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Aftereffects of South Korean Society's Rapid Growth Focused on Materialism

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Summarized by durumis AI

  • In a competitive society focused on individual success, humanity and social values have been ignored, leading to a survival-of-the-fittest society like the law of the jungle.
  • This is because education has been distorted and interpersonal relationships have become superficial in a reality dominated by nuclear families and materialistic values.
  • True human relationships are formed through sharing and respecting each other's thoughts, but in reality, true communication has disappeared in the midst of competition and hierarchy.
  • The law of the jungle hidden in a society of skills and abilities centered on exams
  • Cultivating talent that aims for one's own advancement and success, thus producing talent indulged in greed
  • The true face of children's education by parents of nuclear families – classroom education collapses
  • The loss of true human relationships - True friends should be able to share what's in their hearts


Elementary, middle, and high school friends are relatively pure in the time they met, so they tend to maintain their friendships even after they become adults. However, after graduating from school and meeting decades later, they may find that while they are happy to go back to their school days, they have different thoughts and beliefs solidified due to their work environment, political culture, religion, and other factors over the long years.

Overlooking this and trying to become close friends by simply returning to childhood can lead to side effects. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain friendships in a more cautious and thoughtful relationship as you get older.

These days, social networking services (SNS) are developing, and these virtual spaces are becoming homes for hobby groups, relatives, and groups of friends, and they continue to interact and communicate. However, for true communication, it is necessary to at least express one's own thoughts and listen to and acknowledge the other person's opinions. Only then can friends who have been apart for a long time know each other's thoughts and understand the underlying environment.

However, it is not easy to find this kind of behavior in most meetings. This is probably due to the side effects of Confucian customs, such as the importance of hierarchical order, which has led to a custom of insufficient communication between generations in families and schools.

However, even if friends don't meet often, creating an atmosphere where they can express their opinions in virtual spaces and listen to each other's opinions can maintain good relationships. Since writing comes from one's own thoughts, exchanging short messages can make you know the person, and even if there are different opinions, understanding the background can make you a communicating friend.

Sometimes you don't know your own mind, but through this kind of sufficient interaction, you will find friends you like and continue to have free and meaningful conversations. At this point, who would envy this? And who would stop it?

Humans inevitably associate with and become friends with people who have similar thoughts and preferences, but when you go deeper into yourself and begin to reflect on yourself and discover your self, you can then shed your hard shell. From then on, you will come to know the world you have never thought about before and gain new insights.

Then, you will discover your own solidified thoughts, and you will realize that everything you have liked has been directed at you, and you have not looked after your neighbor. You will regret this. This is also a sign of moving to a higher level of human maturity, so it is truly welcome.

School education and social experience are important, but in South Korea, under rapid growth, performance-based, prestigious schools, and workplaces have become the top priorities in life. However, there was a jungle law of ranking based on skills and abilities in those places.

Therefore, the values of human virtues such as character, personality, and sharing with neighbors were completely ignored, and this has been a stumbling block to human maturity and a healthy society.

These days, while experiencing the regression of democracy and the attempt to undermine the rule of law, most citizens are feeling that the foundation of South Korean society and the nation is collapsing.

This is probably one of the side effects of being swept away by the rapid wave of materialism over the past 30 years. This generation is experiencing the aftermath of raising and educating children in the absence of mental education, national history consciousness, and philosophy in families.

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