The total number of McDonald's branches worldwide is also 40,000.

The reason isn't a love of chicken.

In Korea, your salary automatically increases as you age. Then, due to your age, it starts getting cut by law—what's called the peak wage. And then, because of your age, you're fired before you hit 60.

All that's left in your hands is severance pay. The only thing you can set up with that money is a small chicken restaurant.

In Korea, this industry is called: The graveyard of white-collar workers.

In Korea, 57% of people aged 65 to 69 are working.

Among those over 65, 4 out of every 10 are poor.

There are 42,000 elderly people collecting cardboard on the streets. Their average age is 76. Their hourly earnings are 12.7% of the minimum wage.

All of this is in Samsung's country.

The country escaped poverty in 30 years.

The generation that carried development on its back couldn't escape.

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