在韓國生活艱苦嗎？

Is life hard in South Korea?

2019-11-09 呂洞賓！ 16137 46 0 收藏糾錯&舉報

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韓國人的生活真的沒有表面看起來那么光鮮亮麗，每個人繁華背后都有你想象不到的艱辛。希望國內(nèi)同胞們不要無腦粉也不要無腦黑，思考韓國現(xiàn)實比照自身情況引以為戒多加反思……

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Is life hard in South Korea?

韓國生活艱苦嗎？

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John Seungjin Oh
I was a student in South Korea for the majority of my life, and I can say with complete certainty that life in South is indeed very very hard.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as bad as the neighbor to the North, but it’s still pretty hard.
Hell Joseon is a term used by many young South Koreans, referencing the hardships and problems of South Korea. (Joseon is the name of one of the former kingdoms in Korea’s history)

吳勝珍
我一生的大部分時間都在韓國學(xué)習(xí)，我可以肯定地說，在韓國生活確實非常艱苦。
別誤會我的意思，但（在這里生活）雖然不像北方的鄰居那樣差，但仍然是很難的。
地獄朝鮮是許多年輕的韓國人經(jīng)常會用的口頭語，意為在韓國生活的艱辛和種種問題。（朝鮮是朝鮮封建歷史上一個王國的名字）

Here are a few:
1. Extreme Competition

以下是幾個例子：
1 激烈的競爭

This is a building near the area that I used to live. In just this one building, I can count at least 10 cram schools. When I was in 6th grade, I went to cram schools 11 times a week. When I turned into a 7th grader, I began attending an academy that specialized in extremely high levels of math for the KMO (Korean Math Olympiad). Each lesson was 5 hours long, with 2 additional hours for mandatory extra studying until 11:30 P.M. Still, I flopped the test with a score of 16 out of 100. My friend got a 92.

這是過去我的住處附近的建筑物，在這棟大樓里至少可以找出10所以上的補習(xí)班。六年級的時候，我每周去補習(xí)班11次。7年級級時，我開始在一所專門面向KMO（韓國數(shù)學(xué)奧林匹克）的高水平數(shù)學(xué)學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)。每節(jié)課5個小時，另外2個小時用于強制性額外學(xué)習(xí)，然后一直到晚上11:30。盡管如此，我還是以差16分不到100分的差距在考試中失敗了，而我朋友得了92分。

This is the entrance to South Korea’s most prestigious university, Seoul University. In order to maybe get in this school, you need to score a near-perfect score on the KSAT.
The KSAT is without doubt, far harder than the SAT, and students study for it for years. In fact, so many people fail and retake this test, that there are special Campus-Academies that make you focus only on the test and nothing else.

這是進入韓國最優(yōu)秀大學(xué)，首爾大學(xué)的入門分數(shù)。為了有機會在那里上學(xué)，你需要在高考中獲得一個近乎完美的得分。
韓國高考毫無疑問比SAT（由美國大學(xué)委員會主辦的一場考試，其成績是世界各國高中生申請美國大學(xué)入學(xué)資格及獎學(xué)金的重要參考，和ACT都被稱為美國高考。）難的多，為了它學(xué)生們成年累月的學(xué)習(xí)。事實上由于有這么多人在這場考試中失敗并希望復(fù)讀，所以有種專修班可以專門幫助你專心于考試而不必關(guān)注其他事情。

Yet, still, millions of people in Korea study the best they possibly can to get into this worse-than-most-ivy-schools university. This test is so stressful to take that the police force deploy their personnel and police boats in the Han River on the day of the test because so many students attempt suicide.
Take a look at this bridge, nicknamed “Bridge of death”:

是的，在韓國成百上千萬的學(xué)生盡其所能的考出最好成績，其目的僅僅是為了進入一個還比不上常春藤的大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)。這場考試帶給學(xué)生的壓力如此之大，以至于考試那天警察部門發(fā)動了他們所有人員和警船在漢江水面巡邏，因為有太多學(xué)生選擇在這里輕生了。
請看下圖這架橋，上面寫著：死亡之橋。

The Korean letters read “I understand you’ve been exhausted lately.”
Yet, even if you enroll into the best universities of Korea, it is extremely hard to get a job. Why? Cause you need more than that.

