Veri Lee

Karoshi

People are suffered from stress brought on by overwork, and they were treated as parts of a system that are replaceable, not as individual minds.

“As the economy declined in late Choson, it was hard for ordinary people to make a living even though they overworked. Similarly, in contemporary Korea, it is harder and harder to live a good life as people are suffered from stress brought on by overwork, and they were treated as parts of a system that is replaceable, not as individual minds This illustration contains a broken cyborg human who is deadly damaged and undergoing repairs, as a metaphor for overworking contemporary people.”