Meanwhile South Korean art: PLEASE GOD SAVE US FROM THIS CAPITALIST NIGHTMARE
it's funny how the Park Chung Hee era has been memoryholed by the west
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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.
It was Oppa Gangnam style all the time, the whole time. 
If it’s anything like their KMT defense, they’ll argue that there was a hiccup but democracy was preserved
south korea is so free that it freely hosts US troops
You do everything right under capitalism and your country ends up on the road to annihilation. who woulda thunk it?
I did everything right and they indicted me 
: 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.
death of the author
Were there any leftist candidates on the ballot or is it just default cuckery?
Putting emoji in the wrong order because the country you were hatched at drives on the wrong side.
Motherfucker left is best
Tough talk coming from somebird who can’t tell me what’s in this picture.
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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!”.
seems like we truly reached the deepest point in the pit of inhumanity with this wretched county. i don't even know what "kakao groups" are and i do not dare to look it up. 
Yeah and it’s also reasonable to say “all Western men” to this, but it’s just different in South Korea. Like, women must cook bomb-ass home cooked Korean meals every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They must give 100% effort in cleaning and homemaking. To do otherwise is unthinkable.
You end up with these fucking incredible kind and intelligent women who dedicate so much effort to the household stuck together with absolute slobs of partners that don’t give a shit because all that is the norm.
It’s a deeply sick society and the ultimate speed run of capitalism, from Korean War rubble to capitalist utopia to complete sociological and demographic collapse in 70 years. One lifetime.
Yo this guy Koreas
Stable country where the president tries to start wwiii and do some martial law.
oppa gangnam style