VIDEO 1. SOUTH KOREA IS OVER
South Korea is heading toward a demographic collapse unlike anything the world has seen before. With the lowest fertility rate ever recorded and a rapidly aging population, the country faces a future of economic decline, shrinking cities, cultural erosion, and a vanishing workforce. By 2060, nearly half of South Koreans could be over the age of 65, and entire regions may be abandoned as the population continues to shrink. How did South Korea reach this point? Why might it no longer be possible to reverse the trend? And what does this mean for other countries on a similar path?
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VIDEO 2. SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS HAPPENING IN SOUTH KOREA
1. Around 2~3 million dollar home in Seoul to even be “eligible” for marriage
2. No protected maternal/paternal leave
3. Long hours of work/commute
4. Super competitive education and expensive after-school programs for kids
5. All the popular TV-shows and medias about cons of marriages
South Korea is the perfect example of why anti-monopolisation laws are so important and why oligarchs need to be stopped. They are a few years ahead, but most of ‘the west’ is on their way there.
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VIDEO 3. SOUTH KOREA IS EVERYTHING WRONG WITH SOCIETY
South Korea feels like a Black Mirror episode where the poor are trapped in an endless loop of overwork, debt, and quiet despair — but everything looks clean, efficient, and ‘aesthetic’ enough to distract from the slow collapse of the soul… fitting, since the capital is literally called Seoul.
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VIDEO 4. SOUTH KOREA IS A DYSTOPIA
Powerful families control much of the South Korean Economy. At what cost?
