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@derekfutrell49086 ай бұрын
I live in Pyeongtaek, and it’s MUCH more likely to see a small dog in a baby stroller than it is a human baby 😢
@AskTorin6 ай бұрын
That's just sad. Kinda hurts. Good luck with becoming outvoted by elderly forever!
@neznamtija80816 ай бұрын
U r still a huge country … I live in a country w 6 million people lol also u highly developed so it’s kinda easy to import immigrants!
@MichaelWashingtonAE6 ай бұрын
It's the same here in Florida
@luizgarcialuizgarcia33866 ай бұрын
Is the same in São Paulo in Brazil
@explosivetwist6 ай бұрын
same thing in california bro.
@JRPGGUY6 ай бұрын
0.7 birthrate. That means each generation will be less than half the prior.
@MrMakabar6 ай бұрын
About a third of the prior generation with a replacement rate of 2.1.
@leesy2186 ай бұрын
It is now 0.6
@idontknowwhattowritelol6 ай бұрын
that 0.72 birthrate is going to drop to 0.68 this year...
@henrytep88846 ай бұрын
Once you’re below 1.0 everyone needs to be all hands on deck or your just praying for an ai/robot future
@nneichan93536 ай бұрын
yep, and there is a crisis in health care for kids, so having a kid is not the end of the problems if you can't find a doctor to keep your child healthy.
@Nate-jy4li6 ай бұрын
S. Korea is not a real country. It's a corporation with a state.
@yukitakaoni0076 ай бұрын
America 2.0
@lil----lil6 ай бұрын
@@yukitakaoni007 U both are correct.
@kimandre3366 ай бұрын
Most underrated comment here.
@Real_Shawn6 ай бұрын
@@yukitakaoni007How ?
@Battlejuniorsoruce6 ай бұрын
@@Real_Shawn that's what I wasn't to know
@explorernas37526 ай бұрын
This proves that everything that looks shiny is not gold.
@PrateekkumarsahooEL-326 ай бұрын
Yes you are right ✅️
@dannysolid6 ай бұрын
"All that glitters is not gold."
@Kingcobra66996 ай бұрын
Looks only shiny at night, I guess... Big cities are ugly wherever you are.
@elixier335 ай бұрын
Sick of these channels trying to shuv vpns or therapy down my throat., most people don't pay for KZbin so they have to put up with KZbin advert sponsors that are like many videos in themselves. Sorry Thumbs Down.
@jyotinanoma62275 ай бұрын
South korea is vassal state if usa , see every usa vasal has comman 1 st Christianity and athism 2 nd law birth rate and high divorce rate 3 only 1 global or important city in entire country (france has paris , uk has londen, itly has milan , USA has newyork, japan has tokiyo and etc ) 4 rth no family business or unit 5 th vassal state (us puppet)
@biber99796 ай бұрын
Korean obsession with Seoul is so weird. You cant tell me that cities like Busan, Incheon, Daegu doesn't have it all. Incheon is so close to Seoul and it has it absolutely all... foreigners, bars, restaurants, every possible shopping option, good universities, good private schools, best airport in the country, good nightlife...and if you miss something you can hop on the subway, bus, car and you will be in Seoul in hour or less. Apartments are so much cheaper in Incheon...same apartment that would cost you 1 million euros in Seoul is around 350-400k euros in Incheon. In Suwon is even cheaper and in Busan prices are like in Incheon.
@rRekko6 ай бұрын
This is a global obsession with big cities sadly. Everyone wants the commodity of those big cities, foreigners always want to move to the biggest cities too, so everything is funnelled to those. Small countries have a single big city, where everyone wants to live at and then complain they can't afford a proper living with a single job, much less housing. It's a sad sight, everyone wants to live in mega cities and will refuse to move to smaller cities and help them grow, instant gratification syndrome. We want instant payouts and we've forgotten to plan for the future, we just consume consume and consume some more. Japan is dying due to the same affliction, everyone wants to move to Tokyo and leave their rural towns, not having kids because they can't afford it and never moving back to their native towns which are dying because everyone is leaving. Same for China and UK amongst other countries. Hell in the US all the people complaining about housing prices are the ones living in the big cities, despite them being able to work remotely in a cheaper state.
@mudra51146 ай бұрын
In the West, many big cities are full of crime and homelessness. Not so in North East Asia or Singapore.
@biber99796 ай бұрын
@@mudra5114 i know that. I am from Serbia and crime here is a joke comparing to western countries or america. There is no crime at all. I am just saying that there are zero reasons to be in seoul when just one hour away you have amazing Incheon where apartments cost 3 times less. And it is stupid to say that universities and hospitals are not good in Incheon or any other bigger city in Korea.
@mudra51146 ай бұрын
@@biber9979 OK cool 👍
@mudra51146 ай бұрын
@@biber9979 OK cool . BTW I do not think Serbian cities like Belgrade have it as bad as Western European cities or American shitties.
@ehec-s6j6 ай бұрын
I live in Korean suburb and things are working out in the way that more and more people are moving out of Seoul to enjoy relaxing and laid back lifestyle compared to Seoul after experiencing too much competition in Seoul. I think it is of relief that the problem is being solved naturally
@MangaGamified5 ай бұрын
If everyone in Seoul is earning very low profits/low wages, no one is. So why bother? 🤷♂
@zellalaing54394 ай бұрын
I imagine moving out too will give a more family feel and birthrates outside of Seoul may increase?
@Paloma-wl1ul3 ай бұрын
@MangaGamify many people are working in Seoul and living in 경기도 or 인천. Myself included. I Lived for 5 years in Seoul, got tired and moved to 경기도. Is just 1 hour from Seoul station but morr calm and rent is much cheaper. The house us bigger than in Seoul and new interior.
@MangaGamified3 ай бұрын
@@Paloma-wl1ul Yeah that's much better, I live in PH and the roads got a bit better, and lot better lately by removing many of the buses, now it's only peertop-peer and some government funded buses with their own lane. Before it feels like you will be killed if you bike in the city. Just look up "manila traffic" and see what I mean.
@김성민-l9m3 ай бұрын
그래봤자 경기도잖아요. 수도권인건 똑같음.
@threesixnine369six6 ай бұрын
Britain should really move its capital too. London is strangling other cities, from as close south as Birmingham to as far north as Glasgow. Somewhere in the middle of the island and more down to earth would be great, like Liverpool, Manchester or Leeds.
@CBRN-1155 ай бұрын
Even UK has that problem? Interesting
@edgarhack20425 ай бұрын
Southerner here and I hate London tbh. It's got too much in it and the pace of things is too fast. However, making Manchester or Liverpool the capital would be a stretch. The North deserves better
@edgarhack20425 ай бұрын
@user-rl7mt4gh3o maybe not
@Zeptus14885 ай бұрын
@user-rl7mt4gh3oLOL, Europeans and East Asians are NOT equal to Africans who can't even create a functioning country.
@user-hs4ei275 ай бұрын
Should move capital to Glasgow so we all speak glaswegian 😂
@DissidentNomad6 ай бұрын
Over 10 years in South Korea. This is a good video but it's the culture as a whole, as well as industrialised life more generally, that is strangling the country, not just Seoul.
@mezmerya51306 ай бұрын
I mean, that's the issue with corporations. They push investor appeasment untill they can't. Great value comes of it, and great downfalls too. When you have an incorporated country, well, that's it.
@st.altair49365 ай бұрын
"Culture" is merely the result of a country's mode of production and governance. In SK that's capitalism and corporatocracy respectively. This is the result of the working class not being in power or organized, and being suffocated and stressed by the brutal working conditions. Hence the low birthrates and high suicide rates.
@daaz44595 ай бұрын
@@st.altair4936 culture is influenced by the factores you mentioned very heavily, but its not a result as in governance produces culture. Materialism incomplete if you disregard human life as Just a byproduct of governance and economics, you have to make the analysis bigger in scope of factors and giving the bigger influence where is due
@GermanTaffer5 ай бұрын
@st.altair4936 Stop learning from 200 year old books.
@st.altair49365 ай бұрын
@@GermanTaffer I don't remember 200 year old books mentioning SK is a corporatocracy. Projecting much? Stop supporting a 500 year old outdated mode of production like capitalism.
