Upon reviewing Matthew Anderson’s post ‘Sweating for Samsung’, I reflected on the current education system that young Koreans are going through to prepare themselves for employment. As a Korean who’s heard of the harsh and arduous education system in Korea, it is hard to hear that student suicide rates are increasing. They spend an abundance on preparation for applications and on top of this is stress caused from the anticipation of being selected as an employee. I do agree with Anderson that the company could help applicants with the application process and help alleviate the stress. This great amount of stress is unhealthy for the prospective employees and for the future success, the company should find a way to help these applicants. It comes to surface that companies should invest in the care of the physical and mental state of employees and prospective employees as well. For the success of the company, the personnel must be able to be fully effective and the build up of stress can lower the efficiency of the workers and the results produced by the company.

(image: ‘stress’ from google images)

https://blogs.ubc.ca/matthewanderson/2013/11/08/sweating-for-samsung/