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

  1.  @lornam1142  people back then didn’t have the means to live past 60. People back then didn’t have the means to choose their profession. Can’t have it both ways. The government paid people to get sterilized. You got an apartment faster. Having one son meant no military for him for a short period of time. The lengths they went to were not as bad as China. But not far off either.
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  2. Thank you.
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  3. It’s ridiculous the conditions.
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  4. 1:33 what he was speaking in English he was pronouncing well.
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  5. And the company thinks it’s netizen’s who are at fault when a celebrity commits suicide? I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more. Imagine working from 4 am to midnight with someone else controlling your food, exercising for hours, not able to talk to people or see family and having huge debt and no income coming in.
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  6. It’s ridiculous that a test to determine if you have the academic skills to do college work in Korea requires English and another foreign language test. 95% of people don’t go to SKY schools. What is the point of wasting 2 years?
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  7. She is a tough lady.
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  8.  @alexxslm  North Korea has tons of socialism. You are aware that ambulance the fire department sends out will send you a bill, right? The countries that practice socialism are not ones people try to illegally or legally migrate to in large numbers or last all that long without some other government type taking over. Anything collectively paid for gets rationed excluding many. There is a caste system in North Korea and you can only go down in that system. It’s based on who your uncle is or your husbands cousin. It’s as irrational as racism. Just now we hear that parents will be sent to labor camps and their kids shipped off separately for other internment if caught watching foreign movies.
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  9.  @KittyKatzel  more than socialism than welfare.
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  10.  @agirlwithablog3579  clearly proof here academia has been infiltrated. A school and library in a capitalist country versus a school and library in a socialist or communist country are vastly different. Even their funding can not really be compared. As doing Business in a capitalist country compared with a socialist or communist country. They are trying to convince students that they are already 30% socialist communist. Let us take North Korea or China. You need a permit to live in a particular province or city. If you move for work and are migrants within your own country your kids won’t be permitted to enter the school where you are working. Now let’s look at the U.S. a person can move between border with no obstacle and their children can move with them and go to the local school. A North Korean can’t move at all even for work splitting up the family. The child of a worker who has to go elsewhere for work stays with grandparents in the rural village and learning is limited to what that local school can provide. I was a librarian. The library in the community with more business had more taxes coming in and I got a bigger budget to buy kids books and hire programming. And that business had no fear of the government taking it over. Or the employees taking the manager hostage to get more wages and the government not giving a darn about it. Seems to happen in China all the time. In the US the swat team would be called so doesn’t really happen here. Who is paid better the worker in US or the worker in China? In the US the government breaks up monopolies. It doesn’t take over the companies like Venezuela.
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  11. We’re they watching Afghanistan TV or something. The most bizarre rule I ever heard of for a school.
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  12. The interesting thing is they have 5 cities with more than 1 million and others with hundreds of thousands of people. Surely they are not miserable? It drives me mad to see real estate articles in English language news talking about increase or decline and always bringing up Gangnam and always Seoul. In the U.S. we don’t only hear about Beverly Hills. Why is only .5% of units of concern?
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  13. It would be easier to have a sibling in Korea when the war ended than in this century. Because of fiancés. Not really a great economic story when you think of it that way.
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  14.  @nicatine  FYI the government did control their bodies by telling them not have kids for decades.
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  15. The driver was executed for overtaking a car with the number of it of the leaders birthday?
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  16.  @julianp.7697  Fan of the Great Leader are you?
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  17.  @julianp.7697  May you be reborn in a nice socialist state.
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  18.  @Stinger913  half of everyone in America doesn’t try to live and work within 45 minutes of Manhattan. There are actually many cities with over a million people the but the population all trying to live and work in the same region makes everything difficult.
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  19.  @helloworldstars  one wants to have four.
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  20. This notion of affordability and assumption of career problems all stems from everything being relative since birth. Your grades and ranking don’t depend on how you did on the test but how everyone else did. The top 4% are the first tier. The bottom 4% the last tier. Doesn’t matter if the last tier all got 75% on the test. A solid c. I just matters that 96 people got less wrong on the test. So now they are grown ups and see their friend has a bigger house, better brand company to work for and they don’t have kids. So they assume they don’t rank having kids cause they are so far behind… not cause they don’t have a good relationship and a job. It is goofy and won’t be worked out for 25 more years.
