Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War Pt. 2 - The Grim Reality of Korea

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  @moon-channel · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @nunyabiznes7446 · 2 years ago

  &quot;The Korean President was killed Friday by a bullet accidentally fired by the head of South Korea&apos;s Central Intelligence Agency. Which, uh, also killed his head bodyguard. And four other people.&quot; God I love when newscasters have to stay unbiased about stuff like this.

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  @CaptainThief · 2 years ago

  Moon: “Why did the chicken cross the road?”<br>Audience: “dunno, why?”<br>Moon: “Well first we need to establish what a chicken is. Let’s go back to roughly 6,000 BC with the domestication of the red jungle fowl…”

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  @Pichu880 · 2 years ago

  &quot;It is human nature to judge yourself by your intetions and judge others by their actions&quot;<br><br>this changed my brain chemistry

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  @buddermonger2000 · 2 years ago

  That Chart of almost 80% of young people viewing the country as &quot;Hell&quot; undersells it really. I mean, even the older generation views it the same at 60% rates. Now, not viewing a place as heaven is certainly different from viewing it as hell, but basically no country should be over even 10% since that&apos;s a huge problem even then if they truly see it that terribly.

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• LA

  @laguillotine9258 · 2 years ago

  “A house divided against itself cannot stand; a people divided against themselves cannot revolt”<br>Was not expecting that, wow

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  @illuvaliosphire8782 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I immigrated to the us at a young age, so most of my memories of korea were of childhood rosy memories; when the first female korean president was pardoned, I remember asking my mom why she was so sure the new president will pardon her, and she responded as if it was the most natural thing, &quot;how do you think the new president can get pardoned later if they don&apos;t pardon their predesessor?&quot; it was around that time I really understood that no korean really expects their politicians to not be corrupt anymore.

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  @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm · 2 years ago

  You know it is bad when even Japanese and Chinese men see the misogyny of Korean men and are like, &quot;dude, chill. This is embarrassing. &quot;

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• SP

  @spacesui-t · 2 years ago

  &quot;Unholy marriage between 4chan and Reddit&quot; Dear God, what have they done. No single nation could harbor such site without DIRE consequences.

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  @MatheusNiisama · 2 years ago

  You can hear Cookie Run&apos;s dev and art team sigh in relief as their characters don&apos;t have fingers

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  @hedgehoginasunhat · 2 years ago (edited)

  Coming back after finishing I have a few things to say as someone who lived in SK for half a decade (an epic in five parts- I&apos;m sorry it&apos;s so long):<br><br>- The men there are absolutely miserable, it&apos;s true. I imagine I met more of them just for being an obvious foreigner, but they all spoke of Hell Joseon and were desperate to find avenues to leave. Many of them studied abroad for a while and came back to Korea with the sole focus to return to where they studied. One was adopted out to Britain as a child, was guilted by aging family to come back, and ended up giving up his British citizenship because they don&apos;t allow dual nationality. He felt tricked and imprisoned by them in a country that wasn&apos;t his own, and didn&apos;t treat him as their own. Another studied in NZ, and broke down one day because his family thought they wasted their money sending him to study as he struggled to hold down a full time job due to mental health. A one time tinder date called me up from another city because he was on the brink of ending it once. Another, an ex-partner, was violent and I ended up his target because he too was desperate to have some control in life after failing to find a way back to Australia. I watched yet another basically disintegrate during our relationship as he felt Covid destroyed his potential to move abroad and continue to work in the commercial aircraft industry. The only one I knew well who hadn&apos;t been beaten down by life was a man whose mother owned several department stores, and whose father owned a prominent construction company. He was having a ball. He was also ethnically Korean, but held Russian citizenship and was basically just in Korea for fun (and to hold an executive role on a gaming company board I guess).<br><br>- The pressure on women got to me too. I had Botox done on a few times whim, I had a random mole on my neck surgically removed (it wasn&apos;t even ugly, it was just imperfect), got my teeth molded and whitened, fixed a tiny discolouration on my front tooth- I spent a LOT of money on various beauty expenses. I had an online consultation for rhinoplasty and fillers once too, didn&apos;t go through with it. I still have a list of procedures I want(ed) to have done on my phone somewhere. A lot of the women I met were staunch feminists- less Megalia, more frustrated and pushing for equality. Wanting to be more than an ageless, beautiful prop as somebody&apos;s wife. But it was quietly confessed like a guilty secret, with eyes darting around to make sure no one could overhear the damning admission.<br><br>- Political awareness is everywhere there. I remember visiting before I moved there, and I saw a parade happening when I was walking through Busan one night with some new friends from the hostel I stayed at. I asked them what they were celebrating, and they told me it was actually a protest against Park Geun-hye&apos;s inaction over Sewol. I moved there immediately after Moon Jae-In met and shook hands with Kim Jong-Un at the border, and I remember people watching news about it like a hawk. I noticed almost every taxi driver watched the news coverage on their dashboard more closely than they&apos;d watch the road around that time. The grim finale of their presidents was a topic of dark humour sometimes. Considering what they&apos;ve all lived through, it makes sense for them to be so keenly, hand-wringingly aware of what is going on at the top. I know a lot of young Koreans felt truly let down by Moon Jae-In later in his presidency, they had hoped he would do more to pull them out of a feeling of dire hopelessness.<br><br>- The general fear and apprehension for the future reaches all the way down to elementary school kids. Most of the boys are terrified about military service, but I knew one very smart but very unstable 10 year old who absolutely loathed China and couldn&apos;t wait for the day he could fight them in a military setting. I knew some absolutely brilliant girls who knew their best bet was to put all their efforts into English and apply for universities abroad as soon as they could. Totally fluent American English without having stepped outside of Korea once. Others were just numbly aware that even if being a kid is hard, it only got worse from here. I hope when they grow older, they inherit a better Korea that allows them to flourish.<br><br>- I too got the Korean man talk. I lived in Japan, and was due to move to Korea in a few months. One day when all the other teachers were out, the school librarian told me half seriously, half jokingly: come back to Japan if you want to marry. A wonderful Korean boyfriend will turn into a horrible Korean husband and take away all your freedom. But a terrible Japanese boyfriend would make a good Japanese husband because he would be too worn down from work to stop you from doing whatever I liked.<br>She was older, single, and one of the most happily content people I have ever met.<br><br><br>edit re: gacha games, never actually met anyone into them lol

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  @afgncap · 2 years ago

  I worked for Korean company for four years and all our mid and upper management were Koreans on contract in my country. The culture shock when dealing with them and their ideology was something else entirely. The hierarchy is so alien and ridiculous that it could drive you insane, at least at first.<br><br>My boss was more westernized but still older guy and he hated all of it with passion but he still went with all the nonsense. We often talked during a cigarette break. He told me in this somber tone that he only wants his daughter to finish her higher education so he has to work himself to death and lie because his boss says so. It was pretty sad to hear as he was extremely intelligent but acted like he was some kind of slave. He said he hated Korean way of living, even other Koreans.<br><br>Lying and corruption was so normalized that even in the worst period in my post communist country it seemed like we were paragons of justice in comparison.<br><br>Thank you for this video it gives a lot of context to why he behaved like this. I was often angry at him but now I only feel sorry for him.

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