Korean Job Discussion Forums

[catman]

Is this getting any play in the Korean media?

[djsmnc]

North or South?

[hogwonguy1979]

amazing how time slips away i remember being in grad school studying poli sci at the time talk about having all the theories you were taught being tossed out the window

what makes me feel even older is that this month marks 30 years since Pink Floyd's The Wall came out

[daniel-andersson]

It was a big article on the front page about it yesterday. Today the newspapers are all about the last domino-brick which is still standing.

[itaewonguy]

I heard half the population of germany want the wall back up!

[English Matt]

[catman]

I don't have a link right off-hand but I do remember a poll done a few years back that showed 25% of West Germans felt that reunification was a mistake. Mainly due to the negative impact it had on the German economy.

[cj1976]

What's even more amazing about the fall of the Berlin Wall is that David Hasslehoff was performing that night.

[daniel-andersson]

The prices did raise in the east when they opened the border, so some people had problem to go around in the beginning. That they were able to import some fruits again or travel wassnt that important. You will probably see the same when the Korean wall falls, many Koreans will be unsatisfied because they would have to work even more than they do today.

I heard they had made a wall in Seoul as well. Did anyone see it?

[itaewonguy]

[English Matt]

[youtuber]

Too bad we can't all be as educated as you

Obviously being a part of the EU has some downsides for any country.

It's not that people are uneducated. It's that they have different priorities than you.

Wouldn't an educated person understand that?

[English Matt]

[steveinincheon]

There are always segments of the population though that will benefit less from change than others, and it is understandable that these groups will feel nostalgic for the old order. For a 50-something unemployed former East German factory worker, the security and stability of having a job, a home, and food will outweigh the new benefits that globalization or the Wende and has brought.

Also there is a difference between Germans who are not fully satisfied with reunification and those who would actually want to see the Wall go back up. THe first group largely feels that political and economic reunification were rushed and poorly planned and as a result the social and economic consequences were too high. Only a small fringe group however would actually like a throwback to the old days, and of these more would be found in the East than West. The exact percentage that you get in any survey asking this question will depend upon how exactly the question was framed in German.

Very few Europeans would like to go back to the divides of the Cold War, but that doesn't mean that there isn't large scale dissatisifaction with the status quo.