Right! Everytime I see anything about North or South Korea all I think about is how someone could write a whole dystopian book series about them.. EVERYTHING about North Korea could be turned into a huge blockbuster dystopian movie but obviously rename the country and the leader, so the people watching think its just some movie about a future society with an evil dictator. Then as the credits start to roll a message pops up telling the audience that everything theyve seen thus far has been a retelling of life in North Korea from Koreans who've escaped. I just think it'd be a good way to open people's eyes, alot of ppl don't understand or think about how bad North Korea is.
@@milantehrandubaiit’s entertaining to see people caught in an inescapable system in which they are trapped, and the only peace they have is in what they decide to tell themselves, to convince themselves to keep going
Omg same I literally failed two kindergarten entrance exams,my father took me to the first one but I didn't write anything so he was so embarrassed that he asked my mother to take me but I failed again 😀
As Asians, getting caught with a calculator is one of the single most shameful & disgraceful things you could do and the highest degree of insult & dishonor you could inflict upon your lineage😂
@@Hellioxnah, they were just kidding lol, it’s not actually that serious. it’s considered cheating and isn’t used in most circumstances (at least where I come from), but you won’t be getting burned at the stake, thrown in front of a bus, or publicly executed for using one
It’s scary how these countries with the highest academic standards, are the ones with the dwindling younger population. These young people are too stressed and burned out to do it to their own kids. 👌🏻🙌🏻
if your entire corporate sector is just a monopoly of 3 to 4 family run companies that have bought the entire government then the only option left for you to be successful is to go through these stupid compatitive exams. if the government decides to only support all types of entrepreneurship then these exams will stop being relevant.
I mean.. Korea top 1 in Suicide rates. For Bullying, can't compete with society, public shaming for lack of education grasp. Honor system in the family based on your work. The list goes on and on.
Better start adding "sustainable population number" criteria to the "developed country" bracket, with that new criteria, only USA is in the list and thats because migration
There's actually a lot of activities that needs to be done when opening a small business. Supply chain management, Operations, Human Resource Management, Accounting, Legal & Regulatory Affairs, etc. It's good to study before going into business so you don't waste your money.
@@briliankamil4594yes they do, you can get an accounting degree and part of the curriculum encompasses all these aspects. Even getting a Management degree you will have to take basic accounting to graduate. I think it’s more of what you are studying that makes the difference. People just don’t plan out what they want to do and see college as a right of passage rather than an investment, which is really what it is.
The stupidest thing is that even if you enter college and graduate it still don’t guarantee you a great paying job. It’s just competition after competition to the point that we should just be grateful the population number is shrinking.
We don't need more children, we don't need descendants, we don't need more competition, we don't need unnecessary stress of taking care of something that is going to eventually both gain independence but also be expected to be indebted to you.
Yup...my bro grad hrm with flying colors plus a deans lister but he didnt get a job related to that but his current job pays 10x more. My sis grad in tourism but ended up being an english teacher with high pay and is a assistant manager
So true...I'm thankful that my country has youth development centres that can help people to gain skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship, team building etc...which can be an alternative for your future career.
I was an exchange student in engineering school. It was the hardest, most grueling semester I have ever experienced. The grades were assigned using gaussian distribution, so you didn't get what you deserved but you got a grade depending on how your classmates did relative to yourself. I didn't sleep. I didn't rest. It was a competition with everyone. I learned A TON, but I understand why my classmates didn't want their children to grow up in South Korea. Oh, and the dorm suicides... those were a thing.
My wife is Korean and my mother in law said exactly this. Visited family over there and we barely saw my two cousin in laws as they were studying for their entrance exam nonstop. My mother in law said that if you don't get into a school in Seoul you aren't going to get a high paying job. She said a lot of professionals have to go to the second busiest city, Busan, as a result of graduating from a school outside of Seoul. This exam basically determines their place in life. Korea is beautiful and filled with great people, but I'm happy to be in America, the land of 2nd, 3rd, even 4th chances.
