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I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escap

I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

simfree 2y ago
A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding in the marketplace. That being said, there have been terrible knock-on effects from this societal policy. Brutal work culture, low birth rates and much more.
- wiseowise 2y ago
  Finland has Russia as a neighbor.
- enra 2y ago
  Finland’s largest land border by far is with Russia which is not generally viewed as that of a friendly neighbor. The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 kilometers (832 miles). The border between South Korea and North Korea about 250 kilometers (155 miles). Also 5.5M people vs 55M people.
- DDiggler 2y ago
  >friendly adjacent neighbors As a Finn I laughed out loud.
  - koonsolo 2y ago
    Not a Finn, but I found it quite funny too. There were so many other example countries, but they choose to pick to one with a neighbor that is constantly in an active war and has a huge nuclear arsenal.
- mathverse 2y ago
  Koreans believe they can brute force their way to success but during the last 10year these policies have been failing them. It does not help that they are naturally fatalists so its always all or nothing scenario.
  - RCitronsBroker 2y ago
    being life-or-death micromanaged by imperial Japanese tends to leave some marks
  - maxglute 2y ago
    IMO it hasn't been failing them, it's kept their nose just above the waterline. Reality is SKR (and JP/TW etc) are developed countries with high tertiary enrollment that have nearly maximized their demographic potential in the sense that they can't really produce more skilled talent to fill what is being lost without immigration. Which would be hard since they can't compete with Anglo countries for same talent pool. So folks in globally competitive industries (like Samsung) are pressured to work 200% harder to squeeze 10% competitive advantage to prevent their shit from getting kicked in. US sanctioning PRC, whose minting OECD combined in talent and starting to compete in tech/hardware brough SKR/JP/TW some time (remember when Huawei was about to stomp Samsung), but the tides are against them. PRC got similar problem, but it's more they're producing too much talent than opportunties so involution happens. With like 50m more STEM + skilled labour on the way to add the the competition. But one saving grace is PRC has like 150 cities with over a million people that folks can fuck off too and still have decent quality of life. You can always lay flat and chill in a tier2/3 city nearly as vibrant as Seoul/Tokyo/Tapei with less cost of living. SKR/TW and somewhat JP is kind of fucked in that sense, most of the opportunities are in a few geopgraphic grinders where you have to be.
- distances 2y ago
  Finland has very few natural resources, mainly just forests. And the forestry industry experienced a major decline around the same time as Nokia did. And there is a long border with Russia, one of the worst neighbours any country could have.
  - guappa 2y ago
    Finland had 1 thing: nokia, and microsoft destroyed it.
    - dagw 2y ago
      Looking at most relevant data it is hard to make an argument the Nokia is doing worse today that it was just before Microsoft bought it. Nokia's market cap is currently close to double what it was compared to the year before Microsoft 'destroyed' it.
      - guappa 2y ago
        But count in % of phones that exist, and see how many pople of the current nokia work in finland.
        dagw 2y ago
        By the time Microsoft stepped in, Nokia's mobile phone market share had already plummeted, and they'd cut their Finish work force to probably a third of what it was at its peak. Yes Nokia is a shadow of its former self, but most of that happened before Microsoft [0]. Hell if you really wanted to you might even be able to make an argument that, with hindsight, Microsoft saved Nokia by letting it gracefully jettison it's failing phone business, get a much needed cash injection, and refocus on other parts of its business. [0] Of course some argue that Microsoft actually took over the day Elop became CEO, and everything he did was part of some plan to sink Nokia so that Microsoft could buy its phone business on the cheap.
        tmottabr 2y ago
- blululu 2y ago
  Finland has friendly neighbors? There is a good reason why they have a draft. A simple check of who is on the other side of their largest border combined with any history book from the last 400 years would suggest the reason.
  - guappa 2y ago
    Well swedes would love nothing more than some "empire strikes back" :D
- Barrin92 2y ago
  That last part is a little bit of an understatement. With South Korea's birth rate at 0.8(!) they're effectively extinct in five generations. Economic and technical success can come and go, eliminating your biological and material basis for existence is the only non-negotiable thing if survival is what you're interested in. And it's a cliff. You can dig yourself out of a recession in a decade or two, once you've cratered your demographics you're done for the foreseeable future, because even if you raise the birth rate back to replacement, your cohort of young people in absolute terms is now so small is doesn't even make much of a difference.
- trashtester 2y ago
  There are few countries in Europe with more in common with South Korea than Finland. For them, Russia is as China is to S. Korea and Sweden is what Japan is to S. Korea. This is reflected in the structure of their armed forces. Per capita, they have the largest army in Nato if they mobilize.
misja111 2y ago
Aren't Japan and China very similar? They are all societies where the group is valued as more important than the individual.
- a_random_canuck 2y ago
  I’m not so sure about that. I would say Chinese society values the family… people don’t really give a shit about others outside of family or friends. My feeling on Japan is that they value their society and country much higher. But I’m neither Chinese nor Japanese so take that with a grain of salt.
- amake 2y ago
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  - latexr 2y ago
    The user you’re replying to wasn’t rude or uncompromising. They even posed their statement as a question, suggesting they might not be too sure of what they’re saying but still explaining where the reasoning comes from. Yet instead of taking this rare opportunity to inform and change the mind of someone who appears to be receptive, along with the minds of everyone who may think the same and reads their comment, you chose to insinuate they’re wrong but offered no correction. That adds noise to the discussion but does not advance it in any way. It’s also OK to not make unproductive comments.
- trashtester 2y ago
  To a westerner, all east Asian people look alike. To an east Asian person, all white westerners look alike. I would estimate that Japanese differ from Chinese to a similar degree that Russians differ from Spaniards.