這段韓國字讀作：我理解，你最近很焦慮。是的，即使你能進入韓國這所最好的大學(xué)，你依然很難找到一工作，為什么？因為你需要做的更多。

Most big companies require every applicant to have a TOEIC score of over 700–800, and if they don’t they can’t even apply. It doesn’t stop there. You need to have near perfect GPAs too, and the average GPA of POSCO is 3.83!
And the thing is, everyone is extremely good.

大多數(shù)韓國大公司要求申請者在國際英語考試中的分數(shù)不低于700—800分。如果達不到要求，他們甚至連提交簡歷的機會都不會給你。這還不算完，你還需要在GPA（美國四分制考試成績中的計算方法）中獲得近乎完美的分數(shù)。浦項制鐵要求的GPA平均分是3.83。

It’s getting harder and harder to get a job, which is why many of the richer families including myself have moved to foreign countries.

找一份工作越來越難，這也是為什么包括我在內(nèi)許多有錢人家庭都選擇移民到國外生活。

2. High suicide rates
The first big rise in 1998 was the Korean IMF crisis (the oligarchs blamed it on the people).
The second rise in 2002 was a credit card disaster (the politicians blamed it on the people).
The third is in 2008 which you guys already probably know about.
Korea has the highest suicide rate of any OECD country, and it’s constantly increasing. In fact, there was a real suicide that happened about 6 years ago in one of the cram schools I used to go. But it didn''''t really shake the reputation of the academy because they''''re so common anyways. The rumor spread for a while, and then it just stopped.

2 高自殺率
第一次高峰出現(xiàn)于1988年的韓國金融危機。（大公司寡頭們將過錯歸咎于人民）
第二次危機在2002年的信用卡災(zāi)難。（政治家們將過錯歸咎于人民）
第三次在2008年，原因你們可能已經(jīng)知道了。
韓國在所有經(jīng)濟合作與發(fā)展組織的成員國中有著最高的自殺率，并且依然在穩(wěn)定增長。
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3. Terrible work place
Korea has the second longest work hours in OECD while having significantly lower pay than other countries. There is even a popular term called Passion Paying, which refers to the low amount of pay that people get, usually excusing it by saying “you’re passionate about this job, right? So I don’t need to pay as much money”.

3可怕的工作地點
在經(jīng)濟發(fā)展與合作組織成員國中，韓國在令人矚目的低工資情況下的工作時長高居第二，甚至有一個流行的術(shù)語叫做“激情薪酬”(Passion paid)，指的是人們只能拿到很低的工資，企業(yè)還會以此借口說“你對這份工作很有激情，對吧?那我不需要付那么多錢咯?！?/b>

Of course, all of us-me, you, the employer, the employee know this is bullsh*t. But the truth is that there isn''''t much that can be done about it.

當(dāng)然了，我們所有人，我，你，還有無數(shù)普通的公司員工們都知道（這種說法）是胡扯。但事實是，我們對此無能為力。

4. The general incompetence of the elite class
Just 2 years ago, the president known as Park Geun Hye was impeached. About 20% of the entire Korean population participated in a series of protests.
They went extremely close to the Blue House (Korean version of White House) and successfully forced her into trial. This was a historic moment in preserving Korean democracy, and showed how united citizens can be, but on the other hand, it proved how terribly corrupt politicians were.

4. 精英階層的普遍無能
就在兩年前，樸槿惠被彈劾。大約20%的韓國人參加了一系列的抗議活動。
他們行進到了非常接近青瓦臺(韓國版的白宮)的地方，并成功地迫使她接受審判。這是維護韓國民主的歷史性一刻，展示了韓國公民們的團結(jié)，但另一方面，也證明了政客的腐敗是多么可怕。

Park Geun Hye, in particular was controlled by the Korean version of Rasputin, Choi Sun Sil, and allowed her to get millions of dollars from bribes by large companies like Samsung, and helped her money launder possibly up to 8 billion dollars. She is believed to used to have around 400–500 shell corporations all over Europe.
The CEO of Samsung went to jail, and after much investigation, it turned out that even more companies were deeply involved, like LG and NEXON.

