- South Korean young adults aged 15 to 34 who remained economically “inactive” rather than seeking employment reached 590,000 in 2024, an increase of 197,000 from 2019, according to a report released by the state-run Korea Employment Information Service on March 23.
If you do anything outside the expected path (either by bad luck or because you don’t qyite fit in) and you don’t have rich parents, you fall out of the wagon and no employer will let you back in, so why keep begging at job interviews only to just sell your life away anyway…happens in Japan and Europe too.
I’m wondering how much of this is lie the beatniks and the hippies: groups that existed but had an outsized influence, mainly by being anti-heroes to their contemporaries.