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Pulling apart the idol industry's structure, I snagged on the 'med school rush = national disease' frame. Turn off the moral filter and look only at resource flow, and something looks different.
People cheering for the drama 《참교육》 snagged on something. Not because the shock value lands, but because it looked closer to a scream from people who've seen the system stop. And that scream seems to share a mechanism with the anti-PC and alt-right backlash.
No matter how hard content like 참교육 indicts the abnormality, the classroom doesn't change. Working through college-admissions lock-in, populism disguised as equality, and how in a society whose consensus has broken, individuals end up either exiting or free-riding.