"Most of the victims were children" isn't clear enough. 82% of the Sewol's dead victims were kids. EIGHTY TWO PERCENT. It was a class trip for the whole grade.
South Korea's economy is the exact concept of techno-feudalism talked about by Yanis Varoufakis (Greek finance minister in 2015). He basically conceptualized that capitalism is long gone but we haven't realized it yet because economic shifts happen cross-generationally. He does a good job of pointing out how we, through our own human nature, reverted back to feudalism, where in which the government has become the lord (operating through subsidies), CEOs are the vassals, corporations are the fiefs, and employees are the serfs.
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Notice the trend towards everything becoming a lease or a subscription. When everything you use and need is tied to a contract, you’re still a serf; tied to financial agreements rather than land. Nothing is truly yours
@@jaber4life holy crap you're so right... everything is subscription-based, even music, people subscribe to a streaming service rather than buy a CD or even the song on iTunes
i feel like on thing i didnt like was the depiction of the people on the sewol ferry. They weren't mainly little children they were high schoolers on their field trip iirc.
It's kinda crazy how we just never hear about any of this stuff in the US because we seem to have this high opinion of S. Korea just for the simple fact that they're not N. Korea
South Korea’s biggest supporter is America, that’s why you don’t hear about it. The media manipulates the public’s opinion so the SK is seen as good and prospering while NK is bad and authoritarian
@@Reformed322 They are overworked because they're oversocialized. They're being abused because they let it happen. The strong and vile will always prey on the weak, and oversocialized people are weakness incarnate.
why do people conceive big companies as evil? Just because they earn alot? and you want to take them down then what? economy hits the bottom and country becomes even worse. Like the top commenter said samsung aint the only big corpo here and they do pay their taxes for their rights, This dumbass channel who links a big tragedy with corporations is just spreading false information. The current situation of people hating against big corpo should be percepted in a different manner than that of 'luigi" case. These guys just wanna take down samsung for communism
@@ZXCRacingwhat he wants to convey is, the content made by Fern is comparable, or even better compared to the content in premium youtube.. And I totally agree with that statement..
How to escape accountability (the rich edition) 1. Let the sentence be severe to please the public 2. Do the sentence but only until the public forgets about their crime 3. Quietly reduce and pardon the sentence 4. Profit
@@yeetboi268- No, It happens in the U.S. as well. The time you are sentenced to does not equal the time you will actually serve. If you are sentenced to 10 years you can be out in five to six years. In most cases you only have to serve 80% your actual sentence to then be eligible for parole.
I remember watching the ferry disaster in real time. I honestly thought those kids were gonna be rescued. When they weren't the Vice Principle of their school hung himself on a tree down by the docks where the parents were waiting for news on the rescue.
I could not imagine his anguish when it happened, being the vice principle of that school he would have been one of those in charge of arranging the field trip in the first place, imagine believing you were sending your students on what was supposed to be a harmless fieldtrip on a ferry only to have accidentally condemning the entirety of the school most of whom were children to a horrible agonizing death, an entire generations worth of kids who will never return to their families again. The entire thing was out of his control, he could not have possibly known it would end up like this, but even i would not be able to live with myself and the parents of those children may certainly not be able to forgive. That Captain was a coward, not only did he abandoned ship he actively went out of his way to save his own life by purposefully pretending to not be even a ship worker, ditching his captains articles and his crew.
not only distract, it spirals people into believing SK is the perfect country, its incredible the amount of young children and teens who want to migrate to korea just because of Kpop or Kdramas
I would argue that if you dig deep enough on how Kpop actually operates, it wakes you up. My disgust with the way things are run in South Korea actually started from Kpop. Stopped listening to it when I realised their musicians are literal slaves.
They are trying to communicate it all the time, for example look at the popular squid game, on a deeper level it showing the tragic condition of south korean society
@@Lacerta_Viridis . People like me watch shows from other countries to get a small glimpse of their culture. Same reason why people watch shows like Friends and dont think NYC is full of white people living in million dollar lofts. Also people travel to korea because its still a fun place to visit even if you dont listen to their music.
Advice I got from a very experienced sailor: If you're ever on a passenger ship and something seems wrong, the crew will always tell you to remain in place. NEVER listen to them. Always put on your life jacket and go to the deck. Don't let anyone stop you. And if the ship is listing (i.e. leaning to one side), go to the side it's leaning toward, as in the side that's closer to the water. Because the lifeboats on the other side will be useless as they'll be hanging over the hull and likely to capsize if lowered.
"the crew will always tell you to remain in place" so we're just going to let this slide and continue? Objectively, is that the right protocol to be carried out in times of crisis?
