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‘신화’, 이제는 우리의 완전한 이름입니다.2015.05.29

[peelkyo-s]

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A summary of what’s happening in Chile

A day has already passed so I thought it would be a good idea to gather everything that has happened so far here regarding the protests, riots and police brutality:

- On october 6th, the government announced that the public transportation fare in Santiago, specifically the metro, would be raised to 830 chilean pesos (around $1.17 dollars). This has not been the first raise this year.

- The news angered the citizens, since both salaries and the pension system are miserable compared to the prices in transportation, education, health and electricity. Water is private, the health system is collapsing due to lack of supplies and recently we found out that our president has avoided almost 30 years in taxes, without consecuences.

- For context: minimum wage in Chile right now is 301.000 pesos, or $422 dollars. In a month, a person spends 51.460 pesos ($73 dollars) just in transportation, considering two trips daily. This is a sixth of their income. And the pensions aren’t much better: 134.000 pesos ($189 dollars) monthly. And there are people who get much less than that.

- Students decided to protest and take control of Santiago’s metro stations, inviting the rest of the citizens to evade the fare to show the general discontent of the population.

- The government replied by sending the police to fight against the protesters, hitting them, throwing tear gas bombs and even shooting them. Chilean press only shows the riots, avoiding the real facts.

- The protests got to the streets: riots and cacerolazos, and even multiple fires affect Santiago. All of this while President Sebastián Piñera is seen in a restaurant located in a wealthy área, having dinner with his family.

- At about midnight, Piñera annunces that Santiago is under Emergency State. The military goes out to the street, and the violence is harder than ever. This is the biggest event of repression Chile has faced since the Dictatorship that our country was in between 1973 and 1990.

This is still going on. Cities along the entire country are getting organized to protest, because this isn’t just about the raise of a metro fare. This is the explosion of a social unrest that’s been growing for decades, and instead of dialoguing and trying to listen to the people, the government is endorsing abuse, forced disappearances and even the murder of hundred of people.

But this won’t stay like this. We are fighting back, and we will be heard.

[Some links in english: Reuters, The Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC News]

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UPDATE: Valparaíso and Concepción are under Emergency State as well.

Santiago is now under curfew, from 10 PM to 7 AM. The military forces will have the power do whatever they want to arrest everyone on the streets.

[peelkyo-s]

is this fandom still alive

y’all still here

[peelkyo-s]

Thank you for giving us so much and asking for so little. Thank you for not giving up and teaching us how to be strong… Above it all, thank you for always choosing each other no matter what; for staying together through thick and thin. Thank you for giving us a family, for making shinhwa into a home we all can come to. But the most important thing I want to thank the world for, is letting you all find happiness in each other. Happy eighteenth anniversary, you embarrassing fools. Let’s keep growing old together. #신화18주년축하해 #Shinhwa18thAnniversary

[peelkyo-s]

howdy y'all!!! what would you say if I wanted to come off hiatus and start over?

[team-twice]

[femaleidols]

hani in l.i.e live performances 

[peelkyo-s]

just logged in to see how are y’all doing and to wish you good luck in everything!!! miss you, guys

[jyjsoul]

[PRESS PICS] 170113 Kim Jaejoong at the Red Carpet of 2017 Golden Disc Awards

► 63 pics HERE

Credits: as tagged Shared by: JYJ3 + JYJ Soul

[loveshocks]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO9G5vHjyPk/

[msmemaaaa]

So, Shinhwa need new ideas, like kisses (from JJ if he’s happy) .. slaps.. LOL p.s.: Beware of SHCJ, dearie Shinhwa. We’re bigger trolls than you! xD (fc © H yan, trans © malpabo)

[peelkyo-s]

[peelkyo-s]

[peelkyo-s]

Hiatus

I was gonna upload a few gifs before I go but honestly, why bother.

I had a wonderful time these four years but I think it’s time to step aside. I don’t feel the joy I used to feel every time I logged in. I feel isolated and kinda lonely.

I wanna thank y'all for being there for me and putting up with my bs all the time. I especially want to thank my orange family, which I got to know thanks to this site. I made wonderful friends and I honestly couldn’t be more in love with them. Sorry I’m leaving the site like this.

