The Koreans who were eating the "anti-sudden death**" rolls began to flee. According to a survey report by Korean TV ** in 2023, 56% of young people aged 20-30 in South Korea want to immigrate overseas. South Korea's authoritative marriage information company also said that more than 70% of Korean couples aged 20-30 are considering immigration. According to statistics from the South Korean Immigration Service, South Korea has steadily sent 600,000 people out of the country every year in the past decade. You must know that a total of 24 births will be born in South Korea in the whole of 202290,000 people. 
South Korea has reached a death inflection point in 2019.
One is "intercepting the source" and the other is "opening the stream", and the main one is not making ends meet. The prophecy of South Korea's disappearance is getting closer. As a developed country in Asia and once one of the four Asian tigers, South Korea's economic take-off speed was once called the "Han River Miracle". Why do the people of such a country desperately want to flee?Where do they want to flee?
"** of the big country of immigrants
In fact, in terms of the "absolute value" of the number of immigrants, South Korea is not a big country for immigration. In 2020, South Korea registered about 7 million overseas immigrants, compared to India's 18 million overseas immigrants, South Korea's immigration scale is not at all the largest in the world. 
But everything should not only look at the value, but also look at the proportion. You must know that the total population of South Korea is only more than 51 million, of which 7 million have emigrated overseas, which is equivalent to 15% of Koreans, who are not in the country at all. Today, there are 1.1 million South Korean immigrants and 2.2 million Chinese immigrants in the United States, and the total number of Chinese immigrants in the United States is twice that of South Korea. However, the population base of Chinese is 28 times that of South Korea. South Korea's "history" actually has a long history. Many of the earliest Asian faces in American dramas are Koreans. 
In the eyes of many South Koreans, the United States is the "final destination" for immigrants. According to global immigration** statistics, except for the global pandemic in 2019, which affected the growth of immigrants, the total number of Korean American immigrants in the United States has maintained strong growth in every decade since 1980. 
Nowadays, more and more Koreans are visiting overseas, and their destinations are not limited to the United States. 
Chinese travelling across the ocean to the New World, full of desire to see some exotic scenery, ended up in three supermarkets in a row, from the boss to the staff are all bulk English-speaking Koreans. 
Many people began to wonder: why are so many Koreans going to "run" one after another?Did those Koreans who "run" get what they want?
Koreans, why do you want to emigrate?
In 1986, Kim Song-joon, a South Korean, and his wife came to New York with their 7-year-old son. Like many immigrants at the time, they wanted to provide their son, Ron, with more advantages and opportunities. A BBC report documented his experience in the United States. As the second group of compatriots to arrive in the wave of immigrants, he received full support from the "immigrants". From the moment he set foot on the continental United States, several Korean friends who moved to New York five years ago began to settle in Kim Song-joon: first standing outside the airport arrivals hall holding up a name sign to greet him, then driving him all the way into the city, and finally transferring a listed ** store in the East Side of New York to him. 
At the beginning of the stills of the Kim convenience store, Kim Song Joon was repeatedly uneasy about this set of pig-killing pre-play-like hospitality. However, he soon discovered that this kind of "arrangement" of mutual aid was the norm in the area, and that Korean immigrants from various cities generally formed close-knit communities spontaneously. 
This is the sentence that Kim Songjun is asked the most in the United States.
Most Koreans who immigrated during this period were dreaming of the American dream. South Koreans' aspirations for the United States are well documented.
In 1945, with the help of the United States, South Korea was liberated from 35 years of Japanese colonialism, but the U.S. troops stationed in Korea did not leave with the end of the war. In the following decades of South Korea's Cold War and the first regime, the US military stationed in the national background at that time played a role as a propaganda media, which played a pivotal role in South Korea's economy and culture, and shaped a colorful "American dream" in the hearts of South Koreans. 
Between 1950 and 1972, about 28,000 Korean women married Americans. In 964, 82% of Korean immigrants were women. But in fact, Korean immigrants around the 80s generally felt regret. They were beaten by the background of the times, and they were beaten with an information gap. "Although most Koreans have a university education, they often cannot find jobs commensurate with their education due to problems such as language barriers. A professor at Queens College in New York said. They set out after the land of freedom and wealth in their minds, but when they really arrived, they found that what awaited them was the old and solidified class and the private property that had long been carved up. According to the survey, nearly 60% of the second group of Korean immigrants have higher education, but face more severe entrepreneurial difficulties than the first batch. Reflecting on his parents' choice, Ron said that if they had waited until the rising South Korea of the '90s, they might not have chosen to emigrate. Just 50 years later, the new generation of immigrants in South Korea have different goals. Tom, a Korean student whose parents are businessmen in Korea, plans to complete the process from graduate school to work and settle down, and then join up with his parents who came to the UK and not return to Korea.
