yeah but you will not have employee
@@comlitbeta7532 Middle age people will be the employees to care for the elderly.
North Korea, the example of why communism doesn't work; and South Korea, the example of why wild capitalism doesn't work.
Both types were not tested by being ruled by good geniuses.
It is difficult to see South Korea's development as the worst outcome. South Koreans are richer than most people on earth. It is natural that they have many shortcomings compared to traditional developed countries.
NK will still be there in 100 years so maybe communism does in fact work in the long run. And I really doubt South Koreans are happier even if they are "richet". I was just in SK and ppl seem fuking miserable. Ever commie country I've been ppl seem happier contrary to what the Western CIA media tells you
@@yuchan063 No matter how difficult it is to see it's not unwarranted to say that despite all its riches South Korea is essentially becoming a failed state. I do not see how they can turn this around, not only is the birth rate falling fast but its population is aging fast too. The average age has gone up by 15 years from 30 to 45 in less than 25 years.
@@qnbits that was not only mentioned in the video but also irrelevant to this comment
The United States has often functioned as a “gerontocracy.” The median age of congress and the judiciary has always been far greater than the median age. Young people are less likely to vote.
The legend himself
True tbh
Pretty much every modern democracy is a gerontocracy. The assumption is that the elderly will care for their children and grandchildren, but this system stops working when the voters and representatives don't have any.
Tay saw last nights debate and had gerontocracy on his mind
@@awsambdamanme too
It messed with my head so much until I realised that the 0.67 isn't a value between 0 and 1, but rather a value between 0 and 2 since it takes 2 to make anything.
Oh fuck
It's not so much poverty that makes having kids seem terrible, but our expectations. We stop having kids when we think that our kids will live in a world worse than we did, and future doesn't seem that bright to many 20-40 year olds around the world.
The combination of all the factors makes having kids extremely unappealing. The fact that some nk defectors regret leaving indicates how out of hand everything is
Not even the present is bright, let alone the future. A shame my parents didn't feel like people are today.
We are literally been threatened by the rich owners of been replaced by AI, automatization, outsourcing and cheap immigrants. How on earth are we expected to plan to have chidren under such instability?
Or maybe people just simply don’t want to deal with kids. Or they might just not want to raise kids.
@@jlivb it can be multiple reasons
As a foreigner who lives and works in South Korea, it is wild to see the problems firsthand. I am a teacher and if I were to ever have kids it would not be here. Crazy amounts of pressure on the kids and the costs associated with having a kid, both time wise and monetarily, are just not feasible for most people.
Wow, then it is really extreme over there.. I hope they will turn that around.
They should make it more lucrative and cheaper/cost efficient for the families to have kids. Take the pressure off from schooling, and make the family important again and not the career opportunities.
Or the government can incentivize young people to first have kids before they are allowed to study or work of course with government aid for their living expenses.
The older generation is large and has the capital to support the future of their country.
Only through similar policies like that South Korea will continue to thrive and even exist in the next century.
I wonder if the pressure people felt as kids convinced them a kid wasn't a thing worth being.
2023 birth rate 0.72
2024 birth rate 0.68
We have 50 million populations and there's only 200000 babies meet the world per year.
This is crazy. People don't want to have babies and I don't know why. I just can't understand.
@@shottyddwhy are you talking like government is like a company? They don't grow food, they don't produce goods, they don't provide goods, they are literally money sucking machines that makes rules for you to follow.
Give them places to live? Who's paying for it? Why are you talking like South Korea is this huge area with lots of land? 😂 Do you even know where they are?
@@앙금-u5mrejoin North... They have a lot of citizens there.
As a resident of South Korea I must say that this is one of the best and most comprehensive overviews of the major trends in our society that I’ve seen. Very well done!!
9 to 9 work hours (one of the highest work hours in OECD), incredibily competitive society (highest depression rate), soul-breaking education pressure (highest student suicide rate) is all accumulating into this huge economical, cultural, political disaster that is the fertility rate.
Who would imagine that enslaving the population and the older looking towards more profit would ruin the country?
add on an incredibly corrupt government that hates its women. not surprised about this outcome.
That's awful 😢
It’s like the Hunger Games were a competition to win a job at Joja Corp.
Don't read my name
How can they have kids if they're expected to work so much in the capital? They literally don't have the time to raise them. This is what they say in interviews
The women?
pretty much, which knocks on to have negative effects on economy which means more people need to work to survive which means they more prioritized in their own situation than growing a family... its not all that surprising but certainly not a good thing
Once upon a time the men worked all day while the women raised kids at home. Now men and women work all day and there is no one to raise the kids.
