Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "여의도 육퇴클럽" channel.

  1. It's a perfect immigrant family. Forced their kids into their new location's culture, but still teach them their heritage.
    390
  2. Korean government should be sponsoring language schools in Koryo-saram areas internationally. Won't be the magic bullet, but any population growth / immigration is a positive to offset the low birth rate.
    190
  3. Korea has a Koryo-saram special visa program. They extended it to 4th generation. Ethically the right thing to do + can do a small part for population growth.
    180
  4. Doesn't matter what culture, the maknae always has a tough time.
    101
  5. The title is weird. The baby box is dealing with <0.01% of the births in Korea. Low fertility rate is all about economics. Unwanted pregnancies is a totally different issue.
    95
  6. Wow, this is crazy. My dad taught 30 years in a public middle school. Every evening, he would create lesson plans and grade papers. No way would he have time to babysit these wacko parents.
    69
  7. I feel bad for the ones that got adopted into bad households. Really was the wild west back then. The vast majority of kids weren't abused and generally were brought up in good households. Usually, the outliers with bad experiences are the most outspoken. If you are an Korean adoptee and need in-country resources in Korea, G.O.A.'L is the best place to start.
    50
  8. Top tier job. Every Korean's goal to work for the biggest chaebol.
    49
  9. Their phone bills must have been crazy. You could buy long distance phone cards back then, but it was still very expensive.
    43
  10. lol, I grew up in the US. We had and still have discrimination even though we are a melting pot. Korea is one of the most homogeneous societies on planet Earth.
    43
  11.  @DukeMadDuck  In the US, people work for the US government in civilian jobs because they are stable and have good benefits. Now, imagine being stable, good benefits and the best pay. This is Samsung. Much harder to open a small business in Korea than the States. It's a really small market / country.
    42
  12. I think this is the first time I've seen a doc follow up.
    41
  13.  @e.r.4447  None of the files given to adoptive parents have specific information about birth parents. It's more general. My paperwork was rigged likely make the adoption cleaner.
    38
  14. Totally bonkers with the languages: Ivory Coast used to be a French colony, French is the official language. But, looks like the mom is fluent in English. Mom probably speaks: French, English and some Korean Samuel probably speaks: Korean, French and some English
    34
  15. Weirdly, the cinematography more feels like a TV drama than a typical news / doc.
    33
  16. Thank god I grew up in the States and not Korea. So many good schools in the US with lowish requirements. I didn't prep for the SATs at all and got a bit under 1200 (good math, bad verbal). Any reasonable SAT score and B grades will get usually get you into a decent state school.
    32
  17. 1- these girls are more Korean than me 2- as an ethnic Korean who grew up i the states, I understand how they feel
    30
  18. It's funny. My first trip to Korea was in the early 2000s. The picture quality of the video makes it old, but that's how I remember my first visit. Korea while developed still had a tinge of being "oldish". Incheon airport hadn't opened and flew into Gimpo. Itaewon was...umm, a bit weirdish. No idea why my relatives took me there. I miss the old Korea a bit.
    28
  19. umm, it was incredibly fair. The parents didn't have a visa. They actually let the kids finish their education and high school. I'm very liberal when it comes to immigration as an ethnic Korean in America, but Korea decision makers are a bit more strict.
    27
  20. Seoul to Busan is 400km. 1100km is incomprehensible to Koreans.
    27
  21. There are various resources now that make it way easier to search. You need a starting point though. Like, the name of the domestic agency and international agency at least. (Also, FYI...there is a group of older Korean adoptees fighting for adoptee rights in Korea for over a decade now.)
    20
  22. Obviously the son should be going to an arts focused school. But, only well off people can afford that. Didn’t see what city they live, but looks too small to have magnet public schools.
    20
  23. I think you are misinterpreting the video. Babies can be easily registered in Korea, but the parent (mother) doesn't want the social stigma attached to having a kid that young. The opposite is true. It's very hard to "unregister" a kid.
    20
  24.  @silviehurlimann6257  The real world isn't some utopia that needs a justification. It's reality. Damn, I'm explaining it to you why it happens with a reference point and you still are dug into your corner. Do people make comments for an echo chamber or do they actually want to listen to broaden their horizons?
    18
  25. Never seen a more interesting Korean couple: my relatives in Korea are not like this, lol. Really feels like the dude should have been a philosopher or professor. His wife has boundless energy. The kids seem really grounded. Feels like this is when families started having less kids. They are born around 2000. And, getting flashbacks to the Jirisan drama as the rescue is called in.
    17
  26. 4:15 Doesn't matter if you have sight or blind, it's impossible to find the start of packing tape unless you fold it under after last use.
    17
  27.  @solaris5922  It's 19. It's very atypical. Usually, they have to leave after high school and the government gives them a small amount of money to start out.
    16
  28. I think the range is...a bit wider. Likely, more a standard distribution curve with extreme good and extreme bad cases as the tail.
    14
  29. There is no silver bullet for dementia, but they recommend to keep the brain active. My Dad would memorize / recite poetry on his walks for exercise.
    13
  30.  @gwenmloveskpopandmore  The number is over 200K adopted overseas. Even if 20% have bad experiences, that's 40K people. That's a big number. My guess is that its less. I don't mean bad experience as culturally difficult, but getting adopted into a bad family. I've probably met / chatted online with 40-50 KADs in my life. Only a handful had bad experiences.
