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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason for that: it’s a country that has very little resources, a large population, not enough good jobs for everyone.

US is different.[/quote]
This is true, and a lot of the recent immigrants don't realize this.

In Korea, your life is set if you go to one of the SKY univs and then get a job at one of the chaebols.  Here in the US, we have so many paths to financial success.

There are people in the US who either didn't go to college or went to a T50 or below and can get jobs at a FAANG. That would be unheard of in Korea.[/quote]I never quite understood how a smart hardworking family like the one in the movie Parasite could be so financially unsuccessful. But now I see the movie was about how success in SK was locked in for some people and unattainable for others.[/quote]
Yes, it was even worse decades ago, which is why my parents left SK. Back when they left, there was no free public education.  My parents had four kids and were poor. They could not afford to send all of us through school.  My parents themselves only had an ES/MS education.

It's much harder to cross SES in SK than in the US.   The US is still a much better place to live for jobs than SK. [/quote]

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