Why are Low Cohabitation Rates in Korea Such an Issue?
As I have discussed in great length here before, the Korean education system produces high school graduates that their Western counterparts would find very immature. If you didn’t know that and/or disagree then you a) don’t live here and b) need to read that before you go on, because I take it as a given. Now, being 18 or 19 and immature is not life-threatening in my experience, and while on the one hand Koreans of that age are generally so scared of the opposite sex that that they can only meet via blind dates, and are also not able to think for themselves because they’ve had nothing but rote-learning for the past 10+ years, on the other hand they are disciplined, polite, neat, tidy and very hardworking…so who is more “mature” than whom is a moot point: I can’t stand anyone of that age, Korean, Western, Argentine…whatever. But like I said in that earlier post, while an academic tradition of fostering critical-thinking in schools and particularly at universities exists in Western count
