Korean films be like:we are so poor and unhappy!
look up their gdp
is in top 10 most wealthy country
They're well off than most of Europe
Korean films be like:we are so poor and unhappy!
The weirder part to me us how many Korean movies end with hyper violence, like a fucking super jail episode.
Koreans have an awful work culture and any who don't meet that do end up poor. So you're either poor or extremely exhausted and demoralized but with money
Random Korean violence is the best trope
watch korean film
epic le twist at the end
Why do they do it?
gdp is an indicator of social inequality
Dumb Sakura poster
Gross GDP is not really a good way of measuring the average person's wealth, otherwise india would be in the top 5 wealthiest countries even though the majority of its population lives in abject poverty in slums. Their gross GDP is only so high because of the sheer size of their population - their wealth per person is actually very low.
When adjusted for GDP per capita, South Korea sits around 28th, which still doesn't seem too bad, but there are other factors. Per capita GDP is calculated by the mean, so it can be skewed by extremes, and South Korea has among the highest rate of income inequality among developed nations.
If 1 guy makes 10 billion dollars in a year it skews the entire GDP per capita of the USA by 1%
it's like the worst parts of china mixed with the worst parts of japan and they're aping the worst parts of american culture. I genuinely despise this country
Go back to Anon Babble
a poor person in korea is still richer than 99% of the world
On the other hand, they are worst koreans
what are the specific worst parts from China, Japan and American culture are you talking about?
They're currently ethos-mogging every modern western and Japanese version of the hero archetype. That's pretty weird considering how fucked up their society is.
They're an extremely repressed people.
They used to be poor and oppressed for a long time and it's stayed with them
Anon... That's like saying China is wealthy. Yes, their GDP is way up there but have you seen how the average chink lives? It's absolute squalor. Everybody is poor and get run over by trucks and have buildings falls on them and shit.
They're currently ethos-mogging every modern western and Japanese version of the hero archetype.
wat
China, Japan
they're bug people
American
they're obese and cut their dicks
Wow what an analyst
he gets his entire worldview from liveleak webms
There’s a lot of shit out there in Asian countries but, no, places like Seoul, Tokyo and Singapore aren’t just crushing people in the streets like the worst Chinese accident youve ever seen. Jfc you see a few videos of Chinese people electrocuting themselves and all of a sudden you start believing Samsung headquarters is made of cardboard, get a grip
american reading comprehension
Oh, sorry. Please, tell me more about my worldviews and where I get them.
My point still stands. China is "wealthy" when measuring GDP but the average chink is poor as fuck. GDP is not a measure of if the average dude is living the good life or eating scraps out of the dumpster.
massive inequality in Korea, so many people still live in the boonies with very little quality of life, they just work a small farm they own.
outside of Seoul korea is like the chinese country, people don't live anything like the cityslickers do
If you want to talk about the problems in Korea, go ahead, but Chinese workplace accidents have nothing to do with them.
I was expecting you to say something substantial, and your dumb ass thinks I can’t comprehend your zero iq post?
second korean war when
gential mutilation and bug behaviour isnt substantial to you? want me to post the crush webm sungook?
Korean films feature a lot of unnecessary violence/physical abuse, and the actors tend to spaz out and whine like children. Not sure if that's indicative of life there.
I thought for a second you knew how their country was actually run, or something
South Korea is barely richer than Shitaly...
It's an analogy, retard. OP purely used GDP as a measure of wealth of the average dude. I used the most grievous example since China has one the biggest GDPs and the average chink is poor as shit. So use that example to extrapolate to Worst Korea. The point measures up.
given the amount of mass causality incidents there its run like a third world shithole
Don't even bother. This is the same kind of person who believes everybody in America gets gunned down constantly by black criminals and school shooters, then dies in the hospital for not paying the medical bill
think of China then extrapolate
I’d rather just think of Korea and its actual conditions, rather than just waving it off as ‘probably like these Anon Babble webms i saw’. It’s this sense of not knowing anything about a situation, but still wanting to say something nasty, that kills me
Italy hasn't seen economic growth in 20 years, with basically only the top half of the country working, with a median age of 48, where retired people are about the surpass the working force, with rampant corruption and mafia
it's actually a miracle that they can keep up with the others
by all accounts Italy should be poorer than moldavia
Minimum wage? How about a maximum wage?
