South Korea melts a snowflake
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it's both, they have mandatory military service for men. they also have an ultra materialistic and competitive society, ugly, fat, poor, under performers in schools and later in jobs are absolutely looked down upon
Tell me about it, they go WAY overboard with plastic surgery, it's the inverse of what we have in the West with the 'body positivity movement' or as I like to call it 'it's everyone's fault but mine' movement.
A lot of Asia are the mirror where they go too far on the opposite that causes so much burnout.
Is there such a thing as living humble peaceful life in South Korea? Or is society structured in such a way that you are expected to move up the corporate ladder or change job if cant?
Don't know enough about South Korea to answer that but if it's like Japan's work mentality, they either assume you'll stay in the same position or at least company forever or they will make your life hell to make you quit if they don't like you.
Unfortunately the lifetime employment guarantee that Japanese companies used to have has gone out the window in favor of part-time/temp workers. It's still a thing in the biggest corps like Mitsubishi but generally Japan is more like America now in that you're never totally safe from unemployment.
(yet the second part about them bullying you out of places is still true)