But this international student, who seems to have a smooth sailing life, exudes a cautious restraint everywheresense。Tom is very good at dealing with people. He prepares greeting cards and gifts for all his roommates on all holidays, big and small. On Korean holidays, he spends the whole day in the kitchen preparing Korean foods such as rice cake salad, shredded rice cakes, and stir-fried beef with Korean hot sauce, and knocks on the doors of his roommates one by one to invite them to the party. Later my friends found out,Tom was a victim of bullying in high school. On Korean campuses, bullying methods are as ancient and mysterious as martial arts cheats, from verbal abuse to pushing, kicking, and beating. Under high pressure, Tom became overweight due to overeating, and was once plagued by depression and took a break from school. Studying abroad is the best solution for him after discussing with his family.
Serious school bullying in South Korea.
In a study abroad counseling post, a student said why he wanted to leave Korea: "Because they don't compare themselves to each other, they don't just focus on their appearance, and they don't get compared to their parents." ”
Some Korean netizens described today's Korean society in his eyes: "As long as you don't starve to death, you will be regarded as happy." ”
The predecessors of the 80s "run" out or in pursuit of opportunities;The reasons for the migration of the new generation of Koreans are somewhat poignant.
The "cancer" of Korean society
If there is anything in Korean society that forces people to "have to run", bullying must be counted as one. In South Korea, bullying is like a "cancer" that is difficult to **. According to the Korean Human Rights Commission, 73% of office workers in South Korea have been bullied in the workplace, and nearly 87% of school students have participated in or suffered bullying in school. The Korean drama "Dark Glory" describes the terrible methods of school bullying in South Korea: beating, heating curling irons, and perming ......
What's even more terrifying is that the violent plot of "Dark Glory" is not made up out of thin air, but is based on the real bullying incident that happened at Cheongju Girls' High School in South Korea in 2006. The real events are more brutal than what the TV series shows. The period of military service left over from the time of the US garrison is also a place where bullying is high, and this year's policy to improve military bullying is particularly illustrative: in the conscription barracks in South Korea, the seniority was divided by month. In the latest anti-bullying policy, the seniority in the barracks has changed every six months, so that there are only two seniority changes left during the entire military service. Others improve bullying:It is forbidden for seniors to bully newcomers。South Korea improves bullying:It is forbidden for seniors to become seniors。As comical as it may be, this move does significantly improve bullying in the military.
On the one hand, bullying is rampant, which comes from the strict hierarchy of the elders and the young in Confucian cultureOn the other hand, it is also because of the single value orientation of Korean society. When everyone is "crossing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops", those who have nothing to roll up can only gain a sense of superiority by suppressing others. Naturally, the tense social atmosphere has not just taken shape in the past two years, but it has become more serious in the past two years. Under the influence of the epidemic, South Korea has become more and more difficult to find employment and unemployment rapidly. In April 2020 alone, South Korea lost 1.1 million jobs. In the first half of 2021, South Korea's unemployment rate reached a 21-year high, with the country's youth aged 15-29 having a real unemployment rate of up to a quarter.
But the most fantastical set of data comes from this year. In November 2023, South Korea set the most impressive number for the unemployment rate on record: 23%, which is still very good even when compared to countries with low unemployment. But if you look at it one more time, you will find something strange: this set of unemployment data includes the number of employed people over 60 years old, an increase of 3790,000 people, the largest increase, compensated for the decline in employment in other age groups.
In order to find a stable job, many people in South Korea study 16 hours a day to compete with 200,000 people for more than 4,000 civil service positions. In 2021, South Korea had 133.52 million people die by suicide, an average of 36 per daySix people died by suicide, the highest suicide rate among OECD member countries.
Leaving the bad place and running to the good place is the nature of human beings to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. As we all know, South Korea's fertility rate has accelerated since reaching an inflection point in 2019**. For a number of reasons, South Korea has gradually opened up to immigration. In the mouth of many migration agents, South Korea is one of the few low-cost, low-risk, fast, and unsupervised immigration destinations in developed countries.
In 2020, nearly 5% of South Korea's permanent resident expatriate population was already living in South Korea. This is not enough. South Korea's Ministry of Education's latest plan is to increase the number of foreign students to 300,000 by 2027, and at the same time, the threshold for issuing visas to foreigners will be relaxed to "people who live in Korea but are employed by foreign employers to work remotely" and "foreign youth who are interested in Hallyu culture and want to receive Hallyu training". * The interpretation of this series of policies is "strengthening the introduction of talents". But the Koreans, who had long been unbearable, stopped doing it. The city of Daegu, South Korea, planned to build an Islamic mosque last year to attract local Pakistani students to worship, which caused a strong response from the local people, who repeatedly clashed with the construction team and Pakistani students at the construction site, and even placed pigs' heads in the temple and set up barbecue grills to make charcoal-grilled pork neck. In the end, the Supreme Court of South Korea ruled that the temple was legal and sent armed police to expel the people of ** by force. But interestingly, according to many self-reports, the fertility rate of those foreigners who immigrated to South Korea after arriving in South Korea is far lower than the level in their home country. There is quite a kind of orange shenghuaibei is the perception of citrus.
This statement has not been supported by data, but many people believe it deeply. The root cause of the decline in the fertility rate and population loss in South Korea lies in the society itself. After all, Mr. Zhao Zhongxiang said it a long time ago:
When the environment is no longer suitable for survival, the animal first stops reproducing, followed by the Great Migration.
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