South Koreans, are speeding up the pace of immigration.
Wealthy people are slipping out A 2023 survey shows that more than half of South Koreans' young people between the ages of 20 and 30 want to emigrate abroad. The proportion of young Korean couples in this age group who want to immigrate is as high as 70%.
South Korea has sent an average of 600,000 people a year over the past decade, according to official data. It doesn't sound like much, and compared to India, the world's largest exporter of population, it is simply not worth mentioning.
But everything should not only look at the number of values, but also look at the proportion. South Korea's population is only more than 51 million, and less than 250,000 people will be born in 2022, and the result is 600,000.
As one of the most widespread ethnic groups in the world, Koreans can be found everywhere, including Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, ......Koreans generally make up more than 0 percent of the population in these countries5%, especially in the United States, most of the Asian faces that appeared in American dramas in the early years were Koreans, and the surname Kim of Qing Yishui was clear.
The faces of Korean Americans in American dramas are similar to Chinatowns where Chinese Americans live, and Koreans have also developed "Koreatowns" in the United States. In the recently hit Korean Zong "Accidental President 3", the filming location was chosen in San Francisco, USA, and the two regular guests were worried that their English was too poor to communicate with people, but when they arrived, they found that almost all of the people living around were Koreans, and daily communication was not a problem.
The older generation of Koreans immigrated to the United States in search of opportunities, when South Korea was not yet the "Asian Tigers" and was not even as good as its neighbors to the north after the Civil War. Coupled with the propaganda of the US military stationed in South Korea, many South Koreans have taken flights to the United States with the American dream in mind.
This generation of Koreans emigrated purely because they couldn't move. During the pandemic, South Korea's unemployment rate continued to rise, finally reaching its highest point in the first half of 2021, with the unemployment rate among young people under the age of 29 reaching 25%. In other words, 1 in 4 young Koreans cannot find a job.
And those who have a job may not be in a better situation. There are only a few large chaebol factories, and the jobs they can provide are extremely limited, and no one wants to go to small companies, because the salary may not even cover the living expenses, and the key is still unstable.
In order to be selected by a large factory, Koreans have to start rolling from birth, and every step before joining a large factory is like walking on thin ice. When I was a student, I couldn't stay up all nights, and the concept of "four times and five downs" was like a sword hanging over the heads of candidates, just to be admitted to the three schools of SKY, namely Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University.
If you want to stand out from many job seekers, you have to go through a recruitment exam that is comparable to the difficulty of the college entrance examination, and there are very few people who can finally go ashore.
In addition to joining large factories, civil servants are also the "iron rice bowl" that young Koreans are keen on, although the salary is not as good as that of large factories, but it is better than stability, and the future pension is also higher than that of corporate employees. But it is also not an easy task to take the civil service examination, and when you plunge into it, it is a deep sea with no other shore in sight.
Even if you get a good job, it doesn't mean that your life can stop there. The deep-rooted overtime tradition and seniority culture in Korean society are overwhelming young employees.
This is not a study room, but a café is fortunate to escape the school bullying, but after all, it can't avoid the exploitation and oppression of seniors in the workplace. We often lament that Koreans have evolved to sleep, but isn't staying up late a kind of stress catharsis to enjoy being alone?
Fear of excessive involution and tension has prompted South Koreans to leave their homes and choose the more relaxed and liberal Western countries, where there is no strict hierarchical order.
According to a survey a few years ago, the countries that South Koreans most want to immigrate to are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Switzerland. However, with the increase in the immigration threshold in Western countries, more and more South Korean immigrants have begun to shift their attention to Singapore, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries with beautiful scenery and low tax rates.
For example, Singapore, as a world-renowned "tax haven", does not have to pay inheritance tax, which is deeply attractive to the wealthy in South Korea. It is important to know that South Korea's inheritance tax rate is up to 50%, which is much higher than the average of 15% in OECD countries.
Singapore's night scene is indeed very beautiful, in order to keep their lifelong wealth, many Korean billionaires choose to bring their families to settle in Singapore, some self-made young upstarts are also flocking to Singapore, most of them are rich through ** and currency speculation, is an expert in tax avoidance, Singapore is undoubtedly the best choice.
Seeing that South Korea's population was declining day by day, and the army was not enough to recruit people, the South Korean professor went so far as to propose the formation of an "elderly army."
It's not impossible to do this, it's just useless, it's okay to use it to make a strong momentum, if it's really a war, is it difficult to let a group of seventy or eighty masters charge into battle?