Mind you, maybe in another 70 years, South Korea will disappear from the earth naturally?
What's going on? South Korea currently has just over 200,000 births a year, but nearly 400,000 deaths. Crucially, 600,000 people in South Korea choose to immigrate every year. This means that the number of people in South Korea will be reduced by 700,000 per year.
South Korea's current population is 51.63 million, and at this rate, South Korea will disappear from the world in 70 years. What is even more surprising is that most of the 600,000 immigrants each year are young adults. According to survey data in South Korea, 70% of South Koreans want to emigrate.
As the former Asian Tigers, what is wrong with South Korea?
In fact, young Koreans today are very disappointed in South Korea. Although South Korea's economy is developed, its prosperous economy belongs only to the chaebol and has little to do with ordinary people. South Korea's top 10 chaebols account for 90% of South Korea's GDP every year, and Samsung alone accounts for more than 20%.
No wonder many people say that Koreans can't live without chaebols all their lives. The monopoly of the economy by the chaebols has led to a large amount of wealth being held by a small number of people. For example, the Lee Kun-hee family behind Samsung, their assets exceed $10 billion, and their children and grandchildren only need to inherit Samsung's equity to be rich forever.
Because resources are occupied by a small number of people, this has led to the loss of the upward development channel for most young people. Not only is wealth unevenly distributed, but South Korea's educational resources are also very limited.
Many people can't imagine that every year when the Korean college entrance examination comes, almost society will be shut down. This is the top priority of Koreans' lives, and if they can't get into a good university, then young Koreans have almost no chance of development, so they can only go home and open a small shop to sell fried chicken and kimchi.
Because there are too few educational resources, Korean education is more involuted than ours. If you want to be admitted to a larger university, students have to be in suspense, and even spend a lot of money to attend various cram schools. This leads to another situation, if you want to go to a good university, it is no longer more than the students themselves, but more than the parents.
According to one statistic, in the 80s, at least two-thirds of the students of Seoul National University, the number one university in South Korea, were poor, but now half of the school's students are from the Gangnam region, the richest region in South Korea. Do you think that famous "Gangnam Style" is just a square dance**? The reason for the fire was because of a blatant satire on the extravagant life of the wealthy in Gangnam-gu, South Korea.
But don't you think that getting into a good university is just a good thing? Coming out is just to enter a chaebol company as a clerk and have a stable income, so you don't have to think about breaking the circle.
At the same time, it is also necessary to make all kinds of sycophants every day, and be led to wear small shoes. If a girl is beautiful, she may be coveted by the chaebols. Every year in China, many young people rely on entrepreneurship to successfully change their fate. But in South Korea, you don't have to think about it.
In the 70s, South Korea relied on the United States and its economy developed rapidly. However, now that South Korea has passed a period of rapid development, the economy has gradually stabilized, and the resource class is very solidified. Most of the company's system is stubborn, and whether you can be promoted at this time is not based on ability, but on various unspoken rules.
The depiction of chaebol in Korean movies is not even one percent of reality. Bullying is not uncommon in South Korea. Statistics show that it takes 10 months for a college student to find their first job in South Korea, and now there are 1.26 million unemployed people in South Korea alone, half of whom are college students.
The median population of South Korea has reached 448 years old, compared with 35 years old in China, and only 27 years old in India. The aging of the Korean population is also very serious, which further contributes to the downturn of the Korean economy.
Under various blows, for the South Korean middle class, their only hope is to send their children to study abroad, and then let their children immigrate directly to foreign countries after graduation and stay in foreign countries to work and live. The rapid development of South Korea's economy is inseparable from the contribution of chaebols. But now, in turn, the chaebol has become an obstacle to South Korea's economic and social development.
In fact, the Korean chaebol is not having a good time. For example, Hyundai Motor has been overwhelmed by Chinese car brands over the years, and now it is rare to see Hyundai cars in the Chinese market. Samsung's mobile phones have also basically faded out of the Chinese market in recent years. Even South Korea's proud shipbuilding industry is now being rapidly overtaken by China. Under such circumstances, the future of South Korea can only become bleaker and bleaker, so it is not understandable that young people are immigrating one after another.