There are videos of the drowning recorded by the school children. “Are we going to die?” “I don’t want to die…” as the situation slowly becomes more and more real you can hear the fear begin to manifest. Absolutely horrifying. Heartbreaking and absurd. It brings me to tears just thinking about it… I strongly recommend against seeking it out. It’s one of those few things that I truly regret having seen.
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president' ( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth ) Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that. Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea. Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy) President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities. President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator. Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country." Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country." In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
'There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president' Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea. Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy) President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities. President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator. Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country." Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
The scary thing is, Lee Jae-Yong the "Samsung Prince" is the richest person in the country with an estimate wealth of 8.7 billion, and he's above the law. Imagine the oligarchs of America who are worth 50x that much.
What I got from the video was that it’s not only the individual wealth but Samsung’s impact on the whole economy that truly puts him above the law. His true value for the country seems even higher than any US billionaire. Not saying they aren’t above plenty of laws too though.
@@user-ws6nu4mq8kthat’s definitely the important part lol. Besides, the video was relating influence to their impact on economic growth, not the worth of their assets, so estimated wealth means nothing really here. But yeah, there’s no American “oligarchs” that are as impactful to the economy as Samsung is in South Korea. And the companies that are most impactful are usually divided up into many shareholders, not held by one family/person.
not the same. The fact that S.K is directly depended on Samsung at this level is the issue. Its like if NASA wasn't there but only space X existed then you would have seen the power of elon musk but its multiple times more in S.K
I lived in South Korea for two years teaching, and I can't stress enough how much it is an open secret the chaebols are the ones really running the country. Literally, everyone I would talk to about this from young to old knew that the big families were untouchable. Honestly, even just working at one of these companies is seen as a big deal in Korea, because it is understood that there are many benefits besides compensation when you are working for these companies. As an example, I had a friend in Korea who worked at Samsung, just a mid level position, but soon after joining the company he became close friends with the head of police in the town we were both living in, and whenever there was an issue with the law he would call his friend and then magically the problem would go away. This is just a small town example, so I can only imagine what the top guys are up to on a daily basis. Edit for the people asking: During my time in Korea, I worked at 2 different Hagwons. The first was in a small town (of about 100,000, by Korean standards that is small) that I highly doubt anyone here would know by name, most Koreans I talk to about it don't know about it. The second was at a major Hagwon in Seoul in the rich part of town, called Gangnam. I don't want to give the name because many celebrities' kids go to the school, but all you need to know is I met a lot of extremely rich people there. Like, several of my students' parents were CEOs, judges, politicians, etc. Edit 2 for the people asking: I became friends with this Samsung employee because his younger brother was one of my students. At first, we would just chat in the lobby waiting for his brother. But over time we started hanging out outside of the school. Mostly because he wanted a foreigner friend to practice his English with, since he started going overseas often because of his new role at Samsung. Again, I am not 100% sure what his role was, we would just chat while drinking soju or eating food sometimes after work. That's all. So for the people who are asking questions regarding his role, I genuinely don't know. And for people who think that is strange, I just want to say, I'm a guy, and like most guys I very rarely talk to my guy friends about their jobs. There are guy friends I have had for more then 10 years that I still do not 100% know what they do for work. All I know is that he told me he was in a "mid-level" position and that he was in charge of his own team. That's literally all I know, that and I believe he was in some aspect of promotion because I know he would go to different type of events around the world and around Korean fairly often. One time he got me into F1 for free when it was in Seoul because he had a booth there, and I was able to go behind the scenes. But that is literally all I know.
bro working at samsung doesnt make you friends with a police chief lol. Thats like saying working at apple would do the same. Especially when the guy is just an average mid level worker making 100k a year. either you misunderstood something or you are clearly lying
@@josephp9141 it is different working in samsung in SK vs working in apple in US. literally kids study to death so they can enter a good college and they even have a national holiday for their college entrance exam just to get the MIDDLE POSITION in Samsung. of course then they will work to death to climb up the rankings inside samsung. they have to get into the top 3 schools (SKY) to get a position in these chaebol companies.