    12
  31.  @Scho-penhauer  The same reason why the Northerners and Southerners discriminated against each other after the US civil war. I can do this all day. You can make up examples without thinking and I can find examples in history.
    12
  32. 1- it's pretty atypical for someone over 18 (past high school) to still be in this type of housing 2- these places get government funding 3- a bit inefficient. Most of the homes are bigger. Allows for a better economies of scale 4- Orphanages / group homes are privately owned. Some use the money better than others for the kids
    11
  33. Even though my Korean sucks, I can hear the accent. I just assume it's south. Have no idea if there is another area that has an accent. (Googled where Gyeongju is). It's in the SE of country and near Pohang where the big steel company, POSCO, is located. Oddly, I just remember the beach in Pohang and didn't notice the industrial part.
    11
  34. It's important to point out the injustice of the Sakhalin Koreans. But, Korea is pretty open to all the ethnic Koreans during that time period. If you can prove your Korean heritage, you can get permanent residency. The citizenship seems to be a bit harder needing paperwork from a Korean born in Korea.
    11
  35.  @takahiro5528  It's total apples vs oranges. They aren't connected at all. Abortions were illegal back when this was filmed. It's conflating two subject matters that shouldn't be compared and contrasted.
    11
  36.  @classickdramaclips  It makes no difference what my opinion is. I'm saying that Korea decision makers are way more conservative. The 4th generation Koryoin didn't have visa status and were about to get kicked out. They passed something at the last moment. Please enlighten us on how the visa rule should work? Even in the US, you don't get visa status if you attend just school hence DACA / Dreamers limbo.
    10
  37. Most expensive Korean drama ever. Don't think anything will top it for a long time. I met a Zainichi while working at a Korean restaurant in the states. I'm pretty sure he was connected to organized crime and ran pachinko parlors in Japan.
    10
  38. Every country has unique immigration laws. I think your mistake was assuming Korea has the same laws as the US. The F-6 marriage requirements are pretty clear.
    10
  39. It's a crime he's not making sauerkraut. It's basically the German version of kimchi. I always like sauerkraut as a kid, but wasn't a fan of kimchi.
    9
  40. I'm a Korean adoptee. Met my birth family which is relatively big. My Aunt who speaks English well explained it to me. I still fully don't understand. - Mom / Dad have me. Mom / Dad break up - Dad's mother (my grandmother) sends me to orphanage - when my Mom's side of the family finds out, it's too late to get me back (something weird like someone will get arrested) - get adopted overseas What's weird is my Mom has 5 brothers and sisters. Like dude, no one could take me in? My grandma (Mom's side) was married and I have a grandfather as well. Like, they couldn't take me in? Obviously, a radically life changing moment, lol. Regardless, I don't probe any further because it doesn't bother me. It's in the past and I'm not that curious. But, yes. Was a bit simpler when I thought I was a paper slip baby. I guess that's life. Positive and negatives.
    9
  41. There are 2 important timelines that the TV show didn't address. 2012: There was a law implemented that you can't have a baby anonymously. A baby has a right to know its lineage. Ironically, this was passed because of the 200K international adoptions from Korea. It's not that kids weren't abandoned in the past. It was easier. The number of babies dropped off at these baby boxes was 35 in 2011, and increased sharply to 79 in 2012 and 252 in 2013 2019: Even though abortion was "available", it was still illegal. Still murky, but you can't be charged with a crime anymore. In April 2019, abortion was technically legalized in Korea as the Constitutional Court concluded that banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy was a violation of the right to self-determination. The court viewed that abortion before the 22nd week of pregnancy should be decriminalized, saying that a woman's right to self-determination outweighs a fetus' right to life. Baby box stats from 2022: According to the Seoul Institute, Sunday, a total of 106 babies were dropped off at baby boxes last year, down from 217 in 2018.
    8
  42. Seems like she's an only child which is a bit rare for that time period. She's probably in her 30s which makes her a late 80s or 90s kid. Fertility rate was still in the reasonable range back then.
    8
  43.  @alfredhitchcock45  lol, equality / diversity laws have nothing to do with state residents getting into state schools. State taxes subsidize state colleges.
    8
  44. Dude - Ukraine got invaded. If any country understands, its Korea.
    8
  45. Things are way way different from the 1990s on birth searches. A few KADs have pushed for adoptee rights over the past decade or so. It's way more streamlined process. There is a organization called G.O.A.'L. founded / run by Korean adoptees located in Korea that helps with birth searches.
    8
  46. In America if you speak broken English, you are ostracized a bit. I think its pretty universal if you are fluent in a local language and understand local customs that people will always warm up to you.
    7
  47. The birth rate is striking to me. Even though they were lower middle class, they had 3 kids. I'm guessing this was filmed in the 2000s, so they are late 70s / 80s kids.
    6
  48. SKY is the top. But, still a good school.
    6
  49. If you visit Korea, the crosswalk buttons aren't for traffic lights, its for visually impaired people. I think I did that for months before randomly seeing it on the internet.
    6
  50. I think rules have changed pretty drastically since then. The building I lived in Korea was trash nazis. You had to separate everything out even snack chip bags: 비닐. Then, I had to pay for a trash bag which was basically only for used paper towel and cig butts (smoked back then). (I would freeze my food waste and then dump it every few days in the used food cans.)
    5