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It's why I've never understood this fascination and admiration for South Korean culture. It's fucking nuts even when you just scratch the surface of it, let alone dig a bit deeper. Something like over 50% of people believe it is not only necessary, but justifiable to have plastic surgery done in order to get a job or promotion in South Korean corporations. Schooling is nuts, the children get up at 5 or 6 in the morning and do pre-school prep before breakfast. Then it's off to school for all day. Then once school is over they go to another after school prep-school. Then it's home and doing homework til it's time for bed. If you fail an exam when you're 12 it's basically over for you. And don't get me started on K-Pop bands and how the chicks there are basically slaves whose lives are managed down to the last minuta of existence.

I mean, people think the Norks are crazy, which they are, but the Sorks are basically just Norks who OD'd on Capitalism and turned it into a dystopian commerce hall where almost everything is for sale.

Oh, and there is basically no pension system there, so if you don't manage to save up money while you work you're fucked when you retire. If you go out into some of the parks late at night you can find grannies walking around alone giving you the eye, and if you are into it they'll take you behind a bush, pull out their dentures and go to town on you in exchange for some cash.

But I guess I should not be surprised, it's the same with other glitzy places like Dubai. Everyone wants to go to Dubai and thinks it's the classiest place on Earth when in truth it's just a dusty dystopian slave state run by degenerate Arabs and populated by Pakistani slave labour, Eastern European hookers and Arabs with more money than sense.
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So like most things, it turns out 95% of general knowledge of anything is just propaganda. Obviously Korean War meant all Americans must love South Korea, just like all Americans must love Japan 30 seconds after they killed your father/brother/Uncle/grandfather/etc.

Just for posterity I respect my grandfather's choices, so kill the Japs, kill the Japs, kill the Japs. They shouldn't have tried to sink grandad all those times if they didn't want me to want them dead IMO.
 
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Aaron said:
It's why I've never understood this fascination and admiration for South Korean culture. It's fucking nuts even when you just scratch the surface of it, let alone dig a bit deeper. Something like over 50% of people believe it is not only necessary, but justifiable to have plastic surgery done in order to get a job or promotion in South Korean corporations. Schooling is nuts, the children get up at 5 or 6 in the morning and do pre-school prep before breakfast. Then it's off to school for all day. Then once school is over they go to another after school prep-school. Then it's home and doing homework til it's time for bed. If you fail an exam when you're 12 it's basically over for you. And don't get me started on K-Pop bands and how the chicks there are basically slaves whose lives are managed down to the last minuta of existence.

I mean, people think the Norks are crazy, which they are, but the Sorks are basically just Norks who OD'd on Capitalism and turned it into a dystopian commerce hall where almost everything is for sale.

Oh, and there is basically no pension system there, so if you don't manage to save up money while you work you're fucked when you retire. If you go out into some of the parks late at night you can find grannies walking around alone giving you the eye, and if you are into it they'll take you behind a bush, pull out their dentures and go to town on you in exchange for some cash.

But I guess I should not be surprised, it's the same with other glitzy places like Dubai. Everyone wants to go to Dubai and thinks it's the classiest place on Earth when in truth it's just a dusty dystopian slave state run by degenerate Arabs and populated by Pakistani slave labour, Eastern European hookers and Arabs with more money than sense.
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The more you learn about SK the more you kinda agree NK won and feel a sense of schadenfreude if the US drops it's base and SK gets reunified on NK's terms.

There's a bunch of "yankee go home" protestors in Seoul at all the events. Hope they get what they want.
 
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I mean your choices are

NK: get executed if you get caught with K-pop, get executed if they catch you with western shows, get executed or sent to a work camp if you don’t cheer hard enough during staged events. You’re constantly starving and poor, but so is your marriage partner. However, anything either of you do results in punishment for the other. Government is corrupt and oppressive

SK: bust your ass to live in a tiny ass apartment. No money for marriage or kids. No vices allowed except alcohol and PC Bangs. Government is corrupt and oppressive. Corporations have Cyberpunk 2077 levels of control and influence. You don’t get executed for watching foreign TV shows, though
 
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Jesus any country has a work ethic more then 40 hours a week

Americans: is this slavery.jpeg?
 
