Introduction: Carnival of developed countries!
In 2005, at the then United Nations Conference on Trade Development, South Korea was listed as a developed country by means of a press release.
But it wasn't until more than a decade later, on July 2, 2021, that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) officially announced that South Korea had officially changed from a developing country to a developed country.
It was also the only country that had switched its identity since the establishment of the Conference on Trade and Development in 1964, from a developing country to a developed country.
As for why it is doing this, it is a fact that South Korea has developed, and it is the root cause for South Korea to assume the obligations of developed countries.
South Korea has created such an achievement, which makes the whole country rejoice, from the president down to the civilians, all of them are overjoyed.
South Korea is happy, and many Chinese will think about it.
South Korea's high housing price problem, the internal problem, the employment problem, the low fertility problem, so serious, how can it become a developed country?
Is it really self-esteem?
On this issue, after reading this article, you may be able to understand a little!
One: standard of living.
Of course, when talking about the economy, we must talk about GDP and per capita GDP, in addition to this, we must also look at the living standards in the economic environment.
The average GDP of the Chinese is 10,500 US dollars (2020 data), and the Engel coefficient is about 29%.
South Korea's per capita GDP is $32,000 (2020 data), and the Engel coefficient is about 14%.
In terms of figures, South Korea is in a leading position, and the gap is not small!
Of course, all the figures must be measured in conjunction with the real standard of living and the price level.
What about the price level in South Korea? Let's look at the salary first!
The salary of ordinary people in South Korea, construction workers' monthly income is about 10,000 yuan, basic programmers monthly income is between 18,000 and 20,000 yuan, and the income of sales staff is similar to that of basic programmers.
This average figure is still much higher than the income of ordinary people in China's first- and second-tier cities of five or six thousand, and as for third- and fourth-tier cities, there is no comparative value.
Judging from this data, it is a fact that South Korea's per capita income is much higher than the average income of China's first-tier cities.
The income is so high, so what about the price?
There is a famous passage on the Chinese Internet that Korean beef is too expensive for them to eat.
This passage is actually a partial generalization.
In South Korea, the most expensive is homegrown beef, because of the scarcity of pasture, the price of self-produced beef in South Korea is generally 400-500 yuan a catty, such a price of course ordinary people can not afford to eat.
But South Korea can import beef, and the price of American cattle and Australian cattle sold in South Korea is very close to the people. The price of Australian cattle is about 9200 won / kg, which is equal to 53 yuan a kilogram, and the US cattle are slightly more expensive, equivalent to 86 yuan a kilogram.
On the other hand, our own beef prices do not seem to be cheap, but others have higher incomes!
If we look at our situation as a whole, this gap is even more obvious.
From the point of view of beef, and then look at others, if you look at it from a point of view, the average gap in living standards is a fact.
The Chinese people still need to work hard!
(exaggerated)
Two: the issue of housing prices.
House prices, house prices, house prices, important things to say three times!
The world's highest housing prices, and particularly concentrated areas, it seems to be in Asia, Hong Kong is extremely high, north, upper, wide, deep, but also let people sigh, even other new first-tier cities, second-tier cities housing prices, but also let many Chinese people empty six bags.
Similarly, house prices in South Korea are also very high, and they are rising.
According to public data, in May 2020, the price of apartments in Seoul, South Korea, rose by more than 80% compared with three years ago, from an average price of 640 million won (4.91 million yuan) in 2017 to an average price of 1.14 billion won (7.54 million yuan).
(House Price Chart)
The surge in house prices was followed by an active South Korean real estate market, with transactions increasing by 110% against the trend during the pandemic.
An apartment opening in Seoul, with more than 1,000 houses, can cause hundreds of thousands of people to rush to buy, and there is an absolute imbalance between supply and demand.
High housing prices have made countless Koreans afraid that they will become more and more expensive in the future, and they can only bite their teeth to buy a house. This is also related to the cultural tradition of living and working in peace and contentment, and Koreans who are deeply influenced by the Confucian cultural circle are very similar to Chinese, the house is the foundation of the establishment, the beginning of living and working in peace and contentment, and it is a necessity of life.
But are houses in South Korea really more expensive than in China? It can be understood by converting it into a house price income ratio.
