Menial made cool: Former K-pop artiste Oh Ji-min decided to seek out manual skills that could give him more financial leeway. — Photos provided to The Korea Herald/ANN
FOR a long time, the image of most blue-collar jobs in South Korea is of work for people who don’t have what it takes to get office jobs.
With 76.2% of Korea’s high school graduates going on to higher education, white collar work has firmly established itself as the preferred option.
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