@Justin-jh4ym6 ай бұрын
Same thing is happening with the UK, London is supporting the rest of the country.
@apangel1006 ай бұрын
Glad you mentioned this I was gonna comment the same - as I Londoner I can resonate. This problem certainly isn’t isolated to SK and could name a dozen other countries with the same problem. It’s mega cities demographics
@gisar.65396 ай бұрын
It’s starting to change though. Manchester and Leeds are fast growing cities and at changing rapidly too
@propertymanager91496 ай бұрын
Uk is also the second most depressed country in the world lol. but BBC is too busy talking shit about other countries
@hamshank296 ай бұрын
I live in London but from elsewhere originally. All the other cities just feel like inferior versions of London. I think you'd struggle to convince people here to relocate to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester etc. It's a shame though, other European countries e.g. Germany have a range of cities each with a different feel. It wouldn't be default to move to Berlin. Cologne, Munich, Dusseldorf etc. would be worthwhile choices.
@Justin-jh4ym6 ай бұрын
@@hamshank29People will move but not by choice, London is heading towards sky high property prices like Hong Kong. The commuter towns in the South east can only absorb so much.
@alehaim6 ай бұрын
One of the problems with the new xapital in its design phase that absolutely didn't help was the lack of any real public transport, which would've been easier to build there than in Seoul, yet they instead only added buses like afterwards
@biohita6 ай бұрын
It was on purpose, to make the city only for the well positioned.
@sarahstwart16536 ай бұрын
@@biohitabut things never work that why , their are all kind of people im every city for it to work properly,, so for low income families they have to provide facilities like public transport
@PrateekkumarsahooEL-326 ай бұрын
@@biohita they are dump s korea sucks 😂
@Armored_Ariete6 ай бұрын
makes it easier to sell more hyundais and kias
@grigorkyokuto75466 ай бұрын
Public transit is not how I want to raise my kids
@kharlanhero44286 ай бұрын
Same thing happens in Mexico with Mexico City. Everything has to go through here and then to the rest of the country. At least we have two other major cities that balance it out and they are growing because México City is getting to expensive and too crowded
@thanakonpraepanich42846 ай бұрын
I guess Veracruz is one of those cities, what is the other one? And what is the location of the next Mexican capitol the day Lake Texcoco win the fight against The City?
@@thanakonpraepanich4284 i ment Guadalajara and Monterrey. Veracruz is forgotten by their government. Lake Texcoco is not coming back but the capital has to move elsewhere
@Kastoraki6 ай бұрын
The same in Greece, Athens and the nearby satellite places are hosting half of the country's population with devastating effects on the country. Overcrowded and expensive to live but there you will find better paid job, young women and entertaining opportunities, school nearby, doctors and hospitals, shops etc. The more people gather the more emptied becomes the countryside....
@RealTaIk6 ай бұрын
The only solution I could think of is when korea decided to push more for remote working, online education and all those kinda things that don't require you to necessarily be on seoul. Maybe even create an insentive for companies to pay more money to their workers who don't work in seoul and openly talk about it.
@ddolki19906 ай бұрын
...while that is one issue that has been talked about...it's not really working. It is still an export driven economy with heavy emphasis on highly technical manufacturing. My friends who can enjoy that luxury usually tend to be IT fields or investment banking. And while those options are nice. It's mostly younger unmarried leople taking those options..Even those with those options will want to start a family in Seoul so that their children can get better education.
@biber99795 ай бұрын
@@ddolki1990 why do they think that you can get good education just in Seoul. Man i am coming from a small poor country and i studied in even smaller city(just 100k people)... university wasn't big, famous, fancy but we got good practical knowledge on top of theory. Now with a degree from that super small university from a poor small country i can still get(and i am getting them on linkedin) offers from all around europe. So that thing that you have to study on the best university to succeed is big bull shit.
@pepik1215 ай бұрын
@@biber9979 in SK if you dont have good school in your CV, there is a higher chance that they wont even invite you for an interview... even if you dont finish that top school, the fact that you were able to get in counts and you get more opportunities
@fjorddenierbear48325 ай бұрын
Birth control kills modern society. And the power has shifted too much in favor of women. They can murder your baby at a whim, whereas you have only one choice if they keep it: to man up. Ultimate female hypergamous control.
@ThePallidorАй бұрын
The solution is to stop whatever interventionist policies led to the Seoul phenomenon in the first place.
@wanr57016 ай бұрын
Their focus and over reliance on Seoul is shocking. In Japan, they have Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and numerous other smaller cities as their engines for economic growth alongside Tokyo. In Germany they have Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Koln, Hamburg, Augsburg, Bremen as the engines for economic growth alongside Munich and Berlin. In India they have Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata as economic engines for India alongside New Delhi. Why Korean government and planners did not spread out the economic development evenly throughout the country for years, instead just focusing on Seoul alone?
@hazelnut37946 ай бұрын
at least Busan metropolitan area, Incheon >> Fukuoka, Koln, Augsburg, Bremen, Chennai, Hyderabad etc.
@kfx39076 ай бұрын
There are some of it. Busan, Ulsan, Incheon.
@funnymakerboy41995 ай бұрын
there is no comparison Seoul and Busan between anyone @@hazelnut3794
@neptune15255 ай бұрын
And Russia??
@nehalilisays5 ай бұрын
Democratic governments can't plan where private companies have their factories, offices, etc. They can only try to make certain places more attractive with good infrastructure or lower taxes. I think in South Korea the mentality of simply accepting one collectivistic goal (studying, working & living in Seoul) is the biggest factor. Meanwhile here in Germany the regional differences are quite strong and there is some pride attached to it. At the same time middle-sized companies are considered to be the backbone of the economy and going to college is not that important. The fertility rate has been below 2.1 since 1970 though. That always happens if you only go half the way with gender equality (lack of childcare, lack of financial support for parents independent of their relationship status, lack of men who do their fair share of the household work & childcare without calling it "helping" or "babysitting", lol - it's getting better though.) I've heard that's an even bigger issue in South Korea + extremely high & strict beauty standards are not helping either.
@michaelrespicio56836 ай бұрын
This is what happens when you "sell your Seoul"... Jokes aside, this is exactly why I'm baffled whenever somebody plans to move to Korea. Many people there are depressed, and this is why. They did this to themselves, and it's a shame to see foreigners borderline throw their lives away just because they're a little too obsessed with Kdramas and Kpop...
@henrytep88846 ай бұрын
But it’s marginal and insignificant how many people actually move to South Korea as expats, and it’s still a life experience that people choose to participate in whether it’s for a salient or vapid reason.
@chappy31256 ай бұрын
The K Wave is the new Zeitgeist
@dylantech6 ай бұрын
Meh, I moved to Korea in 2019 not caring at all about their pop culture, but I knew based on my research that Busan was my preference. It was the right choice. Busan is Korea's best city, but if you prefer to breathe the pollution in Seoul, then be my guest. Korea is a great place. If you move there thinking you're going to live a K-Drama fantasy, you'll probably be disappointed, but if you just want to have a rewarding experience, it's perfect.
@AlexS-oj8qf6 ай бұрын
This is what I realize as an Asian. In "happier" countries, you'll see TV Shows depicting unnecessary dramas, in "sadder" countries, you'll find TV Shows depicting happiness and 'what life could be'.
@PrateekkumarsahooEL-326 ай бұрын
S Koreans are dump also those people who wants to live there 😂
@linuxman77776 ай бұрын
It is good to have multiple major cities as it makes the country more resilient, if one city fails or is nuked, the whole country won't fail completely. The US, China, India don't have an overwhelming dominant primate city and it has allowed for more regional specialization
@linuxman77776 ай бұрын
@@Madzguy007 it is more like the top 6 metros are 1/4th the economy the next 20 make up the next 1/4 and then the next 100 make up 1/4 and finally the rural areas and very small cities also make 1/4th of the economy
@thomasgrabkowski82836 ай бұрын
It's because US, China and India are so big
@bolinho15986 ай бұрын
Same thing in Brazil
@musafawundu67186 ай бұрын
@@Madzguy007, complete and utter BS...
