In North Korea, maybe the most brutal dictatorship in the world, die up to 2.000 prisoners in political labor camps every year. In South Korea die up to 20.000 people in suicide every year.

What is going wrong here? What tends these people to choose death instead of the bright life that was meant for them? Stress, competition, force to perform? What brings them to choose the exploitation instead of having a good life? It looks like South Korean have their own sort of private labor camp with themselves as the only prisoner.

I don’t talk in promotion of the North Korean dictatorship. Thank God, we came over that. We gained freedom to choose, do and fulfill our lives. But is that the outcome we were dreaming of?

You might say, South Korea is far away. But if we look at our world, the western, once called first world, where are we now? Working 80hours a week, having multiple jobs, highly educated people work for little money, people cue up for exploitation jobs. That is real. Depression, burn out and psychological disease keep rising.
Are we on the same track? Was that the freedom we were looking for? Do we also have this private little self exploiting labor camps here around us?
If this is so, where did we miss the train?