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gonna post about Korean media I like and I thought about doing a long masterpost so people can use it like a rec list but the thought of doing that is kind of overwhelming to me right now so I'm just gonna post them in sprinkles follow the #k-blorbo tag if you're interested!!!
Can’t even enjoy corporate CEO doing dumb shit without encountering racism lmao. Mind you Unknown Worlds execs were trying to use “they’re Koreans so they’re evil” as trial strategy last year. Lmfaooo 19 likes???
Kim Changhan looks goofy af here but he was behind the PUBG Battleground among other things, he didn’t become CEO just because he’s a daddy’s special boy. I think he might be out of his depth because good gamedev does not equal good businessperson and his prior management experience is pretty limited but like. Right now Krafton is still in the process of acquiring more studios and making more games with all the cash money they bring in from Battleground, it would not be a good move to cut the Battleground Guy from leadership over one non-Battleground thing. Krafton’s 2026 1Q revenue is higher than ever because of Battleground.
Major shareholders of Krafton btw:
Founder and chairman of the board ≈ 15% (who isn’t the CEO’s daddy btw but they’re probably homies, same alma mater 2 years apart)
Image Frame Investment Ltd. (subsidiary of Chinese company Tencent) ≈ 15%
Other execs, including the CEO himself, combined ≈ 7%
National Pension Service ≈ 6~7%
“the CEO couldn’t possibly have kept his job, which is about making the company money, because the company made lots of money. it HAS to be because Koreans are silly and also corrupt”
No corporates are corrupt and that’s why CEOs keep their job as long as profit looks good. Sound familiar???
The family from Everything Everywhere All at Once really defied racial stereotypes by being bad at taxes. Not only am I good at accounting, I enjoy it. (I like to suffer) I sorted out multiple years worth of messy purchase records at work in no more than 8 hours and I have never felt more alive. I will never have a multiverse adventure because my tax returns are impeccable. Unless the world needs saving from some kind of clerical error. I could probably handle bookkeeping across different timelines and planes of existence if I needed to.
OTC numbing gel for burn wound has 50mg/g lidocaine.
OTC numbing gel for premature ejaculation has 96mg/g.
Which means pussy is about twice as powerful as fire.
“Without enlisting in the US military I can’t have access to healthcare and education…”
Neither can the Afghans, because of you.
You were literally willing to go to war and you chose to fight for, not against, the people who are actually gatekeeping the education and healthcare from you.
Fuck you and your GI bill.
“If I didn’t do it someone else would have done it instead anyway.”
Probably, but you did. You are that someone else.
“Without enlisting in the US military I can’t have access to healthcare and education…”
Neither can the Afghans, because of you.
You were literally willing to go to war and you chose to fight for, not against, the people who are actually gatekeeping the education and healthcare from you.
Fuck you and your GI bill.
I am approaching that age where I wonder whether I should have my eggs frozen so I can have options later on because I would like to have children some day but the thing is I can have my eggs frozen if I pay full price (fertility related costs are only covered by public healthcare if you’re married) but even if I pay for extraction and storage all out of my ass I’m not allowed to use the eggs unless I’m married. I could end up sinking a lot of fucking money for literally nothing, adding insult to not finding a husband injury lol. (which is why lesbian couples or single by choice mothers go abroad to get their sperm donor babies)
how is this country gonna whine about low birth rate and still gatekeep women from having babies just because they don’t have a husband. They don’t even want more babies, they’re not concerned with birth rate, their interest lies in men getting wives and kids; they want more patriarchy. No wonder the population is shriveling lmfao.
Like… then perish, good riddance.
I need everyone especially western liberal feminists to shut up about 4B “movement”
IRL in S. Korea it is a very small minority of people; they are just very vocal and people give it way too much attention because it’s sensational and provocative
You see, there are plenty of people who are single and childless by choice but most of them just don’t want a romantic relationship or children and leave it at that. 4B is barely a movement but it is an ideology of sorts, and a bad one at that. People who identify themselves as 4B are often TERFs and they are also hostile to women who do get married and have children. They tell victims of intimate partner abuse “That’s what you get for marrying a man” and they dismiss women’s real concerns regarding childcare (or lack thereof) with “Well why did you have a kid.” 4B is not the feminism win some people make it out to be.