@jinniwind6 ай бұрын
@@Madzguy007more than 3,4 cities im sure
@iioxe6 ай бұрын
omg finally someone said the real issue. There's literally ONE city in this entire country, compared to even Japan etc
@JC-lu4se6 ай бұрын
There are literally several cities in Korea: Busan (pop: 3.5 million), Daegu (pop: 2.5 million) Daejeon (pop: 1.5 million) amongst others.
@UshioNoatorare5 ай бұрын
@@JC-lu4se That's the problem. Seoul's population including the greater area is 20 million, many more than other cities. And people from those cities are moving to Seoul.
@halamadridpatriotsnationgo10575 ай бұрын
@@JC-lu4se you missed incheon but who's counting lol
@robertofernandez77734 ай бұрын
@@halamadridpatriotsnationgo1057 Incheon is considered part of the greater Seoul area.
@noname-dk7ri4 ай бұрын
"even"? Japan has a population of 120 million, although approximately 20 million people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area. About 100 million people live elsewhere.
@ilililiililiil30065 ай бұрын
My sister works as a programmer in Seoul, and she pays 1000 dollars per month for rent to live in a shipping container in the rooftop. It’s not even in the center of Seoul but a shabby corner of the city
@benjamindavis24754 ай бұрын
Programmers should work from home.. She needs a quiet cabin in a small town
@HappyGick4 ай бұрын
@@benjamindavis2475 As a programmer, I support this. You still need to live in a rather large city due to tech needs, but come on, I don't need to live in the capital to have the job unless not working remotely. I can squeeze every cent out of my salary just by living in a secondary city. I know that from experience.
@nailmickm83314 ай бұрын
How low is her pay?
@하핳-n3b4 ай бұрын
no not agree it is lie rent is cheaper
@GrinGrims4 ай бұрын
That is probably not true. I rent two bedrooms flat very close to Han River in Seoul and pay 700 monthly.
@alma76216 ай бұрын
I totally understand how insecure young couple feel about their future today. I constantly worry about my daughter. She is doing ok but I can see her daily stress. Poor girl is only 23. She already told me she doesn't plan to have kid cuz the future world is not stable. Why bring one more human to this uncertain world.
@defaultworkouts6 ай бұрын
if your daughter is model quality she will be fine with a wealthy man but if she is ugly she's gonna be an aged out woman at some point as 23 and single is OLD in asian cultures. a left over she will be...
@aeraniverse6 ай бұрын
I have the same mindset.. i wont bring kids to this world.
@heekyungkim81476 ай бұрын
@@defaultworkouts what the hell are you saying…. That’s so ridiculous.
@nonu4176 ай бұрын
@@heekyungkim8147 he isn't wrong tho
@RG-iw4c5 ай бұрын
You are wrong thinking different in different countries. Marry and birth child in South asian countries Where thinking different Child is must
@Ivan-pr7ku6 ай бұрын
Large metropolises are sterilization zones for any population. People procreate more and build stronger families in smaller and dispersed communities that are more manageable and tightly knitted, where everyone knows and trusts each other and the wealth is more fairly distributed.
@AlejandroPikoulasPlata27 күн бұрын
Well said.
@nanasshi07116 ай бұрын
this makes me realize that one of the reason the US is great economically is its nearly fair distribution of development. yes california and NY are shining the brightest but most other states are great too
@abdiellawrence3976 ай бұрын
Exactly. If it doesn't work out for you in Chicago, try Atlanta. That's what makes the U.S. unique.
@esamullajee32736 ай бұрын
Well I think the USA has the benefit of skilled migration and integration to help it's population issues. Also, the US is enormous. South Korea could fit inside of Texas a few times
@francisemanuelrosa73886 ай бұрын
@@esamullajee3273 SK even fits in Honduras 😂
@sandrajones82455 ай бұрын
Ok I'll refrain from saying anything biased or derogatory, I will say this though, I despise the U.S government for selling a dream to the world, and since the internet when everything came to light, most Americans are finding it hard to believe they're not actually No.1, the best or even a good country in comparison to other countries. Now some neither leaning information, the usa isn't great economically (not by a long shot), but the graces fell on them simply because it had too. Since WW2, when all the big empires were decimated, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and The USSR, the only country left standing was the USA, literally. All of Africa, S America, Oceania and vast parts of Asia were occupied by a handful of European countries, even Canada, which makes the majority of N America was British. Fast forward 10 years (1955) the empires that were just fighting couldn't support its colonies, hence the reason for independence. And the only country that got its independence way before even the ww1, was the usa. Now, I wouldnt compare the usa to S Korea at all, these two are as different as night and day. If I were you, not you specifically but everyone,I would take this information (the video) as a warning, the usa, amongst every other developed nation and most developing nations, is suffering. The reason why S Korea is facing hardships is due to contraceptions, not because they focused all their money on one city. Humans need offspring, they must reproduce otherwise they go extinct. Everything mentioned in the video is just the after effect of having no children.
@senseiadam-brawlstars94655 ай бұрын
@@sandrajones8245 "The reason why S Korea is facing hardships is due to contraceptions, not because they focused all their money on one city." Bruh, imagine people in SK wanting children when they literally live in a 1x1 tiny apartment shaq.
@jameskwonlee4 ай бұрын
As an ethnic Korean who grew up in Korea, I've seen a tremendous rise in westerners and non-Korean Asians commenting on Korea's "social and demographic problems," for youtube clout. Thanks, I guess? But some notes: Europeans went through near-zero to negative population growth years well before the Japanese and Koreans did, and as a result, have far fewer people living in their countries. While Seoul is the largest city in Korea, other cities like Ansan, Incheon, Busan have been growing tremendously. Another note. From the world population review: "fertility rate is not a precise count of how many children each actual living woman in a specific country has at any particular point in time." It is, instead an estimation of how many children women will likely have throughout their lifetime. A lot of western media and social media channels have a fascination with declining Asian fertility, despite Asian populations trumping all of Europe's many times over. Fertility rate is an estimation that can be rigged by media outlets that have biased perceptions of the world. If I can say it like everyone's 5: Fertility Rate does not equal Growth Rate. The metric that actually indicates population growth or decline is obtained via comparing a given states' population year-over-year via the census. And if you look at that metric, then European nations are declining the most, including Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine (Italy, Portugal, Greece break the top 20). Korea doesn't even break into the top 30 for declining population.
@Centrioless4 ай бұрын
It's not just abt fertility rate, it's also abt how the population aged in exceedingly fast rate. While the west has low fertility rate, the avg age of the population remains the same since WW2. Korea and japan, on the other hand, are aging faster than any other countries in the world. If the avg population is too old, they cant procreate
@jameskwonlee4 ай бұрын
@@Centrioless There is much more nuance to this: 1) Korea and Japan are homogenous societies. If you isolate non-immigrant populations in Europe, then they have been aging exceedingly fast as well. 2) East Asians from Korea and Japan live longer than Europeans by a significant margin so the "aging" stat must be seen in light of this, i.e. you're comparing apples to oranges. 3) immigration has a large influence on western "fertility" and "aging" rates, whereas it largely does not in Korea or Japan.
@Centrioless4 ай бұрын
@@jameskwonlee that would be true if the median age stays low. But thats not the reality
@gunnergunnarsson35346 ай бұрын
Same can be said about my country Singapore, we are now facing a fertility rate of less than 1. Due to cultural, economical issues, many people are not willing to have kids. And understandably so. The future isn’t looking bright when the middle class are getting sandwiched with each passing year
@권현운Ай бұрын
Yes, Korea, which has a much larger population than Singapore, has a birth rate of 0.7. 🤣
@jm75786 ай бұрын
It seems like Seoul has the 1980s New York City syndrome
@afroabroad6 ай бұрын
It’s like that on steroids times 20.
@nevion55336 ай бұрын
Most korean youngster always dreams to go to america and be like americans, while in reality those who live there like 10 years or so, can't even speak english properly or integrate out of the korean community
@turkcehighlights6 ай бұрын
What happened in 1980s new york
@qualityguacamole91426 ай бұрын
Way too concentrated. NYC was the capital of America at that time. Which was why they made Washington D.C it’s new capital.
