Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mercury]

What do your Predict? Really, I have been thinking about this for a while, what do you think it will be like? Here is my guess:




China will become a huge force by 2020. Right now they are behind the Japanese, and the South Koreans, but they are sprinting. I mean really sprinting hard. What do you predict? A war? When? Just curious.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

If regime change occurs in NK I suspect it will be due to China and / or Chinese backing, meaning that China could have a huge role in reunification.

I'm more interested in what SK society will be like. Will it be just as nerdy, stubborn, and xenophobic as it is now? I doubt it will be nearly as hard-working and crime-free. Will it reach a standard of material success that it can stop being financially insecure. I think a lot of other Asian countries will be decades ahead of it in terms of growing up. Koreans I bet will never get an address system or fix their education system, but I think that Korean products will continue to get more impressive as time goes on.

[mercury]

[Derrek]

Those are the hard-working ones. The ajummas who scrub all day. The bus drivers who drive hours on end. The restaurant workers who work for pennies. Lower income folks who trade a short life for enough money to feed the family.

Lots of other people work long hours, but don't necessarily do a whole heap of a lot. I suspect that businesses like Samsung have a smaller number of people who work their ass off day and night, and a whole lot of office-boy types who sit at their desk and play on the internet all day, waiting for the boss to take them along for a company-paid romp at the local room salon.

Sadly, I have a feeling that the ones playing on the net are the ones who are in charge and getting the higher pay.

[joelseymour]

We all know North Korea will be communist which will never change. There will be no chance the South will become a communist country as long as there is the DMZ as well as heavy US influence. Hey maybe McCarthiasm will come alive again who knows.

[jajdude]

I will be dead.

[itaewonguy]

korean now has the lowest birth rate in the world.. new generation koreans are not making babies.. so in 2055 we will see a huge population drop which will mean more demand and will we see korea opening up for immigrants and citizenships will be easy to get etc..

all the old people know running the country and working lets say 40's up
will all be dead and buried! so the country will lose alot of its old ways and embark on new ideas finally.. I always say to koreans.. that once the generations change korean has potential to improve.. just need to get the old people out of the way.. they were raised in a bad era of korea but still have to much power...
once they die.. korean might improve or GET WORSE..
becuase the ones are the ones keeping korea at the top which there stubborn ways..

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[lastat06513]

My predictions....

2012~ US totally withdraws from Korea.

2013~ S. Korea fights a bitter war with N.Korea, US enters Korea again.

2015~ US gets its arz kicked off the peninsula by the S. Korean army that turned sides and decided to help its Northern brethren.

2017~ Status quo remains.....38th parallel intact by talks sponsored by the UN.

2021~ Kim Young Nam killed by a pro-Chinese assassin and all members of the politburo are systematically executed.

2022 May~ A pro-Chinese Prime Minister is elected to the new Socialist People's Republic of Korea.

July~ Historic summit is held to propose a referendum on unification.

September~ Referendum is held in both North and South Korea.

October~ CNN reports that 99.99% of the people in the North prefer to stay independent from South Korea, causing widespread protests and riots in the South, mostly by lonely unwed men who hoped to get a North Korea bride after reuniting with the North. October 25th, marshal law is declared in the South.

November 5th~ In a surprising move, 200,000 Chinese troops move across the border to guarantee stability in the country.

November 10th~ Near the Chinese/ North Korean border, a group of Chinese archeologists found damning evidence that Kurgoyo was in fact an ancient Chinese province.

November 22nd~ The Chinese People's congress convenes to discuss about this piece of historical evidence. Moves to proclaim the north part of the Korean peninsula as Chinese territory.

December 30th~ The North Korean flag is lowered for the last time and replaced by the Chinese flag.

2022-2055- South Korea~ unable to come to grips with the Chinese takeover of North Korea, began to denounce everything Chinese and foreign for that matter. The drive out of all foreign companies and initiate a "closed door" policy in protest of the US' " uninvolvement" in the Chinese debacle. The South's economy goes to ruin and is now considered one of the poorest countries in Asia (lower then the philippines and indonesia combined)

2022-2055- The Koguryo Autonomous Region, China~ Thanks to China's open door policy to foreign investment and the welcome of all forms of Foreign Capital, the region experienced growth for the first time. The economy is the envy of Asia (second only to the EU in GNP in regional development. Outsiders start to see a sense of genuine friendliness never seen in Korean culture, thanks to the infusion of Chinese culture.