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  21. Yep. People don’t know what family is. They don’t get to spend any time. I hoped with COVID they would have had time together. But nope. Not really. What is worse is having no independence from parents into your 30’s until you marry. What 34 year old wants to spend the next 34 years micromanaging and financially supporting another human being. Especially when they will have to retire at 57 and they will be 68 before their kid is 34 if they have one. In Korea you get allowance far too long and never have responsibility for your own expenses. In the U.S. high school kids work ant some point and in baby steps start being financially responsible for some things. Maybe it’s the car insurance. It’s probably the gasoline and the entertainment. Maybe some of their clothes. Then in college they may pay part of it. Or books covering more things. Then they get a job and start paying off loans or start a car payment. Maybe a year later they move out and pay rent and utilities and may only get help from parents for unusual circumstances or life events like weddings. There is a bizarre codependency going on.
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  22.  @Users_rx  they would not all say their life is a poor life. If no one there had clean water they would all be dead.
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  23.  @ゔぁゔぁ-x4d  genocide to eradicate a people. Everything about them. It’s not about just killing them. And they killed a great number of them. The exact figures are disputed. Naturally. Japan removed their leaders and system of government and system of justice. They forced all to take Japanese names. Only language used in schools was Japanese. They took their rice. Koreans grew rice and it was sent to Japan. They got to eat barley. They lost their religious practices. All must worship the emperor. Korea was a country that had education already. Korea had an alphabet for pity sakes. Japan has thousands of characters to memorize. Young girls trafficked to be sex slaves for soldiers about the world. Men and women relocated to be laborers or conscripted for Japanese army. Mistreated by Japanese at home and when in Japan. The Koreans stuck in Japan are stateless. Not all could go back. Not enough to go back. No language to speak once there. May have been married to a Japanese or biracial and that was not safe to go back. North was communist not safe to go back. At various points S Korea run by dictators not safe to go back then either. The country was not the empire of Korea they were born into anymore. But you are saying all that okay cause they built some buildings in the southern part of the peninsula? Koreans were not living in tents before that. You know the Nazi’s first took those people to be slave labor. It was only at the end they started killing everyone on purpose just for the sake of it.
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  24. Why do you have to send to private school?
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  25. It’s the down of exponential growth. Also parents putting every dime into their kids. The gov should do better.
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  26. 20% of Koreans live in Seoul. More in the surrounding area. How can anyone afford an average apartment of 600K. Koreans were better off after the war. There is school for all, medical assessable, everyone has rice and clothes and shoes but people don’t think they can afford to get married and have kids and don’t really want to because they didn’t see a marriage with working 16 hours a day and didn’t spend time together as a family what with studying 16 hours a day. If your childhood stunk why would you have kids. In another generation the apartments will be empty and cost of living will be cheap and people will start to be able to think they can work 8-10 hours 5 days a week, not drink with their boss all night and have 3 kids.
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  27. It’s a wonder why any bother to attend the regular public high school. What is with the education elitism?
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  28.  @ojkmtforever3595  it’s like judging a person on their brand of purse or car. Yes I am not Asian, College is college. A small college in the states would be more impressive than a college in Korea to Koreans. First SKY, then Ivy League abroad, then Korean National universities, then schools in Seoul, then schools outside Korea, then Korean schools outside of Seoul. Chem 101 and speech 101 is the same in all of them. I live in the Midwest. We are far too sensible. On the East coast in an handful of cities in the US I may think where I go matters. Spending 200K instead of 100K to get a degree when you are only going to make 40K a year isn’t smart. Would you hire someone with a huge student loan the size of a mortgage who also has to make a living in the present? Imagine the salary demands and financial stress the employee is under.
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  29.  @ojkmtforever3595  if elite means working for a big family conglomerate like Korean Air, no thanks. Who would want to meet any of those people let alone work for them?
