They were fully prepared to turn the working populace into slave labor and then the government was shocked to see that descision was unpopular.
One thing that catches my eye about this article is that the Guardian specifies “young people” as the cause for the pushback, Gen Z and Millennials, as if everyone else would be perfectly fine working until they fucking die. Just more “Zoomers bad” rhetoric.
Say, do you happen to have statistics on hand for this? My colleague is a Koreaboo (and not for the normal one) and is apparently taking great offense to this notion.
https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm
Korea Herald in 2022: “For Koreans under the age of 40, the most common cause of death is suicide”
Hankyoreh in 2023: “Rising suicide rates, loneliness put Koreans’ life satisfaction among lowest in OECD”
(Edit) Here’s another one from Hankyoreh: “Korea: An economic success where everyone is unhappy”
And the Liberals complained about suicide net in China under an American company…
Thank you