@Just2Curious6 ай бұрын
@@qualityguacamole9142you mean financial capital, not the capital. DC has been the capital for many many decades now, NYC was never a capital. NYC is still considered the financial capital. But there are major metropolis in many states and each one has their own metropolis or more than 1 in some cases, like Texas and California have several.
@ishathakor6 ай бұрын
you should really not be taking sponsorships from betterhelp considering they're notorious for privacy violations
@Bringmeoneofthosechickens6 ай бұрын
Tell me about Betterhelp privacy issues?
@min-k26894 ай бұрын
I have a 6yrs old nephew who live in Seoul and he told me in his kindergarten, Korean kids value their friends which apartment they live, what car their parents drive and what their parents do for a living. If some kids fall below average, they categorize those kids as "peasants/slave" status.
@Ella-g2m3 ай бұрын
I read that in korean dating culture, the man has to put his car keys on the table on the first date so that the woman knows what brand of car he owns. They have rental services so you can pretend to own a BMW to impress a date. It's dystopian. Also, despite being very poor and in debt, they all wear designer clothes so they don't look poor. they've very materialistic.
@newbie19583 ай бұрын
Omg I see parallels with Guadalajara and Mexico City, pretty much the same thing, kids value friends with a high paying job, what car they drive, clothes they wear, etc. even on dates you basically have to dress your best.
@blue-d4g3 ай бұрын
Korea is a HUGE place with a LOT of people. People forget that because it's small in country standards, but 50 mil isn't a small number and the whole country isn't homogenous. There are places like that, and there are places that are more 'normal'. I personally have never seen anyone act like that in my life, and most of the people I know haven't either. We know they exist, but we're just as surprised as you are and don't go thinking that's a universal phenomenon in our country.
@blue-d4g3 ай бұрын
@@Ella-g2m That is complete bullshit. Sure, there probably are people out there who actually do that shit. But we're people too and we feel the same way. People joke about those behaviours a lot, saying things along the lines of "I do this and all the girls like me". But actually putting those words into action? I'll bet most women won't date a man who deliberately shows off his car keys on the first date. Koreans value morals A LOT, probably the most traditional part of our culture. And showoffs aren't exactly seen to be moral, are they?
@Ella-g2m3 ай бұрын
@@blue-d4g I heard it from a Korean-American. Go call him a liar and not me.
@Parakeet-pk6dl6 ай бұрын
Isn’t it normal that when things get more competitive and less pleasant, people are less able to care for someone else? Plus: why would you create children when it’s simply no fun anymore to live anyhow…
@teekay39836 ай бұрын
Fun? More like an overly toxic ambitious culture of constantly comparing yourself or your family or your city in this case.
@ericclark1336 ай бұрын
Seoul isn’t the only capital where it has drained the life of the country. The classic example is Paris - it has pretty much dominated France for the last half millennium that no other capital has dominated another country. The French are finally pushing back - that’s probably a main root cause of the Gilets jaunes, and it’s interesting to see that this is the first mass movement in France that actually arose outside of Paris.
@rulur6 ай бұрын
Moscow could compete for with title
@nk53nxg6 ай бұрын
London in the UK is worse than Paris for dominating its parent country, so much so that London is like a different country and culture within the UK. London is the UKs 1sr, 2nd, 3rd 4th and possibly 5th city compared to other countries. Deindustrialisation of the UK was the start of the rot.
@fate87186 ай бұрын
@@rulur St. Petersberg was the capital of Russia for a hot minute kinda lowering Moscow's peg a bit compared to Paris
@newbie19583 ай бұрын
London is on the list, he’ll I’m from Mexico and Mexico City dominates Mexico even though we have Guadalajara and Monterrey but no it’s all Mexico City.
@fate87183 ай бұрын
@newbie1958 look ik its hust a vacation place but yall have the mythical Cancun
@Madzguy0076 ай бұрын
Every country that experience high development, industrialization and urbanization face the same issue.. Low birth rate
@fjorddenierbear48325 ай бұрын
Exactly. - Birth control - Expensive housing - Unprecedented entertainment including hyper-available porn - Children used to be a financial asset, but are now a liability
@speed657525 ай бұрын
My family isndeom Senegal and we have a similar problem: Everything is in Dakar and everyone is trying to move to Dakar. As a consequence, the city is overpopulated already and extremely expensive relatively to everyone's salary.
@newbie19583 ай бұрын
Mexican here it’s Mexico City pretty much everyone wants to go to Mexico City.
@joshuaong82056 ай бұрын
It sucks that Dom accepted the BetterHelp sponsorship.
@basillah76505 ай бұрын
All youtubers that have ads are scamming people watching the videos.
@JonahNelson75 ай бұрын
We’re seeing in real time people’s tendency to ignore moral issues when it benefits them because “well everyone else is doing it”. Sucks. All we can do is try to stop watching the vid when they say it’s sponsored by bh
@drjp42125 ай бұрын
@@JonahNelson7 do you care to explain what’s the matter?
@rajpanda50653 ай бұрын
Everyone needs to pay their bills . Don't take it seriously. He doesn't take it either.
@williamblanton27906 ай бұрын
I live in SK. I visited the city wall museum in Dondaemun and learned that Soeul has ALWAYS been the center of the country. Royals and government the only iones permitted to live there- they even had to get permission to even do repair work. It reminded me of Pyongyang in North Korea.
@jimmyhyun85466 ай бұрын
Pyongyang too when it was one country.
@rai24235 ай бұрын
That isn’t really true. Before the divide there were TWO major cities. Hanseong/Hanyang(Seoul) and Pyongyang. While Seoul has historically been more cosmopolitan due to it’s location there were times during the Joseon period where Pyongyang was rich and full of commerce and culture. I think people are discussing this without taking into account that South Korea is only one half of what was once a single country.
@calvincoolidge12074 ай бұрын
You forgot about Gyeongju and the Silla Kingdom. That was the largest city for many years. It is my favorite city in SK so far.
@blue-d4g3 ай бұрын
It wasn't. Korea has a long history, and the 'center' has shifted many times. Plus, royals and government officials were the only ones permitted to live there... seriously? What do you think a capital city is? We're talking about a kingdom. Not the stupid dynasty Rocketman and his family set up, a real, absolute monarchy. Of course there were a lot of royals and government officials. And no, they weren't the only ones living there.
@jontan-dt3qv4 ай бұрын
Every east asian country has low birth rate, south korea is nothing special from japan to hong Kong to taiwan to Singapore has birth rate near 1 or below. In fact China is already suffering from demographic problems and its not even fully developed yet.
@NyanyiC6 ай бұрын
Isn't another reason it's close proximity to the DMZ
@doujinflip6 ай бұрын
No, that's been a threat ever since the Korean War ended. Nobody thinks about the North when moving to Seoul, and it shows how much the place just kept getting packed in.
@WilliamSantos-cv8rr6 ай бұрын
yep it is
@michaelpelzek8882Ай бұрын
Why they never thought of changing the location of Seoul making it the financial capital is beyond me.
@i-love-mintchocoАй бұрын
@michaelpelzek8882 they had the plan of moving the capital to Daejeon but presiden Park who was pushing forward this project was assacinated and the whole project was canceled.
@kimandre3366 ай бұрын
Living in South Korea for almost a decade, I learned that South Koreans should also drop their military-oriented culture in their office environment. Frankly, South Korea is too fascist. Maybe that's why Japan looks rather normal.
@NamhadiNdemufayo6 ай бұрын
Would you mind giving more details? That’s pretty interesting
@BibaBoba-e8q6 ай бұрын
@@NamhadiNdemufayo maybe they refer to hierarchy in Korean society and workplaces. The respect towards older people got to absurd levels. While it is normal to respect older people in many Asian cultures, I think it is not normal to blindly obey or be powerless to contradict someone older than you by a year or who works in a company longer.
@nevion55336 ай бұрын
@@NamhadiNdemufayo I am from Italy and it's kind of the same here, cuz people thin everything good can be found only in Milan. In SK, about the military, maybe instead they should just reduce it at 1 year of service. Let's not forget the North is heavily militarized, but I would not say the south it's fascist in this days and age. It was 3-4 decades ago when the father of the former SK president (the woman who's in jail now for corruption) took over and created a military government.
