Why Koreans Are Moving BACK To S. Korea

there's a new trend that Koreans are leaving Canada the UK and America to move back to South Korea what's going on we came all the way to the west to chase the gold bag but now it appears it's time to go back no we got to talk about it uh this is going viral Korea sees increasing trend of reverse migration here's the article cost of living safety infastructure and health care are now amongst reasons for moving back to the motherland Korea is winess ing a pattern of reverse migration from countries Andrew such as the US Canada and Britain that were once considered dream destinations for people seeking opportunities damn it those are the best countries the Western countries they have like the cleanest most advanced how could they leave it to go back to South Korea we got to talk about it because we got reasons why South Koreans are moving back now we got to talk about real quick who is moving back are these korean-americans no well these are mostly people that were born in Korea were Korean citizens at some point but want to come back to Korea either stay a US citizen while moving back to Korea or actually get their Korean citizenship back through a new program right so they were already immigrants to for example America or Canada maybe they felt like they weren't achieving what they wanted or things got uncomfortable or they got worried or something popped up in South Korea so they're moving back well it's okay because we never consider them Real Americans anyway so you know they're just going back back to their motherland and that's where they belong but uh South Korea has always had a different relationship with America it's a much better than the relationship that America has with China you know like South Korea is not China um make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications check out small ass sauce on Amazon right now uh let's go get into the article it says there are four things I love about living in Korea is cheaper to eat out compared to the US it's safer Korea got a lot security cameras all in the street block by block and the Speedy Delivery system and delivery culture they making life so convenient yes there are certain things that we're going to go through that actually are much more convenient in Asia than in America although probably the average standard of living in America is still pretty good but there's certain things that America's lacking and so uh we're going to get into the seven reasons why people are moving back to Korea David what do you got to say before real real quick I got to say this I've uh spent a DEC amount of time in Japan in South Korea in China in Taiwan in Singapore in Hong Kong uh I'll say this Korea of those places felt the most like America like I'm not saying it felt like America I'm just saying relative of all those places it felt the most like America yeah I I think it is influenced by America obviously they're able to do Western art forms better than the West in certain aspects right obviously we know K-pop kramas those type of movie certain types of movies they do extremely well so yeah I could see that yeah I mean the weather almost reminds you of like Denver a little bit you know Rocky Mountains Granite you Seattle Chicago um I'll say this Japan feels like somebody designed a vision in the future in the year 1990 MH in China depending on where you go Andrew it feels either like the year 1900 it feels like Blade Runner or like some sort of like post-apocalyptic future or it feels like potentially a slightly tacky version of the world in the year 2100 yeah China is very much steampunk now I would say this in South Korea it does feel uh it feels more middle class I'm not saying that they don't have their own middle class economic issues like it's getting crunched yeah there are a lot of shows about it that you could watch too but definitely their culture seems more middle class they have strong entertainment strong Sports they are really into food you need a strong middle class to kind of support those things uh there's also this show that I watched on Netflix called my name is lowkey which was kind of about like Koreans going back to Belgium going to Belgium to work in Brussels but then some of them by the end of the series I hope this is not spoiling anything go back to South Korea I'm not going to lie Andrew me and you have been to Brussels I'm taking Soul over Brussels in a heartbeat all right all right daveid we got to go into the list seven reasons why people are moving back to Korea let's delve deep uh Point number one they're retiring so a lot of people are saying that these stats of this quote unquote increasing trend is driven by people's parents who rais their kids as Americans their kids are native English speakers but as a retiree what are they going to do in America unless they're super Americanized why not go back to Korea as an American with an American passport and like American Savings yeah I think it's really interesting for some Asian immigrant parents to do this because it's like you came all the way to America in the70s right you lived here for like anywhere from 25 to 45 years to 55 you lived in America you became American right you had your kids you raised them in America you struggled through America you succeeded in America and then at the end of your life you're like oh I want to die in Korea that's where I'm going to go right but to be fair and it's not just actually South Koreans I know people of every ethnicity whose parents went back moved back to Korea but I know the most people who are Korean like I know the most of the people I know who parents did this were Korean yeah I I've heard Japanese people doing this I know some friends who's Vietnamese parents after they kind of made it in America they can live kind of like a nice life in the motherland Taiwanese parents do this Taiwanese do this Chinese have done it uh I want to say our parents had this conversation they weren't close to moving back I don't think they're going to move back uh but they even because I think they had heard about this idea so much they even brought it up right right right also if you're over 65 you can restore your Korean nationality and actually get government pension on top of your American pension that you get either from the US government or from more more realistically