Comments by "kristine Sharp" (@kristinesharp6286) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. And single parenthood. And blended families. Stupid law has put babies in danger and thankfully people like the pastor found a way to help.
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  2. 95% that didn’t get Into the top schools are surviving.
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  3. I would like to wealthy individuals having modest but healthy accommodation offered to the elderly for a modest amount. How can a landlord rent a place with the ceiling and mold?
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  4. Tell me a successful socialism story.
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  5. The gap does not matter. What matters is if you have enough. If you are comparing to others you will never have enough. One thing unique to northeast Asia that you don’t see in the west is kids are kids into their 30’s. Why? In the U.S. kids work in high school and slowly start to be economically responsible for themselves like paying for car insurance and gas and clothing and entertainment. Maybe they earn some tuition as well. And then as they work full time they are adding on more essential life bills. In Korea you live at home so long and depend on parents money for much longer. It’s extended adolescence. By the time people are done with college and mandatory military and get a few years of work in they are already quite old. But the constant delaying of marriage and unacceptable of babies without marriage by the time it’s socially acceptable you won’t be able to have as many as you would want to have. Fertility starts to decline. What 34 year old wants to support a person until age 68? Years past their own retirement.
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  6. The homeless in Korea are the elderly that stopped having kids at one, gave that kid all their money for tutoring and school and living and buying them a house when they married only to have nothing left to live on. If these parents spent the money investing instead of on academies they would have better finances.
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  7.  @jadefields9020  actually adult adoptees pressed for the change, most living abroad. They didn’t like not knowing who their parents were so the government made a law saying a child needed to be registered. However it being on the registry hurts people cause until recently your prospective employer could find out if you were a single parent, orphaned, etc.. supposed to be illegal now. A few celebrities are going to have to be single parents, impossible as they are managed by their companies as indentured servants. It is said that Apink isn’t allowed cell phones. So much control over waking minutes. Crayon pop said the group members were responsible for the costs of setting up the group and got a smaller portion of the profits. The contracts are too long. Every player is a part of the company not a lawyer paid for by the entertainer. Another issue. Korea also lessened the number of adoption by foreigners. They are not a poor country anymore. And older adoptees felt like they were sold. If you can’t put the baby on your family register cause it will haunt you whether you raise it or not and the child for life if you do raise it or the child remains in Korea and that registry could be attached to them in some way, you will abandon it illegally. That means dead babies. Thank goodness for the brave pastor. These are unnecessary orphans. So many babies are simply staying in state care in Korea. Many are actually children from broken homes. Shared custody isn’t complicated.
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  8. She lived in a caste system. Us and them is the problem and it’s not conservatives separating people. You can’t be tolerant of a North Korean in the US cause she is conservative. You would believe and accept anything she said if she was at a DNC event. How very unliberal of you.
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  9.  @nicatine  that is why the birth rate for sustainability is 2.1 and 2.0. Some may not have kids. For lack of sperm in the relationship, disability, accidental death and children’s lost to illness before growing up, and more. World wide fertility is 2.4. Barely replacement level. Poverty is an interesting term. To get a low rental housing you need a down payment of 60M. But that is like 6 years paying monthly rent. How many elders live in a few dollars a day? How many families have empty homes in the provinces so why are people complaining about housing costs. Such waste in the country. Why are single people moving into one bedroom and not senior couples leaving the larger units for families and newlyweds? A person working 40 hours a week is considered not having a job there? Cause it is not a full time position with a big company? If you decide only the 1% or 4% are doing fine and not in poverty you have a skewed outlook. The only reason the birth rate went from 6 to .7 is the government told everyone babies are costly and not worth it. Work 12 plus hours a day. Spend 3 years not 2 on mandatory military and 4 or more in university. Take the test over and over extending your nonproductive years to get a better score. They enlisted the media to push the narrative on tv and in movies. Neighbors got together to get birth control and harass neighbors who had that 3rd child. Irrational exuberance the growth is not sustainable for a developed country. 