Holy shit, South Korea is actually a worse place to live than North Korea. I say this without any hint of irony whatsoever. Parents forcing you to study from 5 am to 2 am every single day. World's lowest fertility rate at less than 1 child per woman. 
"It is a commonly known saying in Korea that 'If you sleep three hours a night, you may get into a top 'SKY university;' If you sleep four hours each night, you may get into another university; if you sleep five or more hours each night, forget about getting into any university.'
Accordingly, many high school students in their final year do not have any free time for holidays, birthdays or vacations before the NCATs (National College Scholastic Aptitude Test, Korean: 수능), which are university entrance exams held by the Ministry of Education.
Cool. Even people in the gulags got time off lol.
Solzhenitsyn "only" had to work from sunup to sundown in the labour camps, being afforded a frankly ridiculous six hours of sleep every night. Also, on the occasion of Stalin's birthday, the inmates would get time off to write letters to the Great Leader rather than work.
And yet americans say that South Korea and Taiwan are shining examples for us in the west to look up to and defend lol.
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