@@lennartj12345some companies have better safety nets in Florida you can insure yourself for 26 weeks and get 60% of your wage by giving up $4 a month.
fr I watched sky castle for context im a British Indian and I was watching it with my mum and she acted like it was so normal for all asian countries. It was crazy how far they would go to get into Uni of Seoul same with penthouse that was another shocking K-drama.
It is so shooking for me that it is so different from my country. Like a classmate from 10 grade graduated with the lowest degree (were you are not albe to go to college) that we have. And nobody was sure what will happened to him cause he was not smart and lazy. And after 4 years we had a small reunion and he tolds us that he is now studying at college. And he even works at the same time what he is studying. And meanwhile a friend and me are dropping out if college, even thoe our degree was better.
It’s mostly the same across many Asian countries. In China, it is the same. Source: I’m Chinese born in the Philippines. I have my Gregorian calendar birthday and Chinese calendar birthday.
@@Travisfartin high school, it would be until 12am to 2am. Then, if they fail the university exams, most would commit suicide. They already sacrificed themselves for many years just to fail. So, instead of facing an embarrassing situation, they just decide to commit suicide.
Japan is so different from this point of view. People go to university only for shits and giggles because most of university graduates don't even use their degree after. You can study whatever you want you'll always be an entry level employee with an entry level salary. Your qualifications don't matter, it doesn't even matter if you have a PhD and you want a research job. Entry level lol. And even if you had a decade of experience in another company, if you start in a new one? Entry level.
@@hajimehinata9 it continues because college is so expensive and their elem to highschool education is usually good enough, but idk what started it all
@@hajimehinata9 because they care more about seniority than experience and qualifications. Just because you have the skill set to be a manager they’re not gonna put you above people who have been working for the company for years. This plus the fact that in most Japanese companies they have “permanent contracts” in which basically the company will never let you go, takes competition out of the equation and makes it unnecessary to work hard to stay in your position. You simply must look like you’re working hard, hence the ridiculous amounts of working hours and yet Japan is so far behind in innovation and their sales are terrible. This system, the seniority system, also makes it unnecessary to have a relevant degree to fulfill your duties within the company because you’re always at entry level, newbie, kouhai, one to listen and not one to be listened. Most salary men (that’s what they’re called) simply join the company after graduation (HS or Uni) and are trained from 0 to do their job.
Same in my country, i didnt get promoted to grade 12 and when i repeated grade 11, the new grade 11 students were disrespectful and laughing at me and the teacher were using me as an example to not follow because i was one of the 4 students who repeated thus 4 months later because of the harrassment i dropped out and started to work at my dad's building company then the school called me for the previous grade 11 exam prize giving(Prizes given to students for being the best in ab subject). The faces of the teachers and the students that disrespected me when they saw that, i not only got 4 shield trophies but i also got 3 Distinction certificates. 4 shield trophies because i was first place in each subjects and 3 distinction certificates proving that i got full marks in each subject. I may be dumb in some subjects to the point of failing but my parents are proud with what i got.
@@numpy979 Just different values and culture. It is not just Korea that is organized this way, Japan and China are similar. But okay Education is stupid and barbaric.
Everyone has the choice to be uneducated. Koreans just choose not to because human capital is the only thing Korea has going. There are no natural resources.
I am happy to be in Somalia where everyday is basically a new beginning... life is beautiful in many ways here because no matter what happened yesterday, today is a new and different day.
My mom can’t visit my father’s place. Dad can’t visit my mom’s place. It’s not safe there because of clans and politics and whatnot. Every country has their share of bad ish, so maybe not so beautiful?
And you wonder why other nations are accumulating more wealth. Build on the knowledge of yesterday and your ancestors and give it to your kids. Quit starting over every time lol
I once met a Korean guy on my trip and he seemed to be so passionate about travelling! However he had 1 year to travel and afterwards he'd get married and start working at his father's company. I felt so bad for him because it was so obvious this was not what he wanted, but the life that had been chosen for him.. I wonder what he did to even convince his parents to let him travel for 1 year. I'm glad he got to do that at least. It makes me sad to think about all the other people who never got to chase their dreams 😔
That year of travelling was not very difficult to get. As you wrote, he is ready with his study and that is for his parents the most important thing.😅 He'll start in his father's company. His position is secure. Succession by own children, especially sons is very, very important in Korea.
