Asked Koreans “How happy are you with your life?”
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As an English teacher here in Korea, I try to tell my students that there is more to life than just studying. Even though I am a teacher, I don't want my students stressing over tests. I was once there myself and I don't want any of them to go through that darkness.
Good teacher😊
There no other way, you Just generais profit or you are doomed
Ha what you with epik? They treat every teacher there like a water sieve! 😂
You better off coming back to your own country to get a "real job"
와. 행복지수 10점이셨던분 너무 좋으시네요 꼭 만나뵙고싶네요
Always remember it is darkest before dawn
Perfect😊
Come and ask that same question here kn Finland too you get a totaly diffrent answer. We don't pressure the kids from yuong age to think of get good grades and they need to get good points ao they get into the best university there is, that is too much on a kids shoulder and then a life just with the books infront of there noses with no summer semester like we have 2 month when schools are oute so when the parents have there semester they can travel or go to the summer house to enjoy life and recharge the battery. Might be that's why we are 6 year in a row the happiest country
Doesn't Finland have a problem with seasonal depression? Polar nights making the day dark?
@@rrgggser56 well we do feel it but we can take some semester and fly away to get some sunshine when it the darkest time. November it's the darkest time here before the snow comes. And we don't actuly think so much about it if we are having fun and are having a good life. But we did have this year the longest winter ever now, from 6 Oktober to end of April we did get snow.
Finland😊
亚洲国家在全球殖民时代开始以来，就在努力追赶西方，民族有深层的焦虑，所以竞争很激烈。
There is zero work/life balance in Korea.
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That is an absurd statement. Contrary to what you say people do you have lives. It’s not 100% work and 0% other. Words matter.
@@jamesh2578 Same difference.
@@KKrusher First of all, there is no such thing as same difference. Secondly, you were speaking in hyperbolic, absolute terms. What you should’ve said was there is work-life imbalance in Korea.
Life work balance is off in many places, it is quite apparent in large cities of Korea. I think parents want their kids to climb out of their social status/class, because just the perception of who you are, can change ppls treatment of you and opportunities or at least it's a possibility. It's Why self branding: appearance, college and brand names become so important.
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We need to help the people low income.
The less you have, the happier you are. Fact.
Koreans, why do you refuse to hear how stressed up and unhappy your children are?
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I guess using your logic the happiest people on the planet are both homeless and naked.
@@jamesh2578you are the one who wants to interpret it that way....they mean in poor countries you find people happy and grateful with the little they have, they just learn to create happiness from the smallest things, but as countries progress you find people have more but they don't enjoy their life nor do they feel happy anymore...this is just a fact....
A fact? In what way is it factual? Who took the measurements? To what statistics do you refer to make this factual?
@@jamesh2578 of course not, we all need food to live and clothes to keep us warm, as well as shelter to keep us safe. These are very basic things, and they are enough for hapyness. You will understand m once you'll face the death, look at it in eyes and smell it. Nothing we strive for in life, no expensive cars, newest Ives St. Laurent or a lot of money on bank account matter once you realise how fragile, short and ephemeral life is. We are ephemeris, and night and day is our all lasting. Think of this.
Very interesting perception of life in Korea. I get why suicide is so prominent there. I definitely would have been sad and depressed during my middle and high school years even though I was a straight-A student, in the top 10 of my class. I really didn't study, I just memorized when the initial learning of a particular subject was taught. There is so much more to life than school and work. I think the 2 eldest people, and the girl in the yellow sweater have the right idea. And the youngest boy is heading in the right direction too.
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Mejor presión por estudiar que por el narco... sad world... :( ojalá las preocupaciones de los jóvenes en México fueran solo sus estudios...
So sad. Hope society listens and not apply the unnecessary pressure on ppl especially the youth
I am very impressed with the hard work and achievements of young students in Korea. In my country we have a lot of lazy under achievers that can’t even add, subtract our read at the grade level they are in. It is very sad and troubling how these kids are going to be successful in their lives. So I wish our kids worked and tried as hard as the young people do in Korea. It pays in your adult life to study and work hard when you are young. It actually is harder to study as you get older. It was much easier younger. Life is work. But you can get great satisfaction and fulfillment from it. It is all about attitude. But you have to get older to look back to realize these facts.
Korean society is harsh, there's a lot of pressures and demands in life and perfect standards to live up to, bullying is also rife in workplaces and schools which all contributes to the country having the highest rates of S
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Yes I agree, I hope there's more Armys like you that don't romanticize nor idealize Korea or Koreans cuz I'm so done with some Armys romanticized or idealized Korea or Koreans too much ugh
Life satisafaction 2,😢 hope it gets better for everyone.