The house price-to-income ratios of China's large cities are Beijing 23.9, Shenzhen 35.2 and Shanghai 25.1, respectively.
The number behind this is the number of years that a person can buy a house without eating or drinking.
(House price to income ratio)
After seeing China, how about South Korea?
The answer is that Seoul's house price-to-income ratio after experiencing a sharp rise in 2020 is 15, that is, fifteen years of net income, can buy a house. From this point of view, there is still a gap between house prices in China and South Korea, and it seems that we are more expensive.
However, the more expensive of us, better than the Koreans, that is, there is a way out.
South Korea left Seoul, there are few big cities, so the agglomeration effect, siphon effect is very obvious, young people in order to the future, have gone to Seoul, Busan and other big cities, endure the pain of internal rolling!
Chinese is different in that the first-tier cities can't go to the second-tier cities or go back to their hometowns.
It really can't work, and the dream of living in Hegang Round House is not impossible, or it is difficult to find a job.
The difference in national conditions has left young people in South Korea with only a few big cities such as Seoul, and there is no way back.
This situation raises another problem, the inability to lie flat on the inner volume.
(Dream of Hegang?) ）
Three: the problem of inner volume.
The most helpless thing in the world is the inner volume, that is, the inner volume that has no way to go, because this is a helpless superposition.
This is the case in South Korea.
A large number of stock competition, as well as a small number of rare resources, make Koreans work very hard and can do their best for the college entrance examination.
According to the data, South Koreans have good academic qualifications, and the population graduating from college accounts for 37% of the total population of South Korea.
But behind this data, it is inevitable that the depreciation of academic qualifications. The depreciation of academic qualifications makes first-class universities competitive, which makes South Korea's "four famous schools" the target of all Koreans.
Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University, students from these four famous universities are competitive.
As for other college graduates, it is even more difficult to find a good job.
(Korean College Entrance Examination)
Everyone is rushing to fight for the four famous schools, and the college entrance examination has become a one-wood bridge.
It is the winner who breaks through, and what cannot be broken is a tragedy.
Based on this, there is a highly developed education and training industry in Korea, and there are countless people who continue to learn day and night.
Diligence is never human nature, it is forced out.
Because if you don't push yourself, South Korea's high unemployment rate will teach you to be a man.
According to the Observer Network, in the first half of 2021, the youth unemployment rate in South Korea was 25.4% (for people aged 20-29), 17.7% for people over 30 years old, and 9.8% for people over 40 years old.
This unemployment rate proves that although South Korea is a developed country, it does not provide many jobs, and everyone is under great pressure.
Unemployment is high, can you not work hard? So the suit and leather shoes 996 became inevitable, if you don't work hard, you will lose your job.
High housing prices and high unemployment have also plunged South Korea into a low fertility rate.
In order to buy a house, you must make money with your heart, and you have no time to fall in love and get married.
In order not to lose your job, you have to work hard and have no time to fall in love or get married.
Don't talk about love and get married, just have a baby.
This is also the root cause of South Korea's total fertility rate falling to 0.84 in 2020, and there is a danger of extinction.
Can't afford to be born, can't afford to be raised, can't afford to live, can't afford to learn.
(Fertility chart)
Fourth: Internal problems are disturbing.
All internal problems stem from economic problems.
Structural problems in the economy have deepened South Korea's predicament.
This dilemma mainly focuses on the homogenization of employment, extreme populism, class fixation, human indifference and patriarchy.
Employment homogenization, the root cause is actually very easy to understand!
The pressure of life is huge, so that Koreans invariably choose to study hard to enter prestigious schools and work in chaebol enterprises with generous welfare benefits. Or choose to become a state civil servant and receive a state salary.
But how many jobs do chaebol companies offer? How many civil servants are there?
Isn't it the homogenization of employment that everyone is flocking to and thinking the same way?
Than the exam, than the famous school, than the position, other industries are not welcome, coupled with the industry is not diversified enough, so that the Korean mentality is almost the same, of course, such a problem also has in our country.
Who wouldn't want a lifetime of eating and drinking?
(Nonsense)
The roots of extreme populism are also well understood.
South Korea has always been a small country, as a long-term Central Plains cultural influence area, Koreans have been very admiring of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Central Plains Dynasty has also rescued The crisis in South Korea several times.
