salaryman
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salarymen
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The diverse characters of the show - which include a salaryman, a migrant factory worker and a cryptocurrency scammer - are drawn from figures many South Koreans would find familiar.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
For Nakamura, the salaryman, the issue highlighted the deepening pain for single-income Japanese households such as his own.
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2022
At a ceremony at a local temple, he met Sachiko, a thirty-year-old woman with two young children, a salaryman husband who was never around, and an electric, curious mind.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 17, 2019
No self-respecting salaryman of the mid-2000s was without a BlackBerry, and the basic idea can trace its ancestry back at least as far as the hand-held personal digital assistants of the 1990s.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2017
There is nothing delicate or contemplative about Cocoron’s rich and lusty broths: this is soba as soul food, what a salaryman would eat standing up, slurping, in 15 minutes flat.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2011
In Japan, a country with a long-established hard-work culture, where so-called salarymen have notoriously supported the post-war economy with utter dedication to their employers, there is even a word for it: Karōshi.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
They served a pair of salarymen who were already a few beers into their evening.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
In the morning, salarymen with their pressed white shirts and briefcases wait in line behind kids getting something to eat before school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
These salarymen barely see their wives and children during the week.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2017
The only ones still standing were the mundanes, the salarymen who'd been just trying to get to their jobs.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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