I’ve heard from a lot of NATO leftists that China should be more like South Korea. People who say that only get their knowledge of that country from Kpop and Kdramas.
People who say that only get their knowledge of that country from Kpop and Kdramas.
reactionary industries which are hubs of human trafficking and SA btw. great place to get your knowledge and respect for a whole country from
Kpop, Kdrama, and anime really influenced Western perspectives on East Asia.
I feel like I get most of my knowledge of South Korea from Kpop, and that alone is enough to see how dystopian it is.
Idols are dehumanized and treated as commodities. They’re overworked, starved, and heavily scrutinized starting at a very young age all while being separated from their family. Many trainees also can’t quit because they will owe a debt to the company for their training. Even trainees who debut don’t get paid until they pay the company back for their training.
I understand no one is forced to be an idol and it’s actually mostly made up of kids from wealthy families, but it’s still a brutal industry. When even the glamorous celebrities are worked to the bone, life must be so much harder for everyone else.
This is JUST LIKE SQUID GAME.
unlike the DPRK the South Korean military dictatorship installed by the USA actually did police haircuts [article]
Their hair in that picture isn’t even that long. Rest in piss Park.
Seems silly of them considering how prolific North Korean hackers are, at least according to Western media. They’ll just pass their silly hacking mini game and turn the turrets on South Korea
The US military did a test with something like 20 soldiers where they had to avoid detection by autonomous systems designed to detect humans.
Every single one of the soldiers used a different method and every single one of them succeeded in not getting killed by the system. Tactics varied from moving extremely slowly in prone position to literally metal gear solid hiding inside a cardboard box, one soldier covered themselves in tinfoil.
These will be no different. Easily defeatable simply by behaving in ways that are outside its detection, or not looking like a human being.
south Korea is one of the few countries on earth that seems like they’d be worse to live in, from a “hope for the future” point of view, than the US
Death to America
Please don’t start defending North Korea, it’s going too far
I can accept today’s China, today’s Russia takes quite the mental gymnastics but sure, North Korea though is plain too far
The DPRK has literally done nothing wrong lmao
Russia is an evil capitalist hellscape oligarchy, no one should defend Russia. But the DPRK’s entire history has been one of oppression by the US. They haven’t even had the chance to do anything evil if they wanted to lol
So you can accept the Uyghur genocide but you can’t accept DPRKs labour camps?
Damn, you seem to take a strong authoritarian line, you want to tell people which countries they can “defend”, defend from what exactly? So any and all anti-Korean propaganda must go unchallenged according to you, because questioning any of it is “too far?” Just because you’ve internalized and enforce the thought control of your authoritarian society on yourself, doesn’t give you a right to thought police others.
they’re lying about china and russia, but telling the truth about the DPRK?
we respect the Red, White, and Blue around here, friend
🇰🇵You’re not allowed to talk about North Korea, at all, in any context or capacity, until you go read this book.
Like, you - specifically you - are forbidden from ever talking about the DPRK again, until you go read about what happened during the Korean war in this book. Every time you decide you want to say something about North Korea, I want you to ignore all those smirking news anchors and smug headlines telling you stories about unicorns, haircuts, and concentration camps and remember that you have to go read the book.
It’s not a super long book. The link I provided is free. Go read it. Until you do, anything you say here about Korea is going to be laughed at, by all of us.
i have a grasp on the history already but i wanted to check it out cause it looked like it would go more in depth. i just finished chapter one and wanted to say that this is a very good book so far. the writing is so easy to digest.
thanks for sharing, i hope more people read it.
I recommend it to anyone who’s able to recognize they’re obviously being denied a preposterous degree of context and information about Korea.
I’ll check it out
Please do, and if you have questions come and ask us, everyone here will be glad to provide you with all the context or clarification you need. But I don’t think you’ll need it, it’s not a particularly complex book.
You can alternatively listen to season three of Blowback, which covers the Korean War.