This is 100% true. All of my Korean friends told me about this and that’s why they “had to” move out of Korea because there won’t be any jobs for them or the society sees them as a failure and won’t have any respect for them. South Korea is such a small country but the suicide rate is super high.
Korea was once the bottom on literacy rate of all asia that's why they are doing this crazy education system and scuff u for not having proper education. Now its like 86% literacy rate on that country.
@hadhamalnam I love Korea but she just explained to you why their more superficial on education than in the U.S. "People would scoff at you, you would be laughed at. People would cuss you out for being an idiot" and this all just for owning a fucking business. Imagine if they had their own Kanye West, who's a college dropout. No one would be fans of him
It's actually quite sad. Yes education is good to have, but it shouldn't be at the emotional, and physical, cost of children. I've been told that I had my three did way way too much to get into Uni. All three got into UC Berkley, and all three did dual enrollment at the local community college starting in Junior high. After seeing what their friends from Korea, Japan, China and India went through mine got off "easy".
this is the result of the villinization of entrepreneurship and trade jobs. You have a society going through the same funnel which is college with no guarantee you'll get a job. Institutions have succesfully milked the masses
@@shely_D7vilwell maybe it shouldn’t have been like this if the west are not evil and going around stealing resources from everyone which build their comfortable life right now.
Why you're so surprised? The entire Korean culture is basically all about devoting your entire life and childhood to corporations. It's basically a democratic version of China at this point.
@@0Onyx13 that wasn't my point, what I wanted to say is you can be successful even without a college/uni degree in Korea, I never secluded hard work cause both college students and kpop idols work very hard to get where they want to be.
@yoloobae9691 Not all people who don't go to college are uneducated. their training was very difficult, so don't call someone you don't know uneducated
POOR THOSE GUY'S WHO HAVE TO STUDY THEIR ASS OFFS TO WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S THAT TO NOT WITH SATISFIED SALARY OR LIFESTYLE......Oh my godd i feel like developing and democratic INDIA is far more better than those highly developed countries😢😢 HERE ATLIST THERE ARE TONS OF SELF MADE MILLIONAIRE AND OFC BILLIONAIRES TOO who run their own businesses and Here there are 70 percentage of population doing some mirco small medium enterprises or businesses that's far more good than to work for someone else's 😮 I FEEL GOOD TO HEAR THIS PRETTY THING
if your entire corporate sector is just a monopoly of 3 to 4 family run companies that have bought the entire government then the only option left for you to be successful is to go through these stupid compatitive exams. if the government decides to only support all types of entrepreneurship then these exams will stop being relevant.
Last part is wrong. Many Koreans go overseas to countries like Australia for two years to escape the mandatory military service. They get a working holidat Visa.
I have a korean student and they are in NZ. I talked to her Mom and asked her why they decided to migrate in NZ. And said she wanted her kids not to feel too much pressure and doesn't want her kids to experience those things. And I talked to some of my Korean students and said they sleep at around 2-3am just to study for their exam and they are so stressed
And yet Finland has better education systems for half the time and triple the happiness. Most of them speak at least 3 languages, excel in math and can play an instrument
My FULL Asian parents aren’t that strict my mom even said to me that don’t push your self to always be number one In your class or you might go crazy being in top 4 is enough 😂 (And I barely even review my lesson at home sometimes I review in school and just on my phone at home and my friends in the top of the class always help me study,we teach each other every quiz and exam.) I’m very thankful for their help ❤
As an Asian Mom, I wouldn't want my child the same either. I always tell them to do the best they can. Because there is much more life out there than just going crazy over tests.
