Real life in Korea
　　If you want to know what the cruelest game in the world is, it must be the real life of South Korea. In this developed country with the tenth largest GDP, young people are falling down en masse, and the elderly are disappearing en masse. The cost of life is too high, and the cost of death is too low. Even a decent future is out of reach. The whole country is heading towards a suffocating bottomless abyss. From the legend of the Han River to hell on earth, from the four Asian tigers, to the dire straits and corpses everywhere, what happened to South Korea, a developed country that was once praised to the sky? Let's take a look at three sets of shocking data. The first one is South Korea's fertility rate. In 2023, South Korea's fertility rate fell to 0.78. It is not only the lowest in the world, but also the lowest record in human history. Because to maintain a stable population, it requires at least a fertility rate of 2.1. And South Korea is now less than 1/3 of this data. Do you think this is over? Let's look at Seoul again. Seoul's fertility rate is even more terribly low, only 0.59 As early as 2006, a professor of population at Oxford University predicted that South Korea is likely to become the first country in human history to die out naturally due to low fertility rates. By 2750, the last Korean will disappear from this earth. But now it seems that this prediction is too optimistic. Judging from the current fertility rate, South Korea will disappear faster. Therefore, people who like to plunder other people's culture and heritage the most and even think that the whole world is their home should not have thought that the first thing to disappear on this earth is him. Then, a more terrifying set of data is South Korea's current suicide rate. Starting from 2021, an average of one Korean will choose to end his life every 40 minutes. What's even more shocking is that What is heartbreaking is that suicide has become the leading cause of death among young people aged 10 to 39. Nearly half of young people die because they choose to end their lives. Take the Mapo Bridge in Seoul for example. Because there are too many suicides, it was officially renamed the Bridge of Life in 2012. Various warm greetings and protective measures are installed on the bridge. But what is ridiculous is that one year after the renovation, the number of suicides has increased instead of decreased, from 15 in the past to 93. This is the Korean magic realism. Then the third more terrifying data is the debt ratio. Now, the debt ratio of Korean families has reached 104.3%, setting a record high. It ranks first among the major economies in the world. More than 60% of young people All of them are carrying debts and loans. The per capita debt has reached 476,000 yuan. How can this be called a developed country? This is clearly a hell on earth that is heading towards chronic death. So what exactly has turned South Korea into a country where everyone can't breathe? What are the four major social difficulties and dilemmas that are ruthlessly crushing the hopes of Koreans? The first dilemma of South Korea's current society is education. Internal selection has reached its extreme. There is a magical slogan in South Korea called "four ups and five downs". It means that if you sleep 4 hours a day, you can go to college. If you sleep more than 5 hours a day, you will fail. This is not a joke. This is the bloody Korean version of real life. In order to survive in this internal competition of education, Korean parents spend 10% of their monthly salary on their children. 2/3are all in cram schools.
　　Starting from kindergarten,children are enrolled in dozens of tutoring classes.
　　The training costs are even more staggering.
　　An average familywill spend an average of 1.87 million RMB if they want to support a child to go to college.
　　And studentsare still doing homework at one or two o'clock in the morning every day.
　　Some have calluses on their hands due to long-term pen holding.
　　Some even wrap the pen on their hands with tape.
　　They still want to continue studying just to be able to enter the famous SKY schools.
　　He is referring to Seoul National University, Korea University, Yeons University, etc.
　　Because only these universitiesare the only way for young people in South Korea to rise.
　　The second dilemma of South Korea is that the job market is monopolized by chaebols.
　　In South Korea,75% of GDP has been It is controlled by the conglomerates and chaebols. You want to find a good job, right? Then you either join the chaebol or become a civil servant. Others are losers in life. But the cruel reality is that 25% of young people can't find a job. Even if you graduate from a prestigious school, you may not be able to squeeze into the chaebol's door. When a company recruits externally, there are often hundreds of thousands of people competing. Samsung recruits 4,000 positions every year, but more than 100,000 people apply. The average admission rate is only 4%, which is countless times more difficult than getting into Tsinghua University or Peking University. Then South Korea's third dilemma is the unsolvable housing problem. Seoul's housing prices are already the second highest in the world. The average price per square meter is 150,000 RMB. Young people who can't afford to buy a house can only rent a house. And South Korea The unique system of renting all houses has caused countless young people to fall into the abyss of ruthless debt. One-third of young people are forced to live in basements, just like in the movie Parasite. The crazy wave of bankruptcies that broke out in South Korea in 2022 has caused countless young people to lose all their money. Some people chose to jump off the building and commit suicide because they could not get back the deposit of tens of millions of won. Then the fourth dilemma of Korean society at present is the miserable life of the elderly. The poverty rate of the elderly in South Korea has reached 43%, and the poverty rate of the elderly living alone is as high as 70%, setting a record for OECD countries. Therefore, the elderly over 65 years old have to continue working and get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to deliver food and pick up garbage. These achievements have created the miracle of the Han River. Ministers, but in their later years they fell into such a situation. It is really sad. So why did South Korea fall from the Asian myth to the situation today? There are two very profound reasons. The first is that the current monopoly of conglomerates and chaebols is extremely serious. This is the root of all evil. The chaebols in South Korea are like a giant dragon, entrenched in this land, sucking the blood of the entire country. Take Samsung Group for example. Samsung Group has occupied 20% of South Korea's GDP. All industries are maintained, from making mobile phones to opening hospitals, from building houses to selling insurance, and even funerals. The Lee family has to intervene. What's more terrifying is the chaebol. It is a hereditary system. The chaebol family has been passed down from generation to generation, making their power bigger and bigger, and their appetites are getting bigger and bigger. Ordinary people, you This ceiling will never be broken. The current collusion between government and business is commonplace. When prosecutors investigate the chaebols, they can only play their own tricks. What if the president wants to move against the chaebols? In the end, he will be attacked by the chaebols. That's why some netizens joked that being president in South Korea is more dangerous than being a special forces soldier. Eleven of the 12 former presidents did not have a good ending. The second more important and deeper reason is the rigidity of the social system. The upward path has been completely blocked. Young people can't see any hope at all. It's not that graduates from Tsinghua University and Peking University can succeed. But in South Korea, if you don't go to SCY or Tsinghua University, you will fail in life. So you will find that their talent outflow is getting more and more serious. In 2023, 16 percent of young Koreans said they wanted to emigrate. They couldn't even keep the talents they had cultivated. The vitality of society was also gradually lost. If a country's young people couldn't afford to give birth, the elderly couldn't afford to support, and the middle-aged couldn't hold on, then where would its future be? If a society had no way up, no bottom, and no way sideways, then how could it develop? This was not only the sadness of South Korea, but also a warning to the entire human civilization. Development cannot only look at GDP figures, but also at the quality of life of ordinary people. The economy cannot be monopolized by a few chaebols, and the whole people should be allowed to prosper together. South Korea today may be a mirror, reflecting the ultimate and destiny of the development of capitalist countries, and it also left us with deep enlightenment and warnings. Development must be balanced, not deformed, reform must be thorough, not speculative, people's livelihood must be prioritized, hope must be long-lasting, and it must not be destroyed. Otherwise, no matter how high the GDP is, it is just a Jung who is defeated in his own glory. Even if he can be rich enough to rival a country, it is just a hell on earth where everyone is in danger and is in distress both inside and outside.