尤其是樸槿惠，她被韓國版的拉斯普京崔順實控制，這個女人從三星等大公司的賄賂中獲得了數(shù)百萬美元，并幫助她洗錢，金額可能高達80億美元。據(jù)信，她曾在歐洲各地擁有大約400-500家空殼公司。
三星的首席執(zhí)行官進了監(jiān)獄，政府經(jīng)過大量調(diào)查后發(fā)現(xiàn)更多的公司也被牽連其中，比如LG和NEXON（韓國電腦游戲公司，成立于1995年5月，總部設(shè)于韓國首爾）。

I will introduce another term used by Korea, Gapjil. “Gap” means elite, or superior, and “jil” means action. It is referring to the numerous outrageous actions that countless elites in Korea did using their money and power.
Rich people getting shorter sentences, getting released early, politicians acting rudely to the common people, heck, even everyday customers abuse employees.

我將為你介紹韓國的另一個術(shù)語，Gapjil?！癎ap”是精英的意思，而“jil”是行動的意思。它指的是無數(shù)韓國精英利用他們的金錢和權(quán)力做出的無數(shù)無恥行為。
富人被判更短的刑期后被提前釋放，政客對普通人表現(xiàn)粗魯，見鬼，甚至每天都有客戶辱罵員工。

5. Radical Confucianism leading to Authoritarianism
Korea has historically been a Confucian state, but there are many concepts in fundamental Confucianism that are not good like
-gender-specific jobs and sexism
-absolute obligation to authority and seniors
-child-abuse level of assault can be neglected
-extreme conservatism
As a result, the Korea suffers from many social problems relating to this.

5. 激進的儒家思想導(dǎo)致了專制主義
韓國在歷史上一直是一個儒家國家，但在基本的儒家思想中有很多不好的概念
-性別，特殊安排的工作和性別歧視
-對權(quán)威和上級的絕對服從
-虐待兒童的情況被刻意忽視
極端保守主義
因此，韓國在這方面遇到了許多社會問題。

6. Mandatory military service to only males
All males, and only males are required to serve in the military for 2 years. And even worse, they need to serve in one of the most important stages of your life: When you’re supposed to go look for a job right after you graduated, or is currently in university.
This is why women actually have much higher employment than men in the 20’s, and has a crushing advantage over all men.
This doesn’t look so gender-equal does it? Well, it''''s not.
And speaking of gender…

6. 強制兵役只針對男性
所有的男性，并且只有男性會被要求服役2年。更糟糕的是，這發(fā)生在你生命中最重要的一個階段:當(dāng)你畢業(yè)后應(yīng)該馬上去找工作或正上大學(xué)的時候。
這就是為什么20多歲的女性的就業(yè)率比男性高得多，而且比所有男性都有壓倒性的優(yōu)勢。
這看起來性別很不平等，對吧?嗯,（在別人口中）它不是。
說到性別嘛……

7. Radical Feminism
A very large portion of feminists in Korea are very….. radical and have caused many problems on the excuse of “gender inequality”. But the truth in Korea is that legally, there are more advantages of being a girl (no military service), and although women might be subject to social sexism, Korea is starting to take a more progressive view on gender equality…that was, until radical feminists caused an extreme hate on feminism in Korea recently.
I am a feminist by definition because I believe in gender equality. But most “feminists” in Korea are closer to female chauvinists.
Womad (not to be confused with WOMAD music festival) is a very infamous “feminist” community/website in Korea, and
1. It’s official stance on the LGBT community is hatred.
2. It supports Park Geun Hye just for being a woman
3. Stated “All daughters should kill their fathers. They’re all sexist bast*rds. We support the kill-the-father project.” One member of the community actually worsened her father’s heart disease in an attempt.
4. It’s official stance is misandry.
5. It is officially fascist.
6. Staged sexual assault in order to insult all men.
7. Insulted all Musli... based only on religion.
8. Illegally took pictures of nude men in shower rooms or bathrooms and uploaded them on the website for public insulting
9. Disgraced and vandalized the Korean flag.
10. Defame military personnel and completely opposes a policy to compensate for the sexism, saying that it is unfair because only men get drafted.(btw, women can volunteer for the army too)
and many more.
To learn more on Womad, see the Wikipedia page. Womad (website) - Wikipedia