In my leftist feminist social circles we were talking about rejecting the institution of marriage and even the idea of refusing to have children as resistance (“birth strike” or refusing to perpetuate/maintain the inequitable social structure) circa 2012 and that’s because I was a teenager then and that discourse has been around since before my time but none of us thought of it as serious praxis or anything that could be a real cause for a movement.
At face value “not marrying or having children because patriarchy is bad” sounds subversive or reasonable even but in reality it’s just antagonizing everyone and not accomplishing anything. And their contribution to declining marriage and birth rate stats is tangential at best. Again, lots of people are staying single and not having children for a variety of reasons, but even the women who choose to remain single because they take issue with the patriarchal and misogynist society mostly don’t align themselves with 4B.
In South Korea it is not possible to take out a life insurance policy on anyone younger than 15. In other words it is possible to have a life insurance on someone 15 or 16. But one must be at least 17 years old to have a legally binding will. Making 15-16 the perfect age for a parent to murder their child and make it look like an accident for cash money.
“But it would look really really suspicious to have a huge life insurance policy on a teenager and what kind of money would a teen have anyway?”
There are working K-pop idols as young as 13 and their next of kin not only inherits whatever money they may already have but also the intellectual properties e.g. rights for their songs upon their death. At 16 they likely haven’t earned out their contract yet so they may not see large payments any time soon but it is more normal for someone with that kind of earning potential to have a life insurance even if they are 16 years old. Insurance payout windfall + a lifetime of royalty earnings that the parents might not have gotten if the kid grew up to marry and/or have their own children or even just lived long enough to have a legally binding will.
Kinda fucked how the conflict of interest is set up there.
Rip grandfather dropped dead quite literally and everyone was too surprised to function so I made the funeral arrangements and I called the funeral hall attached to my university’s medical center and asked if I can have an alumni discount and they asked if he was my paternal grandfather and yes he was but what in patriarchy? Like they really wouldn’t have offered the same to my other grandfather because his daughter gave birth to me. That is what they said. Make it make sense.
Korean funerals are exhausting but other than the discriminatory pricing policy and the general expensiveness this feels correct. Dead ancestors making me appreciate customs and traditions lol
I am sad that he died btw but being able to get around and take care of oneself still at 89 and then dying the next morning and having children and grandchildren who can give you an adequate ceremony is as blessed as it gets all things considered.
I got an ad about cosmetic surgery/procedure info sharing/review app and the whole video was like “oh my nose was too wide and round so I got plastic surgery from a clinic I found on this app and now I have a nice pointy nose” and her original nose looked a lot like mine. I haven’t given much thought about my nose but now I am wondering whether it is ugly lol. Since they are technically promoting a smartphone app that helps people compare cosmetic surgeries and surgeons, not advertising a certain clinic or pharmaceutical, they’re not subject to medical advertising regulations and I do think this is harmful. Like… I have no opinion on people getting cosmetic surgeries but why do they gotta advertise the app this way.
Refer to England as “a mysterious and warlike nation off the coast of western Asia”
Got called “privileged” by an USAmerican, a Californian no less, because… I went to a private university. Explaining my school’s history would kind of doxx myself but I will say that prior to 1945 higher education was controlled by colonizers. There was an organized movement to raise funds and found a college for the people by the people, which was of course met with colonial interruption. Seoul National University, a public institution and the #1 university in the nation, is a successor of the imperial college from this era unfortunately. Meanwhile most private schools (that are good and not just money grabs) were founded by either liberation activists or missionaries. And not to cape for missionaries, but Underwood, Scranton etc. put in a lot of effort to educate the people when they had nothing else. They fought tooth and nail to establish colleges in Joseon when the Japanese simply refused to allow it, and they even conceded to giving up theology department so they could keep science departments because the Japanese hated Christianity and didn’t want the people they colonized learning science. Because those missionaries cared more about providing science education to the people and believed that the school should focus on actual schooling and not be used as a vehicle of religious conversion.