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  30. I went to a private Catholic school in the US where 96%-98% went to college. I understand parents spending money and kids with pressure. It just didn’t matter which college we went to. Some went to a top school, although with what I see on the news what goes on there I would not want to pay for that. Some went to private university or state schools. It’s not a big deal which one. We can take the ACT and SAT during high school more than once. It’s best or an average. There is a limit to how often.
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  31. You spend a lot of time going from place to place. In U.S. student do 7 classes a day and often work part time.
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  32. Why not just go home and do your homework and study?
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  33. Yet most places have accessible medical, accessible education, housing with indoor plumbing and temp controlled, multiple pairs of shoes... Now poverty is having only one designer handbag. Housing is twice the size for half the people.
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  34.  @karna5998  the gov said it’s patriotic and made it be about peer pressure, sometimes work pressure to stop at one. You really think people will patriotically have more to suit the gov. Let’s hope they don’t do awful things insisting on bigger families like they did awful things making people stop at one and delay the first.
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  35. It’s college. They all teach the same thing.
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  36.  @pratikgaurav9943  in every other developed country all that matters is the school has an accredited program. It doesn’t make sense to go to Ivy League for some majors because they cost so much in private school tuition. It is paying for the name. Surely more than 5% of the country is productive? The wasted income of years studying. The money spent on study room and room in study house. The lack of income for the years in military for men and the years in college and extra years studying and money spent of tutors from elementary school on up just to get a job in a conglomerate where they make you retire around 55 anyway makes no sense. If a parent took half that money wasted and put it into the stock market or gold the child would have a better financial start or at least they themselves would have a viable retirement.
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  37.  @pratikgaurav9943  everyone has to work hard. The coveted spots are hell in Korea. If you are not family you will always be in a lower position. Why must a child of a doctor become a doctor to inherit a hospital. Why must a hospital be inherited? With everyone working 16 hours to study surely many others are capable. Someone else can run Korean Air and Samsung. In the US the top schools are private and four times an already ridiculous amount. The ones attending already spending a lot of money on private education in lower grades. It makes no sense to leave college with a loan the size of a mortgage. Your skills matter. Apple doesn’t just hire people from Ivy League. And they work people more than 40 hours orchard on campus or not they are not family friendly. If your parents invested in Apple instead of paying for private academy you would be set. Those who get the big company positions will be retired in their 50’s and making chicken anyway. There are many paths in life that lead to contentment and security.
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  38.  @pratikgaurav9943  to work at Amazon you need skills. You need a degree from an accredited program. It does not matter the school you got your degree.
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  39. You don’t get an A if you get 90% right. Or 93% right. You get an A if you were the 4% highest with the least wrong. It’s maddening how relative everything is. It is why adults do not function. They can not move out if a senior didn’t move out. If they don’t marry as fast as their classmates above them they won’t be able to marry at all in their minds. If their senior does not marry they won’t. No one is having kids cause they are too expensive. If someone was 4/9 in class ranking categories how can they have a child?
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  40. This can all be traced to the dictatorships and push for every student to go to college. No natural resources to speak of so they must rely on human capital. But they end up with too many graduates. And when a graduate is working at a job not related to their degree they consider themselves jobless. To get as many as possible going to college they made unsavory every job that does not require a degree. Then Koreans have become accustom to free housing. They save a big down payment while living at home forever. Then they pay an owner full value of half the property in cash which they get back at the end of 2 years. The owner takes the renters lump sum and invests it. It is the weirdest shell game in the world. Because of this the gov will never let home prices fall. The landlord either extracts thousands more to renew the lease or the tenant leaves with the landlord taking the next tenants lump sum to pay back the tenant leaving. If prices drop the housing market will collapse. Besides they like capital gain taxes and death taxes. In typical capitalism it’s a supply and demand and you keep building to keep the prices stable. In a healthy economy there are economic cycles with pull backs. Yes prices can climb in a few years time but they also can drastically pull back in a few years time and may not recover for a while. But we also don’t move every other year. Most are fine. It gives people the chance to get a property when they pull back. Those on the ladder will also increase when prices are up and they can still move into a larger place if necessary cause their current place added value. The real estate market in Korea turns over too much. They can’t see the long term picture. Further they don’t have as favorable loans to those wanting to buy as for those needing those lump sums just to rent. The building they are doing is for single people. The older properties are being used as AIRb&B’s. That is where the newlyweds would have started out, screwing up starter home and long term rental market. Meanwhile the place must not have internet or people could work from their family properties in the provinces in the family for centuries. I jest. Seriously though remote work could save the entire country. People could live anywhere. Not all jobs but surely COVID shows us all people don’t have to go into a building to be productive in all jobs.
