"South Korea is a horribly competitive nation with its cut-throat college entrance exams, narrow chances of employment, insecure old-age life, difficulty in getting married, and steep suicide rates... I feel really happy that I was not born as a [South] Korean... Marriage is difficult unless they are college graduates... In order to get a good wife they have to be a graduate of first-rate university, and have to hold a job at top companies in South Korea... South Koreans want a glamorous marriage ceremony to save their face in front of others... Making a success in South Korea's highly competitive society is extremely difficult... I feel happy to be born in Japan not in South Korea... Their desperate wriggling out of this horrible competition led to their dispair and grumbling directed toward President Park... I doubt if South Korea is a democratic nation or not... Some citizens clamor for the stepdown of President Park even before the verdict on her is not officially made yet... This kind of thing is unthinkable in Japan... Last year over 70 percent of all successful entrants to South Korea's Foreign Ministry are all women... Females get much higher scores in the exam for the foreign officers... Women have more time to prepare for the exam while males are forced to serve in the military... Compulsory draft system for males is the reason."
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