Of course the founding principles have faded with time and the current school administrations are money hungry and yes private schools are more expensive than public ones but not by 5-6x like in the US, and an average private university is cheaper than most US in-state tuitions, those who aren’t in the top quantile of household income get varying levels of government subsidies and our student loan system is not predatory; US federal student loan interest rate is 6.39% while KOSAF interest rate is 1.7%. It’s not perfect, but for the most part, a bachelor’s degree is not cost-prohibitive for most people.
Your country is fucked up don’t project that shit onto me as if you don’t casually live in a state with globally high-ranking public universities. I’m sooooo sorry you had to go to UCLA because Stanford was too expensive. I am soooo privileged for going to a school cheaper than UCLA somehow. Be so for real. How does one spend 4 years in a place as diverse as UCLA and still end up so clueless. You paid more to go to college and yet somehow did’t learn that things are different in other countries.
Btw ironically SNU has the most actually privileged student body because the competition to get in is insane and it’s people with resources that tends to end up on the top. Lolz
I am reading a Korean translation copy of Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop by Crystal S. Anderson and so far it is a really good book, but the Korean title is “케이팝은 흑인음악이다” which means “K-pop is Black music” and 1) I don’t think that is the point the author is making and 2) it might antagonize Korean readers for no reason before they even find out what the book is about??? People who find this title objectionable are likely the people who need to read it the most too. I know the original title is long, but couldn’t the translators and publisher come up with something better…
K-pop as we know it today is heavily, heavily influenced by rap and R&B, as most modern popular music is, and sometimes the songs are R&B, their fashion and other aspects are also inspired by Black American culture, but to say K-pop is Black music kind of erases the cultural history of Korean popular music, thus erasing the thoughtful research and analysis the author put into that context, thus weakening the very basis on which the Black music influence in K-pop is explored, thus weakening the whole damn book???
And yea don’t judge a book by its cover but a book cover should at least try to appropriately represent the content of the book, that is the point of cover design???
perhaps the text is too academic-y to be digestible to the General Public but it is a good book and more people should read it I thinks.
why did the publisher sabotage their own publication like did they not understand the book. Did they not read the text they are publishing.
author: in this essay i will explore the hybridity and intertextuality between Black American music and K-pop
whoever decided on this title: K-pop is Black music <3
"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point
"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"
people in the reblogs objecting to this are just giving me new examples, lol
If the kpop artist in question is RoK citizen, one of few countries that exercise personal jurisdiction on drug usage occurred overseas, (as in one can lawfully buy legal marijuana and consume it because it is perfectly legal in the state/country/whatever, and RoK can and will go “nuh uh” and arrest the person the moment they land in RoK soil) you are disgusting for sending a random person to jail btw. What was that for.
Native anglophones are seen as more “deserving” of taking local English teachers’ jobs even though they aren’t actually more qualified, (Being a “native” speaker isn’t a teaching qualification. Teaching is a specific skill that takes specific training that many if not most of these so-called teachers don’t have, and if anything, having learnt English as a second language and knowing the local language are assets they also lack.) but any and all criticisms of these “English teachers” are met with “Well these countries WANT these ‘teachers’ to come! Why are you complaining about them?” (Just look at Reddit. And we complain about them because too many of them are sex pests that should be kept away from children at all times, not tasked with their education, by the way.) And you know, putting aside the imperialism that is at the core of why it is so important for the population in that country to learn English to begin with, that is a great point. Why do we keep inviting them? Because THEY have decided that the English we teach isn’t valid enough. Do you know how many services advertise Real English That Real People Use as if we aren’t real people, and you know what I am naming names. Tyler Rasch. And the “Real English” in question: saying “keep your coat on” rather than “don’t take off your coat” as if those don’t result in the same outcome. I am not making this up; this is a real advertising campaign that has circulated. And I name him because I believe that he is learned enough to know all this. I really do.
But when we overcome all sorts of hurdles such as language and racism, and “take American jobs” that we do in fact have training and credentials for, we are still fucked over despite, nay, BECAUSE of the fact that we do the same (if not better) job for less money, something they yet still insist is a feature not a bug of capitalism somehow.
