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.
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.
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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