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What’s wrong with life in Korea that makes so many people to want to live someplace else? Although emigration was popular during the developing and dictator years of the 1980s it slowed to a trickle during the prosperous 1990s. However, between 1999 and 2000 there was a 20% increase in the number of Koreans who decide they’d rather live in a foreign country than in Korea. In 2001 the number of emigrants was climbing at an astounding rate. Several reasons are being suggested for what is happening.
One of these is that life in Korea has become too hectic. Where education has always been held in such high regard, Korea has become one of the most “educated” societies in the world. The country is teeming with college graduates who are well-skilled and wish comfortable lives for themselves and their families. They feel they can’t have that here.
The only places where high-quality jobs are available are in the big cities, and Seoul in particular. The Seoul area as well as other big cities like Busan and Daejon have all become traffic nightmares and expensive places to live. A huge sum of money is needed to buy even a tiny apartment in one of the big cities. Apartments that are huge by Korean standards and better-equipped can be had in many foreign cities less money than a small apartment here.
Another reason given for this mass exodus of people is the collapsing education system. Parents are worried that their children will grow up without the necessary tools to compete in the high-tech world of tomorrow. They feel the education system is outdated and in need of a complete overhaul. Having little confidence in the nation’s schools, they spend huge amounts of money sending their children to private institutes to learn what they feel they should be learning at school.
A third major reason that people give for wanting to leave Korea is the disarray of domestic politics. They feel that there are so many important problems to be solved, but politicians spend most of their time bickering with one another or trying to gain political ground over the other side. This gives many Koreans a feeling of hopelessness and a strong desire to live somewhere else.
One effect of the prosperity that came during the 1990s was that millions of Koreans had a chance to travel abroad and see how people lives in other parts of the world. Many of them liked what they saw. English-speaking countries such as the USA and Australia are particularly attractive to Koreans because those countries are spacious and lack many of the problems that are found in a small crowded country like Korea.
One possible danger in a new wave of emigration is something called the “brain drain”. Most of the people moving abroad are college-educated, many with PhD’s, who are taking their expertise elsewhere.
Q1) What is your opinion regarding Koreans wanting to emigrate to other countries? Is it a serious problem?
Q2) Would you ever consider moving to a foreign country? If so, what country and why would you go there?
Q3) Is the fact that Koreans are now traveling abroad in large numbers connected to the recent desire to emigrate? Have their travels made Koreans want to live in the countries that they visit?
a.Yes, because they see that life in other countries is better than it is here.
b.No, traveling has no effect on Koreans wanting to live abroad.
c.It has a little effect, but not too much.
Q4) Which of these problems that émigrés have to face would be the most difficult for you? Which would be the most enjoyable?
a.new language
b.different food
c.different customs
d.new lifestyle
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One of these is that life in Korea has become too hectic. Where education has always been held in such high regard, Korea has become one of the most “educated” societies in the world. The country is teeming with college graduates who are well-skilled and wish comfortable lives for themselves and their families. They feel they can’t have that here.
The only places where high-quality jobs are available are in the big cities, and Seoul in particular. The Seoul area as well as other big cities like Busan and Daejon have all become traffic nightmares and expensive places to live. A huge sum of money is needed to buy even a tiny apartment in one of the big cities. Apartments that are huge by Korean standards and better-equipped can be had in many foreign cities less money than a small apartment here.
Another reason given for this mass exodus of people is the collapsing education system. Parents are worried that their children will grow up without the necessary tools to compete in the high-tech world of tomorrow. They feel the education system is outdated and in need of a complete overhaul. Having little confidence in the nation’s schools, they spend huge amounts of money sending their children to private institutes to learn what they feel they should be learning at school.
A third major reason that people give for wanting to leave Korea is the disarray of domestic politics. They feel that there are so many important problems to be solved, but politicians spend most of their time bickering with one another or trying to gain political ground over the other side. This gives many Koreans a feeling of hopelessness and a strong desire to live somewhere else.
One effect of the prosperity that came during the 1990s was that millions of Koreans had a chance to travel abroad and see how people lives in other parts of the world. Many of them liked what they saw. English-speaking countries such as the USA and Australia are particularly attractive to Koreans because those countries are spacious and lack many of the problems that are found in a small crowded country like Korea.
One possible danger in a new wave of emigration is something called the “brain drain”. Most of the people moving abroad are college-educated, many with PhD’s, who are taking their expertise elsewhere.
Q1) What is your opinion regarding Koreans wanting to emigrate to other countries? Is it a serious problem?
Q2) Would you ever consider moving to a foreign country? If so, what country and why would you go there?
Q3) Is the fact that Koreans are now traveling abroad in large numbers connected to the recent desire to emigrate? Have their travels made Koreans want to live in the countries that they visit?
a.Yes, because they see that life in other countries is better than it is here.
b.No, traveling has no effect on Koreans wanting to live abroad.
c.It has a little effect, but not too much.
Q4) Which of these problems that émigrés have to face would be the most difficult for you? Which would be the most enjoyable?
a.new language
b.different food
c.different customs
d.new lifestyle
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