It is kind of the same sentiment in Japan. I know that when i went to Japan to help out a friend, I was there for 7 months and they asked how i started my business and got it to grow to what it is now. I told them that i had only been doing it for about 7 years and when i made the choice to start i hit Rock bottom. I had the equivilant to a felony conviction on my record, I didnt go to college i didnt even graduate high school, PTSD from military service along with 3 major psycholigal diagnoses which severely impede my thought processes but when im in a machine shop all of that just melts away, reminds me of when i was a kid and my Opa was standing next to me. Success should never be measured in a string of 1's and 0's or acedemic achievements. I dont need a piece of paper to tell me that i am smart and have people around me give me constant validation. I own a business doing what i love. Thats all that matters.
Im half-korean and yes...very true. Even though mom was expected to marry someone who was either very well educated or has a well paid job, she still had to go to college to not "be an embarrassment to the family". She got a degree in Accounting and then married my Dad (who was in the US Army at the time). And this happened back in the 80's, i don't want to imagine how much more strict it is now. Btw....even though I'm half Korean, some of my relatives refer to me as a Miguk/Waeguk....not fair 😢
In my country (The Netherlands) for most majors in uni they don’t care about highschool grades. As long as you graduated highschool you’re good. Whenever too many people apply, they just draw lots. In highschool a 5.5/10 is good enough to pass each subject. To graduate you’re even allowed to fail 2 subjects. It’s also pretty common to have to repeat a year in highschool.
Ja @@divineflu34567 yea it sounds pretty nice right.. unless you want to have a roof over your head. We have been in a housing crisis for a while. Everything is very expensive. The traditional food kinda sucks. Also the weather fluctuates a lot. Dutch people love to complain about the weather and well just about anything :)
@@shashwatsinha2704 not sure if I get what you mean. But if you’re asking about health insurance, we do that pretty good in the Netherlands :). It’s affordable and a lot is covered. Also you have to get health insurance by law
I’m dutch, quit highschool at 15 due to depression. I have a 148 iq score. I just started working immediately and have 10 years of working experience on my resume. Maybe i cant be a lawyer or doctor, but i can literally land any job here. If you present yourself well, they dont care about degrees.
But in Korea it’s much much worse, in South Asia there are plenty of people who enter the work force with a simple high-school degree and move up with experience. And plenty who start their own businesses. For occupations like doctors, lawyers , engineers of course you need a well recognized degree.
@@ws1814 not at all worse. The sheer population of India makes it so much more competitive. Around 1.5m students compete for Engineering entrance in India from where only 10k students get into the most elite colleges whereas 2m students compete for medical entrance. Even if it's not all the population like in Korea , the numbers are absolutely ridiculous for Indians
@@ws1814there's such a copius amount of people starting business in India without any degree that it's only natural atleast few would be successful. If u look at the ratio of succesful businessmen without degree to unsuccessful businessmen without a degree, it'd be same as Korea frankly.
@@ws1814 u are not informed about india at all. I've seen college GRADUATES not get jobs, the job market is that bad in india . No one with a high school degree gets a job and simply moves up with experience no company hiring someone with a high school degree here. It gets more competitive year on year with rising population and there being only so many jobs.
I teach in Korea. Even my first graders get less sleep and work more than I do. That's not an exaggeration. I've surveyed my classes to see when they go to sleep and wake up, plus how many academies they go to after school.
@@ThatOneGanyuMain not courses per-se, but for example, after school they might go to a math academy, then taekwondo academy, then music academy, then home. each academy is 1-2 hours depending on the discipline. they get home for dinner, then do homework sometimes until after midnight. then (most of my students) they may wake up around 6-7 AM and do it again the following day.
That’s the difference between American culture and Korean culture. As Americans, the highest honor and respect goes to the self made man. He is the symbol of our country.
It’s only rich kids taking gap years in America. The rest of us who are middle class have to get decent grades or take out hella loans to move up in the world, and poor kids really need to get high SATs and such to get the financial aid to pay for school. Not only that, but for the most part all the “self made millionaires” you see in America who didn’t go to college are children of nepotism and came from wealthy families. Nothing special Fr
Also not too mention the fact that South Korea has far more benefits from the government to their people compared to America. But go off about how it’s so hard in South Korea because of college, that is less than a third of the cost of a college in the US
it's not abt the cost mainly. Yes, it costs less than in US but you also get paid less from jobs in Korea. The college study itself is stressful like typical asian education with the addition of societal pressure. 12th highest suicide rate worldwide.