The sad thing is, this doesn't even scratch the surface... especially regarding the Sewol tragedy, those involved, those complicit, and those who literally just stood by and allowed it to be worse than it needed to be. If anyone is ever in the need of a good cry, and doesn't mind never being the same again, I strongly urge them to watch a documentary or two on the Sewol disaster
That was just sensationalism. There are a lot of spies with Chinese-North Korean ties in South Korea still now. Not long ago, North Korean spies were convicted. The order said, "Use the Itaewon tragedy. Use Saewolho...etc. Meanwhile, there seems to be a connection between the spread of this kind of video in the United States. You should know that South Korea is on the front lines against communist forces. Russia invaded Ukraine and China ate Hong Kong. Hong Kong was replaced from within with pro-Beijing politicians and has since been absorbed by China. Now, South Korea's leftist politicians have been dominated by the pro-Beijing party since Moon Jae-in and have a huge opposition party. Not only leftist, also in right-wing. That's why President Yoon Seok-yul turned a blind eye by declaring martial law and tried to catch evidence of fraudulent elections. Today, South Korea has a big opposition party, and there are many stupid people who reject capitalism and want socialism. The end of socialism is the same as North Korea. An unmotivated society will only lead to its own destruction. In South Korea, order is preserved by the Constitution, at least for now. The proof is that the corrupt are brought to justice. It's proof that Korea is an advanced country, and you should know that most countries in the world have corrupt politicians and the establishment who wield so much power that it makes Korean chaebols look nothing, and it's never mentioned even in their media, unlike S.Korea.
It’s interesting how, in some countries, it’s easy to associate the faces and names of powerful individuals with the companies and crimes they are responsible for. In contrast, in the U.S., we often speak about corporations or institutions in abstract terms, without ever putting a face to those behind them. Companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, or Coca-Cola-and even powerful agencies like the FBI and CIA-frequently make headlines, but the blame rarely extends to the individuals who drive their decisions. When wrongdoing occurs, the public hears the company’s name, but those truly responsible remain faceless and nameless. This disconnect allows accountability to vanish behind corporate logos and institutional titles, shielding the people at the top from personal scrutiny.
@@SisyphusOfSodom Because IT wouldnt make Sense for single induviduals. The Problem arent these induviduals but the company and the system. Those induviduals are only acting they way they are expected to, to maximice shareholder value.
The vagueness does help distribute the blame across the corporate image and stifles the public's imagination and ability perceive individuals who are wrong. I think even this goes for ideology too, people will blame capitalism but not look at specific CEO's and individuals working behind the curtains of these big corps.
Gotta love dodge v ford for giving us that luxury. Doesn't matter how many CEOs you axe when the law mandates you literally break the law because paying fines is slightly more profitable than following it.
But Americans don't care. Even if individuals are exposed for corruption, half of Americans won't believe it, or believe that the "other side" is worse. Half of the U.S lives in one reality, and the other half in another reality. People can't even agree on basic facts anymore. Think about it, Americans have just elected a convicted felon for president lol.
That’s why when something goes with the Tesla for example, people blame Elon Musk since he is associated with the company. But if the CEO wasn’t famous and didn’t have a PR, it would be just Tesla. But Tesla has a face whcih is Elon.
Democracy, if we are not talking about anarchism, happens in states. But if we are talking about a slave-owning state, then it is obvious that this state was created by slaveholders for slaveholders. In all slave-owning states, no matter how democratic they call themselves, they are always totalitarian compared to primitive tribes. And in ancient Greece, where the term democracy was coined, only slaveholders could use this democracy. Further, the feudal state was created by the feudal lords for the feudal lords. But here democracy is found only in independent trading city-states, and it works only for rich merchants and guild masters. Under capitalism, the state is created by capitalists/bourgeoisie/businessmen for capitalists/etc. For example, the main supporters of liberalism in Britain and France were businessmen who could not develop under feudal laws. It is obvious that democracy under capitalism, as a rule, primarily works in the interests of capitalists. Democracy under capitalism is not the power of the people. It is nothing more than an opportunity to simply choose a "slave owner" (a party, a president), who will then be impossible to remove from office and who does not have any obligations to his voters. And strangely enough, in all capitalist countries, first of all, big capitalists (oligarchs) live well. As you can see, life is getting worse all over the world (in China, Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Mexico, the EU, India, Syria, etc.), but not for bankers, media moguls, oil moguls, etc. No matter how hard German citizens tried to choose the "right president," life continued to get worse and worse, and the rich continued to get richer and richer. No matter how Americans tried to choose a "good president" every four years, he did nothing but further worsen their lives. As there have been more and more homeless Americans over the past 30 years, so it continues. As 0.001% of the American society beat the Forbes records, they continue to do so. "The wealthiest people in America have never been wealthier. Here's who's up, who's down and who's new. The 400 richest people in America are having a rollicking time in the roaring 2020s. In all, they are worth a record $5.4 trillion, up nearly $1 trillion from last year. A dozen have $100 billion-plus fortunes, also a record. And admission to this elite club is pricier than ever: A minimum net worth of $3.3 billion is required, up $400 million since 2023. Despite the high bar, 23 newcomers managed to break into the ranks, having grown their fortunes in everything from mundane plastic pipes to cutting-edge artificial intelligence." -- Forbes 400, 2024. www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, TH-cam isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president' ( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth ) Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that. Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea. Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy) President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities. President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator. Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country." Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country." In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
So the people responsible walked free but those lower down who had no choice but to follow order is jailed for life? The same with the Halloween crush in Seoul. They hung the head of police whose personnel were withdrawn to another area and left him hanging with not enough police force to keep the safety of the public in one of the busiest nights of the year. Shame. Shame.
