President Moon’s Economic Advisor Fired After Telling Unemployed Koreans that They Need to Leave the Country
This is probably not the economic advice that most Koreans want to hear, that they need to leave their country and move to Southeast Asia:
President Moon Jae-in’s economic adviser Kim Hyun-chul resigned Tuesday after drawing public ire for saying that young, unemployed Korean language graduates who can’t find a job here should stop blaming “Hell Joseon” and move to Southeast Asia to become Korean language teachers.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Hell Joseon is a term often used to describe how tough Korea can be on its students and graduates looking for jobs amid fierce competition.
Kim, who also teaches international marketing at the Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies, made the remark on Monday in a speech to local CEOs at a luncheon hosted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in central Seoul. The gathering was meant to promote the New Southern Policy, Moon’s ambitious vision of expanding Korea’s influence in Southeast Asia with the promise of treating members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) as diplomatic and economic partners as important to Korea as the United States, China, Japan and Russia.
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As my old English teacher used to say when we got a poor grade, “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.” Told at least one parent that as well.
so he wants unemployed Koreans to teach Hangul to southeast Asians so Southeast Asian can come and work in Korea…wtf?
I think his logic was that they would teach young SE Asians how to speak Korean so that they could conduct trade and work in factories in SE Asia with Korean management because the management class isn’t going to learn SE Asian languages.
Is it better than telling them to “Lean to Code”?
Commie Moon always chooses the best advisors.