woman in her thirties who’d just gotten a haircut. ‘The Puritan work ethic has also influenced the way we think about work – placing work on a moral pedestal. Those who work are contributing members of society; skivers are useless. It’s ridiculous that the idea of hard work as a way of gaining salvation survived centuries, crossing time and space to be passed on to people like me – a non-religious person living in twenty-first-century Korea, precariously holding on to my job.