@kleec4956 ай бұрын
@@BibaBoba-e8q Yeah this is absolutely correct. It's not only happen in workplace, even in school and interaction between friends. For me this is so unbearable and it's even disgusting how older people demand respect and thought they have right to order younger people as they pleased.
@tenko55416 ай бұрын
Korea, fascist? Fair. Japan seeming normal, however? Clearly you’ve still got your anime goggles on
@Destroyer47006 ай бұрын
Having been to Seoul. It's a very samey feeling city. There's a soul crushing feeling looking from the top of Namsan and seeing endless blocks of similar looking apartment complexes as far as the eye can see. Architectural variety is important I suppose.
@abdiellawrence3976 ай бұрын
Agreed....but what do you expect from a population that is 98% homogeneous. That's part of the reason why I left in 2019.
@Destroyer47006 ай бұрын
@@abdiellawrence397 It is probably because residential development is focused on large apartment complexes. Buildings in Tokyo have similar architectural styles, but it's not as jarring because most buildings are unique (As in they are not the same height, shape and size).
@MarvinPowell15 ай бұрын
@Destroyer4700 I used to live in Songpa, the neighborhood which has the towering Lotte Tower you see in Seoul's skylines. In fact, I only lived about three blocks from Lotte Tower. Seoul isn't that great as a city, but you go there for the opportunities and the people. That's the only reason to be in Seoul. I've also lived in Anyang, Uijeongbu, Guri, Suwon, and Osan/Dongtan (all are smaller cities in the same general Greater Seoul Area.) I recommend them much better than Seoul if you want to stay a while, but if you're just there for a year or less to meet some good people,, work a temporary job, then bounce, then you shouldn't live anywhere else but Seoul, cause it really is where all the opportunities are, sadly.
@justlim6224 ай бұрын
@@abdiellawrence397 good you left
@justlim6224 ай бұрын
@@MarvinPowell1 My mother-in-law lives next to Lotte Adventure. I think Seoul is a great city and love visiting every year.
@kaocakeman29646 ай бұрын
Seoul's TFR is already at 0.51. And the highest regional TFR is just 0.88, that's of all regions in the country, urban and rural.
@MK-hw2ir2 ай бұрын
Feminism in a nutshell
@AlejandroPikoulasPlata27 күн бұрын
@@MK-hw2ir feminism is positive, women need to choose what they want to do in their life.
@Shay456 ай бұрын
Putting all your eggs in one basket 🧺
@makinbacon9196 ай бұрын
*All your kimchi
@helloworld61263 ай бұрын
How about London and Paris ? Canada also only has Toronto. Japan is more balanced as they gave Tokyo and Osaka.
@bolek-trolek3 ай бұрын
this shows very well why high levels of local autonomy are a must and switzerland is the example to follow, being one of the few remnants of the old regime
@robertb86735 ай бұрын
Birth rate of Pandas 1,6 and count as endangered species. Birth rate of my country is 1,3. Birth rate of south korea 0,73. Oh boy!!! 😬
@dia.ko086 ай бұрын
This happened in Germany when it got separated in 1945 and then again when it got reunited in 1990. Berlin to Bonn to Berlin. 😊
@nlpnt6 ай бұрын
Germany is at least well-balanced; Berlin is the political capital but Frankfurt/Main has the financial sector, film is mostly in Munich while TV is scattered through the regional centers due to the decentralization the Allies imposed on ARD, manufacturing is just about everywhere.
@PradedaCech6 ай бұрын
Yeah, Bonn became this humongous monster that swallowed the whole rest of Germany...oh wait..
@dia.ko086 ай бұрын
@@nlpnt Very true. I live in a midsized town and the living standard, the opportunities etc. are just as high as in the bigger cities. Most rural areas aren't that well developed though. However my comment was more about the possibility of moving the capital to another city and how benefiting this can be for a country. It definitely helped unify east and west Germany.
@dia.ko086 ай бұрын
@@PradedaCech What do you mean?
@PradedaCech3 ай бұрын
@@dia.ko08 the video is about Seoul dominating South Korea. But Bonn never dominated West Germany in any way..
@BirdRaiserE6 ай бұрын
Seoul is the closest thing we have to Cyberpunk IRL (along with Tokyo). We should pay close attention to its lessons and problems.
@jameskamotho75136 ай бұрын
Exactly 💯
@selohcin6 ай бұрын
Seoul is a mile away from Cyberpunk. Seoul is not dirty, it's remarkably clean for a city its size. It's not dangerous; it's very safe.
@idontknowwhattowritelol6 ай бұрын
seoul and tokyo are not the only ones, theres also chongqing and shenzhen
@idontknowwhattowritelol6 ай бұрын
@user-rl7mt4gh3o ?
@donkeysaurusrex78816 ай бұрын
@@selohcin It’s cyber without the punk
@Rosula_D6 ай бұрын
As long as politicians refuse to do anything about the cost of living and of raising children, they have no right to complain about birth rates. Especially towards women, who face even more challenges in a deeply patriarchal, and actually misogynistic, society like the Korean one. It's the system that's broken, not the actors.
@MtiuliBichi6 ай бұрын
If woman don’t want to have children, then it’s solely their fault !
@TV-jg2kj6 ай бұрын
Misogyny has occurred because women have a high level of visibility, so they try to see the other person's ability and assets, not love, and men also try to see the woman's appearance and personality. Men and women have different ideas.
@dylantech6 ай бұрын
@@MtiuliBichi Korea has the highest child upbringing costs in the world, and very few families can support themselves on a single income. It’s no surprise so many young Koreans can’t picture themselves having children when the costs are so prohibitively expensive. You can pretend that the choice to have children occurs in a vacuum insulated from all other factors, but the reality is that’s simply untrue.
@MarvinPowell15 ай бұрын
@Rosula_D Please leave your woke Western bullsh*t out of South Korea, please. Everyone else, ignore this fool. They're speading nonsense.
@letsgowalk4 ай бұрын
I just spent some time in Gwangju, and loved it there! It’s so much less chaotic than Seoul, and the people are much nicer. You get all of the big city amenities without the headaches. The government should just promote some of the existing cities as places for commerce.
@c.w.k.n.51175 ай бұрын
North Korea playing that long game lol.
@2Phast4Rocket5 ай бұрын
They wait until the S Korean get too old and invade. LoL
@Useryr-m8q3 ай бұрын
North Korean channel
@q___m21586 ай бұрын
With such a bithrate, will the competition for school kids be less in 5-10 years time? If there are less young people competing for places in top schools or universities, it shoud get better for the kids?
@kleec4956 ай бұрын
Guess if one person need to do 3 people jobs, it will be converted to long working hours and late retirement age.
@zachdebuhr63476 ай бұрын
@kleec495 that's if there's some kind of mandate that you have to cover multiple positions which doesn't make sense. Usually when there's less workers you are able to bargain your way into better conditions
@BaneQuaker6 ай бұрын
Jobs die out too because there are less people to sell the products
@nehalilisays5 ай бұрын
70% of young people in South Korea have a college degree. The competition is mainly happening at the top because being average is not considered good enough to live a good life (in Seoul, nice home, good looks, high status, luxury items, etc.)
@blue-d4g3 ай бұрын
Korea is a nation that changed drastically over the past years, don't think of the United States or Europe. Each generation grew up in completely different countries. Some as subjects of a colonial Empire, some in a literal civil war, some in a dirt-poor agricultural nation, some in a dictator-ruled developing nation, some in a moderately developed nation and some in a technologically and culturally advanced democracy comparable to those of Europe and North America. The culture of these generations differ drastically, and I imagine the environment will also differ drastically by the time kids who grew up in the competitive environment become parents.
@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg6 ай бұрын
Seoul is within North Korean range. Thats probably the real reason why they are moving the capita.
@Gerryjournal6 ай бұрын
Oh, you think that is the problem. Most of Asian is now in North Korea's range
@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg6 ай бұрын
@@Gerryjournal i wasn't alluding to nukes. Seoul is about 35 miles or about 50 km from the North Korean border. That is within artillery and/or rocket artillery range.
