"Commie blocks" can be quite nice if renovated and repaired regularly. The big problem with them is when they're basically left to rot, with elevators that haven't been inspected in over 2 decades, corroded water pipes, and jury-rigged electricals.

Edit: Should also probably mention that tenement blocks were absolutely perfect for their explicit goal: building pretty decent housing cheaply and quickly for post WW2 countries flattened by war.

You don't need to do a very good illustration job for people to associate NK with famine, abject poverty, and an oppressive regime. The pictures do an alright job at that, and everyone understands what this meme really says: NK can't feed its citizens, SK is rich and prosperous almost beyond belief, especially considering that NK had a big head start after the war.

Like c'mon, this is just the wrong meme to post in "the right can't meme". In fact "capitalism prosperous, communism poor" is a 60+ year old meme at this point. Maybe we should start articulating capitalism's own problems through memes rather than stupidly "dunk" on capitalists for touting what is arguably capitalism's greatest success story.

I'm not convinced that the picture on the left is not a Finnish town.

…and have it run by a greedy, despotic dictator. Make sure the dictator says its a capitalist country though, seeing as labels are more important than what’s actually happening in a country.

Didn't the second world do that to South Korea or were they happy to do business with them?

dont forgot killing a quarter of the population and razing all of the infrastructure.

Necrocracy is the accepted therm

BUT IT'S GREY

They're saying that south Korea is more developed than north korea

Yeah, that's a democratic republic!