It’s interesting watching media reference to Korea from the 60s to the 80s, they very, very rarely do, but when they do, the north isn’t even mentioned and the south is full of depictions like how the west portrays the north today.
It’s kind of like how Saudi Arabia is seen by the west today, a “ally” that constantly commits human rights violations, but those are just “unfortunately how things are” rather than how they react when that stuff happens in Bad Guy Country.
it’s funny how the Park Chung Hee era has been memoryholed by the west
If it’s anything like their KMT defense, they’ll argue that there was a hiccup but democracy was preserved
It was Oppa Gangnam style all the time, the whole time.
It’s interesting watching media reference to Korea from the 60s to the 80s, they very, very rarely do, but when they do, the north isn’t even mentioned and the south is full of depictions like how the west portrays the north today.
It’s kind of like how Saudi Arabia is seen by the west today, a “ally” that constantly commits human rights violations, but those are just “unfortunately how things are” rather than how they react when that stuff happens in Bad Guy Country.