@selohcin6 ай бұрын
@@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg I can assure you that had nothing to do with it. I talked with many, many Koreans while they were in the planning phases. It really is about the economic factors mentioned in this video.
@aceblaze88446 ай бұрын
Ok kid
@Rjcuatrocinco6 ай бұрын
Do you mean North Korea is within Seoul range? Changes the meaning slightly.
@egyptiangod20235 ай бұрын
The birth rate is also declining because of a movement of South Korea women as the men do not treat them equally, it got to a point where men were stabbing women in the streets so as a protest women decided to not have children which forces them to reconsider how they treat women
@Timeup6665 ай бұрын
It is not about that it's because of the cost of living there stop twisting it and making it seem as if that's the reason why things are the way they are. you're trying so hard to push this 4B shit and that's not the reason and some of you women in America are causing problems so you need to get some help stopping lies off of people culture and what they tend to go through that's extremely disrespectful trying gain some thing off that🙄
@blue-d4g3 ай бұрын
Complete bullshit, if something as mad as that actually happened it wouldn't have gone unnoticed by the world. Judging by the fact that gender wars and children-boycotts have never dominated headlines anywhere, chances of them being real are near zero.
@JK_was_here4 ай бұрын
I did road trip in Korea, I saw many abandoned village in rural area. It’s a bit sad. But I understand that many new gens want to work in big corporates hence coming to Seoul. Life is struggling here, things are even more expensive after Covid including rent.
@savagebeastking87036 ай бұрын
They should’ve named the new Capital spirit
@hgalactic51856 ай бұрын
maybe Hart? like heartgold and soulsilver. since seoul has extra E, Hart should lose the E
@varadaphadkay42692 ай бұрын
The video didn't talk about so many young people in South Korea killing themselves due to the high pressures and orthodoxy of the society!
@zepp24982 ай бұрын
I know about this....I lived 20 years in Seoul ( as a french teacher) and have seen some very sad situations of kids having to study sooooo much, we cannot even imagine . So, Yes young people suicide is terrible....but I think this was not the goal or purpose of this video:it's just my opinion. But there are some vidéos who can explain about this...the reasons behing this.
@varadaphadkay42692 ай бұрын
@zepp2498 thanks for clarifying! :)
@Ali_b10093 ай бұрын
Daejeon is such a good place to live. It’s an hour away from Seoul and has a techno valley and it’s not overwhelming like Seoul. I lived there for 3 years
@helloworld61263 ай бұрын
Australia only has half population as South Korea but Australia got similar GDP as South Korea. That means the Korean need to be extremely hard working in order to create the economic miracle. Australia has 2 relatively big cities (Sydney and Melbourne) and 3 medium size cities such as Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. If you cannot afford living in Sydney you can probably consider Brisbane or Adelaide. However there is no option for people living in Seoul to move in other places. There is no chance that immigration will work in Seoul as no other people in other countries can speak Korean. Korea’s decline is inevitable and will fall rapidly in next 10 years. This is a country that most girls need to conduct plastic surgery in order to get the edge in their work. The culture kills the young people and we feel sad for them.
@calvincoolidge12073 ай бұрын
People in Seoul can move to other major cities like Busan, Gwangju, Daegu, and Daejeon which are all more relaxed.
@celtiseric16 күн бұрын
Most?you sure?
@DrozGodhammer5 ай бұрын
how about moving all industries to rural areas, and banning counstruction of new ones in seoul? an industrial park can liven up the economy of the place and people would move there. then build low cost housing for the employees, and the rest will follow. there will be new schools and universities, and the industry there must prioritize graduates from the new local schools and universities. this is important since you are making it easier for people to help in the local economy first before even thinking of leaving for seoul.
@enceladus95025 ай бұрын
Haha. Such a naive dream
@lukluke2461Ай бұрын
Seoul: 2030 Other big cities: 2020 Cities around Seoul: 2015 Every other: 1985
@Ella-g2m3 ай бұрын
It was stupid to make a new city instead of designate an existing city. In japan they have Osaka/Kyoto as secondaries to Tokyo. No one wants to live in an artificial city. Also, remote work would fix this. Lower hours, remote work. It's the work culture to blame.
@ThePallidorАй бұрын
That and whatever socialist-corporatist policies that caused the problem in the first place.😅
@irispaiva5 ай бұрын
Not sure this phenomenon has a name, but im calling it Capital Overcentralization, this isnt happening only in SK, but with Moscow and St Petersburg for Russia, im sure that many commenters can lean in and opinate if this happens in their country as well
@christopher97275 ай бұрын
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@мимокрокодил-з7ф5 ай бұрын
Moscow is less than 10% of Russia's total population.
@basilhanas84534 ай бұрын
@@мимокрокодил-з7ф Yet a lot of capital and services is in Moscow.
@dmedic2135 ай бұрын
If you think financially about kids, you will never have them. Most parents do not have stable finances before they become parents but they still make kids.
@drjp42125 ай бұрын
And is this a good thing?
@MrCristianposso4 ай бұрын
Yes, and that leaves you with a life full of struggle.
@dmedic2134 ай бұрын
@@MrCristianposso if you're always LED by fear you will never achieve anything in life.
@Simpli_city_4 ай бұрын
The most important things in life are not things @@MrCristianposso
@Scion1414 ай бұрын
@@dmedic213 Other fears don't cost as much as having children in SK.
@luiul16 ай бұрын
i was in SK from 1995/1999. the population of seoul went from 14 million to 17 million. the population of SK did not really change that much. everyone was moving from the rural south of SK to seoul. they were building those domino apartment buildings so fast, there was one city that sprang up SE of seoul, that was named NEW CITY. that's was the road signage said. they couldn't come up with a name for the city before it was built. funny thing, Pusan changed it's name to Busan and now it's something different. i remember asking the guy i was with one time how close we were to the border. we were just outside camp campbell. his reply was, "20 minutes by car, 5 seconds by mig."
@sungkilcho72105 ай бұрын
First of all, it is wrong to say that it is concentrated in Seoul. It is correct to say that it is concentrated in the metropolitan area. In fact, Seoul's population has decreased. And although it is true that it is concentrated in the metropolitan area, that does not mean that all cities across the country will disappear. It is expanding across metropolitan cities. In other words, it is true that urbanization continues to progress and is concentrated in the metropolitan area. The premise that the Republic of Korea will fall simply because it is concentrated in Seoul is wrong.
@MarvinPowell15 ай бұрын
Seoul and "the Seoul greater metropolitan area" mean the same thing to most people.
@patnolen80723 ай бұрын
Gyeonggi-do is the province that contains Seoul and it's suburbs and satellite cities.
@uncreative5766Ай бұрын
Then tell me where all the white collar jobs are outside of Seoul. I'm talking tech, marketing, finance, HR, and lawyers. The only place you can find those jobs are in Seoul. Another issue with Korea is because the white collar jobs are primarily in Seoul, other cities such as Daejeon, Busan, Gwangju, and Suwon were left behind. When there are so many people looking for jobs and places to live in in Seoul, then demand goes up, which drives up housing costs and other living expenses, such as groceries, laundry, etc.,
@sungkilcho7210Ай бұрын
@@uncreative5766 Companies of a certain size often have their headquarters or branches located in Seoul in order to further secure high-quality human resources, marketing, and technology. This is possible because the country is not that big and travel time is fast. There are many manufacturing-oriented industries in local areas, especially Gyeonggi-do. The fact that you say there are a lot of jobs in Seoul is only part of the story. There are numerous occupations in manufacturing-centered regions.
@VTSGsRockАй бұрын
Same thing in Japan, but it isn't as bad (0.55 in Seoul compared to 1 in Tokyo) and the decline isn't much fast. One article said that a solution to increase Japan's birth rate is to move companies out of Tokyo. When young people move to Tokyo things become very expensive that the birth rate is the lowest in the country, while the rural areas decline more rapidly even if many of them have higher birth rates. A construction company called Komatsu Ltd noticed that female employees had more children in Komatsu, Ishikawa than in Tokyo. South Korea could move companies out of Seoul
@ThePallidorАй бұрын
Density dependent birth rates are a phenomenon that holds throughout the animal kingdom.
