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

Sanctions faintly recent. The problem with N Korea is Kim family.
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Not really failed. Hundreds of thousands live there. Mostly from rural towns. Many families split rather than relocated. That won’t help fertility rate though.
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If only the public had access to internet it would not matter where they live. Oh wait, they do. But it doesn’t matter does it.
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That is why every is moving or wants to move to Seoul. There will always be someone outside Seoul wanting in. The city like the capital gains taxes to be high. They will just slow down rebuilding apartments that need to be rebuilt and turn some places into green belts. They have kept prices and inflation up and will continue to do so. The country is a success when housing prices double in 5 years. Failure when the price of a house declines .2% in a quarter. And the English language news always talks about the price in Gangnam. 1/2 of 1% live there. Why is that the benchmark? It’s all relative. Starts in school.
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You don’t really have to. You do it cause you want to live in Seoul or Gangnam more specifically. Free education, national medical system, everyone owns dozens of shoes, rice in abundance and year round produce. Also self determination. Don’t know how good you have it compared to your elders.
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@Ben-kz2km in Korea real estate is what people put money in. In the U.S. it is stocks. You see it was gain gain gain. Korea will never let people lose money in a place in Seoul. They will manipulate supply to keep that from happening. So you have a second property. You don’t just rent it out for 2K a month. What you do is rent it out for 600K for a two year period. It’s worth 800K. A person needing a place has money saved and gets a loan for the rest to rent. For 2 years you invest the 600K given at the start of the lease. You keep the dividends, etc… when the 2 years is up you say to the person here is your money back or you need another 20K for the next two year lease if they don’t want to move. If the 800K house is worth less than 800K there is a problem. If the person decides to move they need that 600K back for the next rental. They can get another rental for 570K. Where are you going to get the 30K extra you need cause the place you are renting to them won’t go for more than 570K either. The government can’t handle it when several landlords can’t give back the deposit. Huge housing crash would follow. So they manipulate the market. In 2015 the same property was worth 500K. So the rental amount was 350K. So in 2017 it went up. The landlord could say to current tenant I was 20K more or move. The landlord could easy get 375K from the next person and did giving the earlier renter back their 350 and having another 25K extra to invest. It called Jeonse loan. Google could explain it better? The landlord never wants to pull out their investment. They always want the person to stay or another renter to move in a few years later and give them more than prior renters deposit and for that to happen the market has to price the place higher. After many years renters save enough to buy and end up with a mortgage or paying cash.
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If they had a work life balance they would just as productive or more productive. Mostly they waste time at the office looking busy or drinking and eating with coworkers after work and mandatory.
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We are guessing.
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China and India have over a billion people. A country of 75 million people is not going to do anything.
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The North Koreans would stay put in their home towns. The wealth of natural resources would inprove the life’s of those currently living in the north. To be fair the south desperately needs people in the rural areas.
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LOL
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I think Prince William when King would release most the countries back again.
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The young people of today didn’t see their mom slave for grandparents or have to live with them. They think if not in the top 3 ranks they have to work harder. The gov that told them babies a burden for 50 years the reason they think that. 50 years. They are still listening to the dictator.
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@urbaniak5576 global fertility rate is 2.4. Replacement is 2.1. The entire planet is in for a population implosion and it won’t be pretty.
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@spiritmystery7877 Japan has been aging for decades. It’s not overpopulated. Most in Tokyo live in a single family home. The largest city in the world.
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Japan has plenty of room.
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It’s not peacetime. All men service military cause they could be attacked by North Korea or any of their neighbors really. There was peace treaty just a cease fire. They are technically at war. A country told have two and raise them well and eventually even 1 is too many for our crowded country are not going to suddenly have 4 kids. They have been told this for generations. The economy is set up for 1 child. Now those extra rooms are turned into closets. You can’t delay a family into your mid 30’s and expect to have 1 or 2. Fertility declines at 30, rapidly at 35. Most moms are 33 or older. Only 25% of babies born to women in their 20’s last year. And lots born will leave the country. It will be interesting to see how they have more kids. I think the science fiction route. South Korea sadly well versed in raising kids in orphanages. Soon many will be raised by the nanny state literally. Cause the state will be mom and dad. All they have to do is promote the image that 2 kids is a sign of success and people will follow suit to look successful. It’s a vain place. South Korean’s well off yet they think they are poor cause they are always comparing.
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Interesting idea of China taking over the north.
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I disagree. I think Iceland and Greenland. It’s too close the fall out.
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The dictator overworked the parents. The parents overworked the kids. The adults of child bearing age never had a good childhood. What is family? There isn’t any family.
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Too bad they don’t have internet and can work anywhere in the country, oh wait…
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@uncreative5766 it’s more than unwritten. 55 is retirement at companies. It’s maddening. People spend a mortgage payment on hagwon for at least 10 years, then they are in college, military and maybe study abroad only to work for 25 years before having to start their own business. There is a reason there are so many chicken joints. It’s why civil service appealing. I would say you can have a white collar job in Incheon, Busan. I would say in cities of 100,000 people there exist lawyers and real estate workers and banks. To my point since so many of the white collar jobs in Seoul those are the work from home jobs. There is no reason a software engineer needs to move to Seoul to program and attend meetings, it can all be done remotely. I was watching how rural students live in study rooms in a certain neighborhood in Seoul, they drop out of school when legally able only to focus on the test. Then I saw said watch an online lecture on a laptop in a cubby. Why could they not watch a lecture on a cubby from a rural area? The other problem is unlike the U.S. so many jobs demonized not everyone can have a job that requires college. The trades need people too. There will be food insecurity soon. Someone has to grow apples.
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I think the Russia comparison is off.
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They are on strike today… will they be like doctors and stay out for months?
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I think what South Korea would like is Kim dynasty gone. Then there would be people living humanely and in a decade the economy would improve. They really want to travel between countries freely. People with parents, children and siblings separated are elderly. Would be nice to restore connections.
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@imweird3363 he is dead.
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@trugssgogorf6371 North Korea at one point had the entire country save Busan. People were starving everywhere. What is now North Korea had 99% of its buildings destroyed, where did they store all that food? They were starving. What you mean to say is after the war there were times the North had more goods and food in the hands of the public than the south. In their Capital perhaps.. Then saw massive starvation in the 90’s. Does not have to be. No nukes and North Korea can have tourists on beaches and get rich off their mineral resources and everyone even the people exiled to camps would get to eat daily.
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@trugssgogorf6371 So basically you are saying in the last 77 years since liberation from the Japanese the North had more food security for only 22 of those years than the South. And for 55 years the South had greater food security than the North.
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Having watched almost 20 years of K dramas and K movies if I am reborn into South Korea I pray I never work for or meet a Chaebol. Your hagwons are the most inefficient way to live. Sorry. You are just occupying time.
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@julianstone1192 who wants to be a doctor after the strike?
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No Korean presence?
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England has an official religion. Least part of Ireland would still be free.
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Ireland still hasn’t completely kicked England out. Hundreds of years.
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@kovnqwer there is a unified Korea flag. They used when they went to olympics as a unified team one year. It was a blue Korean peninsular on white background.
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Why would northeast Asia the example of the collective want personal space? No one is asking for 3 kids. Just one or 2. I lived in a 2 bed 890ft house in a city neighborhood in a family of 4. It’s not gosh awful.
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