People who have Korean first can't get it if they go abroad and get a new citizenship, going the other way there are ways for you to keep both. They changed the laws back in 2011.
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Air pollution from China along with thinking about other people besides yourself helped with that. When the pandemic broke everyone already had a box or two of N95 masks in their house. The government also took immediate control over the mask industry and started rationing them.
They had strict mask regulations, people stayed home, they closed most businesses that would help spread it, things like home delivery for groceries was already a pretty big thing in Korea at the time, and the delivery food business is massive there. Initially, outside of an outbreak caused by a church cult, numbers were very low in Korea.
They only started going up when they allowed the kids to go back to school, but were still generally very low because people were pretty careful. They also had public free government testing and home test kits were pretty easily available. If you tested positive on a home kit, you just walked over to the local outdoor testing center, stepped up and got tested, they texted you the results the next day along with instructions on how long to quarantine and then they sent you a care package of some food, masks, blood oxygen monitors, etc.
Sure, lived there 15 years and obtained dual citizenship.
I've now lived long term in my third country, so I am certainly in a position to compare living in multiple countries. If we want to focus just on depression, it's a mixed bag.
Do Koreans work longer than other countries. Yes certainly. Statistics support that. Are they necessarily working 'harder'? Not always. It depends a lot job to job, company to company.
To me the biggest thing contributing to overwork is the lack of holidays. For the longest time most statutory/bank holidays were not given additional days off if they fell on the weekend. Combine that with most companies not just giving you 2-4 weeks that you can use whenever you want, and most people worked a lot with little down time. Most companies would have a bit of time off in the summer, but they'd all take it at the same time and the prices would sky rocket meaning it was hard to enjoy what little time off you had.
This is not universal though. I know some larger companies had programs where people got specific days of the month off in addition and some had other half days on top of that.
focus on collective and ignoring individual needs and problems
This is a tough one. While they certainly do that in Korea, and things are changing in that regard as they're acknowledging individualism more, it has certainly lead to a lot of efficiencies. As an example, to exchange a driver's license in Korea it takes about 30 minutes and costs $10-15. In the UK you need to send it away, it costs £45, and takes 3+ weeks for them to process. If there are any issues, like say someone at the DVLA told you that your license officially printed in both English and Korean didn't need a translation and then some jobsworth at the DVLA decided it did upon receipt, it has to be first sent back to you before you can go correct it.
For the most part bureaucratic stuff in Korea, while often talked about on the internet, is far easier to deal with, and much faster than it is in any of the other countries I've lived in. They also have a solid, central clearing house for making complaints about any organization in the country, government or private, and it can be done in just about any language.
The biggest issue I see contributing to poor quality of life is the density. Even when you have free time, you can't enjoy anything outside of your house there. Want to go to the part? so did 1500 other people. Want to check out the cherry blossoms? Sure thing. Tag along wit your 5000 neighbours. Hit up ikea? Sure hope you like walking through it shoulder to shoulder without the ability to actually look at anything.
The density also means that no really has the ability to spread out and relax. Everyone lives in apartments/condos. Very few have yards. Those are the real day to day negatives that drag people down. I worked in companies as a proper employee and managed people as well, and while it was tough at times, it would have been so much better if it was possible to really enjoy your life outside of that. People want to, but it's just very difficult in a small space with so many people.
I think it depends a lot on how you say 'aunts'
Being a programmer is a lot like being a tradesperson. A tradesperson has a lot of flexibility in what they can do. They can work for a company, work freelance, or start their own business.
Programming gives you the same flexibility, the most important bit being that you can do it for yourself.
AI is going to struggle with larger complex tasks for a long time coming. While you can go to it and say 'write me a script to convert a png to a jpg' you can't go to it and say 'Write me a suite of tools to support business X' or 'make me a fun and creative game' A good programmer isn't going to be out of work for a long time.
The only reason I could see them region locking is because they must sell them cheaper in one region vs another. But it's unlikely that they'd sell them cheap enough that people couple buy them, then ship them for any significant savings (or any savings) at all over their locally available ones.
I already contacted HP about resetting the region, that isn't an issue. I've also used third party cartridges in the past with it, I just wasn't sure if those were still region locked or not, as I know the third party places there actually had an exchange program where they took back your old cartridge (you got a discount) and I assume they reused it by refilling it somehow.
It wasn't an HP printer when I bought it, it was samsung, and it's a very good printer.
I have the colour laser jet as I'm printing things that will be kept around like print and play games, or standees for skirmish/rpg games. I may give it a go on one colour though and see. I just wasn't sure if the official and region locking part of these cartridges was in the same bit or if it was something that might have to be bypassed separately. But if you're getting cartridges from aliexpress then it's probably fine.
The printer is a samsung originally, HP owns their overseas business, and they have an identical model here just branded with HP. it's a really good printer. It's the Samsung version of the HP Color Laser 178nw.
Which makes me think that the 3rd party replacement cartridges would be fine, I'd just like to know for sure before wasting money on them. I actually don't mind the original cartridges. We did replace our yellow with a 3rd party cartridge at one point and you could actually see a difference, but for the time being I just want to get as much as we can out of our old cartridges before making the official switch.
reels were the absolute downfall of instagram. Compared to pre-reels it's such a shithole now.