50% increase in housing in 4 years is not a positive achievement if you never let the price fall 20% in another 2 year period. They won’t let it fall they like the tax revenue from the sale too much. Poverty, ask your family born in 1954 - 1972 about poverty then and now. About freedom and dictatorship. About overreaching into personal affairs. They gave one time incentives to do sterilization. It’s a scandal. They made the public bend over backwards and deny themselves basic human rights so their job of government and economic benefit would be easy. And they kept those practices in place for many more decades than they should have fearing they would end up having to absorb millions from the north. The generation of today is not the sort that would swap their gold wedding bands and kids dol rings if there were another economic crisis or any kind of crisis. Because a teen not owning a long black North Face quilted jacket is poor. Because a 5 year old not attending 3 hours of hagwon afterschool doesn’t have parents who care about her education so don’t play with that kid. It’s all nonsense. As if it really matters if the kid lives in 24P in a high rise or a low rise building. It’s greed and superficial pride. I could care less if a classmate lived in a townhouse or single family or apartment. About whether they went back and forth to mom and dad during the week. Could care less if their parents worked for Apple or some small company doing computer programming. In the U.S. people having families don’t live in Manhattan. They live within an hour from Manhattan and commute to work. Single people live in Manhattan. Must everyone live in Seoul. Might as well give the rest of the country to China, Japan or Russia. South Korea might try artificial wombs and raising kids in orphanages and boarding schools. Since they hold kids until 10pm for voluntarily mandatory study time it’s like that already. Is there a childhood in the country and any family life with parents drinking with coworkers and kids at hagwon all hours? When 25% of children are born to women under 30 and the rest over 30 you are doomed. You can’t just decide to have 3 cause you have 4 bedroom apartment now at 33. You may get one. It might take a few years. You may have been better off getting a loan on apartment at 28 and marrying then. Prices just doubled in the complex you want to live in between 28 and 32. It was affordable at the time, you just got greedy and had to be overly clever. But if you started at 28 you could have had two or three before running out of eggs. You can only work until 55 some companies. Maybe it’s extended. But you will live until 80 and companies won’t keep on a 70 year old. That is decades of boring. No family. No spouse. No job. Why waste your youth? Spending every free moment from 11-25 on school and afterschool and military only to get 25 years at the actual job. Instead of spending 2200 a month on English kdg put 100 in a money market. When the kids is 45 they will have a million dollars. Inflation put 200 a month in a money market. Why piss away so much money thinking you need to to make money? You don’t. What you will need is people more than money when you are old. Already the ones working the market and harvesting the cabbage and fixing the fishing nets and diving for sea food are elderly women. That is your future.
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  10. Having watched Kdramas for over ten years why anyone would want to meet a rich person is beyond me. Evil and scary and what with the Korean Air famliy and the Chosun paper’s ten year old’s grandkid and daughter in law making the storylines real from what I read on the news sites if I lived in South Korea it would be Busan or Daegu for me. As far away from the Seoul elite as possible. I’d saved 60% on cost of living too. I’d probably get to see my family even. I know the parents do the students who died in the ferry sinking probably wished they spent time on a family vacation instead of kids doing even that separately.
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  11.  @adrianramirez8252  country. What they are not teaching in schools is quite scary. Name a country.
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  12. It’s relative. I have seen many happy home house tours. It’s a program meant to give couples just married low rentals for a time to save to get a more permanent house and encourage babies. They are often 2 bedroom. Most often the other bedroom becomes a closet complete with clothing styler or an office. Afford to. It’s relative. When most the country didn’t have enough rice or shoes that fit people had 6 kids.
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  13. All the irrational growth just made the elderly poor and no one want to marry or have kids. Real estate prices need to go down. English needs to be removed from the college exam so there is not pressure to pay for lessons. Korea needs to build apartments for people to live in who don’t already own an apartment. They need to get rid of Airbnb and think about the housing stock that takes away from actual citizens working and living in Korea. Most their brightest students study abroad and stay abroad. The college elitism is terrible. There is no respect for hard jobs. It’s too small a country to get away from corrupt people who can damage entire families when they are in a bad mood.
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  14. Contracts should be a year long. Indentured servants had 7 year contracts.
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  15. 79 years ago it ended. My MIL was alive for the attack on Pearl Harbor living in Hawaii. Her mother carried her into a sugar cane field. They didn’t know it was coming and which or all habited islands effected. But she was 2 months old at the time. For a man to be of fighting age assuming teens involved a person would have to be well over 90.
