January 17, 2025!
January 17, 2025!
It’s a wonder how he’s not given himself cancer with all the wild shit he does.
Can confirm. Currently in Korea and it sure feels really Mondayee.
Doctors wrote these articles to try to justify the strikes beyond the real reason.
What triggered the strikes were the opening of more positions in healthcare thus possibly effecting doctors’ bottom lines.
Edit: I’m also having trouble finding any sources that say “like 90%” of residents quit.
One of the plans-to increase the medical school quota across the nation by 66 percent (2,000 more medical students a year) immediately particularly drove the young physicians into hopelessness.
From the first paragraph of the article you posted.
its doctors are among the best-paid in the world, with the average salary for a specialist at a hospital commanding $200,000 a year. Critics of the strike say doctors oppose more competition.
From this Time article.
Basically, the med schools want to bring in more students which will, in turn, create more doctors. Existing doctors see this as competition and a threat to their livelihood. They are already well paid in Korea, so it’s just the doctors being greedy. What country wouldn’t want more medical professionals?
Aleatoric? Or Aleatoric?
I, too, have absolutely loved this band since I was first blown away by The Lemon of Pink twentyish years ago.
How could you, Joe Pesci!
Oh God! The humanity! NFSW this!
They’ve been doing this in Korea for more than a decade. It’s a bit annoying being mandated to throw your food scraps out separately, but it’s good to know the refuse is reused.
I just love that Joe fella.
Topics too hot for the public! I reckon it’s probably more overreaction by the CCP. They are certainly a dramatic bunch.
Naw. They ain’t going back. There’s no program to send them back and it would be a massive security risk.
Some integrate better than others most certainly. Younger defectors might go to Korean universities. Older ones might go work in factories or wherever they’re a good fit. Some want to go back to North Korea because they can’t handle the cultural differences.
This guy is higher-profile than most, so he’s prolly gonna live pretty kushily.
As someone who taught at all levels of the South Korean school system for about fifteen years, it’s not that bad. Teachers are way way more respected than in American schools.
Kids are generally happy up until second year of middle school then the admin tightens the nuts on them and forces pretty rigorous testing. Schooling shifts from a more western style school to basically spending all day every day learning to do well on the college entrance exam. It’s pretty soul crushing for students and teachers. They really just have to replace their college entry exam with something that can be taken more than once a year. That would solve a lot of problems with the system they have in place.
It’s always been cool to make fun of Lil Stevie.
Life is certainly tough on students, but their lives are getting better. There’s no longer corporal punishment, so no more slapping physically for the past ten years. A lot more laws protecting them from overwork. This is an opinion piece that leaves out a lot of important information, such was what region these bylaws were being cancelled in (small, conservative area). While that might suck for some kids, it’s not nearly as widespread as the article would have you believe. These Christian sects see the writing on the wall and are putting a lot of effort to try to spread their dying hate and they’re mostly failing at doing that.
Half of South Koreans have no religious affiliation and only about twenty percent of Koreans are of Christian faith. Young people are especially non religious. It’s certainly not getting worse. The old folk nut job Christian cults are just the loudest. Lived in Seoul for fifteen years and rarely come in contact with anyone pushing their religion other than in touristy areas.
This CNN article is super well written and goes into a lot of detail of this place. Highly recommended if you’re interested in learning more.
Sudden craving for a Reese’s!