Before, during, and after the Korean War, I remember having seen a bunch of homeless people

in the streets of Korea. It was just like yesterday. Most of these people had no choices.

However, now, in the U.S., the tent-cities with homeless people, even without any ongoing war,

we see them in the street corners. Many of them had a choice of living in the public shelters,

but they would rather choose to stay in the streets. 

I saw the news about these people in Denver. I don't know why.

They are not necessarily the same poor people I saw during the Korean War.

A lot of them may be mentally sick people.

I guess most Korean immigrants are not a part of these people.

The "Korean Koreans" should not worry about the "Korean Americans" in the U.S.

We, most Korean Americans, not being homeless, play golf every day in California.

We do not drive or wear extravagant autos or fashions, though, like the pure Korean version.

https://youtu.be/W1jEFfR6Phk
Being homeless in Korea 

There are about 3,800 homeless in Seoul. They live mostly in subway stations.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/451830-helping-the-homeless-lessons-from-welfare-reform/

Helping the homeless: lessons from welfare reform

In order to analyze whether work would work, here are some statistics on whom the homeless are:

—75 percent or so of the nation’s homeless do not suffer from serious mental illness, leaving a quarter of the population perhaps in need of mental health services. The remainder might well be able to go to work.

—38 percent are dependent on alcohol, with 26 percent dependent on drugs. 

—About 50,000 former convicts enter shelters after release each year.

—12 percent of the homeless are military veterans.

To many people, this would seem a stubborn population to coax into work. But experience tells us something different. There is hope of employment for people with addiction problems, homeless veterans, ex-offenders and those with mental illness. Where work has been the tool, normal life has followed.