7. 激進的女權(quán)主義
韓國很大一部分女權(quán)主義者非常激進……她們以“性別不平等”為名引發(fā)了許多問題。但事實上在韓國女性被合法的給予了一些更大的優(yōu)勢(不必服兵役),雖然女性可能會受到社會性別歧視,但韓國也開始對性別平等采取更加進步的看法……直到激進的女權(quán)主義者最近在女權(quán)主義問題上在韓國國內(nèi)引發(fā)了極端仇恨。
我是一個天生的女權(quán)主義者，因為我相信性別平等。但在韓國，大多數(shù)“女權(quán)主義者”更接近大男子主義。
Womad(不要與Womad音樂節(jié)混淆)是韓國一個非常臭名昭著的“女權(quán)主義”社區(qū)/網(wǎng)站。其特點是：
1. 官方對LGBT群體持仇恨立場。
2. 它僅僅因為樸槿惠是一個女性就支持她。
3.“所有的女兒都應(yīng)該殺死她們的父親?！彼麄兌际切詣e歧視的混蛋。我們支持殺父計劃。這個組織的一名成員曾故意讓她父親的病情惡化。
4. 官方性對男性表示厭惡。
5. 官方性的支持法西斯主義。
6. 上演虛假的性侵表演以侮辱所有男人。
7. 僅僅基于宗教原因就侮辱所有的。
8. 非法在浴室或淋浴間拍攝裸體男子的照片，并將其上傳到網(wǎng)站上進行公開侮辱
9. 玷污和破壞韓國國旗。
10. 誹謗軍事人員，完全反對一項基于性別的補償政策，說這是不公平的，控訴為何只有男人被征召。(順便說一句，女性也可以自愿參軍)
除此之外，還有許多許多。
想了解更多關(guān)于Womad的信息，請訪問Wikipedia的網(wǎng)頁。

8. Racism
Korea is a pretty racist society, discriminating especially against Southeast Asian people and African-Americans, as well as many Indians.
Departments stores typically (although not always) favor Caucasian people over even Koreans, and tend to shower them with all the service and deals, while non-Caucasians get…squat.
This originates largely from a Korean “pride” that all Koreans are one, pure race, and throughout history, it has been considered disgraceful to mix blood with other races.
Also, through rapid economic development, Koreans got a sense of pride that they are a “Developed country”, and therefore superior to developing countries like the Philipines and Vietnam.
One example of racism is the fact that most English teaching academies explicitly say “We are looking for white people.” when hiring. Also, a study found that students and parents prefer white English teachers over non-white teachers despite having the same skill.

8. 種族歧視
韓國是一個相當(dāng)種族主義的社會，尤其歧視東南亞人、非裔美國人和許多印度人。
通常百貨商店(雖然不總是)喜歡白人的程度甚至超過了喜歡本地韓國人，而且往往向他們提供所有的服務(wù)和優(yōu)惠，而非白人就只能……去一邊兒蹲著吧。
這在很大程度上源于韓國人的一種“自豪感”，即所有韓國人都是一個純粹的種族，縱觀歷史，與其他種族通婚的行為被認為是可恥的。
此外，通過快速的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展，韓國人對他們是一個“發(fā)達國家”而感到自豪，并因此覺得自己優(yōu)于像菲律賓和越南這樣的發(fā)展中國家。
種族主義的一個例子是，大多數(shù)英語教學(xué)機構(gòu)明確在招聘信息上注明“我們在尋找白人”。此外，一項研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，與非白人教師相比，學(xué)生和家長更喜歡白人教師，盡管他們擁有同樣的技能。

Steve Vadocz, Travel enthusiast
This is based on my observations while visiting South Korea (Seoul) multiple times in the last few years.
It''''s easier when you are rich. But, it''''s everywhere in the world.

