Immer mehr junge Südkoreaner geben die Jobsuche auf

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-young-south-koreans-give-up-on-finding-a-job

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  2. There’s an extreme amount of pressure in South Korea to get a job at a chaebol company like Samsung, and as a result such jobs are insanely competitive. I can see people giving up after failing to such a job or growing up without the extra money for extracurricular schooling so they have a chance at passing company job exams.

  3. >no jobs
    >
    >over priced housing
    >
    >over priced food
    >
    >low socialization cause everything, especially romance, costs money
    >
    >corporate institutionalized corruption

    “Why aren’t people having kids anymore?”

  6. “AI stealing jobs”

    “People won’t have to work in the future”

    smh

  8. ofc ppl will say no if they’re asked whether they want to work or not wtf.
    and even though they do, it’s still tens to thousands of young people competing for one digit hiring.

    and as korean I have no idea where the money is spent
    I’m sure other koreans would fucking wonder too

    the minimum wage increases so often so ppl here say they’d rather have part time jobs as a joke.
    part timers earn more money than entry or some skilled full time jobs or contract workers or temporary workers

    you’ll be paid less than or similar to part time jobs and be treated as a slave, abused verbally or even physically if you go to small mid companies for full time jobs
    so many would be jailed if my country was some western country either for being fucking abusive or breaking the law

    also some don’t even offer employee benefits.
    ppl hate small mid companies for the reasons

    so it’s pretty bad if you don’t go to big named companies or at least where the company works for big companies

    Idk how it’s like now but when I looked for full time jobs a few years ago, the pay was less than a thousand usd a month after tax.
    then I understood why ppl say no money is left after paying all rent and utility shits

    I live in an old (def not old but old in koreans’ theory) apartment where the size is btw american studio and one bed room in suburban but the sum of rental fee and the utility fees monthly is exactly that pay

    almost all companies (except a few or some) I believe say they hire experienced employees at least for years when hiring new employees so ppl here say how ppl with no experience could even apply for a job when they all demand experienced workers

    also when my country say they created jobs, it’s usually temporary jobs.
    so ppl here say they’re fucking with numbers to show off how well they did during their term as if they created full time jobs.
    many koreans are contract or temporary workers.

    so anyway ppl these days also delivery food in weekends as a side gig
    or for coupang like amazon warehouse workers

  10. This is the current situation:
    1. Women entered the workforce in the postwar period, literally doubling the workforce and inevitably putting downward pressure on wages (global phenomenon).

    2. Korean men and women born since the 80s have all been expected to do better than their parents by securing white collar jobs, with said parents spending a fortune on private education.

    3. With late stage capitalism and work flow efficiencies, there are far less “good” white collar jobs, meaning intense competition. By the way, “good” white collar jobs here mean exclusively those of Samsung, Hyundai and other global conglomerates aka chaebols. There’s more than enough jobs at SMEs to go around, but young Koreans would rather be unemployed than work those jobs, lest be seen as “not keeping up”.

    4. In the same vein, there’s a huge surplus of blue collar jobs that need to be filled, but 99.9% of Korean women refuse to be blue collar. Few Korean men will fill those, pretty much just the highest paid manufacturing jobs… the rest is filled by migrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere.

    5. So it’s like there’s a gridlock preventing young Koreans from getting jobs. Couple that with unobtainable conditions for marriage (thanks Instagram), plus the friction caused by men and women competing for the same scant jobs, and the result is young Koreans simply do not get married. Now couple that with a culture where common law and out of wedlock children are taboo, and you get the lowest birth rate in the developed world.

  13. Maybe there’s just too many people for the amount of work that needs to be done.  Declining birth rates aren’t as scary as having too many people to fight over the same resource.

  14. Too many of them getting left by their finances after which they reveal that they actually own the company the finance works at.

    Source: casual research of Korean near present historical documents

  15. Perhaps this is temporary because of decreasing birth rates? They (chaebols) will be competing for the workers soon, no?

  16. You’d think there would be lots of jobs with their population in decline. Maybe a couple more years.

  17. Seems like the they would have the opposite problem with their ultra low fertility rate.

    Anyway I’m not complaining, I love all the Korean own businesses in Sydney. Great food, coffee and culture. Keep sending your Neets our way!

  18. It’s kinda crazy how we learn that Cyberpunk is kinda unrealistic in the sense, that a society like it will just die out because people get no kids anymore, because that’s South Korea for you. Fuck Samsung and the rest for sucking their society dry.

  19. Plus the fact that South Koreans have basically no work-life balance whatsoever.

  21. Other countries would benefit from having highly-educated young people.

    A big reason the US is so successful is that it is able to attract them as immigrants and make them contribute to the country, reaping the benefits of their home countries investing in their upbringing and education.

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