• TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    South Koreans had their own boom around the same time, so they think that it is because of capitalism and the 'unique character of the Korean people' (racism) that they are successful, not because they also used a planned economic model which leveraged their close relationship with the U.S., like Japan, however they were willing to export their manufacturing capabilities like the U.S, unlike Japan.

    Korea is weird because I want to like them, but South Koreans are just such assholes to everybody, especially in the eSports scene. I would guess their lower end working class is probably fine, I just never interact with them.

    • duderium [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There is a lot of cool stuff that happens there but it mostly isn't reported in the corporate media. A majority of the people in the south support the DPRK and they do all kinds of cool strike action all the time. Out of all the imperial core countries, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Greece seem the likeliest to fall to communism within our lifetimes, but South Korea might not be far behind. That being said, they tend to be remarkably aggressive g*mers.