Why Are There Two Koreas?
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One name for Korea in Korean is Chosun, land of the morning calm. But if you know anything about the Korean Peninsula... then you’ll know that it is anything but calm.
For over a thousand years Korea was a united and culturally distinct nation. With one people, speaking one language. But today there are two Koreas. One Korea is a wealthy and vibrant democracy exporting phones, cars, and K-Pop while the other devolved into a totalitarian nuclear monarchy ruled by the iron-fisted Kim Dynasty.
So why are there two Koreas? Who divided them? And how can you win an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii? Well...Let’s Find out!
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very nice video
Hey cogito, it would be pretty cool if you did a video on the Ainu people.
Prabably consider make a video about morocco hes really a country with an intersting historical background i just u vid about amazigh i mean the morabit and elmohid was just one of the dynesties that ruled morocco form the idriss dynasty to alaoui dynisty now and hes even the first country to recognize usa us independent state so thats prob would make a great and intersting video
answer to video: Cold War . The end.
I’m not a hater I’m just oversimplifing it
Partition happens
Everyone : looking suspiciously at Britain
Britain : No It wasn't me this time, believe me!
Ehh try again last time i checked the B.e.i.c is a part of the empire
hahahHa
It was Britain's prodigy
🤣🤣🤣
uk bad dad
Wow, knew about the Korean war but didn't know it was this bad. My respect goes to the Korean people both North and South. Hope they can unite in peace again some day.
North Korea doesn't want to unite that's the problem or more accurately they want to under military force
"They" = the dynasty.
The people would defiantly benefit.
Assume it falls apart after the current Kim Jung.
Korean war was terrible, the korean occupation by japan was worse and south korea was plagued with massacres and torture till the 80s, and the economic crisis of the 90s; yeah the 20th century was a bad time to be in korea lol
@@gcbalteran166 yeah. Both countries had ups and downs. But the people aren't to blame.
@@highcouncil1302 nono, they want to unite, under there regime
"Korea was a strategic piece of land that happened to have people on it."
Same as everywhere...
Not imagine a piece of land rich in minerals
Liiiiike Vietnam ooooor the Emirates
Yuup
Cogito: I hope you enjoyed this video!
Me, covered in tears, shaking, forever traumatized: I guess
oh, so you're VERY easy to traumatize!
Oppa!!
Weirdo
There’s been worst
*Japan loses WW2*
USSR: “Korea is MINE!”
USA: “No! Korea is MINE!”
*roll credits*
USA : Let's use Britain's idea😊😅🤣
Korea in the 50s: it's better to be USSR's...
Korea 50 years later: Please take us to the US!
@@videogra5645 15? What?
Fun fact, neither of the major powers wanted to take over Korea militarily. The government in the north invaded the south
@@vulpes7079 50s, lol
Absolutely fantastic video, well researched and amazing production quality!
You two are two of the best youtubers out there!!
Noice
no, there are, actually, a lot of mistakes in this video
Hi
That dark spot map is actually fake. There's electric energy in north Korea haha of course
I wish I had your animating skills when I made a video about this a few weeks ago. Images were hard for me to come across! Well done with this.
I didn't expected you here. You channel is great too
Hey Beat
@FA3 MR. BREAST?! 🤯
@@cup3734 its a meme
Ur videos are still good though u dont need animating skills just for a video
One fascinating aspect of this division that I learned of is that during the most recent Winter Olympics the North and South teams competed together. For the women's hockey team, this presented a unique problem. The Southern team incorporates a lot of English words into their communications (pass, shoot, etc) while the Northern team used exclusively Korean terms for their communications. It was just a fact that I found interesting.
Because north hate western influence
@@SHIN92746 I don’t get why China can’t try to strengthen North Korea? I mean the only great thing about North Korea is that they have nukes.
Because more than 200+ languages just destroyed because of ENGLISH 😢, then So many asian countries decided to avoid English
9:35 "Mighty Luxembourg". 😅Cogito you genius
Don't laugh, it's as feared as the swiss mountain navy!
Kim pissed his pant and signed ceasefire agreement when he heard Whole mighty army of Luxembourg is coming.
I'm a Korean, but this is the first time I've seen a foreigner who explains the Korean War in such detail... It's amazing.
Are you a North Korean?
@@Rafay7001 Internet is not available in North Korea. I am from South Korea.
