Korean Job Discussion Forums

[wylies99]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kRanz5jfo&feature=fvsr

[Wishmaster]

They get a decent break everynightl...I mean, they go to the room salons and anmas, right? That's a nice little break if you ask me. Besides, all they would do on their vacations is drink that vile soju and visit the room salons. Why change what they already do?

[shinramyun]

[AsiaESLbound]

Instead of encouraging some overworked professionals to take a vacation, encourage a better fix by including more holidays for everyone that don't fall on Saturday or Sunday. Allow more than only one or two 3 day weekends a year. It does seem like an overly tense anxious workoholic country to me if I haven't ever seen one. My 2 co-teachers are not enjoying life and I find displeasure in being surrounded by their anxieties. They need to get a life and some culture about them in my opinion, but they are hard pressed by the demands as well as their culture that just mentally beats them down. They only get 1 week a year vacation and tell me they envy me for having 3 weeks plus all Saturdays.

Few people actually work a job 18 hours a day, but that's how busy many of the Korean people are with all the demands placed on them as they anxiously bow to the demands of their superiors while they fall flat on their faces juggling the balance between work, family, and personal needs due to unrealistic expectations. I just wish their anxiety and stress level would go down so they could actually focus on enjoying life and job satisfaction rather than being so uptight. A more balanced lifestyle would be starters. And drop that Saturday nonsense for a 5 day work week as to actually allow these people some time to enjoy life a bit. Life's too precious to waste it like this and I feel like I've put mine on hold by temporarily joining their craptastic way of living.

[pkang0202]

[Wishmaster]

Yeah, but they can afford the anmas, red rooms, double barbers and such. C'mon, you should take off those blinders. Yeah, room salons are pricey and they don't go to those all the time(obviously, duh)...but they have a helluva lot of options after the workday is finished.

[crossmr]

[toadkillerdog]

If they worked a bit smarter they wouldn't need to work such long hours.

[BoholDiver]

Or reinstate Arbour Day and Hangeul Day as national holidays again. Or make holidays fall on a specific day like we do for Labour Day or Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is always a Sunday. It makes sense. A Tuesday Mother's Day would suck. As would a Sunday Teacher's Day.

[blackjack]

[crossmr]

[BoholDiver]

Yes. But even then, some companies would pile so much work on their workers, they'd be forced to come in on their day off anyways.

Until attitudes change, people here will keep lowering their head and running into brick walls.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

[djsmnc]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Hehe... that's actually an interesting idea. Maybe there's something deep in us that likes or needs community events, and for Koreans protests are the closest they get to an independence day parade? No wonder they'll have candlelight vigils if the price of chewing gum goes up!