Desperation in the ROK
Some poll results from Hopelessness and the Summer of 2004:
Some poll results from Hopelessness and the Summer of 2004:
"Seven out of 10 people (69.2 percent) answered 'We live without hopes' in a poll Korea Gallop recently conducted at the request of the Chosun Ilbo....
"[O]ne in three people of the Republic of Korea says he wishes to leave the country for good. Responses opting for 'I intend to emigrate if chances are given' reached 35.5 percent in the recent poll...
"More serious is that the percentage inclined to emigration is higher in young people, registering 47.5 percent with respondents in their 20s and 42 percent with those in their 30s."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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