This is crazy to me! In my country of Belgium literally every single person with a high school degree in anything can enter any university or college for any programme (except for those with entrance exams like doctor, dentist and engineer). Even with this in place we have 2 universities in the top 100 of the world. On top of this our tuition is only around 1200 dollars a year. If there's anything I'm grateful for in my country its the education I got. How can people get up in life if they can't pursue education because of one mistake or bad test in the past?
Att 1200 c'est cher 😂.Je suis française et ça c'est le prix des formations payantes. Ce qui vas coûter aux étudiants c'est plus le coût de la vie plutôt que l Université
I was a multi millionaire by the age of 21 out here in Canada. I didn't go to college. I got clients in South Korea. I wonder what they would think if I told them I never went to college.
Even during schools breaks, korean kids are in some kind of tutorial mostly language classes in prep for their higher education. Meanwhile, i was a college undergrad who was trying to figure out what i really wanted.... For 5 years.
I just imagined a Korean drama that a teenage girl did not go to college but manage to climb the corporate elite level with her entrepreneur skills not in Korea but overseas... So when she return to Korea as adult and join up some businesses party or charity event and surrounded by businessman and women who is successful.. Then just a handful of business men ask what she do or what business or what education or whatnot and she answer she's just a entrepreneur, did not go to college and start my business through online... They mock and laugh at her then the news spread throughout the whole party like wild fires... They scoff, laugh and insult her Then several men enter the room 2 most prestigious lawyer one of the best of the best in the world, one hierarchy elite businessman who rules on most logistics systems and one old man who well known throughout business world... Everyone was excited and getting ready their company cards but they are shock to see these group of elites approaching the uneducated self made entrepreneur... So maybe they thought she's doesn't belong here and needed to kick her out so they gather up around her to get a chance to mock and chase her out... Unfortunately the old man goes and shake her hand and introduce himself who he is including the other elites... Everyone shock and confuse Some of them even ask who is she? How can she gets to shake the hands of such prestigious well known business man? Then it all reveal to them that she the uneducated self made entrepreneur is opening an investing company that supports all over the world business... She's not well known or famous because she's prefer a low profile and not getting special treatment The kicker is those 2 prestigious lawyers are with her and she's there to meet several elites including the old man to do business in Korea....
Meanwhile there is me: Who did not study for a university state college entrance exam and was thinking of genshin impact whilst answering my test and still got in. 😂
@@പരുന്ത്there are self made people but most of us have not been taught that way. Our parents have all taught us the same, to just get past the boards. If you have something else you want to do then you must pray and hope that they accept that
@@പരുന്ത്the self made are those few with talent, they’re naturally smart enough or they have enough connections that they don’t need a degree. For normal people tho, a degree is your best shot at getting a good job. The self made are the exception, not the rule.
Now I'm grateful to be born in Malaysia 🥲 Sure, Asia have a history of studying but I'm mostly like a outsider even when I'm Malaysian But still, I love my country's love for holidays
They had to bring in a strict law that made it illegal operate a tutoring business after midnight. They still do though and police literally raid them lol
@mishibread I was from korea,moved to the States and became a koreaboo but it doesn't really count bc I'm from there and I went to visit around exam season, and you can just feel the stress
On the other hand it is literally crazy how EASY University is in South Korea! Many classes grades are oriented on the results of the students in the class, if you show up you can almost be a 100% sure that you passed..! Also strange is that you are supposed to get a „good education“ in Seoul and therefore some people move there… but although english is teached mandatory in schools it is a special exemption if someone can speak it and almost a wonder if they speak it well. Somehow it works out better in Jeju or Sokcho..