@@Archangel_Nijika Oh ok
Feel so bad after seeing the turmoil that Koreans went through.. lots of love to you all from India ❤️❤️❤️
I’m quite shocked and devastated to hear that South Korea’s first two dictators were fucking oppressors killing thousands of innocent people for no literal reason.
That must be tough, so everybody please be grateful for what you have now. Especially the current generations of the south unlike the past.
Wow! How can you make history so entertaining? I'm gonna show this to my class tomorrow!
Good
Wow that's great. I was only ever a menace in my class so I'm glad I might help yours 😀
Partition exists*
Meanwhile British : Don't look at me , this time it was USA
World: Britain No!!
Britain: I am here.
World : Sorry Force of habit.
USA , britain , Australians and south Africans all are Britishers
Yeah british son is king now
@@Noone-gz8li yeah true. American and British blood are essentially similar. It's just the other minority groups from poles, Irish, African-Americans, that have different blood. And natives are more of minorities.
This is a moronic statement. I suppose you believe the communists should control the south as well.
Dividing the Koreans, it's always very difficult for me to understand that how does in history a foreign power was able to rule, divide, basically destroy the people who look the same, share same culture but still were made to think different and forbidden to contact each other.
Well it was perfected by practicing with Africa
"Being devastated... in Hawaii"... Sounds like a new song.
Lmao, that “😱K-POP!!” Really got me 😂
How can someone dislike any video by this man.
One of my favourite youtube channel
Thanks :)
He got many, many, many parts wrong, painting the war as if it was the US' fault the South was invaded. He even said the Japanese colonial government remained in Korea by order of the Americans, which is just plain wrong
Great video. As a Korean I really appreciate it. I hope this videos makes Americans realize that South Korea doesn't "thank" America for "helping" them fight the Korean War. America and the USSR created this war. You don't stab someone and give them painkillers and expect them to thank you, but it's a common US tactic.
Also, see 7:01. I hope you realize how careless and unethical America was in "installing capitalism". Rhee Seung Man, the first president of S Korea was a puppet installed by America to fight against communism. In that process, America murdered Kim Gu, a heroic leader of Korea at the time, to make this happen. see 7:08 Because without him dead, you cannot make a no-name American puppet become the president. The following dictatorships and coup d'etat also show that capitalism vs communism isn't exactly good vs evil. Not now, but especially not then. There were tons of anti-communist dictatorships that slaughtered ppl. I am saying this because the media often portrays communism and totalitarisn dictatorship as same. USSR at least cared about North Korea. They wanted the North to succeed with communism. US didn't give a fuck about the South.
Please respect Korea, both north and south. Please criticize the North correctly with the knowledge of its history. Please appreciate the South's pop culture while respecting its painful history.
What? Soviet let Kim in charge . He was a warmonger like Lee. Soviet knew Kim would go to war with the south korean government but they didn't care. Also stalin deported millions of Koreans living in manchuria during the 1920s which resulted in thousands of death. Soviets didnt care about Korea. 야 소련이 한국에 대해서 멀 생각해? 게들은 한국인들은 고려인의 강제 이동할때 20만명을 강제로 이동시켯어. 그때 2만 5000명이 넘게 죽었어. 소련이 만주 공격할때 중국인들과 한국인들 시민들도 학살하고 강간 시켯어. 소련이 우리에 대해서 생각한건 하나도 없어. 소련과 미국 다 같이 우리들을 체스 조각 밖으로박에 생각하지 못했어.
@@schneejacques3502 동의합니다 둘다 똑같네요
Thank you for giving more details. As an Indian, the similarities to the British partitioning India are chilling.
Wait what does this have to with pop culture, I was going along till then.
@@theAraAra sadly indians were drained of all their resources and made to work for almost free to develop their country. It's like cutting of limbs and keeping us alive. Instead of killing us of and be reborn.
I wonder if the sensei is watching this, uwu.
This comment made my day. Thank you.
Edit: I didn't mention that you're one of my favorite channels.
I cant seem to not hear this with the Narrator voice.
Who is the sensei?
I hope they notice me 😊
@@CogitoEdu who is the sensei?
19:06 the Korean people still see themselves as one..waiting for the day all humans see themselves as one..cool vid as always..
