Bedulge

Yea and I'd also note that this is supposed to be like fluent or near fluent speakers. If you include the number of people with at least some basic level you are probably looking at a number that's maybe nearly double that I expect.

I don't believe you have ever attended or seen a protest in a country that does not speak English. English language signs are common in both right wing and left wing protests. By common, I mean that they are gonna be present, if not in big numbers, than in small numbers, basically at any protest.

Why?

Over 150 countries around the world have English as a required subject in school. Everyone learns English now, and in a few generations the majority of the world population will probably be at least slightly bilingual in English. It is the global auxiliary language. When a socialist from Japan and a socialist from Brazil want to talk to each other, what language do you think they use? Do they think they just refuse to use English (the only language they have in common) bc America is the Great Satan?

To assume that any message written in English is necessarily directed to Americans is just absurdly Americentric thinking

Do you think these pro-LGBT protesters in Thailand and Japan are seeking American military intervention? Or do you just think they want the whole world to know what they are saying?

I lived in Seoul and I speak nearly fluent Korean

Photo on the right seems to be from like the 60s or 70s. Seoul does not look like that today, not even close. So that is a blatant lie number 1.

"many people too poor to afford housing' homelessness is lower in SK than in the US by a HUGE amount. So that is blatant lie number 2.

'slums like this are common' Absolutely not. There's only a couple remaining slums, and they don't look like the one in the photo there bc again, that photo is from like 60 years ago. There small number of slums (there's like 3) that still exist are currently being removed and the residents rehoused. So there is blatant lie number 3

'kill themselves by the millions' suicide rate is high but not that high and has been falling for over 10 years. Exaggeration

'only recently began to liberalize' 1988 is recent to you? That'd be blatant lie number 4, and to be honest it's quite disrespectful to the many south Koreans who struggled against the dictatorship for you to minimize their accomplishment like that

'the famous "no lights"-photo' there isn't a "the famous 'no lights' photo" there's many of them and its because NK often doesn't have fuel to keep the power running 24/7 due to sanctions so they practice energy rationing and shut down the power at night. blatant lie number 5

I'm not gonna get into your stuff on the left hand column abt the DPRK but suffice it to say, none of what you wrote there is known for certain to be true because of how tight the flow of information out of that land is.

Did you make this image? why do you feel the need to lie? Or do you just not know what you are talking about?