politics

Didn't one of them also hold a bunch of tree limbs and similar nonsense?

Not hard to avoid if you know what it is and have any sort of frontal lobe

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.

What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea

they don't, it's completely left out of most American education. if it's there it is a brief one-sentence mention

I do the same shit with Canadians about us having soldiers in Saudi Arabia, Africa, etc. They don't care and seek to justify it totally and immediately.

By the end of Vietnam most Americans were solidly against it, and I believe “Vietnam was a mistake” has broadly been the belief since then, but mostly because it got American soldiers killed, not because of the horrors they committed.

Their hair in that picture isn't even that long. Rest in piss Park.

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

they're lying about china and russia, but telling the truth about the DPRK?

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.

So you can accept the Uyghur genocide but you can't accept DPRKs labour camps?

we respect the Red, White, and Blue around here, friend 🇰🇵

This is the mindset of terminally STEM-brained people. I had to unlearn so much of that "this is very interesting problem when seen in isolation, i don't need to think about anything else" after leaving engineering school.