I would say he's being quite honest, especially considering they have one of the highest suicide rates.
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.
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
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.
Yea but amazing cuisine and k-pop
Yeah the mandatory service and shitty neighbors suck. Other stuff mentioned are simply not true.
Source: I am Korean
No, the chaebol are absolutely a thing. That's how South Korea rebuilt after the wars. That's how we have Samsung and LG. Those families make up a majority of the country's GDP, and lobby substantially.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/business/chaebol-south-korea.html
I'm Korean and I know what chaebols are 😂. They get many perks like not going to jail after committing crimes, but they don't control all aspects of people's lives here. That is overexaggeration and simply not true.
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