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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Makes a good springboard for talking about how monopolized the economy is by talking about how "the phone company Samsung? Yeah they make cars. Baby clothes too. Yeah and windmills. Also giant boats. They also run gold courses, resorts, hotels, have advertising and marketing companies, they also make steel and run powerplants. And the offer life and health insurance. If it wasn't for the other chaebols dominating other markets in their own monopolies, you bet your bottom dollar Samsung would be also selling chips, beer, and burgers." And bouncing from that to the u.s own megacorps and how everything is an illusion of choice dominated by a corporate oligopoly.
The biggest eye-opener seems to be telling people that Sansung sells insurance, has luxury hotels like the Silla, etc. The ROK is a bit more "naked" in that sense, contradictions are more out in the open. Watching the Samsung Lions play the Lotte Giants, instead of the Yankees against the Dodgers, for example, puts it up in your face a bit more. However, you're absolutely right that the US' own megacorps are the ones at the top, and it isn't just "big tech."
Ah fuck I forgot about the sports teams that one cracks me up the most every time it's brought up!
Yep! Lots of quirky bits like that that make sense when analyzing the development of the ROK.