Failure feels more unforgiving to young Koreans: study

Young Koreans feel greater anxiety and frustration over failure than older generations, a report showed Monday. According to a nationwide survey of 1,500 adults conducted by KAIST's Failure Research Institute in October 2024, 62.3 percent of Gen Z respondents, born between 1997 and 2012, and 65.3 percent of millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, agreed that people who fail once are viewed as losers in Korean society. The figures were roughly 10 percentage points higher than those among first-g