Some integrate better than others most certainly. Younger defectors might go to Korean universities. Older ones might go work in factories or wherever they’re a good fit. Some want to go back to North Korea because they can’t handle the cultural differences.
This guy is higher-profile than most, so he’s prolly gonna live pretty kushily.
As someone who taught at all levels of the South Korean school system for about fifteen years, it’s not that bad. Teachers are way way more respected than in American schools.
Kids are generally happy up until second year of middle school then the admin tightens the nuts on them and forces pretty rigorous testing. Schooling shifts from a more western style school to basically spending all day every day learning to do well on the college entrance exam. It’s pretty soul crushing for students and teachers. They really just have to replace their college entry exam with something that can be taken more than once a year. That would solve a lot of problems with the system they have in place.
Life is certainly tough on students, but their lives are getting better. There’s no longer corporal punishment, so no more slapping physically for the past ten years. A lot more laws protecting them from overwork. This is an opinion piece that leaves out a lot of important information, such was what region these bylaws were being cancelled in (small, conservative area). While that might suck for some kids, it’s not nearly as widespread as the article would have you believe. These Christian sects see the writing on the wall and are putting a lot of effort to try to spread their dying hate and they’re mostly failing at doing that.
Half of South Koreans have no religious affiliation and only about twenty percent of Koreans are of Christian faith. Young people are especially non religious. It’s certainly not getting worse. The old folk nut job Christian cults are just the loudest. Lived in Seoul for fifteen years and rarely come in contact with anyone pushing their religion other than in touristy areas.
Went up to Paju today and they’re a day or two past full bloom. They leave real quickly, huh?
As if his dingus wasn’t already tiny. How Lego gonna castrate my boy David like that?
My boy, he won the Oscar for best actor on slap night. He was still pissing gold.
While the ISPs are being greedy, because the major three compete against each other, internet is cheap. I pay around 25usd/month for giga and basic cable in Seoul.
No pun intended?
The problem was that it wasn’t organized. It was just the first Halloween in Itaewon since COVID and the police didn’t plan for there to be such a big turnout. The annual foreign food festival was held a few weeks before Halloween, and the district office closed down the main streets to hold it. They should’ve did the same for Halloween, but hindsight is 50/50 or whatever.
That’s the thing: most of them are not willingly there. Military service is compulsory for all able-bodied, South Korean men.
Reminds me of this video where a shirtless Chinese fella is wading in a giant pool of kimchi. The video led to a Korean boycott of Chinese kimchi, which is commonly served in greasy spoons across Korea.
Wait, so G is also your N?
Or, ya know, just explain in the post description why it’s relevant to post a 26 year old article. Lots of lazy folk just read the headline and think that it’s current events… but you know that, don’t you?
Then maybe post the link as a reply in the current news post or at least explain why you’re posting a 26 year old article on a world news sub.
Ah, there it is. My skimming ain’t what it used to be. Stay in school, kids!
Article from 1997. Seems like OP is trying to push a narrative, but I guess the sidebar doesn’t say posts have to be current news.
Do what now?
You can buy unlocked phones of other brands like Google or Xiaomi on the Korean equivalent of Amazon (Coupang), but they’re substantially more expensive. I’d bet you can get Chinese brands at the little mom and pop shops that cater to Chinese students and immigrants.
Naw. They ain’t going back. There’s no program to send them back and it would be a massive security risk.