UN 66% of young Koreans dependent on parents - They collectively are called the “kangaroo tribe,” which presents an image of an overgrown marsupial that hasn’t left its mother’s pouch yet.

Enlisted soldiers attend a job fair for veterans and military personnel at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in central Seoul, May 3.
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Kim Young-joon, 30, says he increasingly bickers with his parents over minor issues, as the years go by. Despite obtaining a master’s degree, he turned down multiple job offers because he felt they didn't match his educational level, leaving him without employment since then.

“My parents say it is stressful to see me at home day and night, hurting my feelings and making me react sensitively whenever I see them,” Kim said.

“I’m afraid this situation will get worse as I get older, because it gets tougher to land a decent job and become financially self-reliable.”

Kim’s case represents more than two-thirds of the Koreans aged between 25 and 34, who either live with their parents or lack economic independence even though they live separately from their parents.

They collectively are called the “kangaroo tribe,” which presents an image of an overgrown marsupial that hasn’t left its mother’s pouch yet.

According to a Korea Employment Information Service study, 66 percent of Koreans aged between 25 and 34 belonged to this group as of 2020.

The rate hovered in the 60 percent range for years, including 62.8 percent in 2012, 66.6 percent in 2016 and 68 percent in 2018.

Of the kangaroo tribe in 2020, 73.4 percent were without college diplomas while 69.4 percent of them were from Seoul or the greater Seoul area.

The adult children increasingly did not move out to live on their own because they did not have jobs.

For instance, the unemployed individuals accounted for 47.4 percent of the entire kangaroo tribe in 2012. The rate then went up to 66 percent in 2020.

However, that does not mean all employed children were living independently from their parents.

Some 72.2 percent of those working temporary jobs, not earning sufficient wages or experiencing other unstable employment circumstances said they have not moved away from their parents.

Some other children who live with their parents even after they are well into adulthood responded that they go to graduate school or just completed mandatory military service.

Under the circumstances, an expert warned that the kangaroo tribe can “hurt not only households but also the country’s economy" more broadly speaking.

“The cost of dealing with the kangaroo tribe will grow bigger as the involved individuals get older and their parents retire, because the government in the end will need to support them and help them literally survive,” said Jeon Young-soo, a professor at Hanyang University’s Graduate School of International Studies.

Jeon suggested that parents “distance themselves from adult children concerning finance.”

“The children will need to find all possible means to survive on their own regardless of the economic challenges they face,” he said.

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[Battlefield2142EU]

The nation that demonized men. Don’t have men living on their own. If South Korea goes to war with North Korea. They won't have men willing to die for a nation who hates them.

 

[Safir]

The nation that demonized men.

The nation that legalized troonism 20 years before it legalized abortions. The nation that nevertheless has been murdering unborn girls for 50 years. Try harder, solzhenitsyn.

Despite obtaining a master’s degree, he turned down multiple job offers because he felt they didn't match his educational level, leaving him without employment since then.

A faggot nation of faggots, I hope they go extinct.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The fact they depend on them is a problem, but it's not rare in the world that unmarried children live with their families and are part of the family activities, including work. College has ruined that, but kids used to simply follow up their parents trade or craft and have a secure job for when they get married.

 

[SIMIΔN]

The nation that demonized men.

Try harder

Could it be both sexes are disadvantaged by society?
Their nation has problems, but its still their nation. Can the British say the same about the UK?

not rare in the world that unmarried children live with their families

Especially in NE Asia, where three generations under one roof used to be the norm.
It's hard to be isolated when you live with people who love and want the best for you.
Not so good for real estate barons though.

 

[M3453dst324]

The nation that demonized men. Don’t have men living on their own. If South Korea goes to war with North Korea. They won't have men willing to die for a nation who hates them.

I thought South Korea was MRA country? Didn't they massively sperg out over the emoji?

 

[EepEep]

I would love to see this broken down by gender, because South Korea has a really weird "son and mommy's apron strings" thing going on. More than I've seen in other East Asian countries.

 

[Caligura]

Could it be both sexes are disadvantaged by society?
Their nation has problems, but its still their nation. Can the British say the same about the UK?

Especially in NE Asia, where three generations under one roof used to be the norm.
It's hard to be isolated when you live with people who love and want the best for you.
Not so good for real estate barons though.

South Korea is like the Weimar Republic of this whole gay-ass gender culture war we got going on. People say the West has it rough but in SK they have some of the most degenerate incels living there alongside the most radfem-of-radfem feminists that really makes them seem so quaint.

To put a perspective; your 'average' incel in America is just bitter and angry that he can't get a GF. Conversely, your 'average' feminist in America is also just bitter, though mostly due to being buck broken by propaganda and slactivism. Both things are just symptoms of the current societal rot we have going on and they bounce back at each other as a result, but it's not the worst thing in the world. You do have fringe cases and extremists but again, they're fringe.

In SK, your average incel there (speaking from experience) thinks the only solution is to have women hooked up to underground breeding machines and have android loli waifu slaves walking around (they despise the Eternal Jap but they can't help but consoom their animu) while gooning all day in MMOs. Meanwhile, Korean feminists dream of Total Male Death and are also incompatible with Western feminists because they also don't like troons. They will also go at absurd lengths to 'fighting the patriarchy'... Like molesting a random little boy, I'm not making shit up Google 'Korean feminist molests Australian kid'.