from your corporation it's wild uh Point number two they're young and they see opportunities so even though there's not a lot of granular stats of the increasing trends that they have of thousands of people doing this some of them have to be young but they could be moving back for opportunities that they might not have in America such as participating in media you can't be a K-pop Star Andrew unless you're in Korea right like even Lisa if she goes to the US or Thailand she can never become a global pop star oh I mean Korea is just popping right now so there's definitely things going on there's a good amount of energy over there people are like oh what's the next Korean Trend you know so yeah I could see even for some young people they would move back especially if they feel like uh they didn't really hit a home run in America maybe they maybe they grew up for 10 years and they were like you know I never really fit in here and then they're like I'm going to go back to Korea right maybe they're singles maybe they're hitting doubles but they wanted home runs they were looking for those big wins and you know let's be honest life is just like that not everybody gets those everybody knows somebody who did but you're not necessarily that guy Point number three uh they might just be really really proud of being Korean and feel some draw to their ancestral Homeland Andrew a lot of people were saying especially the guys do yeah I mean I think a lot of guys out there uh would move back to Korea and maybe marry a traditional Nas Korean lady uh also I mean Korea is just popping right now so think about it there's so many opportunities like let's say you're like from a family of four from Korea right and like let's say you're like the youngest brother who moved to America and you try to start your own business and maybe some of it went well some of it didn't go very well but then your family member back in South Korea is like hey you know like we started selling like this new like honey butter like puff corn stick snack that's like trending so like come back and like help us you know do this opportunity over they're like oh we got the new topoki that's like in the shape of like hearts and then like it's trendy on Tik Tok so like this is a new like there's just if you have family over there and they got a good business opportunity why keep struggling in America when you have that optionality by the way I do think let's be honest I think the guys are more likely to move back than women are because it's more of a patriarchal society over there whereas they may feel here or like Asian women may have more of an advantage in the west than Asian guys true that's true that's true uh Point number four they want to be with their family pretty self-explanatory it just depends on where your clan is at how close you are to your clan how much value they can add do you guys do business together do you guys just hang out together Point number five Andrew a lot of people are saying America may have seen its best days Peak behind it that was indicated in the article as well well let's say if South Korea is at I don't know if it's at its peak but it is definitely at its high of you know like of their civilization I guess of like it's in its peak Zone how like globally popular and like you know influential South Korea then yeah I mean it's definitely at its Point relative higher than America right uh this guy said it's not that Korea is that great it's just that everywhere else has turned into ish because obviously South Korea is not that great for working especially if you're not working as a foreigner right right right uh this guy said left Korea when I was 15 naturalized when I was 22 and I came back and moved back when I was 30 there was other unpleasant aspects of us Society such as drugs and politics and too much violence that uh I just really couldn't deal with however people do not treat me like I am one of them because I've been gone for so long hey guys South Korea has a negative birth rate man they need some babies over there so maybe if there's some fellas or ladies who feel like I want to go contribute to the motherland's population they going back but somebody said the quality of life in the states especially big cities just seems to get worse and worse and it's hard to see this country improving meaningfully in areas of healthare and social security number six Andrew Asians get targeted in the US for crime and maybe overall just not treated as good as they should be yeah and I wonder if this has anything to do with kind of the anti-chinese sentiment in America anti-china sentiment I should be more specific when I use my words uh you know closely but I guess like do you think at all Koreans are like dang like in America we getting mistaken as Chinese I should just move back to Korea like we're clearly not like getting the full respect here uh I I definitely think some of them feel that way but I don't really you know before that people hated the Chinese they hated the Japanese during World War I and stuff like that and like so I it's really like then they hated North Korea with Kim Jong ill and then Kim Jong-un now so it's like I don't really know I just think it that is the the main focal point right now but I just don't I I think it would make some difference but not a huge difference um somebody said I think most Asians are overly educated and underappreciated in the US Canada Britain they will break into your car and burn your house down and beat you up because you're Asian of course you know some of that is like a slight exaggeration but it's also like you get where that comment is coming from right yeah number seven they can get access to a better personal lifestyle but also infrastructure such as health care and dental work is much cheaper wow oh not to mention those cosmetic surgeries are cheaper too oh that's a good point right and especially the the Asian doctors the Korean doctors who like they're going to more understand like the the the genetics of Asian right yeah uh number eight it's just got a good lifestyle overall right now um some people are saying Andrew in Japan they've reached reach a point where they didn't want to immigrate from Japan for like many many decades right or at least they would come and work for Honda or Toyota corporate or whatever and then go back so