Real Reality
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: Changing Times: Education, Crime, Rent and Work |
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A world falling apart
Theft and gambling on the increase, loan sharks getting greedy
By Kim Jung-soo, JoongAng Ilbo (December 24, 2008)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2898994
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Believe it or not, Korean families are cutting back on the amount of money they spend on their children's education....
According to the police, the number of larceny cases has been steadily on the increase. In 2005, cases of theft stood at 188,000 but the figure has risen by 10 percent since then.
This year the number stood at 212,000....
Crime committed by young people is also on the up. According to a white paper this year, police report that the number of juvenile offenders was 115,661 in 2008, compared to 83,477 in 2005.
A cup of tea and then you're fired
It goes like this: You get the invite, you go out to a cafe, you get fired, you go back to the office and you start gathering your personal belongings.
Often you don't even have time to say goodbye,...
When it comes to paying, going Dutch for dinner at small office gatherings has become the norm.
An owner of two office spaces at Singal, Gyeonggi, is losing sleep because there aren't enough people able to rent.
"I've lowered the monthly rent from 3 million won to 1 million won, but there are still no takers," said the man who only wanted to be identified by his last name Kim. "When I think of all the empty office space I can�t sleep. Not at all."
Samsung has given its workers the day off after Christmas Day, meaning they get a long, four-day weekend. Many manufacturing companies have followed suit as inventory levels are only rising with a sluggish economy.
In the case of a textile company in Busan, a four-day workweek has already been enforced for the past two months because of the lack of business.... |
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