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Mark Manson, an American bestselling author and famous YouTuber, has made headlines by posting a video that he "traveled to the world's most depressing country" after visiting Korea. Manson, a best-selling author who has written famous self-development books such as "The Art of Turning Off Nervousness," is a YouTube creator with 1.44 million subscribers.

Manson recently released a 24-minute video on his YouTube channel under the theme of "Traveling to the World's Depressing Country." During his visit to Korea, Manson met with Americans, psychologists, and psychiatrists living in Korea to look into depression in Korean society.

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago
[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

Korea and Japan are in the same general situation, but in Korea it's taken to the extreme. So suicide rates, average working hours, etc etc.

[-] GhostFence@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Lowest birth rate in the whole world, too. 0.84 births per woman.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

For the Koreans I met who moved to Japan, the work culture can be less bad, as can be working at certain companies despite where they graduated from. My sample size is small, though, and I am neither Japanese nor Korean.

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