Africa can learn a lot from this
@@melokelo1498 all Africans are not the same race though and also it’s a huge continent. Why would they all learn from this? That’s like saying North America can learn from this… 🤔
@@melokelo1498 Korea = peninsula
Africa = a whole damn continent
That’s like saying
“ man russian China India Pakistan Bangladesh Burma Thailand etc etc”
I learned so much
Yay!
@@JulesBrunoJjBaggy Please do share your sources.
@@JulesBrunoJjBaggy if you’re using the NYPD as your frame of reference then basically everything will look smaller than that. You don’t choose one of the most insanely overfunded programs in existence to claim something isn’t excessive. That’s like saying because your aunt smokes 6 packs a day means you smoking 2 isn’t a lot.
@@JulesBrunoJjBaggy I don't think he really mean actual monarchs, but the position that the Kim's hold is practically a monarchy you know. They have absolute power in North Korea, they've been passing the position from father to son, they're venerated like gods, etc. And NK does not really elect it's presidents, it's all a fake democracy. Other than that, what other mistakes are made in the video?
@@JulesBrunoJjBaggyYou still didn't say your sources. That means you can't proof anything you said.
*partition happens*
everyone: no stop it britain!
britain: what
everyone: sorry force of habit
I just discovered this channel yesterday but I wish I had earlier and I think more people should discover this channel
Welcome aboard!
@@CogitoEdu thanku
Ditto...and having 'discovered' the korean dramatische history recently, this is a Most enjoyable synopsis
Oh my God, this is soo good, you make history so entertaining. Gonna improve my content 😍😍
Best of luck!
As an INDIAN 💖🇮🇳 I can understand that pain of Korea the same thing I mean partition happened to my mother land. Love to humanity 😍💖
If partition had not happened india would also been an Islamic helllhole like pakistan
@@nick-sw3in ngl as an Indian Pakistan is in better condition compared to Yemen and Syria
@@nick-sw3in who the hell are u to talk about our country in that way?
@@nick-sw3in stfu bro respect religions
Korea was divided in the heat of the cold War basically politically but India Pakistan and Bangladesh were divided on the basis of religion which is the worst!! For a moment one can imagine an United Korea but not an United bharatvarsha!!
It's surprising that I can remember almost everything 😃 even after watching this 21 minutes long video ( the years excluded of course )
Pffft i made the video and can't remember most of the dates don't worry :)
What a stunning video! And this is one side of history i never knew!!!
You always makes literally every topic so much interesting that people will hardly leave the video in between. Also thanks for this video , before watching i only know the fight between North and south korea but didnt know the reason behind it . Your narration skills are just amazing . Can we have one on Christianity ? please
Thank you :). We have a video on Christianity planned.
@@CogitoEdu Any chance you might mention the 'Great Awakenings' in America?
@@CogitoEdu Will surely wait for it . Thanks 😊
@@CogitoEdu and all the other countries too. History is fun on your channel.
Korean people are very strong!!!! Love from Poland!!!
Poles are so strong as well!! I'm not Korean but love from India ❤️❤
@@pandabear1136 Thank you Rich History from India!!!!
Thank you! Poland people are strong as well! 👍
@@pandabear1136 do you know about Karolina Goswami who is a polish but make video about India
Her channel name is:- India in details
@@SUMITK14 ooo it sounds interesting, I'll check out the channel for sure. Thanks for recommending :))
I literally had no idea why there were two Koreas, but I'm so glad I have a greater understanding now. As always such great videos! Thanks!
As a Korean(not the north one), I find this video highly well condensed the essential historic parts. Let me ask my grandma to send you some Kimchi
one flaw I dare to pick out is that some illustrations are drawn in chinese styles
He he north Koreans cannot use youtube
Thanks for mentioning that you aren't from north korea. I almost mistaken you from the southern part. The north koreans always use internet and insult my friends mother
I’ve seen some other videos about Korea’s history but there was a lot in here I didn’t know and it was really fascinating. Thanks for this, I learned a lot. The ending broke my heart a little because it’s just so sad how common of a story this is. So many lives destroyed or permanently altered because of ideological wars. Hopefully someday Korea will be able to peacefully reunite and all the fear and devastation can be put to rest.
Finally after a long time. Video looks great as always
I cannot fathom how long it took to produce such an incredible video just know we appreciate it!❤️
It's amazing how much disparity has been caused by colonial powers drawing borders on a map... to either take advantage of the instability caused by grouping very different ethnicities and religious sects together (just look at the borders drawn in the Middle East)... Or done with no consideration on how those new borders could cause global problems in the future (like the Korean border).
