Koreans look to other countries to find better quality of life

Article: "Always in the same place no matter how hard you work" Koreans leave the country

Source: Money Today via Nate

Koreans who gave up their citizenship:
2013: 20,090
2014: 19,472
2015-July: 12,531

72% chose North America
1. America
2. Canada
3. China
4. Japan

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1. [+2,551, -76] On the contrary, Korea is also one of the most comfortable countries if you're rich

2. [+2,364, -151] How can there be a future when people treat anyone working in the trades like a slave??? ㅋㅋㅋ I honestly don't give Korea more than 30 years before it its rock bottom

3. [+2,018, -61] I want to leave too;;;

4. [+141, -6] It's that the entire country shares one sentiment. We have a classist society like India and China... If you didn't graduate from a prestigious college, people will immediately look down on you. Your opinions will be negated like "what would you know, you only have an associate's" or "what would you know, you graduated from a college in the suburbs"... you can see this on the internet already.
For example, let's say some foreigner overseas is amazing at his job of shining shoes. Then people will recognize him as an expert in his field and give him the respect for his talents and knowledge of his job.
As for our country? People will judge him, and tsk their tongues. Make up makjang stories about him being uneducated and poor and resorting to shining shoes as a last resort, pathetic...
It's almost tradition in our country to think like this... you have to memorize books in order to be given respect, and anyone who works in the trades is treated like trash.

5. [+126, -8] The laws aren't fair either. It's beneficial for the powerful and ruthless to the weak. You find yourself in trouble overseas and Korea will leave you to fend for yourself ㅋ

6. [+94, -2] "Out of the OECD countries, Koreans work the longest hours but suffer from employment instability and don't secure enough to pay for housing and education." 100% the government's failure

7. [+84, -5] The government is for the rich. Made for, run by, for the rich.

8. [+59, -6] I think a lot of it has to do with the fake information people give about living abroad as well. So many lies are being fed to Koreans about how much easier it is to live in America with $1,000 monthly rents in a home (a studio in New York is at least $2,000... maybe you'd have to go to the outskirts of Queens or New Jersey to find $1,000 rents). Sure to Koreans earning $4,000 a month may sound good but if you consider other factors like being 37 years old and making $40k a year living in a $1,000 monthly rent home with roommates? That's barely escaping the lower class. Of course it differs but the average salary in America is $50k, maybe $40k after taxes. With that, you can barely save anything, you're just living paycheck to paycheck. And if you get a rotten tooth? All of your savings are going to go straight into paying for health care, which is why most Americans just hold their pain in until their teeth rot out and they're forced to go in. Then they take a break and go back in to Korea to get treated in tears. I understand it's hard for a lot of Koreans right now but don't believe articles that say it's any better overseas.

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