Not that bold. Protests of all sorts are very common in Seoul, and largely ineffectual.
This was good to see, but it wasn't particularly radical or threatening.
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I remember that in the music video for "Al-Quds Unites Us" that it showed for a brief moment a Palestinian solidarity protest in South Korea. That was the only text in the video neither in the Arabic or Latin scripts.
Given Korea's own history of getting colonized, I honestly have to wonder where public opinion on Palestine stands in the south. Has the ol' consent manufacturing machine managed to push most South Koreans towards pro-Zionist brainworms?
I don’t think Japanese or South Koreans view the country as colonized, even though a foreign country controls their military. And for South Korea, a foreign country dictates whether South Korea can officially end the war with the north.
But some Japanese companies did stop working with Israel following the ICJ findings.
Given Korea's own history of getting colonized, I honestly have to wonder where public opinion on Palestine stands in the south.
Vietnam and Palestine are almost a parallel image, but the former is still cooperating with Israel. So being colonized is not always a great indicator of anything
I remember ADL said South Korea is "the most antisemitic country in Asia" once. Likely unrelated to Israel though.
The DPRK did have that news article that called the United States a country "controlled by Jews", so I guess Korea's antisemitic brainworms extend on either side of the DMZ. I wonder why, though — it's not like Korea has much of a Jewish history before, like, the 1950s, but I guess it could also be precisely that which allowed antisemitism to take hold in Korea.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