I’m gonne be on my “personal” blog every now and then, so if you want to you can follow me there, or on twitter/IG.

I might come back to this blog if I get my confidence back one day. Maybe I’ll log in to post for Shinhwa’s comeback idk.

bye bye lil fellas

[peesksklsksks]

[softwaring]

Lacomar, Lucia

[mu-zi-yang]

Why Eatyourkimchi is Offensive (Updated)

Slut-shaming

Tagged their video about Troublemaker, “Hyuna the stripper” (and then claimed it was ok because it was just a joke)

Slut-shamed Hyuna, called her a stripper again and stripped her of her agency by claiming that CUBE was forcing Hyuna to act “slutty” in the Troublemaker mv in order to make more money

White and English-speaking Privilege/Ethnocentrism

Refuse to try to improve their Korean despite living in Korea because “they don’t need to,” claim that the main reason non-Korean speakers learn Korean is to find a Korean significant other, and romanticize the fact that they refuse to improve their Korean.

Also claim that they don’t need to learn the language because they “show respect to Korea” by making their gross videos about how weird Korea is

Despite the fact that they don’t care to improve their Korean beyond what they need to get by, they rate idols’ English and mispronounce idols’ names (also something that has happened more than once)

They only have one actual Korean person working with them as a translator and personal assistant, and they don’t even write her name the same way consistently; they alternatively refer to her as Soo Zoo, SooZee and Soozee throughout their website.

In their recurring WANK segment, they compete to see who can find the best “engrish”

Racism

Described elements of the Troublemaker as “super ghetto old spy gear” and then flat-out denied that them using the term “ghetto” to describe something cheap looking had any racist or classist connotations

Put on black face masks as a “joke” and claimed that they believe blackface is inappropriate even though their video is literally called 4D Black Face Mask. Even if the product was not intended as blackface, their insensitive jokes about blackface are definitely harmful and offensive. For an explanation, see here.

In addition to rating idols English, they also joke about having a separate rating for idols “gangsta English” (read: AAVE)

Call things “gangsta,” “ghetto” and “hood” but deny these words have a racial or class connotation

Dressed like “gangstas” for a skit where they talk about YG’s cultural appropriation by imitating it

“Ghetto Martina”

Ableism

Joked that T-ara’s fandom name should be T-artards

Transphobia

Played a game with other youtubers that they called Gender Bender, where they showed them pictures of kpop idols and make them guess their gender (and then made fun of how feminine the men looked and how masculine the women looked)

Anti-Semitism (maybe not overt, but offensive language/jokes)

Tweeted “I guess saying that out loud (a negative tweet about GOT7) makes us Hitler” and blocked the person who told them that their tweet was offensive to Jews.

Called Nu'est Jewest

Mocking/Disrespecting Idols

Called B.A.P “Bitch Ass Pussies” for crying as part of their acting in the 1004(Angel) mv (Martina went on to say “That’s right, an old white lady just scolded you for being pussies”)

Regularly mock and belittle the idols that they “review,” often for decisions that are not even under the idols control (for example, mocking BTS’s album title and B.A.P’s mv storyline)

Did an interview with SHINee that SM told them not to post, which they did anyway and wrote a very entitled post about how they should be accommodated as vloggers.

Mocking/Disrespecting Fans

Put a fan’s fanart on their website without giving credit to the artist and then ignored the artists’ attempts to contact them

Asked viewers to send them links of their favorite fanfic, which they implied they were going to use in an upcoming video without necessarily having the authors’ permission

Dressed Simon up as a female fan called “Fangurilla” to make fun of kpop fangirls. (In addition to being insulting to kpop fans, their main demographic, this is also transmisogynistic, which is worse.)

