Raw LLM Responses

This is the current situation: 1. Women entered the workforce in the postwar period, literally doubling the workforce and inevitably putting downward pressure on wages (global phenomenon). 2. Korean men and women born since the 80s have all been expected to do better than their parents by securing white collar jobs, with said parents spending a fortune on private education. 3. With late stage capitalism and work flow efficiencies, there are far less “good” white collar jobs, meaning intense competition. By the way, “good” white collar jobs here mean exclusively those of Samsung, Hyundai and other global conglomerates aka chaebols. There’s more than enough jobs at SMEs to go around, but young Koreans would rather be unemployed than work those jobs, lest be seen as “not keeping up”. 4. In the same vein, there’s a huge surplus of blue collar jobs that need to be filled, but 99.9% of Korean women refuse to be blue collar. Few Korean men will fill those, pretty much just the highest paid manufacturing jobs… the rest is filled by migrants from Southeast Asia and elsewhere. 5. So it’s like there’s a gridlock preventing young Koreans from getting jobs. Couple that with unobtainable conditions for marriage (thanks Instagram), plus the friction caused by men and women competing for the same scant jobs, and the result is young Koreans simply do not get married. Now couple that with a culture where common law and out of wedlock children are taboo, and you get the lowest birth rate in the developed world.