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What ‘Dead-End Job’ Knows About Korea

November 5, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Bank of Korea, BTS, capitalism, chaebols, class struggle, Dead-End Job, Dead-End Job Netflix, declining birth rate, dystopian fiction, economic inequality, economic satire, elderly poverty, employment agencies, fertility crisis, Fifty Times the Minimum Wage, financial desperation, generational poverty, giant rats, gig economy, honjok, horror comedy, Hyeok-jun, Hyundai, job insecurity, K-drama, K-pop, killer clowns, Korean drama, Korean economy, Korean horror, Korean horror comedy, Korean labor market, Korean pop culture, Korean society, Korean television, Korean Wave, labor exploitation, LG, loan sharks, minimum wage, monster movies, Netflix, Netflix reviews, Netflix series, OECD, Parasite, personal debt, precarious employment, psychological horror, social isolation, social satire, South Korea, South Korean youth, Spider staffing agency, Squid Game, Streaming Television, suicide crisis, supernatural horror, survival horror, television reviews, underemployment, workplace horror, workplace safety, youth unemployment

The agency that finds people jobs of horror is portrayed as the most honest part of life in the country

‘The Yahoo Boys’ and the Clumsy Art of the Romance Scam

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments AI and fraud, artificial intelligence, book criticism, Book Review, Carlos Barragán, catfishing, crime writing, cybercrime, digital culture, economic inequality, Farrar Straus and Giroux, financial fraud, gift card scams, globalization, internet scams, investigative journalism, John Oliver, loneliness epidemic, Mary Worth, Nigeria, Nigerian society, nonfiction books, online dating, online fraud, pig butchering scams, romance scams, scam culture, social psychology, The Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Boys

A new book on the teen scammers of Nigeria gets to the humans, but not the politics

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From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

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