"South Korea is a free capitalist society, unlike that evil North Korea."
"South Korea is a free capitalist society, unlike that evil North Korea."
Meanwhile South Korean art: PLEASE GOD SAVE US FROM THIS CAPITALIST NIGHTMARE
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south korea is so free that it freely hosts US troops
- : Actually, Squid Game is about how communism is bad and Parasite is about how poors stay poor because they fail to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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death of the author
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it's funny how the Park Chung Hee era has been memoryholed by the west
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It was Oppa Gangnam style all the time, the whole time.
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It's interesting watching media reference to Korea from the 60s to the 80s, they very, very rarely do, but when they do, the north isn't even mentioned and the south is full of depictions like how the west portrays the north today.
It's kind of like how Saudi Arabia is seen by the west today, a "ally" that constantly commits human rights violations, but those are just "unfortunately how things are" rather than how they react when that stuff happens in Bad Guy Country.
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Stable country where the president tries to start wwiii and do some martial law.
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You do everything right under capitalism and your country ends up on the road to annihilation. who woulda thunk it?
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I did everything right and they indicted me
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some other juicy stuff in occupied korea:
- poverty, slums: prolewiki-article on the term "hell josoen"
- political prisoners: western source confirming the existence of the national security law, stephen gowans (2018). patriots, traitors and empires: the story of koreas struggle for freedom: 'the political partition of korea' (pp. 115–116) , and the prolewiki-article on the rok, sections "national security law" and "unconverted long-term prisoners"
- widespread corruption: a lot of reporting can be found on this topic, even in western media. lets just take the government-sanctioned prostitution and sex trafficking as an example, though there is other equally horrific stuff, including the usage of disabled people as agricultural slaves.
- worlds second highest suicide rate: katrin park (2021-10-5). "south korea is no country for young people" doreign policy.
- tyrannical history: prolewiki-article on the rok, section "history"
wonder why there isn't a
speaking about those crimes in the west.-
It’s also very difficult to explain to outsiders how fucked up the gender inequality situation in South Korea is.
South Korean women are expected to work full time career jobs for just as many hours as the men, then come home and do all the shopping, meal planning, cook home cooked meals every night, preparing the whole family’s lunch bags, wake up early to prepare breakfast, do all child raising, diaper changes, baby feeding, cleaning, household finance management, manage the kid’s extracurriculars and hagwon, laundry, maintain a beautiful figure and hairstyle and skin…
Like, average Korean men without exaggeration just go to work, come home, and get drunk and watch TV without lifting a single finger not even bothering to wipe their pubes and piss off the toilet while the dutiful wife takes care of literally everything while also having a career.
The girlies have started to say “nah” to this and the men are fucking seething. like, hundreds of thousands of people in minor deepfake CSAM Kakao groups seething. And then they dare to say “oh it’s a gender war, both sides are bad!”.
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Were there any leftist candidates on the ballot or is it just default cuckery?
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oppa gangnam style
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Wow!
@BrookeBaybee@hexbear.net thoughts?
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