But then the Qing Dynasty fell behind, lost the war, and Korea became a Japanese colony, followed by the influence of the Cold War, and then the influence of the United States.
All this historical past, so that Koreans are very inferior!
After the inferiority complex, South Korea ushered in an economic take-off under the miracle of the Han River, after the industrial transfer in the United States, and after economic development.
The economy has taken off with self-confidence, and the unbearable past must of course be packaged!
At this point, the United States has also done it, which is the norm under the mentality of upstarts, which is not surprising.
But it has become populism, everything must be fought over, and it is a bit excessive not to say that it is yours.
Even more outrageous is that South Korea not only competes with China, which has influenced it for thousands of years, for cultural heritage and various places of origin, but also resents the United States.
(Anti-American demonstration)
It's confusing!
Look at how obedient Japan is next door, but South Korea was saved by the United States.
If there is no United States, South Korea can become independent, and can it develop so well after independence?
Of course, I am happy to see the South Koreans anti-American, but it is not very crisp, and it is not good not to let the United States garrison troops directly?
But Koreans don't dare to say that.
Deeply embedded in the world industrial chain under the leadership of the United States, let South Korea understand that it is not good to lose the American boss South Korea.
The problem of class solidification is also well understood!
As a member of the Confucian cultural circle, South Korea, which has not experienced cultural movements, has always pursued a patriarchal system.
This parent system cannot be said to be bad, but after it was generalized, it affected all aspects of South Korea.
Orderly, there is a difference between dignity and inferiority, so that Young Koreans live a very humiliating life, all places must survive seniority, so enterprises, so schools, so all industries, South Korean young people are depressed!
In this case, the creativity of young Koreans is stifled.
Looking at China's ever-changing new industries, the endless Internet companies, and the momentum of innovation, South Koreans dare not think.
Because of a flat management, Koreans can't do it!
(Flat management)
The roots of social meanness are also well understood, as seen by the President of South Korea.
As the world's most insecure president, south Korean presidents are well known to be a high-risk profession.
Why this is so is related to the harshness of Korean society.
The president makes a mistake, he goes to jail, he commits suicide, he gets assassinated, and that's the president.
From another point of view, the president is like this, will the Korean people suffer better?
Based on this, there is a causal effect of Korean depression patients accounting for 5% of the total population.
Living is very tired, it is the daily life of Koreans!
In order to cater to the public's cognition, many men in South Korea, in today's popular makeup style, will go out to shave their legs and hair, and wear makeup when they see the mirror.
The issue of son preference is also well understood.
Koreans who adhere to the Confucian tradition have very high requirements for women, and it is necessary to teach their children at home, and it is also necessary to go out to the foreign appearance association.
Korean plastic surgery ethos, just follow two must be related!
In addition to this, Women's Rights in South Korea is not revitalized, and men enjoy a natural advantage in the workplace.
Men have more salaries, higher status, and if they are uncomfortable, they can use women of the same age as punching bags.
At this point, the status of Chinese women is undoubtedly too much higher, at least I dare not give gas to girls, and I will not give gas to girls.
Machismo, what kind of man?
After talking about social issues, how Korean society is, perhaps a little rough understanding!
Of course, we have a lot of problems, but to a certain extent, it is still a bit far from South Korea.
Now that we've seen these questions, should we think about it?
If we have developed to that extent, how to change the status quo, or will it not become a "big" South Korea?
(South Korea)
Five: South Korea's advantages.
In the world, South Korea has given people a label of doing whatever it takes to win.
In this regard, the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and the recent Protests in South Korea at the Winter Olympics can all be reflected.
Competitiveness is the characteristic of Koreans, and it is the habit of Koreans not to lose!
All this stems from self-esteem and the inferiority of the past, which is what has made Korea today.
Everything that South Korea has gained today is to rise up after inferiority and borrow the help of the United States in exchange.
There has never been a nation that does not struggle to rewrite its own history.
But behind this rewrite, there are still hidden worries, and this heavy problem, any amplification, will make South Korea return to its original shape!
What is even more embarrassing to South Korea is that as a developed country, South Korea's food self-sufficiency rate is only about 25%!
If this problem encounters a worldwide food crisis, it will become a matter of life and death, and it needs to be vigilant.