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Re:South Korean students flock to Japan by wodenokoto on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:51AM (#19907601)
> some of my friends went to Japan for advanced degrees. Most of them came back within a couple of years after their study. 10x or more people around me went to US. The majority of them are still in the country after a few years.

My thinking is that Japanese and Korean work culture is quite similar. So if you want to live in that culture, why not do it closer to your family?

However, if you get smitten by a more western lifestyle in the US or Europe, it will be very hard to return home.

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Re:South Korean students flock to Japan by neoflex on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @08:52AM (#19908970)
>However, if you get smitten by a more western lifestyle in the US or Europe, it will be very hard to return home.

Anecdotal, but I can confirm. I work for a Japanese bank in NYC that has a lot of Japanese expats. A few weeks prior a new expat came over and he was in awe of being able to start work around 8:50 and leave at 6:00, and how easy it is to approach the managers. Meanwhile, the expats that have been in NYC for a while are dreading returning to Tokyo.

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