Also the ratio of incels and feminists in the United States is like a small percentage in a sea of average joes, meanwhile in South Korea both percentages would easily be around 30% to even 50% respectively. The two above constantly fight each other politically and online much like Brownshirts and the Red Front duking it out in the streets of Berlin back in the 30s.

South Korea was a backwater feudal society that was then colonized by then-Westernized Japs for a few decades and then suddenly 'elevated' to First World status by the 80s yet still has to have a mandatory draft due to North Korea existing, a low birth rate to add onto that, and a generally shitty consoomerist work culture that's on par or even worse than the Japs in some aspects. Obviously while they do have a homogenous population and First World infrastructure and economy, that ain't enough to really create a good society.

 

[Divine right to rule]

Young adults cannot afford to live alone, fertility goes into the shitter, boomers most affected.

 

[Coberald]

None of this is a problem in the Glorious Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The nation that demonized men. Don’t have men living on their own. If South Korea goes to war with North Korea. They won't have men willing to die for a nation who hates them.

Everyday the odds of North Korea just walking in and taking the south become more and more plausible.

 

[raspberry mocha]

How's that filial piety going for you, worst Korea?

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

None of this is a problem in the Glorious Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-jong-un-birthrate-7[B]2d59d0e2c685549ba8cd8734d8a7fe2[/B]

The North Korean leader calls for women to have more children to halt a fall in the birthrate

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up the call for the people to have more children.

While getting a detailed read on North Korea’s population trends is extremely difficult because of the limited statistics it discloses, South Korea’s government assesses that the North’s fertility rate has declined steadily for the past 10 years. That is a concerning development for a country that depends on mobilized labor to help keep its broken, heavily sanctioned economy afloat

Stopping the decline in birthrates and providing good child care and education are all our family affairs that we should solve together with our mothers,” Kim said in his opening speech

According to South Korea’s government statistics agency, North Korea’s total fertility rate, or the average number of babies expected to be born to a woman over her lifetime, was at 1.79 in 2022, down from 1.88 in 2014. The decline is still slower than its wealthier rival South Korea, whose fertility rate last year was 0.78, down from 1.20 in 2014.

 

[Sniperwoof]

My sister shares a two bedroom apartment with six other people in order to afford rent in a trendy blue bughive city.

I know Americans hate their parents but I'm always puzzled at how that's somehow more dignified than just staying home until you can afford a down payment.

 

[MrJokerRager]

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-jong-un-birthrate-7[B]2d59d0e2c685549ba8cd8734d8a7fe2[/B]

The North Korean leader calls for women to have more children to halt a fall in the birthrate

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up the call for the people to have more children.

While getting a detailed read on North Korea’s population trends is extremely difficult because of the limited statistics it discloses, South Korea’s government assesses that the North’s fertility rate has declined steadily for the past 10 years. That is a concerning development for a country that depends on mobilized labor to help keep its broken, heavily sanctioned economy afloat

Stopping the decline in birthrates and providing good child care and education are all our family affairs that we should solve together with our mothers,” Kim said in his opening speech

According to South Korea’s government statistics agency, North Korea’s total fertility rate, or the average number of babies expected to be born to a woman over her lifetime, was at 1.79 in 2022, down from 1.88 in 2014. The decline is still slower than its wealthier rival South Korea, whose fertility rate last year was 0.78, down from 1.20 in 2014.

The 1.78 to 0.78 lol.

This is why abortion should be heavily restricted.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

The 1.78 to 0.78 lol.

This is why abortion should be heavily restricted.

Abortion in South Korea was decriminalized, effective 1 January 2021, by a 2019 order of the Constitutional Court of Korea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_South_Korea#:~:text=Abortion%20in%20South%20Korea%20was,gestational%20limits%20or%20other%20restrictions.

Side note there are plenty of countries who had banned and the legalized abortion and hadn't changed anything about tfr including poland whose tfr drop looks like koreas

And please for the love of all holy use Google before you open your mouths

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Oh nooo! If we don't have one billion gajillion kids each, who will support our economy and feed into our ever-expanding social welfare system?
I was promised 5 doctor kids and living like a Saudi prince by the time I reach 50. My 5 kids are all shut-ins with $50000 college debt.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Despite obtaining a master’s degree, he turned down multiple job offers because he felt they didn't match his educational level, leaving him without employment since then.

Perhaps you should take th job regardless as it helps build some degree of experience and allows for promotions within the company you are currently employed at.

 

[AssignedEva]

Perhaps you should take th job regardless as it helps build some degree of experience and allows for promotions within the company you are currently employed at.

Or just take a job that's "beneath you" while you continue applying to jobs that you think match your educational level. He's not spending 40 hours a week carefully crafting job applications, so can at least work in a bar or restaurant part time while applying for work and be able to leave it off his CV and quit with no strings attached

 

[ZazietheBeast]

None of this is a problem in the Glorious Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

Thread theme.

Sure the births are still being worked on, but the rates are still higher than Worst Korea's.

Everyday the odds of North Korea just walking in and taking the south become more and more plausible.

Which brings how the global community is going to react with that outcome. I know this place is just gonna sit back and watch Worst Korea get washed away by the Best.

I'm certain the Chaebols are either gonna GTFO of Korea or work with the Norks. Also, considering that Project Moon has been writing fantasy South Korea... Can't wait to see how they'll write in Fantasy North Korea taking over their Dystopian Sci-Fantasy Hellhole.