Oh my goodness. So I worked for this Indian doctor and he was always and I mean always criticizing me on everything. He almost acted as if he was my dad. Im like…….. 😢. He used to scream at me and I mean screaming at the top of his lungs. I did 2 years of that but eventually I found another job. I have a feeling he might call me back soon to see if I want a partnership or something but I don’t think I’ll go back.
@vanarqwq3660 so what I did was move some patients around on the day he was out of town. I did it before he even asked me to do it. Because if I didn't he would say I knew he was leaving town why didn't I move the patients. But because I did it without him telling me , he used that as an excuse to scream at me. Its either I don't do it or do. Either way I would of got yelled at.
Being a drop out business owner in India, people look up and appreciate. They do tell to get a degree solely for marriage purpose 😂 that's it. And SK to me sounds a terrible place the way she is portraying
now i get peniel's joke when he responded " ha jokes on you i didn't go to college " him being in one of the most succeful kpop groups in his generation
Good thing about Korea is that they pretty much have college for all levels. As a university teacher I've taught amazingly prepared students and students who barely were at a high school level education.
In my country it's the same about no gap year and the funny thing is most of the prestigious universities only take freshly high school graduates. So if you're thinking about taking a gap year or you're sick or anything happens, you cannot apply next year. That means you can never go to university.
@@saimyintmyat9373ummm I don't know if u know the humongous jump between a high school diploma and a PhD... like who in their right MIND would have a PhD then become a slave to the kpop music industry?! 💀 maybe a 'phd' is something different in Korea? I didn't even know there were any pop stars who were doctors lmao 😂
In INDIA' ITS THE SAME PROBLEM TOO BUT ATLEAST HERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF MADE MILLIONAIRES AND NOW GOVERNMENT AND COMMON PEOPLE IN INDIA ARE OPENING THEIR EYES 😮😮😮
@@kookiesbananamilk1876 it is low cause many aspirants just give entrance for fun Therefore the seats are less and aspirants are 3x more So the competition gets tough and people here like Modi and many of ENTREPRENEURS are self made even if you accept it or not🙃
@@kimtaehyungbangtansonyeond9844any as in how much? Instead lets take percentage? How much of those self made actually made it really big? Lets not read numbers but percentage because it gives clearer understanding of situation. And if we look at the percentage, you will see how little of them actually made it really big. You have to understand that even 10,000 people is so little in front of India's population.
I have a penpal from korea and she manage to graduated from college, I lost contact after that I think she get even bussier, I hope she's find a comfortable job since it's pretty hard there to get a job even after graduated
@@Tubaraoteamo-mi9fdat I've experienced in Indonesia is it's hard to get into this country's top three universities because this country has lot of people and only has a few good universities. With only roughly 2% acceptance rate, that is terrible even for me who studied all days for 3 years and yet still not accepted. Even though it's acceptance rate is low, the universities are still not the best in the world. That is frustrating. Sorry, I only want to share my bitter experience. Just got rejected 4 times recently.
hmm... it's kind of similar here in indonesia, we regard college/university degree highly as well. but we still think that those who are like "from zero to hero," some entrepreneurs with no outstanding academic background who really hit it in the market are waaaaay much cooler tho
wait gap years are not a normal thing in korea? this is so shocking because India is also a country which places heavy significance on education but gap years are a very common practice here. many ppl take gap years to prepare for competitive exams and getting into prestigious universities. even if there's a slight social stigma attached to gap years, in the long run it really doesn't matter and students take gap year(s).
In America college doesn’t even mean anything anymore. Pretty much everyone goes to college. Only use for it really is things like psychology, for doctors to go to med school, and for lawyers to go to law school.
In India, if u don't have a college degree they consider u a maid or a peon and if u get a basic bachelor's degree u are considered just *Eligible* in society.
@@se7enplays280no it's true What job can you really get with 12th pass degree? And even if you graduate with bsc, bcom ba, there's still no guarantee that you get good paying jobs because these are considered basic level degrees, so either you have to get master's (and phd) or start low to reach high (which is way harder) or just appear for professional degree exams or Government exams Basic Engineering degree has become a joke too Even with plain mbbs, you don't go anywhere unless you do pg
