It's a Twitter ad so I guess it's just bait?
And there's an article
Here's a sample:
Monuments
The despot that leads North Korea is a tyrant who is preoccupied with extolling his own and his family’s achievements to the highest possible degree.
In South Korea, it is considered more appropriate to remember someone than to idolise them. The distinction between the two can be made out with relative ease. The war memorial in South Korea is meant to serve as a reminder of a particularly heinous period in South Korean history, whereas the memorial in North Korea is used as a place of prayer.
Indistinguible from parody.
Literally looks just like the grocery store I worked at for 9 years.
i'm not reading the article but I can only assume they chose those two pictures of dads shopping with their kids to demonstrate that south koreans are nerd dorks who wear white pants and blazers while north koreans are cool bros who wear comfortable, low key clothing
In South Korea everyone dresses like a boat captain and the shopping carts are made of plastic
give me the comforting rattle of an old steel shopping cart with a wonky wheel, or give me death.
as long as the wonky wheel isn't one that's got shit bearings and is just one that doesn't quite touch the ground when empty.
If casual nautical daywear can't be part of AES, then is it really worth having?
casual nautical daywear
AES can have a little a piratecore, as a treat
idk I was imagining more bourgie yacht owner with a sweater tied over their shoulders than piratecore. Huge difference lol.
if i'm going sailing i want something that's gonna feel equally at home at a yacht party or a boarding party, and you're not gonna do that in slacks with a cardigan
Dastardly North Koreans are brainwashed into displaying their nation's flag at state-endorsed sporting events
juche forbids gravel for it is a bourgeois manipulation of natural rocks
They have a special cloth that is made out of rocks its the grey stuff that Kim and everyday people always wear. Its grey because it doesn't take dye very well due to it being made of silicon.
This article reads like it was machine-translated, or possibly written by an algorithm. Also, every pair of images is almost identical - the only time you can really tell them apart is when you see a uniform or a flag.
I imagine these clickbait articles have a basic first draft written by a human, then the language is shifted around based on what yields the most on page time or whatever metric.
I don’t like gravel. It’s course and rough and irritating and it gets all up in ya ass
The DPRK supermarket looks basically identical to my local Tesco, just in Korean with a green colour scheme
The people dress similar too
You don't wear a bow-tie to the supermarket? Your people must yearn for freedom.
Simply by observing the clothing that the parents wear, one can tell which parent is from South Korea and which parent is from North Korea. This is possible because the two countries share a border. The South Korean parent possesses a higher level of intelligence when compared to the North Korean parent in this comparison.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to tie a bow-tie.
Doing race science but it's about nationality but it's about a nationality you forcibly created and did a genocide on:amerikkka-clap:
Also the SK guy looks like a fucking snitch while DPRK guy looks like someone I could hang with.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
Uncritical support to the DPRK in their heroic quest to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal Amerikan empire.
You know where people have famously never prayed? The 9/11 memorial
In North Korea, there is no gravel on the roads because Kim Jong Un ate it all
Of course they've cropped the North Korean photo so you can't see Kim Jong-Un standing next to an old-fashioned cannon pointed at the shoppers holding a lit wick in his hand
The random unrelated emojis lol
Also I love the idea that it seems to present in the front that while South Koreans are leisurely laying in a park North Koreans are standing at attention in a concrete pavilion
I seem to remember on the Proles pod where they interview Xiangu about his trip to North Korea, he said something about people hanging out in the parks and relaxing all the time.
The Boy Boy minidoc on them in the DPRK has a bunch of b roll of them going to a waterpark
Yeah, but they don't get to ride the slides, they just carry buckets of water up and pour them down the slide over and over.
It's probably the opposite, right? Like, the USSR had 8 hour days, but a lot of times people would meet their quotas, go home, and just write 8 hours on the time sheet. Officially, no one did this, but it was a super common practice.
Yeah from what I understand the work culture in SK is pretty full on neoliberal nightmare so I wouldn’t be surprised if the reverse was true
the work culture in SK is pretty full on neoliberal nightmare
Yeah, shit's always been that way. In the beginning, it was to accommodate developmentalist policies where labor was exploited more than usual to urbanize and industrialize the country. Once that was done, the workers rebelled, and some social democratic policies were put in place, but that was all undone by IMF-Worldbank restructuring.
the RoK has never really had an opportunity to be free.
If I saw these pictures without context I would never be able to guess one was supposed to be bad and the other good