史蒂夫·瓦多茨，旅行愛好者
這是我過去幾年多次訪問韓國(首爾)時的觀察所得。
不管遇到什么問題，當(dāng)你有錢的時都好解決。但是，它（指那些問題）無處不在。

Korea has everything the best countries to live in the world have to offer. Great food, clean water, modern infrastructure, internet, education, healthcare, safety.
Based on that, life in Korea is truly amazing. I live in the UK and we can only wish for the quality of some of those things in here.

韓國擁有世界上最適合居住的國家所能提供的一切。美味的食物，干凈的水，現(xiàn)代化的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施，互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，教育，醫(yī)療，安全等等。
在此基礎(chǔ)上，韓國的生活真的很精彩。我住在英國，我們只能希望上面說的那些高品質(zhì)的東西在這里也存在。

But.
Materialism: From what I could observe, materialism in Korea is brutal. The race after bigger, shinier, more wasteful cars, phones, flats, clothes etc is present everywhere. Flashy, big car seems to be the ultimate goal for some Koreans, no matter what the expense. They don''''t care to kill the nature and history etc to achieve it. Choose between the park or shopping mall? Shopping mall always wins in Seoul.

但是。
物質(zhì)主義:在我看來，韓國的物質(zhì)主義是殘酷的。他們一味地追求更大、更炫、更浪費，在開的汽車、用的手機、住的公寓、穿的衣服等方面互相攀比。對一些韓國人來說，無論花多少錢，豪華大轎車似乎都是他們的終極目標(biāo)。無論代價有多大，只要能得到想要的他們不在乎破壞自己的自然和歷史。在公園和購物中心做個選擇?在首爾，贏的總是購物中心。

Competition: This is difficult to describe but the social pressure to be the best is massive. Restaurants, businesses, styles come in and out of fashion in a year or less. For a tourist it''''s amazing, there is always something new and exciting. However, I can imagine the constant stress for locals. Plastic surgery is a big business. No one looks good enough. You have to include your photo to your CV.

競爭:這很難描述，但社會壓力是巨大的。餐館、企業(yè)、風(fēng)格在一年或更短的時間內(nèi)突然時興。對于一個游客來說，這是令人驚奇的，總是有一些新的和令人興奮的東西。然而，我可以想象當(dāng)?shù)厝艘掷m(xù)面對多大的壓力。整形手術(shù)是一項大生意。沒有人看起來是完美的，你必須在簡歷中附上你的照片（讓你必須注意自己的形象）。

Work: Work life balance is horrible. People work a lot! Loooong hours. No holidays. You can''''t go home before your manager etc. After visiting Korea I feel very privileged with our amazing work life balance in the EU.

工作:這里工作和生活間的平衡極其可怕。人們工作很很很很很長時間。并且還沒有假期。你不能在經(jīng)理起身前回家。訪問韓國后，我很慶幸我們歐盟內(nèi)部的工作者在工作和生活間保持了良好的平衡。

So yeah. In general, it depends. I love Korea but I wouldn''''t want to live there for a long time. Definitely, not raising my family there. The progress country did in the last few decades is amazing and it is without a doubt because of the hard work of Koreans. But, I believe, it''''s not worth it. Live with a little bit less, a little bit slower, with a little less pollution, and enjoy more quality time with family, sounds better to me.

所以是的。一般來說，這要看情況。我喜歡韓國，但我不想在那里生活很長時間。當(dāng)然，也不會在那里贍養(yǎng)我的家人。韓國在過去幾十年里取得的進步是驚人的，這毫無疑問是韓國人努力工作的結(jié)果。但我相信，（其付出的代價與收獲相比）并不值得。生活可以污染少一點，節(jié)奏慢一點，更多的享受和家人在一起的美好時光。

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