South Korea is dying (but it has a plan)

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It's quite Amazing how they were able to fit two dystopias in one peninsula.

The issue is, that if you earn 10k a month and an apartment costs 8.5k a month, then you are not a rich country. Wealth is dictated by middle class disposible income.

This seems to be a very convoluted way to justify spending billions on a new city to keep the government and their workers outside North Korean artillery range.

Government: Doesn't build affordable homes Also Government: Why is the birth rate falling?

Crazy that they planned a modern city and didn't think of public transport.

How the fuck do you build a completely new city and not put in a metro system as the very first thing?

South Korea is heading towards Cyber Punk while North Korea is stuck at Steam Punk type of dystopias

I'm Korean and there are few errors. 1. Sejong has been around for 10 years now, and most of things are already built there. 2. The Korean government is not planning to fully replace its capital to Sejong. Only less than half of its government departments are located there and there is no further plan to move the rest to there. Also the main cause of the low birth rate is the fact everything is too competitive. They've been taught from young age that money is everything. Korean people genuinely do not like seeing others becoming successful, and gossiping is what people do with their friends the most. Students are obliged to go to universities at all cost and get masters if better, and along with the fact Korean men go to military for 2 years, most Korean men get their first proper job in their late twenties and early 30s. Almost all Korean people want to live in Seoul or around there making the housing price extremely high. This, along with the fact people start making profit by their 30s, makes it difficult to get married and settle down. In Korean culture, the male side has to prepare a fully owned home prior to marriage and this makes marriage a challenging life event. So Korean people that are rather poor do not even think about getting married. Korean parents also have to spend most of their income on their children's education in order to send them to good universities. This is also the cause for married couples to not have kids, and the high elderly poverty rate of 60%.

If birds don't have a nest, they won't lay eggs. What if nests cost 30x what the birds can afford?

If you've ever seen how ridiculous the education requirements for children are and that anyone who doesn't land a job at Samsung is considered a failure, you have to wonder how anyone with an ounce of compassion will bring a child into that society.

I am Korean, and no we do not have a plan

As a Korean, I can definitely say that sejong has already FAILED

Lemme summarise why they’re not having children: - Too much stress - Too much Work - Too little time - Too much money needed - Too little time for love.

"We don't know why they neglected a transit system" Bruh you literally said the reason earlier in the video, the city planners spent all their time obsessing over self-driving cars.

They are over worked. No time for a hobby, no time for love.

"Our country is going to Hell in a handbasket! What should we do?" "Uhm, I dunno, build a new city?" - Egypt. Saudi Arabia. China. And now, South Korea. ... Am I the only one that fails to see how that is supposed to help solve anything?

6:10 “A population of 100 is reduced to just 6” shows 9 dots

Imagine building a trillion $ city but forgetting it's transportation infra.

not having at least 2 kids per married couple is suicide for any society