Buying a house has become out of reach for many. Huge divide between the haves and have nots. Companies will start firing you or reduce your pay after 50, even though retirement is after 60. Retirement pay is small. People feel a big need to make it big early, or suffer later in life. Raising kids is hugely expensive. There is a reason Korea has the lowest birth rate. People have very dire outlook on future. A more pronounced version of what is happening everywhere. Squid game or Parasite, albeit fictional and extreme, are apt representations about a society that has lost its ways. Degen gambling has become socially accepted to try to escape this race to the bottom. Korea developed very fast, too fast, after the war. Broken families, broken people everywhere. Many daughters don't want to go home during national holidays as they will be expected to cook for men. Men feel frustrated about having to serve in the military. Women lick their wounds from the sexual abuse nearly all suffered at some point. Society does not want women to go back to work after giving birth. Hence men and women ressent each other. Many kids take antidepressants. Old people commit suicide as not to be a burden on their kids. I can keep going. It depends of course on every one's personal situation, but this is a rather global trend here. People think money is the only way out.