@@beardedlonewolf7695again. You want someone to give up their class status for a lower less powerful class status on purpose for no benefit to themselves?
White men, those with the highest privilege in the world, don’t even want to be drafted and yet you want 50% of the population with, essentially, 45% man status, to give up that small privilege to be subjected to domestic violence, poor health care, no divorce coverage, no benefits if your husband dies and no rights to property unless it’s in their name.
For what in exchange? Your husband isn’t obligated to take care of you, treat you properly or leave you money if they die. You are essentially a baby factory with no benefits to yourself whatsoever and honestly the treat for being invaded when you’re 80 isn’t super important when you’re 25 and don’t want to be beaten, cheated on and left broke by your husband.
Correct. They literally tell you: and people dont want to hear it because we are slaves to capital
Rest of the world: Who are you?
South Korea: I am you in near future.
Governments around the world are forgetting to create a society that people actually want to LIVE IN.
They are too busy looking at the bank balance, instead of if their people are living healthy and worthwhile lives.
Those chaebols totally sound like the megacorps in Cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk as a genre has become known as a thinly veiled showing of the western fears of Asian dominance since Blade Runner, so literally yeah thats what Cyberpunk 2077 was going for. its an 80s-90s idea of high tech Japanese monolithic companies like Sharp and Sony, which could be compared to chaebols
@xymaryai8283 I don't know how I missed this angle all this time given how obvious it actually is....
I mean, the big bad in CP77 is a Japanese corporate emperor who wants to nuke America, lol.
it's almost as if dystopia is metaphoric reflection of reality
They basically are. SK supreme court has actually set a precedent into law that board members of certain companies are Too Big to Jail. As in, convicted, sentenced and then simply told to walk out because their going to prison would be too harmful to the economy of the nation. Dystopian AF. But they do make good monitors for cheap prices tho so I'll allow it if their own people allow it. Over there.
They basically are. South Korea is all of the dystopia of cyberpunk, without any of the life-changing cyberware or aesthetics.
In a country like South Korea i think the mindset is: why have kids and subject them to the suffering you had to go though and you are being worked to death therefore you have no time for kids
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Hell, South Korea... Japan... the US... Canada... most countries are adopting this philosophy.
That's how it is everywhere. If all you can do is hand your wages over in rent because you don't come from the property owning class why would you want to repeat that situation.
I wish I could have afforded children.
@@avancalledrupert5130 look at videos of school and work culture in South Korea, it's way worse, actual torment
What a surprise... People who have to work up to 12h a day and still are only able to affoard a one room apartment aren't having any children
36:27 He is perfectly correct! Feminism is the only reason that Western nations are dying demographically. Repeal the 19th!
This is a symptom of all highly urbanized societies. The ridiculous work culture certainly doesn’t help.
Peak capitalism:
@@hi-lx7wr it’s a combination of American-influenced capitalism and Chinese-influenced Confucianism. Proven to be a recipe for disaster.
I am a graduate of a SKY university. My mom paid for private tuition which amounted to a chaebol employee's entire salary, despite that she was a single mom and was living in a pathetically small house with only one room or two, with two children. It was a unpleasant enough childhood that I would rather have no kids that to witness my child suffer through the same shit. Now I am a DINK, but the depressing degradation of the country is forcing me to seek retirement abroad. I might have to leave the country if I want any help from an able bodied person in my bedridden days ahead of me.
So the reasons summarised by this video are very real. Kids are not even wanted from a SKY person like yourself.
Imagine what about the rest of the 98% who are not admitted to SKY?
@@mariam-bk510Thankfully in those 98% we do get marriage, but just extremely rarely. Let's be real; the wealth heritage is evident in every single country, and we Koreans just value them to the extremes and do NOT want to inherit our generation's "socially poor state" created by all the dystopian internet nerd addicted to the competitiveness of out society.
I gotta say that these "social inequality" catastrophes happening rn are outgrowth of the sadly prevalent social networking services' toxic cultures.
@@mariam-bk510 In other countries, less educated people tend to have more kids. But in Korea, wealthier people tend to have more kids and wealthier peole are usually more educated. So yeah, the fact that I chose to have no kids and that it's not that uncommon among my peer group is very concerning. I don't expect to see Korea's fertility rate bouncing back up any time soon.