@lil----lil6 ай бұрын
They needed permission from President Sammy first. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 They didn't get it.
@mistern7792 ай бұрын
High cost of living + Overwork + Highly Patriarchal = South Korea
@MarvinPowell15 ай бұрын
I live in South Korea, near Seoul but not in the city itself. Seoul really does have everything in it and 90% of the English speaking population, 2,250,000 people, all live in Seoul. It's not like comparing New York City (pre-2020s, not the crapsack it's become under Hochul) to the rest of the state, back in the US. It'd be like comparing New York City to Delaware and Wyoming. There are some good big cities that aren't Seoul, like Suwon and Incheon, but they're all in the same state as Seoul, Gyeonggi, and within an hour away, anyway. The _only_ good major city outside of Gyeonggi is Busan, Korea's version of San Diego, and it's all the way on the other side of the country in the southeast. Between that, you just have Gwangju, which is full of old people, Daegu, which is just a giant crater of humidity and has nothing special in it, and Daejeon, which _sucks_ and is so boring. So if Seoul is Korea's New York City, the only other options would be to live in Korean Tampa, Houston, or Cleveland. So you can see why the greater Seoul area is so appealing to many people, even if living in Seoul-proper, has its problems.
@nevion55336 ай бұрын
Kind of the same in Italy. Most people always think you can find a job in the Northen part, especially Milan, which in reality is one of the most expensive places to live in (to me still a place with a mentality I never was able to grasp in all these years, cuz not everyone there just run to work and earn their salary). People always lament they barely arrive at the end of the month. True the rent is one of the highest in the country, but never mention that doing things like going to restaurants or drinking with friends has its cost there. In other words, i just see lack of coherency all the time.
@ThorsMartell5 ай бұрын
It should be noted that KR is very mountainous. Mountains drive infrastructure and trasnportation cost and therefore make industrial development very difficult. Maybe KR should try to develop a belt around its costline, kinda the thing Spain is doing involuntarily.
@thebabbler88674 ай бұрын
BS. It's not an economical problem why Korea is dying.
@Paloma-wl1ul3 ай бұрын
Korea has soooo many tunnels passing under the mountains. This is not a problem here at all.
@summerwest30995 ай бұрын
If I could just add a few observations of my own, which are admittedly based on my experience working in SK more than a decade ago... First, the top teacher's university in the country is located in the center, in Cheongju. This is 한국교원대학교 (Korea National University of Education), known nationally as "Kyowondae". I had the privilege of teaching there from 2008 - 2010, and students (as well as licensed school teachers participating in professional development programs) came from all over SK. Yes, the "SKYvy" league is situated firmly in Seoul - Seoul National University, Korea University (KU) and Yonsei University, but KNUE is still a top-ranked public research university, and it is located practically out in the middle of rice fields in a village called "Miho" outside the main center of Cheongju-si. I always found it very impressive that they put their national teacher training university there:) Second, the southern city of Busan was an exceptional place to live, so I used to hear, with many foreigners and Koreans leaving Seoul and the surrounding areas to relocate there. I remember that ferries would run regularly between Busan and Fukoaka, Osaka, and other Japanese port cities. There were also numerous jobs in Busan, and it was known as a significant tourist attraction in the spring and summer months. Again, this was over ten years ago, and I have not been to SK since I left my job at Kyowondae, so I cannot speak to the situation on the peninsula today. Seoul was always the most sought after destination, but numerous other cities (Daegu, Daejeon, Jeonju, Suwon etc) seemed to be thriving as just as well. I hope the situation hasn't become as dire as it is portrayed in this video.
@MarvinPowell15 ай бұрын
I live in South Korea now. Nobody cares about KNUE, and Busan is all the way on the other side of the country, it barely even feels like Korea the same way Jeju barely feels like the same country. Korea is much more isolated than the US. Some people like to call the space between New York and Los Angeles "flyover states" but that's not true at all. In South Korea, you pretty much just have Seoul and the general Gyeonggi area (Suwon, Incheon, and Seoul suburbs), or Busan. That's it. No one cares about Daejeon, Gwangju, or Daegu. If Seoul is Korea's New York and Busan is LA/San Diego, then Daejeon is Cleveland, Gwangju is Tampa, and Daegu is Houston. No one wants to live in Cleveland over (pre-2020s) New York City. I've lived in most of these places except Daegu and Busan; Daejeon was absolutely awful.
@summerwest30995 ай бұрын
@@MarvinPowell1 Love how you imply that everyone currently living there shares your view of these places. "No one cares about Daejeon, Gwangju, or Daegu." "Nobody cares about KNUE, and Busan is all the way on the other side of the country, it barely even feels like Korea the same way Jeju barely feels like the same country." You definitely sound like a typical American. I don't mean that as a compliment either.
@DustabChristopher5 ай бұрын
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@PioliAugusthus5 ай бұрын
yeah investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity but venturing into any legitimate Investment without a proper guidance of an expert can lead to a great loss too
@OlicMichael5 ай бұрын
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@LeeWalton65 ай бұрын
wanted to trade, but I got discouraged with the market price fluctuations
@LeeWalton65 ай бұрын
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@Dukaamoses5 ай бұрын
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@DarcyCardinal3 ай бұрын
I stayed in Incheon/Seoul area for about six months back in 2022. I saw lots of baby carriages filled with... dogs and kids play zones taken over by... elderly people. It really is a rapidly aging country.
@kaede_yuna6 ай бұрын
A primary example why you don't want to centralize your economy...
@svlagonda74172 ай бұрын
Very interesting. The other issue with working in Seoul are sky high rates of anxiety, depression and suicides.
@justaway77846 ай бұрын
brother, love your videos, but man, do something about your audio, always had to turn my volume up way too high when watching your vids
@ayoCC6 ай бұрын
South korea might have stronger population decline exactly because of the population living in basements and mini units dur to poverty, and hyper competitive and scarce opportunity society. They need to commit 2% of gdp to fixing housing until median rental is below 30% of median income, and housing value increases at only 2% of original sale value per year. I think most countries should commit to such goals over a span of 50 years.
@LuizAlleman6 ай бұрын
The Korean peninsula is basically an island
@droger14486 ай бұрын
What about one of the largest collection of 155mm artillery guns that have already been zeroed in on the capital ?
@doujinflip6 ай бұрын
That's been a threat the whole time, and not even a consideration to come to/remain in Seoul.
@deaththekid39986 ай бұрын
If military strategy was a defining factor in the location a country chooses for its capital, then Paris wouldn’t be Frances capital, and many other world capitals wouldn’t be. This is not my quote, I read in a history book but I can’t remember who said it
@patnolen80723 ай бұрын
My impression has been that modern-day South Koreans are quite blase about the threat of war.
@dylantech6 ай бұрын
Don't buy the propaganda. Busan is Korea's best city.
@Tetsugakusha756 ай бұрын
I thought of Busan as well. It's less than half the size of Seoul, but it's a metropolis the size of Berlin, and the maker of this video completely ignores it. While Seoul grew, so did Busan, but this video claims that while Seoul grew, everything else in South Korea shrank. It's not true.
@dylantech6 ай бұрын
@@Tetsugakusha75 It’s a common misconception. What he said about Koreans believing the best of everything being in Seoul is true, but that doesn’t mean other metros aren’t also growing. There’s a concerted effort in Korea to transplant as many people into cities as possible in order to make the most of what little rural land they have, and of course, Busan is also on the receiving end of that, growing despite the nation’s population having already peaked. However, Busan is also a large city with 3.5m people proper and 4.5m in the metropolitan region, and has all the amenities to match. Due to its position on the southeastern coast, it has a gentler, sub-tropical climate, cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, and way less pollution thanks to the wind patterns that usually take particulates around the city. It has plenty of lovely beaches in addition to the mountains for which Korea is so well known. There’s an excellent subway system and it’s so much easier to get from point A to point B because the transfers are quicker and there’s less distance to cover. I’m an avid cyclist, so that’s my preferred mode of travel, and navigating Busan makes for the best cycling routes I’ve ever experienced. I lived near Gwangalli Beach and worked six miles away in Seomyeon, but could cycle that distance in less time than it took to ride the subway. Riding along the coast is incredible. To top it all off, Busan is more affordable than Seoul, and housing much more so. For those who can look past Seoul, Busan is absolutely the place to be. Even so, you can get from one to the other in under an hour by flight and 3.5 hours by train, so you’re never far away if you wish to frequent the capital.
