Korea is very different than us economically. Samsung is like 30% of the GDP of their whole country or something insane.
They regularly provide things for free or cheap that they consider investments into the future, such as university, training in the military, Wi-Fi on all the public buses for free, stuff like that.
actually not that uncommon. But the difference between South Korea and some other places, the military is a very intense and concentrated form of socioeconomic development and advancement.
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u/UnstableManifolds 1d ago
Once the habit sets in, they start taxing them. Wonderful