Smh, this is such a painful topic 😕
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Feel sorry and sad for those kids.It must be depressing living in that kind of environment.There no balance in life.No wonder there are many koreans family migrate or move to our country .
Hope situation changes 😢😢
im happy not to see india in the list....but there are still many suicide cases in India...mainly collage students due to depression .... our education system is killing ... its too hard ... tmr is my entrance exam... i have no scope ill pass to get an mbbs seat atleat in private.... the competition is high today making the stress level high leading to suicide at times
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Especially low income people.
follow usa/west this is bound to happen
The biggest reason why suicide is prevalent is because Korean culture has become so extremely vain and shallow. It’s not about getting into a good school… It’s about the worry of how one is perceived by one’s peers about which school one attends. It seems almost everything in Korea is about keeping up with the Joneses.
*This the reason people love K-pop*
that's why there is a lot of bullying in south korea
Why is there bullying?
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Jesus Christ is the only answer. Try to circumvent this fact is only at one's peril. So sad to have the truth so obvious, yet ignore.
It's because of Kpoop
As a self-employed disabled woman who requires a service dog I can tell you right off the back from talking with my friends who are from Korea that once you are labeled with a medical diagnosis that makes you not be able to work full-time or physical diagnosis physical handicap or a psychological diagnosis you're considered less worthy of belonging in that space and not worthy of being able to be accepted by your family and your peers based on the collectivism where you cannot stand out and once you become disabled you're basically no longer wanted or worthy to be in the dating scene so if you wanted to get married let's say and have a family yeah that's not out of your life choices and then your family thinks you have you as a burden your school and your business think of you as a burden that you're just going to be heavy wait for them so they're going to fire you or terminate you or cast you aside like a black sheep the moment you have any type of disability it doesn't matter if it's physical disability, medical disability or psychological disability and as soon as you need medical help or assistance because of it you're shunned by the society you're treated as an outcast and they'll tell you you know people will tell you go off yourself because you're not worthy of you know being in the society if you can't keep up with everybody else and are not healthy the same high expectations as everybody else around you once you fall from that tear because of some type of disability you are considered not worthy of being even alive in Asian cultural standards and it's really a sad shameful way to treat people who are disabled and you know from physical disabilities to Medical disabilities to mental illness they don't want to talk about it this is like the skeleton in the closet no one wants to talk about it no one wants to handle it no one wants to even acknowledge it and if you're diagnosed it's like a death sentence for you in an Asian country and it's really sad and unfortunate that's how people see it and perceive it and how people are treated you know I've had a friend who left an Asian country with her child who has Asperger's and she was announced by her family the business terminated her and then they even criticize her saying this is what she got for having a child out of wedlock when all she was was engaged to the guy and when he found out the child was disabled he pulled away from the marriage walked away and left her with a child and it's really a shame but that is what that cultural ideologies about is you have to be perfect you can't have any flaws you have to stand with your group at the same high level expectations everybody else there's no room for any type of failure is a room for any type of disability if you have a disability you're unworthy of living. I have a service dog and I'll say this even in America this is how we are often treated and it's not by choice that I'm single and not married it is by the social exclusion of anyone who's different and then they see them as all the same they want to look all disabilities together and say they're all bombs they sit around they don't do nothing with their lives or incapable I'm having a place and uncapable of you know surviving on their own on capable of this and that all they're going to need me to be their beneficiary or they're going to need me to take care of them or they're going to need me to pull more weight than they will in a relationship and so then people believe this nonsense and the stereotypical garbage and then they walk away from people who are disabled and won't even give people who are automatically or physically disabled a chance to attaining because they love them all together they don't want to try to get to know you don't want to try to understand what you have they don't even want to look at the positive attributes who would bring to the table they can't even accept the fact you rent a house let's say and you're self-employed and let's say you part-time because it's still not in their idea of mine you're not full time and yet you can't work full time because you were medical condition and it's not by choice that you have the condition and then they just think of it you're going to be an embarrassment to them and they're in front of their family and their friends how people are going to look at them when you are walking around with them when you have a service dog with you they can't see past that and it's really unfortunate but this stereotypical garbage still happens here in the US and although there are some ways to help people like having to deal with this because not everybody wanted to be single and alone as a disabled person there's nothing to help people out in the Asian countries on this situation my friends told me and so that's why many wants to get that you know medical note they feel like they're obligated to end themselves and it's really a shameful sad way that Society views and stigmatizes people for whatever excuse they want to come up with for just because they are disabled and it's not by choice that they're disabled they could be physically disabled because of a work incident or whatever