'Hell Joseon' and the South Korean generation pushing to breaking point
14 points by rawgabbit 8 hours ago | 5 comments
  • sbmthakur 5 hours ago |
    > Young people should work harder. They are making excuses!

    What's the expectation when it comes to young people having a family? You certainly can't do both and still maintain a sane mind.

    • InDubioProRubio 4 hours ago |
      The beatings will continues until the moral in the generational labour camp improves! The youth shall envy the old guard for the electric fence and guard towers they could walk into.
    • bottom999mottob 3 hours ago |
      Well back in my day we had to walk to school in the snow uphill, downhill, work on the farm, raise a family, survive in a capitalist dystopia and stay sane

      You youngins' just don't get it

  • nicbou 4 hours ago |
    I biked across Korea (highly recommended) a year ago. Everything I read and heard about Korean culture gave off subtle cyberpunk dystopian vibes with a thin media veneer of wealth
  • qazpot 3 hours ago |
    I see a lot of parallels in Korean (and other eastern countries) and Indian social expectations.

    While Korea has developed economically and has become a modern industrialized country all of it's social mores and expectations are rooted in it's feudal agricultural past.

    I think that similar situation will happen in India as well in next 20 years.

    Maybe Western modern industrialized, post-industrialized society needs a individualistic culture as well and does not harmonize well with society whose values are derived from the older feudal, gerontocratic agricultural society.