Anti-working society

Having made a living by teaching civil servants or real estate candidates more than 20 years ago, I wanted to do something more specific and empirical. So I went to learn electrical and welding techniques during the day. In particular, I learned a lot of welding techniques, and I wanted to work at a shipyard in the southern part of the country. Workers wearing ice vests in the middle of summer and running back into the fireball after eating watermelon punch because they were tired of the heat were stimulating. I was more motivated by the experience of doing the same thing. Rumor has it that the salary is high because it is hard welding work.

 

But the reality was bad. Most of the shipyard welding workers belonged to subcontractors, and their salaries were paid the minimum wage. I gave up welding work at the shipyard because I had no profit to work at the destination for the minimum wage. However, such a situation did not improve 20 years later. Due to the lack of welding personnel, the shipyard hired low-paying Vietnamese workers, but when Vietnamese workers were unable to enter the country due to quarantine problems during COVID-19, the shipyard was unable to operate. This is the same with the bus industry I've been through for a long time. The bus industry, which has long forced heavy labor with low salaries, is now said to be socially rumored and lacks manpower to enter. Everything was predicted, and the salary level of Korean engineers is known to be less than half that of Western countries such as Australia, which have a similar economic level.

 

In fact, there is a bigger problem than pay. Korea is a country that traditionally tends to treat technology with contempt. Perhaps, it can be seen that there is a tendency to neglect the behavioral value of humans. In a society where the financial economy is superior to the real economy and real estate plays a role in currency value over practicality, the inability of earned income to overcome real estate income is the biggest reason why the Korean economy faces growth barriers.

 

There was one fact that I persistently questioned the attitude of the current Korean government. It was questionable why the prosecution should be superior to the police in field work, and why the government born from the prosecution is shaking the roots of the Korean economy with its abstract and ideological tendencies. One day, I worked in a high-end apartment electrical room in Gangnam, Seoul, and sometimes I saw a situation where some residents treated workers so contemptuously that they were comparable to human rights violations. Of course, it was expected, so there was only a question of whether Korean society could revive again. Anti-working societies and anti-realistic and pratical societies are easily affected by external stimuli because of their weak fundamentals. In particular, the results of destroying the manufacturing industry in export-led countries such as Korea and only active tabletop theory are now gradually revealing.

 

The current Korean government should not be deceived by the ideological public's support for nothing. There is no future for a gradually decreasing government that seeks to gain approval ratings through ideology. What's worse, however, is that the future of both the country and the people will be eliminated. The South Korean government should wake up quickly and have a pragmatic attitude.