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  16. Japan bombed the U.S. first. May God have mercy on the dead all around. Do I feel guilty as an American? No. They started it. It decidedly freed many prisoners, many countries freed, thank goodness we got it before an axis power and less of our guys died if it had to be a land invasion. I watched Grave of the Fireflies. I was irritated by the boy saying how the emperor would make them pay and hearing long live the emperor. What did he think his father was doing to people as ordered by the emperor for decades by the first Tokyo bombings? Japan was bombing others and invading and annexing and interning others. Also made no sense why Mom would go on to the bomb shelter and leave the kids behind to follow. I have seen some Japanese YouTube channels where an earthquake tremor occurs and the moms are running for their toddlers and covering the toddler protectively with their bodies. I’m sure Oppenheimer would irritate the Japanese the same way Grave of the Fireflies irritated me. Every American made movie need not be shown in every country. Americans are not bothered by the peace park in Japan. Why are Japanese bothered about comfort statues in Korea? Germany isn’t bothered by the remnants of WWII still standing as reminder. Japan hasn’t fully owned Nanking either. Yet U.S. and Japan have a fine relationship soon after the war and continued for decades. I’m sorry goes a long way. I’m not sure I want to see Oppenheimer. I don’t know how woke it is going to be.
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  17. Their company’s work them like indentured servants with no time and hardly privacy. Apink said their agency didn’t allow cell phones for pity sakes. They can only marry other celebrities. Little time to get to know anyone and few people to get to know in the first place.
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  18. Stop Asian hate.
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  19.  @an0nycat  .5% live in Gangnam. Not only is it about living in Seoul there is elitism over which part. The press is always using Gangnam as the benchmark. Prices were up .7% this month in Gangnam. It’s like only hearing about US real estate what happened in Beverly Hills. Or Palo Alto. And that does something to public mindset. It suggests what happened there happened everywhere, which it may not have. And it suggests it’s the only place that matters. You know why so many live in half basements in Seoul. The address. They could live in a perfectly fine 18P place with multiple rooms somewhere else, even within the capital region.
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  20.  @Doobedoobedooba  actually it’s a hold over from under the monarchy. You lived where you were born. When a woman married she left her home town for her husbands. There was no mobility of location unless you passed the civil servant exam. Suddenly people were forced to move during the occupation by Japan or to flee the soldiers from North Korea. It’s a country where many are not happy where they are at. But now people can in some ways decide where to live within the North or the South. There was capitalism when the world was rural and most had to live near and work for their food source. Even when Korea was like that the homes were all gathered together and then people worked their plot of land. Not like the US where the house is on the plot of land and far from neighbors dwellings. There has always been a trend to live close to each other.
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  21. Except when all families are small people put all their money into their small family. There is always something to compare to to feel you are behind and someone else is ahead. China should not say 1,2 or 3 children. They should make an economy that can support whatever the individual wants in terms of family size.
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  22.  @snowdrop118  define poverty. There was another documentary about how people who are young are in debt. A guy spent 200M and lost his 300M apartment to crypto or day trading. The reason was not cause he didn’t have a job, or money in the bank or a place to live. It was cause he decided he was poor if he didn’t live in Gangnam and it would take too many years on his salary to buy a place in Gangnam. OMG. 🙄 Someone has to do the lower paying jobs. We learned during COVID who is essential and who isn’t. They closed school and the grocery store check out person still had a job. There is your answer. You realize a hundred years ago shoes were a luxury, any school for boys and girls required a fee so literacy not common, a doctor was a once in a lifetime luxury it often went badly and rice was sent elsewhere/fish not always present. Family was the treasure and sign of abundance and blessing. Not handbags nor new gadgets. If the 5M bag is so great why do you need a roomful of them? No one is saying everyone have 5. For some to go childless some need to have 3 or more.
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  23.  @sonydominates  they need to put the country’s money on this matter into other places in Korea. Trying to get Seoul residents to have two kids makes no sense until the seniors die and their family sized apartments become vacant. New Sejong was showing a high fertility rate. Cause so many working for gov they let people leave on time maybe? Cause a newer city they have the infrastructure for day care? The trouble is unlike the 90’s when women had kids in their 20’s now they are having kids in their 30’s, if they still can and don’t have grandparents to help. Or aunts and uncles. Cause so many in their 30’s are singletons. 3 generations alive soon instead of 4.
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  24. Is this why the daughter of the dictator, before this dictator just got pardoned?
