I would say he's being quite honest, especially considering they have one of the highest suicide rates.
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And lowest birth rates
Their ESports winrates all but make up for it though...
Of course everyone want to fuck an esport athlete. How silly of me.
BUT....
You can get wasted with $1 worth of soju.
$3 these days. Times are hard.
I still think living in North Korea would be worse.
Drinking piss is arguably better than eating shit, but still doesnt change the fact that youre drinking piss.
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Life controled by handful of rich familles
Does S Korea also have the problem of a rigid and corrupt 2 party system?
There are two big parties and four smaller parties represented in the (current) National Assembly, but the Democratic Party has a majority by itself. The current President belongs to the other big party (People's Power).
People's Power? If that isn't one of the most commie names I've ever heard for a political party.
Except that they’re conservative lol
I was like “wow so futuristic” when I first learned that the monopoly on Japanese government is through the Liberal Democratic Party. Lmao when I found out the rest of the story.
“Liberal Democratic Party”, rules for decades uninterrupted, representing the largest capitalist families and the USA and cracks down and any leftists sentiment, sometimes extremely violently. Cool! Cyberpunk!
Yeahhh… shit makes it really difficult to follow global national politics
. . . national politics
And in the case of the LDP, national𝑖𝑠𝑡 politics
Not sure. What I do know is that Korean parliament occasionally gets into actual mob-on-mob brawls. So there's that.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/asia/south-korea-lawmakers-indicted-intl-hnk/index.html
Yea but amazing cuisine and k-pop
Many people consider K-pop to be extremely shit.
And since music taste is subjective, every thought about K-pop is the correct one.
K-Pop is also as far as the industry itself is concerned, the #1 most cruel music related industry in the world to the people in it. Everything awful about the idol, music and modeling industry compounded by a hundredfold.
K-Pop as a genre unfortunately is rotten to it's core. Other music industries are also known to be bad but they're arguably the worst.
K and j pop are definitely among the worst. Tbh the girl pop industry in general. Look at what they did to my girl Britney.
My first exposure to it was in 1994. Crazy thing is that today's k-pop is virtually indistinguishable from that of thirty years ago for me. The music, clothes, hair, and choreography are all exactly the same.
I'm sure some k-popophile will come put me in my place, but I stand by what I perceive.
Fun story from back then: One of the big groups back then was Turbo. While spending many hours at the US Embassy getting my wife a spousal visa, she recognized Mikey from Turbo. We go over and say hi and end up spending the whole day with him. He spoke perfect English and pretty much lived in Los Angeles. He told us that a significant portion of Turbo concerts had some other guy wearing a surgical mask pretending to be him because he was busy studying in the US.
K pop isn't my cup of tea. But it's not shit. Like I'm not a huge fan, but I can see how people would like it.
Don't like K-Pop, but Korean hip hop is enjoyable.
That said, it's kind of funny seeing Koreans acting all gangsta, when AFAIK gangs were never really a problem in that country. But to be fair, they're not really a thing in America anymore, either (at least not compared to how things were before the mid-90s).
There's good Korean punk, rock, and metal as well. Nuclear Idiots, Harry Big Button, Dead Chant, Method, Duoxini, BADLAMB.