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  41.  @Lxmxn97  while I’m thrilled for the English speaking firefighters should I ever find myself in that small town of Korea, when would he use it? Most people entering a company will never use English for their job. It is as sensible as having it as a University test. Having it as a subject is fine. Korea was worried about population growth, but that was why the country grew economically. Korea’s population will drop by more than 10 million people in 15 years. Unless people start having children in their 20’s again. You see people are becoming grandparents in their 60’s now instead of their 40’s and 50’s. A generation is becoming rare.
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  42. The biggest sin in Asia is not being grateful to parents. The second biggest sin is academic dishonesty and lying about your academic background, the third biggest sin is murder… Honestly he has every right to appreciate them, he gets to see them both. With all the study and all the work parents do at the office it’s rare.
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  43. You were born after the Cold War?
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  44. Plenty of people in other world cities after the 50’s had more than 1 kid.
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  45. The trouble is people are not marrying in their 20’s after college and having them then.
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  46.  @crowstakingoff  Japan had been killing millions of innocent people since 1905 when the whole thing started. Annexing, invading, relocating, forced labor, interning, genocide, occupying, starving, bombing, etc.. Read from the perspectives of Japan’s other neighbors suffering for decades before the U.S. was bombed Pearl Harbor and was suddenly in the fight. Rape of Nanking, Korea has a great deal to say as well. Have you seen Tenko? Would you rather be a female civilian in a Japanese internment camp or a Japanese American in a west coast internment camp? Neither fair but honestly quite different. Dig a little deeper.
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  47.  @kabotohaye8666  it was 79 years ago.
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  48. Things have changed in 70 years. Children are a blessing. The government could not give all the people the quality of life if they all had kids. So many never married. With equality they all could. But then more people. So they demanded their population serve them instead of serving the population.
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  49.  @wip1664  I’m an American who is Irish Catholic. Imagine you have one parent and absent father and no siblings. Grandparents died. How are you going to assist your mom and pay your bills at the same time when she gets sick? You did not marry. You are one income. China may have killed everyone for 9 generations in a poor maid’s family in the palace cause she helped her mistress poison an heir. But usually family is an asset, even the screwed up relations. It’s not usually fatal. The entire reason we live and breath is relationships with others. Not to build a better mousetrap, acquire gold or be really clever for 70 years only to be compost. We are certainly not here to amuse and serve ‘the leader’.
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  50.  @wip1664  I have skin in the game. I am thrilled to parent but I hate the reason why I am able to parent. I have one child, a son born in China. I am parenting because the government of China decides when a person can marry and when a person can have one child and when a person no longer can have children. Maybe mom was an adult but not old enough for officials to marry? Perhaps old enough but it would be outside their quota? Maybe it was a second pregnancy? There are a multiple number of maybe’s. Why did he have to sacrifice his parents and they him? Leave uncle’s gambling debts and consequences to uncle this a parent child separation we are talking about. Because the government controlled and managed resources and asked too much of the population to be able to do so. Obviously nature is not just wanting humans to have one child. About 15 years of a woman’s 20’s and 30’s is pregnancy with a good outcome possible. Why would nature give humans such a long fertile period past education and training age to only have one child? Gestation is 40 weeks and weening takes weeks to maybe a year. Once the child can eat solids it’s really not necessary to keep doing it. Does not make sense to only have 1. A couple could easily have 4 kids with good spacing. If you are going to advocate for many to be childless, and they should be if they want that, others will have to have more than 2 kids. The public won’t believe they have been lied to for 40 years. They will continue to think society and government wants 1 or less babies from them individually.
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