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Thread on the new things I noticed in S Korea this time. Please keep in mind: (1) this is just what I noticed, it could have been there for years
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Having fought literal fascists in their youth, South Korean liberals internalized the idea that democracy is "mutually reinforcing expectation" - a bargain, as it were. And they sensed the conservatives
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Important thread.https://twitter.com/notXiangyu/status/1339809720379580416 In the 20th century and on, the greatest crimes were committed by those who were previously oppressed, then found an opportunity to oppress others. Germany was weak
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This is the reason why I tend to look at all the US-based North Korean human rights groups with skepticism - because you don't hear a peep about this incredible
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Feeling this one tonight.There Goes Yun-sik by Yeon Yeong-seok (2019) [윤식이 나간다 - 연영석]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx0dZgxUso Protest and labor movement songs are a major sub-genre of Korean pop music. Yeon Yeong-seok i
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The reason why Christmas became a second Valentine's Day in S Korea is because during the dictatorship era, there was a daily curfew and no one could be outside past
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Thread time.I'm seeing that there is a big chasm in the attitudes toward NK defectors held by those within S Korea, and by those outside of it. The key missing
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This article by Narakawa Aya, former journalist for Asahi Shimbun, makes an interesting point: Japan is going through a massive Korean pop culture fad, but few Koreans know or care.‘사랑의
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No one needs to quit any job, but I do have to think that a "France expert" who speaks no French would be laughed out of the room. And since
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I know the people who say this mean well, but "our job is not winning elections" is a very bad road to go down on.In a democracy, the only job
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Having lived through an actual, real-deal authoritarian government, I can tell you personally that the lived experiences between free and unfree society often are not all that different. Even in
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Wow. Wow. This brutal article, titled "No more America No. 1", appeared on KBS - South Korea's largest and government-owned TV station. It's jaw-dropping how hard it hits, and how
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