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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Old Folks and Menial Labor in Korea
In granpa apartment guards, Antti Leppäsen reports on something I've always found sad in Korea: old folks working at difficult and low-paying jobs.

The university I work for employs old ladies to cut the lawns (by hand, not lawnmower) and trim the bushes. This is the type of work I used to do in the summers, but it's too demeaning for Korean young people, who sometimes seem like Little Lord Fauntleroys.

To be fair, I've heard the American youth no longer do this type of character-building work anymore; they leave it to illegal immigrants.