Spoon class theory

A young man drinks water as he sits in his cubicle, called a goshiwon (고시원), where he lives in Suwon (수원), South Korea. The sparsely furnished rooms were previously mostly used by less well-off students to temporarily cut themselves off from the outside world while they studied for civil service job tests. Now they are increasingly becoming permanent homes to young people who identify as the “dirt spoons”, those born to low-income families who have all but given up on social mobility. Photo: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters.