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orosee
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 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: Ministry Plans Blackout for 'Procreation' |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/113_59326.html
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| On Wednesday, all the lights at the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs building in central Seoul will be switched off at 7 p.m. Announcements will be made urging staff to stop working and go home. |
I can't believe this has been missed (or have I not been paying attention?)!
There are so many things to say about this (not to mention that in Summer, nobody needs to turn their lights ON around 7 pm). |
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Old Gil
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| What in tarnation? |
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orosee
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Much simpler solution: Get people to marry people from work, extend lunch break by 30 minutes, switch off the lights (and draw the shades) from noon to 1:30. Sex at work is a great distraction and motivation. |
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Julius
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Children are too expensive to raise in this society.
Koreans should really import foreign workers if they wish to increase their population and also maintain/improve their standard of living. |
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redaxe
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
Children are too expensive to raise in this society.
Koreans should really import foreign workers if they wish to increase their population and also maintain/improve their standard of living. |
They need to not just import foreign workers, they need to let them stay here and become Korean citizens. Immigration would not only increase the birth rate and solve their social security problem, it would also help with the RIDICULOUS inflation in Korea by providing cheap labor and also more thrifty consumers. |
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Julius
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Julius wrote: |
Children are too expensive to raise in this society.
Koreans should really import foreign workers if they wish to increase their population and also maintain/improve their standard of living. |
They need to not just import foreign workers, they need to let them stay here and become Korean citizens. Immigration would not only increase the birth rate and solve their social security problem, it would also help with the RIDICULOUS inflation in Korea by providing cheap labor and also more thrifty consumers. |
Seems to me a lot of western countries did this. The "indigenous" people then rise to the top of the heap and enjoy an improved prosperity while all the hard menial labor is done by foreign immigrants. Who...after a decade or two integrate and become culturally indistinguishable.
I think Korea is resisting this on racial grounds to some extent. old attitudes die hard. |
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orosee
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
Children are too expensive to raise in this society.
Koreans should really import foreign workers if they wish to increase their population and also maintain/improve their standard of living. |
I'm trying to think how foreign workers can increase the Korean population (I'm not counting foreign workers as part of the Korean population).
Still thinking...
Help me out here! Best I can get is "nannies" but that's the job of the grandparents.
In Germany we have a huge (and I mean: huge) portion of foreign workers and their descendants (Italy, Turkey, Spain, Asia, more recently North Africa) and still the German population is shrinking.
The foreign population is rising, especially among the recent immigrants, Muslims, lower social strata and so on.
So far I can only see you plan populate Korea (which is already crowded) but not increase the (ethnic) Korean population. What am I missing? |
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Old Gil
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Bring on the Chinese! But only their women! |
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Julius
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| orosee wrote: |
In Germany we have a huge (and I mean: huge) portion of foreign workers and their descendants (Italy, Turkey, Spain, Asia, more recently North Africa) and still the German population is shrinking.
The foreign population is rising, especially among the recent immigrants, Muslims, lower social strata and so on.
So far I can only see you plan populate Korea (which is already crowded) but not increase the (ethnic) Korean population. What am I missing? |
It matters not if the "indigenous" german or korean population reduces. The new immigrants become Germans/ koreans after time. Just that they look a little physically different. I don't see any problem...
The only immigrants I personally would be cautious about are muslims...as they have a track record of non-integration. |
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orosee
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
| Seems to me a lot of western countries did this. The "i | | |
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