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The Fashion Industry is Honestly Hopeless
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLwJLOFVDQ
Visited a second-hand clothing factory
that sells discarded clothes.
Even brand new clothes worth 80,000 won with tags still attached are just thrown away.
There's even Lacoste.
I guess our country's economic power has grown so much...
that we've become a nation where perfectly fine clothes are just tossed out.
Just brand-name jeans that look perfectly fine.
Second-hand clothing review content is trending in Indonesia.
They say Korean clothes are especially popular.
They don't import from other countries;
they only import used clothes from developed nations
like the US, China, Korea, Japan, and Canada.
(It's practically close to dumping trash...)
Among used clothes, Korean clothes are the most sought-after.
I wonder if that's even a good thing.
The declining quality of clothing
compared to the massive increase in the volume of clothes purchased.
Fast fashion personified...
Developed countries call it "recycling,"
but this is exporting trash.
The black smoke produced when burning textile waste
contains carcinogens.
Because they are burning clothes from other "developed" countries,
carcinogens are coming out of household chimneys.
Totally hopeless...
Filming prohibited.
They sell the clothes they make,
but they know nothing about the disposal process.
That's why it's an industry with high profit margins.
The profit from selling one garment
is higher than the cost of making and discarding two or three.
In other words, they mass-produce
and even if they throw away as much as possible,
it's still a profitable business.
The cost to produce a 30,000 won t-shirt is
5,000 won.
For women's wear, the markup is even higher.
I guess it's the "pink tax" again, huh?
A garment that costs 10,000 won to make -> is reborn as a garment costing over 70,000 won.
They mass-produce on a huge scale in places with cheap labor,
like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Cambodia.
Because that's the only way to lower the manufacturing cost per piece.
In these countries,
labor exploitation is also severe.
(Mostly women with low education levels)
But they say it's still profitable lol...
The amount of water used to make a single scrap of a t-shirt...
Producing one pair of jeans that ends up being thrown away in perfect condition
emits more carbon than a car driving 100km.
I guess it's more environmentally friendly
to use Socar for a thousand kilometers than to wear jeans...
The biggest obstacle until now
has been a structure where no one is held accountable.
A coat purchased from a second-hand market.
Wearing a discarded knit with embroidery added.
In France, people are becoming more aware of discarded clothing,
and the number of people buying from second-hand stores
or repairing their clothes is increasing.
Honestly, these days, if a button falls off or a pocket rips,
I think very few people actually get it repaired.
While individuals are making these efforts,
in a cycle of make-and-toss, make-and-toss,
where an astronomical amount of perfectly new products are thrown away,
this is a problem that's hard to solve through individual effort alone.
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