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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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What's with all the Korea shit recently?
I live in South Korea. It's convenient, safe, and modern. I might be biased because I live in Gangnam, but I feel like people here have more spending power on average than people in the US.
The societal pressure is a fucking nightmare, but that's a uniquely Korean thing. Nothing to do with the US.
Calling the South under foreign occupation is utter nonsense. Obviously, it's hyperbole and propagandist, but it also acts like Korea doesn't have its own culture or resist American influence. Quit trying to be edgy and use your brain.
If you want to talk about occupation, read up on the Japanese occupation of Korea. That was foreign occupation.
To give you a real answer and not a canned response by a North Korean propagandist lol, the uptick in Korea-posting is probably due to the fact that Trump and the South Korean president met either yesterday or the day before, and the meeting (afaik) went well. I’m no fan of Trump, but I can also recognize that SK is a long-standing US ally, so I’m glad things went well. Obviously, NK is pissed that it went well so they’re sending out propaganda for dipshit “leftist” westerners to parrot brainlessly while also likely having their own people comment on places like this.
International politics is weird nowadays and everything revolves around social unity/division through internet platforms.
Let me get this clear, you think the DPRK is sending out propaganda on Lemmy.ml? Because of a meeting between Trump and Lee Jae-Myeong?
What counts as "doing work" for the DPRK? Further, the ableism and ageism in the rest of that paragraph is disgusting, even ignoring the generic anti-communism.
As for posting about Korea, it's not a new thing. There are many communists, anarchists, and otherwise anti-imperialists that want the US kicked out of the peninsula. I have met several Koreans IRL that want the US out so that reunification can happen, this is the standard demand from reunification activists. Check out the orgs that attended the People's Summit for Korea in July of this year, with many Statesian and Korean orgs attending.