The world in Korean dramas is bright and bright, full of refinement and high quality. People who are obsessed with Korean dramas will be attracted by words such as "Gangnam", "Cheongdam-dong", "President", "Oba", "Ernie", "Guard You" and so on. In Korean dramas, whether rich or poor, the protagonists are the spokesmen of taste and fashion, so that young people who are not familiar with the world begin to yearn for everything in Korea - Korean-style food, Korean makeup, Korean plastic surgery, Korean clothing... However, this small country on the Korean Peninsula is not a paradise for life...
01 Prices are extremely high, how to solve the problem of "eating"?
Ordinary people in South Korea are having a hard time. As we all know, South Korea's territory is small, the land is barren, and the materials are not abundant. People living in China may not be able to appreciate this. Because in our country, the products are rich, fruits, vegetables, cattle, sheep, fish and shrimp and other food varieties are abundant, good quality and low price. However, when I go to Korea, I want to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day, which is a very luxurious thing.
Fruits in Korea are very expensive
In Busan, a pound of unremarkable pears is equivalent to 80 yuan. One pound of grapes is equivalent to 290 yuan! How can you not eat watermelon in the summer, sorry, a pound of watermelon 103 yuan! This terrible price, it is no wonder that when South Korean colleagues came to China, they sighed that Chinese really happy, yes, after all, melons and fruits, we ordinary people can change the pattern to eat!"
Korean food makes Chinese cooks shake their heads. Because of the shortage of materials on the Korean Peninsula, the former king of Korea popularized the kimchi making technology, so that the people could have vegetables to eat in the cold winter months. In Today's Korea, most of the food is accompanied by kimchi. Maybe it will be nice to have some kimchi to relieve your boredom when you are tired of eating meat, but if the meal is all kimchi, it is really unbearable, and the stomach is straight to pantothenic acid.
Eating kimchi three times a day, can you stand it?
Korean dishes are full of kimchi shadows, no matter what kind of good ingredients he has, he will eventually meet kimchi. Kimchi feeds the korean people, and it is difficult to see the shadow of meat. Occasionally, if you want to relieve your hunger, you go to buy some pork belly and make a roast pork belly, which is a good treat in South Korea.
But these are really too ordinary meals in China, aren't they? After all, grilling this thing, we still have to look at China. From the northeast to Xinjiang, there are delicious barbecues everywhere, with a wide variety and delicious taste.
Xinjiang kebabs
Northeast BBQ
02 The pathological aesthetic of Korean society, the deformed face-looking society
Is it scary to go out with a plain face? In China, you will feel that it is not a big deal, and the people around you will not judge you. But what if it's in South Korea? Do you dare to go out of the house?
What happens to girls with small eyes and collapsed noses? In China, such a girl can still live a smooth and happy life, and even her family will not feel that there is anything wrong. But what if in South Korea? To grow like this is a mistake. Such a look is disliked by even the family, and they will eagerly drag the child to the plastic surgery hospital for plastic surgery. Parents worry that such a look will bring a series of bad luck to their children's future.
South Korea is a country that is extremely intolerant of looks, and teenagers here, both men and women, have an urgent desire for beauty. In this country, beauty is the passport to the future, and only beauty can get its own opportunities.
Therefore, "ugly guilt" is a psychological defense line that is difficult for Young Koreans to break through. People here are immersed in the crazy desire and obsession with beauty. As a result, South Korea has given birth to a world-renowned plastic surgery technology. Plastic surgery hospitals in South Korea are simply blooming everywhere, and there are so many that they are frightening.
In South Korea, not looking good not only makes you unable to find a partner, but also makes you unable to find a job. A joint survey of cosmetic surgery and online recruit companies showed that 98% of people answered that "appearance affects employment", and 94% of the personnel leaders of the companies who chose them said that they "considered appearance" when hiring.
The society that looks at the face, the country of plastic surgery, but produces a bunch of characteristicless artificial beauty handsome men...
Korean beauty pageants, can you tell what they look like?
03 The gap between the rich and the poor is huge, and the poor live like ants
Remember the torrential rain in Seoul a few days ago? During the torrential rains, the poor people living in the semi-basement were seriously affected, and even died in the basement. This heavy rainstorm is like a scene from the movie "Parasite", which makes people chill.
A semi-basement flooded by torrential rain in Parasite
Heavy rain in Seoul in reality
Heavy rain in Seoul in reality
South Korea's land area is small, and most of the job opportunities are concentrated in the Seoul area, but the Seoul area is extremely expensive, and many poor people can only rent basements or semi-basements, after all, the rent here is cheap. Here are the original words of the basement tenants, listening to the trepidation...
"I don't have any money, I have nothing. I came here to live in this basement because it was my only option. I have to live with my daughter. ”
"But I'm desperate now. Everything was gone, there was no one to help, and I didn't even have a spoon to eat. ”
A heavy rainstorm destroyed the hopes of Seoul's poor. However, not far away, the rich people who live in Seoul's luxury housing district just looked out the window and sighed: "Today this rain is really heavy~
After watching the real life in South Korea, do you still yearn for South Korea? Perhaps many times, everyone yearns for nothing more than the Garden of Eden where people are free, equal, and live and work in peace and contentment