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The importance of wealth and social status in Korea?

In America, it doesn't really matter if you're a doctor or a lawyer. Socioeconomic status has relatively little impact on one's life other than materialistic benefits.

I heard this was different in Korea, and that the wealthy receive much more respect and are even marriage targets.

I was wondering if anyone from Korea could elaborate on these points. I'm writing a report on socioeconomic structure in Korea, and it would be of great help!!

It's important to consider this thing in regard to marriage and in regard to how society generally perceives a person outside of marriage.

In marriage, a man's money and job title is the #1 factor. It's the vast majority of the calculus used to decide whether a man is marriageable or not. Maybe 80% or 90%.

Just look a the chaebols (the big corporations). Their genealogical trees resemble European royalty's genealogical trees -- the same names keep popping up everywhere. Rich chaebol execs marry off their daughters to other rich chaebol execs.

Korean women have plastic surgery and study for years at university to become stewardesses and secretaries at good companies that will put them in contact with rich men. Can you imagine a woman getting a master's degree with the end goal of becoming a secretary? In Korea, this is common.

Unfortunately for Korean men, the women frequently realize after getting married that they can be getting more gold elsewhere, which is why the divorce rate is so high. Why settle for Mr. Kim, with his salary of 2,000,000 won a month, when Mr. Park makes 4,000,000?

A few Korean women aren't golddiggers, but they're generally very dynamic, interesting women that men are competing for left and right.

OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE, money is much less important. Education and job title are far more important than money outside of marriage.

Is there a construction worker who dropped out of middle school and makes 5,000,000 won a month? He's not even a human being. He has no education. He's like a wolf wearing clothes.

Is there someone with a PhD from Yonsei University making 2,000,000 won in the civil service? MUCH more prestige.

Korean history and folklore is full of stories of "poor scholars" and civil servants who sacrificed all material goods. For instance, one famous civil servant would only wear the lining of his clothes around the house so as not to dirty his one set of clothing. He lived austerely to prevent himself from being corrupted.

Park Chung-hee was a dictator with enormous power -- at that time, South Korea had a population of over 30,000,000 people. However, Park Chung-hee lived very, very spartanly. He'd get his haircuts and shaves from a hole-in-the-wall barber in Hyoja-dong (good movie, BTW). He would not buy extravagant things.

In conclusion, job title and education are what society considers important in Korea. It's mainly women who are concerned about bank balance. A person can be poor and respected, but being uneducated/young/in a menial job almost always relegate a person to "persona non grata" status.

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