@biber99796 ай бұрын
@@dylantech yeah Busan is so beautiful. For me it's better than Seoul in so many ways. How is the situation with sqm price(new apartment on good location) in Busan right now.
@rulur6 ай бұрын
Of course it is. They even made a movie where people travel on train to Busan
@abdiellawrence3976 ай бұрын
@@dylantechThank you for all of the nostalgic feelings your post gave me. I worked in Geoje for a year and traveled to Busan on the weekends. My first Costco membership card was purchased in Busan.😊
@horridohobbies6 ай бұрын
In every country, people flock to the major cities for job opportunities and education. South Korea is hardly unique. The question is, why aren't other countries dying because of this phenomenon?
@lunayen6 ай бұрын
Probably because the capital is larger or they have multiple cities with job opportunities.
@jinniwind6 ай бұрын
Problem is that, other countries have multiple major cities, plurals as you correctly used. Sk only has seoul. Can you imagine any other country whose capital city is the only significant one and has half of the population?
@joshschoonover64295 ай бұрын
They are facing the same problem. If not for immigration, most Western countries would have low or negative population growth, too. It's too expensive to have large families. So, more and more people opt to have fewer kids, if any at all.
@ThePallidorАй бұрын
As always socialist policies are to blame.
@Walevolence6 ай бұрын
Sounds like Singapore
@donkeysaurusrex78816 ай бұрын
Singapore’s size requires it to be a city-state though.
@helloworld61263 ай бұрын
Singapore population is tiny.
@yongkysiaw65974 ай бұрын
This problem is everywhere around the world right now.
@srenchristensen78985 ай бұрын
Exactly the same problem in Denmark. Copenhagen eating more and more of Denmark, and already now politicans only prioritize Copenhagen and not the rest of the country.
@patnolen80723 ай бұрын
Can cars and trains go from Germany to Copenhagen without maritime transport on ferries?
@edwardemo19524 ай бұрын
I don't know if the people obsessing with 'Seoul', when the City have no 'Soul'. *badum-ts-ts 🥁
@hewas_chewasky6 ай бұрын
I think Bangladesh should also build a new Capital
@AfridiBD6 ай бұрын
Exactly, Dhaka is becomin the same problem like Seoul. Dhaka is way larger than other Bangladeshi cities
@aceblaze88446 ай бұрын
Bangladesh should control their population
@manjushagongale5 ай бұрын
Atleast Bangladesh is not having birth rate problems like South Korea.
@thedungeon15784 ай бұрын
A lot of studies lately have indicated that cities worldwide might be the reason we have low birthrates, Korea is just the hardest hit because Seoul is basically half the entire population of the country (48.2% last I saw). S Korean birthrate outside Seoul still isn't great, but it's much higher than inside Seoul, and this is reflected in other nations too. And it makes sense - out on the farm, children are free labor, but inside the cities, children are a large expense. This also fits the larger trend where poor families still tend to have more children - often because they can't afford to live in the expensive areas and still tend to live in small towns or countryside.
@ThePallidorАй бұрын
Density dependent birth rates are the rule throughout the animal kingdom.
@joshschoonover64295 ай бұрын
It's similar to the urban/rural divide many other countries experience, not really unique to South Korea alone. People go where opportunity is, and it's generally not in small towns off in the countryside.
@hahahaha-yp2dx3 ай бұрын
but theres only 1 place to go
@흑하랑4 ай бұрын
1 month living in s. Korea makes you be aware of why people are getting mad
@Chuck444426 ай бұрын
Confused. In umm..mid 80s Americans were adopting S. KOREAN babies...
@threesixnine369six6 ай бұрын
There were still poor people and unwanted children in 80s South Korea, despite growth, which was also pretty unequal. They were making babies then, they’re just not making many of them now.
@Yumekii6 ай бұрын
This is like asking why americans adopted Chinese baby girls back then.. It was then not present….
@Gerryjournal6 ай бұрын
Indeed. Mid 80s, I worked in Tokyo during the day and Seoul at night. Every morning, I got on a Southwest flight heading to Seattle via Tokyo. It was full of Korean babies and their nurses and was nicknamed the nursery express.
@JackBowman-vs6kv5 ай бұрын
The mid 80s were 40 years ago. The mid 80s are about as close to ww2 as they are to us. Times change
@RekujyaАй бұрын
As someone who spends time in both the US and SK, most locals I talk too are either ignorant or in denial about the reason they are moving the capital. Sejong itself is also a weird place to be as it’s so barren but almost completely built now. Plenty of normal Korean families living their though in the various apartments and stuff.
@elfuturomio4 ай бұрын
KZbin algorithm got all the countrys dying out🤣
@Useryr-m8q3 ай бұрын
North Korean channels
@jinenjuce4 ай бұрын
Hot take, but you won't solve a birth rate problem via immigration if you're not addressing the factors that led to that birth rate problem in the first place.
@bk15075 ай бұрын
spend a few weeks in korea last year. every young person i talked to in seoul was desperate to move abroad.
@skdkjjajns3 ай бұрын
move abroad (X) travel abroad (0) 이민가기 싫음 그냥 여행이 좋음 한국이 살기 제일편하고 좋음
@nelloli82794 ай бұрын
Hey Koreans, we in Russia need good workers, come here. It will be not an easy adventure, you still need to work here, but at least you can live a normal life.
@Leo-nn9vy6 ай бұрын
Dang good video. But you gotta do something about that audio, couldn't hear anything without my speakers.
@POLSKAdoBOJU6 ай бұрын
I don't recall having the right to choose what happens to my body three years ago.
@qarljohnson49716 ай бұрын
It appears that the problem of a nation state having the same city as its political capital AND business centre was recognised in the 1800s. Note that it was about that time in Anglo North America that new states & provinces would deliberately choose a smaller city to be the capital, than the primary business city. That would be a very interesting topic to follow. Japan has a very similar demographic problem where most smaller towns are shrinking while Megatropolis Tokyo keeps on growing.
@Shanaoh6 ай бұрын
Yeah but at least Japan has two mega cities with a third one on the way.
@otienosquad91763 ай бұрын
This is the problem of most countries Keeping all eggs in one basket, increasing the risk of failure while burdening the hand that carries it, eventually negating the advantage of having 100 eggs Decentralised development is true development Focusing only one one city leads to perceived higher per capita income but the high cost of living negates that income growth. Small houses, congested roads, insane education cost, heavy traffic, high cost of living. It basically makes you fight for very limited resources the city's physical boundaries can provide. Also this deprives the other part of the country of development and growth. The major real beneficiary of centralised development is builder-plotican Nexus Decentralised development is true development
@Rascilon256 ай бұрын
I've heard that BetterHelp is problematic for a variety of reasons. I hope you look into your sponsor. Appreciate the video though.
@raystarlight68363 ай бұрын
Did u know the fact that seoul resident like Parisian, they taught that they're the high/upper class from all the region state. Even some Korean will be bully if they are from other state. No wonder seoul so overpopulated because of that.
@edilbertoumana91356 ай бұрын
Thats like living in the US and all your opportunities for a better life are only tied to either NYC, LA, and San Francisco.
@BiggieTrismegistus5 ай бұрын
What? You obviously don't know much about the US.
@edilbertoumana91355 ай бұрын
@BiggieTrismegistus I was making a comparison based on the information given to the video. Clearly you don't know analogies
@TheCrazierz4 ай бұрын
Tokyo is very similar. Rural japan is disapearing. Its crazy we see this in more heavily in Asian capitalist countries but not in western ones, or at least not as bad
@ABDBoxing6 ай бұрын
Yo, a channel called "lado negro do universo" is stealing your content, translating it with AI and using and AI voiceover. (Language is Portuguese)
@japanboy314153 ай бұрын
And koreans keep saying korea #1 as if they have something to be proud of