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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. Why can’t people move to a less expensive town or opt out of the educational prepping insanity?[/quote]
1. good jobs are mostly in the cities, like Seoul, and the majority of good paying jobs are with one of the chaebol (conglomerates) like Samsung, or Google Korea -- these types of jobs are very hard to get, which leads to...
2. unlike the US, there are not many top universities in Korea - there are maybe two - and if you can get in, you are set for life because the top companies will only hire from these companies

There are a lot of great things about Korea, but this kind of pipeline isn't healthy, which is why so many Koreans want to come to the US where the competition is less fierce, and one can get a great job without going to a T20 colleges.
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This is all true. But Korea is such an interesting country. It's a really open, friendly, honest place generally. But the tension between traditional expectations and modern realities is like an elastic band that has just snapped. And the country is dealing with the consequences.

I'd like to think the U35 generation will fix this. They're certainly totally aware. There are no illusions. But I don't know. Think grandma might need to die before anything changes in Korea[/quote]

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