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The amount of jobs that could benefit from more than 40 hours a week is much less than you'd think. And a lot of those jobs you don't want tired/burnt out people doing. I don't think 40 is some magic number, but a lot of the "40 hours a week is nothing!" guys are the guys who sit around 40% of their work day listening to JRE and posting on FoH.
 
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Filipinos are the only good asians.
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Xevy said:
The amount of jobs that could benefit from more than 40 hours a week is much less than you'd think. And a lot of those jobs you don't want tired/burnt out people doing. I don't think 40 is some magic number, but a lot of the "40 hours a week is nothing!" guys are the guys who sit around 40% of their work day listening to JRE and posting on FoH.
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i dunno if trump somehow follows through with removing tax from overtime my happy ass is gonna be hitting 55+ every week. i'm hourly though so benefits me greatly. right now i'm usually at 41-42 with those 1-2 hours being leaving late from being busy.
 
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One of my professors on the Vietnam war was a intelligence officer that traveled around to various units to get reconnaissance. He said the South Koreans were the safest camps and the only one he could sleep well in, knowing that the Vietnamese were too afraid of the Koreans and would rather attack the Americans, if both were in the same area.

The older Koreans, at least, know what the US did for them, but there is always a high crime rate around US mil bases, even in the US; so they are going to cause discontent around them regardless. Fort Hood (Killeen, TX) has the crime rate of Houston at a fraction of the size.

AFAIK, they were and have been a great ally, giving more in percent of GDP, than most any other ally the US has since the 50s.
 
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Xevy said:
The amount of jobs that could benefit from more than 40 hours a week is much less than you'd think. And a lot of those jobs you don't want tired/burnt out people doing. I don't think 40 is some magic number, but a lot of the "40 hours a week is nothing!" guys are the guys who sit around 40% of their work day listening to JRE and posting on FoH.
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There's always something I could be doing and improving on at my job. A new project to start, a new initiative etc.

Of course I don't because I don't get paid OT. But I could.

I agree with the burnout though. Frequent breaks or structured context switching helps with that. Also lots of sleep. When I'm not playing games I'm getting 7 hours a night and it makes a huge difference. Americans just don't want to admit most of us live an incredibly unhealthy lifestyle. We're ultimate consumers and have no cohesion or cultural unity to work for a better society. This is at all levels from top to bottom. Shame.
 
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Korean police are still gathering all video evidence of everything he's done. Word from Korean citizens on the ground is Korean parliament is using this as a storyline to focus on Korean values, and it's anticipated that it'll be dragged out for maximum political effect. Regardless of whether he serves serious prison time.

Korean politicians want the Korean people watching this unfold, as it's now a household story about Korean values. He annoyed the mayor of Tokyo previously, but now he's got a countries parliament using him. So who knows what will happen.
 
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Dude will be sentenced harshly, then he will fly back to the USA on a government plane after two months and the Sorks will get a shiny new missile system or a fighter jet deal out of it.
 
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Aaron said:
Dude will be sentenced harshly, then he will fly back to the USA on a government plane after two months and the Sorks will get a shiny new missile system or a fighter jet deal out of it.
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There are plenty of US citizens rotting in foreign jails, so I am doubtful that the US state department is going to care about him sitting in the jail system of one of our closest allies in the region. The people that get the US state department protection are ones that seem to be arrested mainly to use as political bargaining chips in non-friendly (non-globalist) nations.

If anyone is going to come to his rescue it's some Saudi oil fuckface, with too much money, that is supposedly bankrolling him for the lulz (according to him).

Since Johnny likes to espouse Islamic ideas, it's really too bad that Korea doesn't have caning, mmm mmm mmm mmm:
 
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