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  25.  @karna5998  they had fines and refused benefits for 2nd and later order children to get education and healthcare.
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  26. It’s the same with lying about address, education or work history. Korea can not tolerate when a person appears outside their genuine class. Weird place in some ways. The fault is the people who made and sold the fake stuff. How does the purchaser know? They don’t have brand names on the college entrance exam. I’m really confused about how she did work for some of the brands. Surely they would know if the stuff she had of their fake. Why does punishment extend to family. Is this North Korea? Is anyone checking where she bought the fake goods worn to close it down? Probably not. It’s about bashing on someone cause society says it’s okay to do so.
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  27. I’m more worried about the students who just missed the top tier.
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  28. Can someone tell me why a 5 year old living in Korea has to be fluent in English? Why is this subject on the Korean college entrance exam. Korean universities conduct classes in Korean. For all the great test scores somewhere along the line the place lost all common sense. Further preparing every child to leave Korea for college which means they will stay abroad for work will only make worse the problem. I’m not saying not have the subject as a class but stop testing subject for college entry. In the U.S. only language arts and Math really matter. Students are not tested for how good they are in French or Japanese to attend college.
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  29. Call me a capitalist but why in the name of all that is good can’t the government of China not have a specific number of children per couple? For decades most the country have more than 1 pair of shoes, access to education, access to medical care and a varied diet. Now they have this economy set up, housing set up for single people, childless couples and one child families. I’d like the government of China not to decide what age or what number or whether the person is married or single and let them have the babies that come!
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  30. @Treavor Martin They kept 1 child policy too long. Day care has been invented. Before couples waiting until 30’s to have kids grandparents young enough to help raise as well. Neither parent has to stop working. In the west the parents that stop want to cause honestly you can work your whole life you can only parent a few years. Going back to work after a time out of the work force is no problem. Going to school later in life to get a different degree or skill is also no problem. Getting hired when older is also no big deal. The oldest person is not always right. No workplace issues having a boss younger than you. It’s not seen as lazy to have a break. They wanted the birth rate to be below replacement. When you encourage extra birth or encourage a reduction in births you get a short term economic boom. Then heck breaks loose. No country should every go out of their way to encourage more than 4 or less than 2. And only for extreme reason should it get involved at all. Russia encouraged 5 boys for the army China said 1 or none. Both had a ridiculous number of children in state care and sent many of them off for international adoption. When a government gets too involved it ends up with a lot of kids on its hands.
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  31.  @jayq2571  it started in 1904/1905. You see WWII in the pacific didn’t start with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Japan had been invading, killing, raping, taking, annexing, interning, committing genocide, relocating, starving, forced labor and expanding for decades before. The first time Japan proper was bombed, finally their land seeing some of what war looks like, was 1942. Those were not atomic. The reason we are stationed in Japan ever since is so neighbors don’t retaliate and they don’t need an army again to defend themselves if they do. And so neighbors don’t worry they will build an army/navy and go exploring again. The reason we have been in Korea almost as long as the North and South has a ceasefire since the 50’s. It never ended. The second country to get the bomb was the USSR in 1949. So each side in that war had the bomb so it was basically keep bombing the others until no buildings left. Nothing decisive. If no one but the USSR had it in 1949 would they not have gone back to 1905 and wanted control over the region again? Defeating Japan and having their influence in China and Korea or flat out taking bits of it over? The Russia revolution occurred cause they suffered losses in the Russian Japanese war of 1904.
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  32.  @alanho6814  Japanese interned over a hundred thousand civilians all over the pacific. Please read up on Korea and China before the U.S. entered the war when attacked by bombs suddenly that Sunday morning. Think of the hospital they hit. Japan wartime atrocities to help you Google. Hundreds of thousands killed marching to Nanking few were soldiers among the victims. What did the Japanese think their country was doing for decades? That is what bombing is like for civilians. They had not even a taste of that until 1942 (not atomic) and then finally 1945. It took doing it twice.