simfree 2y ago

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding in the marketplace. That being said, there have been terrible knock-on effects from this societal policy. Brutal work culture, low birth rates and much more.

wiseowise 2y ago
Finland has Russia as a neighbor.
enra 2y ago
Finland’s largest land border by far is with Russia which is not generally viewed as that of a friendly neighbor. The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 kilometers (832 miles). The border between South Korea and North Korea about 250 kilometers (155 miles). Also 5.5M people vs 55M people.
DDiggler 2y ago
>friendly adjacent neighbors As a Finn I laughed out loud.
- koonsolo 2y ago
  Not a Finn, but I found it quite funny too. There were so many other example countries, but they choose to pick to one with a neighbor that is constantly in an active war and has a huge nuclear arsenal.
mathverse 2y ago
Koreans believe they can brute force their way to success but during the last 10year these policies have been failing them. It does not help that they are naturally fatalists so its always all or nothing scenario.
- RCitronsBroker 2y ago
  being life-or-death micromanaged by imperial Japanese tends to leave some marks
- maxglute 2y ago
  IMO it hasn't been failing them, it's kept their nose just above the waterline. Reality is SKR (and JP/TW etc) are developed countries with high tertiary enrollment that have nearly maximized their demographic potential in the sense that they can't really produce more skilled talent to fill what is being lost without immigration. Which would be hard since they can't compete with Anglo countries for same talent pool. So folks in globally competitive industries (like Samsung) are pressured to work 200% harder to squeeze 10% competitive advantage to prevent their shit from getting kicked in. US sanctioning PRC, whose minting OECD combined in talent and starting to compete in tech/hardware brough SKR/JP/TW some time (remember when Huawei was about to stomp Samsung), but the tides are against them. PRC got similar problem, but it's more they're producing too much talent than opportunties so involution happens. With like 50m more STEM + skilled labour on the way to add the the competition. But one saving grace is PRC has like 150 cities with over a million people that folks can fuck off too and still have decent quality of life. You can always lay flat and chill in a tier2/3 city nearly as vibrant as Seoul/Tokyo/Tapei with less cost of living. SKR/TW and somewhat JP is kind of fucked in that sense, most of the opportunities are in a few geopgraphic grinders where you have to be.
distances 2y ago
Finland has very few natural resources, mainly just forests. And the forestry industry experienced a major decline around the same time as Nokia did. And there is a long border with Russia, one of the worst neighbours any country could have.
- guappa 2y ago
  Finland had 1 thing: nokia, and microsoft destroyed it.
  - dagw 2y ago
    Looking at most relevant data it is hard to make an argument the Nokia is doing worse today that it was just before Microsoft bought it. Nokia's market cap is currently close to double what it was compared to the year before Microsoft 'destroyed' it.
    - guappa 2y ago
      But count in % of phones that exist, and see how many pople of the current nokia work in finland.
      - dagw 2y ago
        By the time Microsoft stepped in, Nokia's mobile phone market share had already plummeted, and they'd cut their Finish work force to probably a third of what it was at its peak. Yes Nokia is a shadow of its former self, but most of that happened before Microsoft [0]. Hell if you really wanted to you might even be able to make an argument that, with hindsight, Microsoft saved Nokia by letting it gracefully jettison it's failing phone business, get a much needed cash injection, and refocus on other parts of its business. [0] Of course some argue that Microsoft actually took over the day Elop became CEO, and everything he did was part of some plan to sink Nokia so that Microsoft could buy its phone business on the cheap.
        tmottabr 2y ago
blululu 2y ago
Finland has friendly neighbors? There is a good reason why they have a draft. A simple check of who is on the other side of their largest border combined with any history book from the last 400 years would suggest the reason.
- guappa 2y ago
  Well swedes would love nothing more than some "empire strikes back" :D
Barrin92 2y ago
That last part is a little bit of an understatement. With South Korea's birth rate at 0.8(!) they're effectively extinct in five generations. Economic and technical success can come and go, eliminating your biological and material basis for existence is the only non-negotiable thing if survival is what you're interested in. And it's a cliff. You can dig yourself out of a recession in a decade or two, once you've cratered your demographics you're done for the foreseeable future, because even if you raise the birth rate back to replacement, your cohort of young people in absolute terms is now so small is doesn't even make much of a difference.
trashtester 2y ago
There are few countries in Europe with more in common with South Korea than Finland. For them, Russia is as China is to S. Korea and Sweden is what Japan is to S. Korea. This is reflected in the structure of their armed forces. Per capita, they have the largest army in Nato if they mobilize.

misja111 2y ago

Aren't Japan and China very similar? They are all societies where the group is valued as more important than the individual.

a_random_canuck 2y ago
I’m not so sure about that. I would say Chinese society values the family… people don’t really give a shit about others outside of family or friends. My feeling on Japan is that they value their society and country much higher. But I’m neither Chinese nor Japanese so take that with a grain of salt.
amake 2y ago
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- latexr 2y ago
  The user you’re replying to wasn’t rude or uncompromising. They even posed their statement as a question, suggesting they might not be too sure of what they’re saying but still explaining where the reasoning comes from. Yet instead of taking this rare opportunity to inform and change the mind of someone who appears to be receptive, along with the minds of everyone who may think the same and reads their comment, you chose to insinuate they’re wrong but offered no correction. That adds noise to the discussion but does not advance it in any way. It’s also OK to not make unproductive comments.
trashtester 2y ago
To a westerner, all east Asian people look alike. To an east Asian person, all white westerners look alike. I would estimate that Japanese differ from Chinese to a similar degree that Russians differ from Spaniards.