SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality and corruption, will become the country’s next president on Wednesday after an election that closed one of the most turbulent chapters in the young democracy.
Lee, 60, the candidate of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, is taking office for a full, single five-year term, succeeding Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who was felled over his stunning yet brief imposition of martial law in December.
Pretty standard reversal of fortune for the conservatives. They’ve been ousted in scandal after scandal, dating back to the OG Syngman Rhee administration.
The Parks and the Yoons cultivate a powerful base of support with the six billionaire families and their Cult church allies that effectively own S. Korea. They do clown shit, get ousted, and then spend a few years in the political doghouse.
But the liberals never bother to fully prosecute or dismantle the corrupt oligarchy that backs these guys. So they always come creeping back into power again.
Good for him, love to see a success story like this. Hopefully he does something about the rampant racism.
Care to elaborate on rampant racism? Lived in SoKo for fifteen years as a foreigner and haven’t noticed much of it myself.
It is apparently focused on black people. White people are seen as superior for some reason. https://unbiasthenews.org/heard-but-not-seen-being-black-in-south-korea/ This is a few years old, but I don’t imagine too much has changed. I’ve never been to Korea, I’m no expert on it or anything, but I’m inclined to believe Mr. Pinnacle.
Asia in particular love white foreigners, especially around cinema.
What do you mean especially around cinema?
Interesting. Wonder why.
they love action movies of westerners, were asian so my parents love these movies, they always see white as legitimiate.rich or superior. its no wonder beast/paul bros are big there too.
why do you think ROCK and JOHN xina has been catering to china.
Strange. So they have a positively skewed view from our celebrities? Really surprising that they would like the Pauls, if only because of how disrespectful they were on their little… tourist trips. I’m an American, I have a strong dislike for most celebrities, especially the Royal Family/Kardashian type. Thanks, interesting answer.
they dont care about drama in the west, like europe and us does. they just to see westerners, do funny stuff or action movies. there was a whole thread on reddit about mr beast and his lunchly fiasco. someone said his products were being sold overseas, and none of them talk about his current drama. i heard thier shitty food is sold out in asia.
Yeah, I personally know Pinnacle and he’s right, but I wouldn’t call it rampant racism. Those clubs that don’t allow foreigners have been named and shamed and put on the news over and over throughout the years where you just don’t hear about them anymore. They didn’t let anyone not Korean in, not just black people. It was always just a few dumb clubs anyway, not exactly rampant. Koreans, in general are relatively open to outsiders, especially compared to the Japanese.
Did they ever create any anti- discrimination laws?
Remnants of the Korean police action. There’s a MASH episode about it
Apparently the much bigger issue is that their population curve is irrecoverable. There won’t even be anyone to be racist in a few short decades.
This is only a problem for people that want to keep the population’s “racial purity”, in every country. Every real problem that comes from too few young people can be solved with immigration.
There’s a fine line between what you’re describing, and colonization. If we agree that the current set of korean families are not going to sustain the population themselves, and we agree that one way to preserve the population is to bring in transplants, then we’re looking at a future South Korea that is primarily owned by people from other countries who had the resources to come in and take over. Which, “racial purity” aside, isn’t great.
No, no it’s not. Colonization is the replacement of an existing population, that if left alone, would’ve sustained itself. No external power (as in foreign govermment) is forcing South Koreans to have fewer kids. This is more like moving into a once thriving boom town. Sure, some people are still there, and they have a right to live there. South Korea is being colonized in the same way that the Turkish are colonizing Germany, in that, they’re really not. If birth rates go down for the US, then the only way to keep stuff like social security going would be bringing in foreign workers. Right now, that’s mainly used for the jobs that white people don’t really want. The Hispanic population in the US is extremely large, about 20% of Americans. Is this colonialism? No, it is not. Not just because it’s also the land of their ancestors (well, a lot of it is at least), but because they aren’t restricting any other residents of the country in any manner. It’s like moving into an abandoned house, not breaking into a house, killing the owner, and taking it.
No external power (as in foreign govermment) is forcing South Koreans to have fewer kids
From what I can gather from South Koreans on the internet talking about the matter, there is a direct relationship between their country’s capitulation to western hyper-capitalist expectations over the last 50+ years, and this phenomenon. And it wasn’t like the US was hands-off when it came to picking winners in the Korean War; to a large extent, South Korea is the way it is because of US, do you think that’s a relatively safe oversimplification to work from?
Certainly isn’t closed but it’s a great step.
We still have yet to see whether he will go to prison for corruption before he settles into his presidency.