When I was growing up I saw unicef commercials about donating money to poor South Korean starving kids. You zoomers or young millennials have no idea how poor South Korea used to be. Even back in early Anon Babble we used to make fun of south Korean cheap animation. They essentially went from one of the poorest countries in the world (poorer than most of Africa) to first world country in merely 20 years time. Most of Korea hasn't adapted to this reality especially uneducated people. Meaning income inequality is insane in south Korea. This is why you can still experience insane levels of poverty there that you won't see in normal first world countries.
There are still villages jn south Korea in 2025 where there is no running water, toilets and electricity for fucks sake. Not because they are too poor but because it takes decades to built the infrastructure and they just didn't come around to building it everywhere yet.
It's still common for people to starve to death in south Korea. That doesn't even happen in the united states where the homeless are obese.
posts power fantasy slop where fans get mad that he cried about his own mother
뭔 개소리냐 이 병신새끼야 그런 동네가 한국에 어딨어
I brought it up as a jab to chinks
I know, that’s whats so stupid about it. I’m not saying this to protect Asians from racism or whatever, I’m saying you’re a retard for having Chinese liveleak videos as your pov for anything bad that can happen in any Asian country
Okay cool. Now that you're done pouting about a nothing topic, care to address the point at hand or are you just going to keep derailing the thread with your personal feefees?
Giving ESLs internet access was a mistake.
Oh I didn’t know you were waiting for my approval. Please don’t ask me to be impressed you know GDP isn’t evenly distributed across citizens. I replied to you in the first place because you said what everyone else had already said but much stupider
much more stupid* you meant to say.
But okay, thanks for staying hooked on a meaningless jab I made instead of addressing the point at hand. You've contributed a lot to this discussion, and thread in general.
What do you need me to address? You need my help with something?
한국인이냐?
That OP is retarded and his premise is entirely false because GDP doesn't reflect how the average dude is doing. The filmmakers could easily see the squalor of the average Worst Korean and use that as a premise of their movie. Or just make it up and go with a dystopian rise to glory from poverty tale.
You wanted me to say that on your behalf?
South Korea has among the highest rate of income inequality among developed nations
no it has among the lowest
I wanted you to agree that my point is valid instead of getting hooked on some stupid meaningless jab I took at chinks while you're shitting up the thread.
obese
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korean income inequality is among the lowest in the world.
I agree with your point but you hadn’t said it until just then
Anon... That's like saying China is wealthy. Yes, their GDP is way up there but have you seen how the average chink lives? It's absolute squalor. Everybody is poor
Really? I wasn't clear enough in my first post?
Meaning income inequality is insane in south Korea. This is why you can still experience insane levels of poverty there that you won't see in normal first world countries.
why do people keep repeating this nonsense? korea also has the second highest life expectancy in the world which indicates a general high standard of
living
you're a dumb fucking mutt. no that doesn't happen in korea
the hilarious thing is you're probably from a far fatter country than korea
Stop watching Kim Ki-duk movies
Doesn't matter if you make good money if there is literally no power in your village. Gini coefficient doesn't take infrastructure difference into account and looks autistically at income only
the average korea has an extremely high standard of living, as evidenced by their extremely high life expectancy
you're a fucking retard who thinks south koreans are starving to death, fuck off and don't waste my time
They're well off than most of Europe
ESL
gdp means the financial well being of their entire population
lmao, everywhere it's the rich and elites who are thriving while regular and poor people suffer.
as evidenced by their extremely high life expectancy
I don't accept your premise. Just because you live long, doesn't mean your standard of living is good.
i don't really care whether you accept it or not. feel free to be retarded
Okay, well your premise is false. Just because you say something is true, doesn't make it true.
okay
That’s an interesting question for sure
For me, I think Koreans have basically no stopgap or classically liberal element who would represent workers and balance workers rights, conditions, and wealth gaps in the country. We actually do a lot of this stuff in America and it makes a difference, Korea is more ruthless with promoting monopoly and high seats of power, they let Samsung and all them work their way into the government so bad because those companies really do have more power than the nation. Beyond that, perhaps there is some cultural behavior or memory related to constant warfare and slavery, and being enslaved
wealth gaps
we can just look at median income since you stupidly dismissed the GINI coefficients
the gap between the US average wage and median income is 30k. for korea its 19k, in line with other developed countries where the poor aren't zombies dying on the streets in kensington
tranime OP
off topic discussion about random statistics
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it's hilarious how mutts will persist with the cope that koreans must be living in squalor meanwhile there's nothing like any of the malaise associated with poverty that afflicts so much of america and doesn't exist in korea
They move to America and become anti white activists. If any people should like Americans it should be south Koreans but it's exactly the same as any other non Western immigrants
i don't think that mutt knows the difference between "average" and "median"
GDP =/= happiness