Agreed. Hopefully the lesson has been learned but I fear it has not.
You're a genius . you're like an encyclopedia. Having knowledge and Explanation ( with animation) of everything. Brilliant! : ) : D
Loved it. Very interesting. Favorite sentence at 18:41 "the demiliterazed zone is the most militarized area in the world" 😅
Amazing well researched video. It gave deep insight about north korean thinking. Most of videos on Nk-SK are from south korea bias. Covering almost all mistakes of South korea.
This video was the only one which explained the dark side of South korean history too.
When you said that for koreans its question of when not will... I had tears man
🤧👏👏
This channel has the best content & animation, explanation is great
thank you for sharing this detailed history of korea. not too many people know about this and as a korean myself, it needs to be known by the world so it can develop correctly
man this is what it feels like when you show up to class early
LMFAOOOO
bhhaahhaah
World war 1 and 2 were absolutely brutal. I'm uzbek from Uzbekistan and I really know what koreans feel their situations because our countries had to go through almost similar situation because of SSSR😪
Thank you for amazing video🥰
What inspired you to be a history buff? Sorry if it's mentioned in a previous video. I just think you do a excellent job of creating, editing, and narrating while being historically accurate. The cherry on top is that all your videos give respect and insight to the topic and culture being discussed.
I learned more in this 20 minute video than I did and any history class I’ve ever taken. Fascinating stuff.
Man ! the amount of creativity and hardwork you put in your videos is really something that you should be appreciated for. I really wish that your reaches the count 1 million subscribers ASAP. Lots of love 💖from India 🇮🇳
Thank you so much. I love hearing this kind of feedback 🇮🇳❤️
Brother I am also from India .I live in Mumbai , Maharashtra . And you ?
@@harshit2.02 i am from Nashik, MH 👋
I'm from MP india
Well Korea can unite because they were divided politically for other's benefit but the countries like India Pakistan bangladesh etc. have a very less probability of uniting because they are separated on the basis of religion and people have moved too far :-(
Amazing video. Perfect combination of animation and love action photos/videos. This channel is absolutely beautiful
Thank you so much :D
You outdid yourself with the video production here. Amazing work!
An excellent and unbiased analysis of the topic. Kudos Cogito for this..
One of the best TH-cam channels!
Perhaps North and South Korea will grow into a major power by converging together..!🇰🇷🤴🏻🇰🇵
@Bangi 69xD nope..! South Korea is a democracy that accepts democracy and lives freely, But North Korea was designed as a dictatorship by kim 11-sung...
Perhaps if the dominance of the kim dynasty is abolished, the North Korean people will be able to live freely in a united Korea...✨🤍✨
South Korea please teach Africa your ways of unity 😭
@@melokelo1498 what do you mean???
You are truly one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
I cant stress how phenomenal and impactful your work is.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how cute his art style is?
Those little people are adorable 😍
Today is a good day, ill get off your backs about it but when the commentarys start back up were exited, thankyou and have an amazing day
Thanks so much for your support :)
YOU EXPLAINED IT SO WELL
Wow thank you for this video. I learned a lot today.
This channel has seriously informative Documentaries. Thank You!
Your videos are awesome
Me to bro
So informative..
wow i love your videos so much! this is so well articulated i’m deeply impressed by the clear and creative narrative you developed along with fasnicating animations!!
As always, wonderful video.
This video actually taught me much, and avoided it initially though for thinking that it was to basic due to the very basic sounding title.. it was way more than just scratching the surface though, and very well made.. you should have called the video title something broader in my opinion like, theatreflects the more in depth analysis you provided.
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First video I have seen from you and it earned you a subscription
Love you and your crazy infos cogito!
Hey when are you doing the second part of the history of China? I can’t wait ❤️ I really enjoyed the video. You should do one like that for Egypt... and India
Agreed
How dare you remind me of TH-cam Rewind 2019 >:
Ohhh, everything is on 🔥🔥🔥…the comedic relief is so good 🤣🤣
Exceptional portrayal bro!!
Very heavy yet enlightening. Thank you for the video, Cogito!
