A new wave of immigrants from South Korea

V does not love the comfortable life, but pursues the development space.

Zheng Xianggen's home is located on the top floor of a newly completed skyscraper apartment building in Seoul, and you can see the beautiful scenery of the city from the window. Modern works of art are hung on the indoor wall, and a golf bag leans against the door, waiting for the owner to use it when he goes out to exercise in the morning.

However, no matter how comfortable life is, 43-year-old civil engineer Zheng Xianggen decided to leave Korea and emigrate overseas. The country where Zheng Xianggen immigrated is the United States. Like him, hundreds of successful Korean families immigrate to the United States every year.

Zheng Xianggen, managing director of an international construction company in South Korea, admitted: "In South Korea, I have always taken the elite road, where I can spend my life easily." However, he said: "Today's America is the center of the world, and it can provide what people need in a limited way. As the saying goes, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained". I hope my children can grow up according to American standards. "

I used to go abroad because I was poor, but now there are more investment immigrants.

Today's Korean immigrants, compared with the last batch of immigrants in South Korea who are less than a generation apart, have undergone great changes in their identity background. At that time, people went abroad to make a fortune, but now they are rich Koreans who want to find a broader living space abroad.

In 1970s and 1980s, South Korea mainly immigrated from lower-class families, and the reason for going abroad was to improve the economic situation by emigrating overseas.

By the 1980s, the Korean economy began to take off, creating opportunities and hopes for Koreans everywhere. Few people want to get rich by going abroad any more. People who want to go abroad are often the most successful people in Korea, and the reason for going abroad is that these people find that no matter how rich and open Korea is today compared with the past, it can't reach their ideal level. So the choice is to emigrate overseas.

According to statistics, from 65438 to 0980, nearly 30,000 Koreans obtained American visas. But by last year, only 6,696 Koreans had gone to the United States. However, although the overall number of immigrants has decreased, the number of high-income people going abroad has been increasing. According to the information provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, a large number of middle-and high-income people in Korea are migrating abroad, from 720 in 65438+February last year to 926 in February this year. An immigration consultant in Seoul said that Korean immigrants now have a stable economic foundation in China, mainly by investing in immigrant visas.

Children are too tired to study and yearn for American education.

Nowadays, the outstanding Korean middle class who emigrated abroad generally have more than $250,000 in their bank accounts. Their reasons for going abroad include: longing for a broader living space that South Korea does not have. Another reason is that I hope to get greater career development abroad.

Getting a better education for the next generation is another main reason why Korean successful people go abroad. Like Mr. and Mrs. Zheng Xianggen, many Koreans who immigrate to the United States hope that their children can learn personal qualities such as independent personality and the ability to solve practical problems in the United States, which are rarely achieved by Korean schools.

Zheng Xianggen's 39-year-old wife, Geng Yun, said that she is eager to immigrate to Seattle later this year. Especially when I see my 1 1 year-old daughter busy doing her homework at 1 1 every night, I feel very distressed and want her to go to the United States for education as soon as possible.

This country is increasingly open and attaches importance to English education.

American embassy officials said that the United States is usually willing to accept high-quality immigrants like Zheng Xianggen and his wife. These immigrants get investment visas. In order to get such a visa, among other conditions, the applicant is mainly required to invest in a company in the United States, which costs more than 654.38 million US dollars. Zheng Xianggen intends to invest in several small franchised retail stores in the United States, gain a firm foothold first, and then slowly find professional counterparts.

Zheng Xianggen's immigration matters, including getting a visa and finding a foothold in the United States, were entrusted to an immigration service company. Kang Yongxiu, CEO of an immigration service company who immigrated to Canada in his early years, said that the most frequently mentioned reason for his clients' immigration was the English education of the next generation. Attaching importance to English education is the direct result of the rapid economic development and the increasingly open door of South Korea.

Stay in China for a retreat and seek new experiences.

According to Kang Yongxu, his clients' economic strength is very strong, and they think that the $654.38+million needed to invest in immigrants is "only a small part". These people have enviable jobs in China, such as doctors, civil servants and professionals, and many of them have made a fortune from real estate.

Many Koreans who immigrated abroad through investment also decided to leave their industries intact in South Korea in case they can come back when their life and career abroad are not satisfactory. A dermatologist who runs a clinic in the south of Seoul decided to immigrate to Canada for the education of his children. At the same time, he decided not to sell his clinic, but to let one of his colleagues run it on his behalf.

Kim Jong-ja, 37, is a manager of Korea Industrial Bank. His wife is a cancer researcher at Columbia University and currently lives in the United States with their two children. The couple decided to reunite in America in August this year. When talking about why he wanted to go abroad, Kim Jong Il explained: "There is nothing wrong with Korea, but the company I work for now can't teach me anything new. We all regard the United States as the frontier, and I want to go there to gain new experiences. "