basically it's South Korea at that point where people are enjoying it so much that they just like they just need to come to America for what they need to do and then ultimately go back versus like permanently immigrating all next 30 generations of their family um but a lot of people were saying that you know ultimately it really comes down to like what your place in society is they're saying it's still better be a middle class wage earner in America than a middle class wage earner in Korea it'd be easier in America to get ahead economically oh got it so ultimately let's just take a look at some of the comments here it said good take your talents where they're appreciate Asia is trending up just look at this past Olympics yeah I think that a lot of people are moving back though and Andrew even countries that were considered like third world countries like Jakarta I and in in Indonesia I see some people moving back to Jakarta you know what I mean because they could bring like American ideas back to jakara um somebody said no it's just old fob parents moving back and that's what's Shifting the macro stats so basically some people are saying it's just older parents other people are saying that you know a lot of people have a fairy tale vision of Western countries and they think their own country as hell but literally it's just a grass is greener on the other side type of situation just like aso's Fable of the country mouse and City Mouse yeah I think a lot of people are that other people said it sucks to be a woman raised over there so it's just good if you're a man and you're single and then Andrew this guy Dropped a Bomb he said immigration is a sham Why move to the West your daughter's going to marry white your son is going to marry Asian but be have no power living in an ethnic enclave and this is just going to make you lose all sense of what makes you you for generations to come what a sham oh man um yeah I mean here's the truth guys that I do know somebody who's like probably fell into this situation before but you can also live completely unhappy soulless life being in your motherland too getting like squeezed by whatever Dynamics over there clearly South Korea is not all rainbows and fairies and uh a Heavenly life because to be honest there's a lot of sadness in South Korea we already know this birth rates are negative suicide rate is very very high so obviously people have very strong emotions about their situation in that country too so I'm not here to say South Korea is 10 times better than America not to say like obviously I think American life is still very great but yeah depending on your stage of life I could definitely see why you want to move back to Korea you know for sure for sure if I was my friends older Korean parents I could totally see why yeah here's what I would say to those people that want to move back and can move back like you should be Greatful for the optionality like you should just be grateful that you can even consider it you should be grateful that you can even go back to South Korea and just be like oh I didn't make it in America I'm going go back you mean have a dope motherland that you can uh split time 6 months in 6 months out not everybody has a motherland country that they really want to go back to yeah I get it if you come back as like a millionaire almost any country is going to be great right but like yeah I mean even if you're like Burmese you're just probably never going to go back to Burma or me and Mario yeah there's just certain countries that like are so hard to go back to like you know what I mean so it's almost like the fact that South Korea is such a good country that you're even using it as a plan B to go back to that's pretty cool like you should be grateful for that you know what I mean should everybody like take that optionality and explore it I think everybody like that's your advantage that's one of your advantages right maybe you think as a South Korean or an Asian in America you don't have that many advantages and we're underappreciated we're overlooked we're underrated a little bit yeah a little invisible yeah a little bit invisible so but your advantage is that you can go back and your country is good your country is great right right right and even though you might feel like when you go back you're treated as a goopo or like somebody who doesn't really fully you didn't go through military service or whatever like that if you're a guy so you don't like fully blend in it's like you you just go hang out with the other foreigners too so that would be a new identity and you yeah you'd have a lot of optionality there to come back as an American I mean like you said everybody's in a different situation Andrew and uh even two twins you know somebody got a family in the US he can't leave cuz what he going to do move his whole family over the kids get you know pay for International School his twin brother is single he can move and that might be the right play for him but they're two twins with the same personality raised in America living the same life do you see what I'm saying like it's all like I think a lot of people they look at their situation they're like oh man I'm born here I'm like super like all about the stars and stripes and I can't leave dude this whole you could view whole the life as just like a uh games like a um Counter Strike Maps somebody's really good at dust two somebody else is good at playing a different map if you're the beast at that map just go to the map that you're like the best aligned with that you can that you feel like flows with you the best but I think that a lot of people they look at the bulk Distribution on this growth curve I mean on this curve distribution chart and they're like yo but most people like me aren't doing it I'm like you could be an outlier you could be on the book end you just got to take analyze deeply analyze the pros and the cons given your own situation and you know in your heart where you belong and where you align with go there and like you said you should be lucky that you even have that choice CU not everybody that is Asian does so anyway guys let us know what you think in the comments section below reverse migration back to Asia back to South Korea particularly in this viral article's case let us know what you think until next time with the hot hop boys we out peace