Tweeted about the entire BTS fandom being shitty and then deleted it (ignore the joke on the tweet in question, the important thing is the screenshot of the deleted tweet)

Other

Despite saying that they aren’t experts on Korean culture, make videos about Korean culture and cast judgement on it without actually deferring to actual Korean people

Called Eric Mun of Shinhwa a pedophile for appearing in a Teen Top mv

Called Seungri a “pedobear”

A few good critical posts about EYK (first three from owning-my-truth, last from jalmotaesseo)

Various critiques of EYK

Explanation of why their “joke” blackface was harmful

Rebuttal to common defenses of EYK

List of things EYK has done and a screenshot of them mocking a commenter who criticized them

And this isn’t even everything; this is just a list of the most egregious things they have done and the first links that I found. But if you read any of their blog posts or watch any of their videos, you will find a sense of privilege, entitlement and lack of respect for the Korean culture that they are profiting off their misrepresentation of, in addition to casual racism, misogyny, slut-shaming and ableist language. 

If I missed anything or you have any additional examples or sources, please message me and let me know. If you support EYK and see nothing wrong with the things they have done, please save yourself the trouble of sending me anon hate and just unfollow me.

[humanitarianhannah]

@myotherurliscreative I’m not trying to get you to hate them but please look at these people’s opinions and make your own judgment.

also, please remind mom to ship me my water bottle.

[distressedmistresskpop]

As a once fan of EYK, I’ve come to realize just how terrible they were/are being.

First of all, as a first year anthropology student, I am no expert, but I know enough to make a statement about how EYK is incredibly ethnocentric and rude.

The first thing you learn in Cultural Anthropology is how to do field work. An anthropologist’s field work is participant observation, which means that to study the complex inner workings of a particular culture, you assimilate. You do the things that people there do. You wear their clothes, you take on their customs, you become socialized. You take in the influences and history of the geographical area, the bonds that tie people together, their strengths, their weaknesses, why they feel how that feel, and how that affects their relationships and actions. You study how their food and ways of eating and gathering form impressions upon the people you are studying. You look at a culture from it’s own perspective first and foremost. You are not looking at the culture from the outside and going, “gee, that is totally stupid and where I’m from we’d never do that,” or “wow, look how weird this is why don’t they look around and see that what they’re doing is weird and this would never happen anywhere else,” or “LOOK HOW TERRIBLE THE TRANSLATED ENGLISH IS ON THIS PRODUCT THAT WAS MADE IN A NON ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY! LOL”

In this way, EYK has terribly failed.

Statements like these definitely come from a place of deep privilege. They show just how far your head is up your own ass. If you’re going to live in a country for 7+ years, learn their language. All of it. All intimacy levels, the complex grammar, the idiosyncrasies of said language, you need to fucking sit down and learn it. 

You cannot move to another country and make fun of the people there for not acting like you. Of course they don’t. It’s not where you grew up. It’s not where you were socialized. Stop looking at culture as if any culture other than yours is weird. That’s not how culture works. Your culture is weird too. you know what I think is weird about White North Americans? They think they can go anywhere and do anything they want to without repercussions to their actions and when people criticize them they act like they’re the victim. (Yes, I am including myself in this generalization. I am still learning.) 

EYK used to be a learning tool for me. I used to think that through them I was learning about a new and different culture that I thought was fun to learn about. I laughed at their Idol English ratings, Simon’s fangurilla, and Martina’s impressions of GD. I thought it was fun. I thought it was ok. But it isn’t, and it wasn’t.

I was learning to ridicule the Korean culture, not about it. They showed me how “strange” it was, how it didn’t deserve respect because it was different. And you know what? I’ve learned more about Korean culture from reading history books than I did from these two dweebs. They showed me a Westerner’s perspective. And though I, too, would have had that perspective, I do not live there. I do not walk the streets of Seoul and ridicule English translations. I do not publish videos about their celebrities and talk about the strange actions that people take in the very country that I decided to live and work in. That is rude, ignorant, and disgusting behavior. And it just furthers the amount that countries that aren’t European/America/Canada hate those who come to visit them. 

The world is not a playground for you and people are not your playthings. Culture is not a zoo for you to come through and take pictures of and post them to Facebook telling the rest of the world how weird it was and aren’t you glad you live in America? Jesus. 

EYK is not above scrutiny for their actions even though they were taken in ignorance, and neither am I. Neither is anyone.