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  33.  @zoespam10000  Japan apologized to the U.S. for the war. Japan denies the number of the Nanking massacre and denies comfort women issue and wants the statues of it in Korea removed. Most comfort women Korean. They made many Koreans go to Japan for labor and many have remained and are basically residents with no citizenship. They pressured for intermarriages, forced Japanese language, etc.. then the north and south divide happened soon after. So many reasons a percent of them failed to return. The reason the U.S. in Japan all these years is their neighbors concerned they will go exploring again. But if Japan does not have a military they are at risk for retaliation. So we babysit. Japan does not have a military to invade and no one will attack Japan with the U.S. there. Its neighbors are not happy with their actions after the end of the war. Probably because the U.S. finished it with the bombings. It was not China or Korea or name your country Japan pissed off many countries. It is hard to cheer about the success of a weapon. It is also not right to sit by when another is being an aggressor and so many are suffering. The real thing of interest is the U.S. and Japan have gotten to a really good relationship rather quickly after all of that. Both countries doing well economically high in the world ranking. Korea will hold a grudge longer than the Irish will toward England. And that has been going on for many centuries.
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  34. Government control is the biggest problem. This was done to make it easy for government. Now the government thinks patriotism will be the motivator as it was then?
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  35. Gosh look at the US travel page on North Korea. Do not travel. Passport not valid. No consulate services. If you get special permission the first line under says to make a will. The tour company should not do business with Americans.
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  36. It’s an outrage you have to pay to work. The lawyers/managers working for the trainee are actually employed by the company. Change the law. She would have right to privacy and freedom of movement in the military for pity sakes.
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  37. Middle class has a lot better quality of life than generations ago. Too much consumerism.
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  38. He seems to really like North Korea.
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  39. Did they not make VIP kids and other such English learning services illegal for kids?
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  40. So two years of military and four years of college and then multiple years of taking the test... then some jobs will retire you in your 50’s. Very few work years. Too old to start a family if you marry.
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  41.  @zaker721  yes education is free now through high school. OMG. It’s not 1970, when they called people patriots for sterilizing themselves and taking the risk to have one child instead of how many they would have had otherwise. I think there was a dictatorship going on at the time, off and on…
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  42. The. Population of Korea will be 35M in 2040.
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  43. The trouble with Korea is parents don’t stop raising the kids when they are in college. Or get their first job. The problem is this group think that has been gaslighted for decades in order to keep people from having more than 1 or 2 never ended. When all this family planning began not all kids went to middle school, had proper shoes or rice. The exponential growth pushed elderly into poverty.
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  44. BTS needs to get married and each have 3 kids to turn the public opinion of having kids. What really needs to happen is more mothers in their 20’s. Not having babies until 30’s is compounding the problem. Instead of 4 generations of people there will be only 3 generations alive at a time. The reason this. Issue was not a problem and why the family planning projects didn’t let up in the 80’s once replacement levels were made was suddenly seniors were living longer.
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  45.  @lornam1142  Korean fans are no joke. The collective in the 60’s all jumped on the don’t have kids, even if the first or second are girls. It became a trend. There was no law like in China to have only one child. People went together in groups to get fixed. Just have two and raise them well. Even one is too many for our crowded country. That is what the posters said. And the sentiment. It was in all the shows. How troublesome it was to have 3 or more. How prosperous a single child made your life. And at some point they got priority in the housing lottery for going to drastic steps of getting fixed. But a lot of it was peer pressure. Like people wore masks in public. Peer pressure. Christianity influence needs to spread cause they are pretty good about welcoming children and not having greed. No one wants the people who passed to be reincarnated to Korea it seems. Once having 2 kids is a sign of affluence like a Prada bag is, people will have 2.
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  46.  @lornam1142  this is the most goofy thing about South Korea. An entertainer has to apologize for rumors over dating. Some in APink mentioned they were not allowed a cell phone. I am saying the example of marrying and having kids is in the telling. Not just a reporter saying the gov is concerned about birth rate.
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  47.  @lornam1142  money doesn’t raise kids.
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  48.  @lornam1142  it was hard to survive in 1911, 1952, survive is a strong word for today.
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  49.  @lornam1142  stable life? In the last 100 years South Korea has been occupied, participant in world war 2, split from the North, invaded by the North and in a ceasefire with the North, all males under conscription for a time for the last 70 years, changed from monarchy to democracy to being in a few dictatorships in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. What stability? No one on any spot on planet earth can be certain of stability for a 30 year period.
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  50.  @lornam1142  people will be forced to retire and run out of money and be poor for 20 years taking this route. In other developed countries some people have no kids and others have 20.
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