As a Korean living in Ireland, I really appreciate this video and the work you put into it. It's so obvious how much thought and research went into it. Thank you for sharing this, it makes me solemn especially as the world faces another war in Israel/Palestine and ongoing Ukraine/Russia. Let's just hope conflicts come to and end soon.
I’m subscribing because I really appreciate your content and production value. Keep it up!!
I love this type of content your just like oversimplified.
I'm still struggling with Identifying English accents as a non native speaker. Are you Irish by any chance?
I am very Irish
@@CogitoEdu now tell me eh you catholic or protestant??
@@ShubhamMishrabro Maybe He is Protestant Its Ireland btw
@@CogitoEdu do you know Niall Horan?
My face was a frown for most of the video. Been into K-pop since the 2001, but never looked into their history. Thanks for educating. :D
Since 2001😶😶😶😶😶 when I was born
Very informative as usual
Visuals are absolutely amazing
Man.. I spent two years in Korea (fun fact: I turned 21 there as well) and was actively ignoring all of the history lessons we were taught and spent most of my time partying and just enjoying the scenery as any naive young American with too much money on his hands would do. After watching this I feel embarrassed and remorseful for my lack of respect for their culture and history that we played such a heavy part in, especially with it being so recent! The only thing that intrigued me was being told that none of the trees there were over 50 years old because of the war but I just thought it was an interesting tidbit.. not a testament to the tumultuous and abhorrent bloodshed of yesteryear.
In my opinion, this video exemplifies the strength of humanity. The Korean people I had the pleasure of conversing and hanging out with were very optimistic, happy, relaxed, and incredibly welcoming to me and my other battle buddies, and the things mentioned in this video weren’t being complained about even remotely close to how my brothers and sisters that are Afro descendent still do about slavery 150+ years ago. C’est la vie 🤷🏾♂️
Wow, all of that just to close by shitting on black people.
@@corsaircaruso471 lol
@@dell7013 I wouldn't mind if they speak about black slavery atrocities committed by white supremacists for the rest of the time!
Humanity can't drop down any lower!
I'm sorry, but many trees over hundreds of years old can still be found in Korea. Just because the number is small doesn't mean there isn't.
Japan:Land of rising sun
Korea:Land of morning calm
Simply superb and well described video of Koren war... kudos 🎂🎂🎂
This tell us the entire story of korea. this is perfect to story of korea. this is perfect. thank you for making this video.
History is beautiful, I remember at school learning this topic, the USSR and US
Someone get this man to a million ....
This was better than anything I read in school lol well done !!!
I love the narrator's sense of humor!... It's amazing
North Korea: *Looks at calendar*
YUGIO
Also North Korea: Its time to duel!
When you make a grammatical error in the title, but you also made it in the thumbnail so you just roll with it. Good vid though.
He changed it... :-(
It's the grammar that's wrong. I am correct 😄
This was interesting.
👍
Excellent video!
Wow thanks for telling us about that.
I always thought North Korea was a terrible place from the first day it was founded, but now I know that is was once better then the south
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That's what u got from that wow
@@unknownbutknown332 neither country was free from the start neither got to pick thier leaders how does one become president due to everyone running dying clearly the cia was offing them
God bless you cogito
Bless you :D
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This was great!
As a german, who´s home country was separated for similar reasons i can emphasize with the Korean people. However, our situation was very different because Germany didn't´t have a civil war following WW2. Videos like this are important, because they show us that despite what the mainstream opinion might be, in a war there are no right and wrong sides. Especially a civil war. I´m just wondering how the two Koreas will ever be reunited and wether such a thing would be possible without another military conflict. Hopefully...
There used to be three Koreans!
Really?
@Cultures' Lover What were their names?
@@caovuonglam Baekje,Silla and Goguryeo.The Korean peninsula only became unified under the Goryeo kingdom(a successor of the Goguryeo kingdom).The name 'Korea' is derived from 'Goryeo'.
@@va98055 Thank you! Have a lovely day :)
love the illustration
Welcome back GOGITO!
Are you ruling the east?
@@Alaryk111 what do u mean?
@@cladivostoc It's a joke about your nick.
@@Alaryk111 lOl ... I C
I’m dead 😂 Japan got in with a bad crowd?? Lol started smoking lol
Tried the same with Vietnam but the people won there. And he may have been a dictator but saying that Korea's problem are all caused by foreign countries is actually not wrong.
Awesome ❤