I noticed no one responded to you yet: but I agree. They raked the police for their "failure" as if President Yoon wasn't the issue, as he migrated to Yongsan from the blue house. I was present during the crush, and it was brutal. It wasn't until after I realized the police were short staffed due to his insistence on having expansive police at Yongsan instead of Itaewon less than a mile away. Shame indeed.
@@SecroduzTV "Officers from South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) attempted to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Friday but were blocked by military personnel serving under the Presidential Security Service (PSS), according to Yonhap News Agency. The incident unfolded at Yoon’s residence, where the military unit presumed to be from the 55th Security Brigade was reportedly deployed to block the warrant against Yoon, escalating tensions surrounding this unprecedented step against a sitting president, Yonhap wrote on Friday." Do you reckon there will be a clash and civil war
@ConnorLonergan Yoon himself probably won't be able to walk free because there is no chaebol willing to free him. after all, why would they? it's not like they've been found to have any connections with his stupid actions. Yoon isn't powerful, important, or even smart enough for any chaebol to save him. what use would he be? everyone hates him already and any chaebol willing to free him would also risk their company shares. Yoon would probably get something a little more serious, but wouldn't be able to be fully prosecuted for his whole list of crimes.
This country has a strong academic society and lookism is widespread, and it is impossible for ordinary citizens to hold high positions unless they undergo plastic surgery or become highly educated.
@futurehofer1564 I do. And I agree that plastic surgery is rampant in South Korea. But the statement of it being required for a high function is ignorant conjecture at best.
Weird, it almost seems like the profit motive is a perverse incentive which prioritises capital accumulation above all else, that corporations acting greedy is an inherent feature of the system and that hyper focusing on individuals and corporations at the top and presenting them as simply being bad actors is missing the forest for the trees, which only ends up preventing people from viewing the incentives that the system itself creates in order to elevate these individuals to the top, but that would be an anti-capitalist perspective to have, which is apparently bad
Yep, it's a feature in modern capitalism especially late stage capitalism, which is more or less feels like serfdom. Sure the economy grows but the people are poor to the point where even having kids and having a wife at home to take care of them is a luxury. Without kids being raised properly, societies start breaking down as strong families make strong societies
@@Унмеито I agree, it's insane. With technology evolving and with workers being replaced, it will only make things harder for the general public while the corpos get richer and richer
According to the Global Slavery Index, an estimated 10.4% of the North Korean population is effectively enslaved as of 2018. Enjoy your k-pop knowing that kids ;)
The government incompetence in the ferry event can not be overstated. The passengers could have been rescued if anyone acted in the good of the victims.
Dumb question: is “ferry” pronounced the same as “fairy”? English was not my first language but I was always taught that berry, bury, and Barry are pronounced different lol was I taught wrong?
@@CantTellYouthere is a difference but it ends up being very subtle and washed up in different kinds of accents. For example Australia and British accents place more difference between them but for where I'm from (america) the difference between "fairy" and "ferry" are indistinguishable
incompetence? Lol, they literally lied watch the documentary about it, during the reconstruction of the journey done by the ferry, they lied about it and sent fake coordinates
@@CantTellYou Fairy is pronounced "Fair-ree" like "dairy" so there's an "r" sound at the end of the first syllable. Ferry is pronounced "feh-ree" like "berry" so no "r" at the end of the first syllable. Also "feh-ree" has a shorter first syllable. So fairy like dairy/hairy/Mary, ferry like berry/merry/cherry.
Fun fact, one of the granddaughters of the chaebol family of Samsung almost debuted in a Kpop group. She received backlash for "buying her way" into the Kpop industry especially since she was set to debut in a pretty big company. She was eventually let go although no one knows if she left or if they decided not to debut her.
@@KinqNicknah not always lmao, obviously some are poor and some are already well-off. there are some idols who became idols because they have connections in the industry, of course.
@@KinqNick Nope. Kpop used to be that way before the West became obsessed with Kpop. Beforehand, kpop idols tend to come from more poor or middle class families, but now that there is a massive market for Kpop idols, majority of trainees are from rich families. Since training takes a lot of time and dedication, most trainees who are able to put life on hold tend to come from rich families, since they always have money to fall back onto if their dreams of becoming a Kpop idol does not come true.
U.S. is also living under neo-feudalism. Propaganda is strong and education is weak so the peasants just passively accept it while drinking beer and watching football.
I’m sorry do you really think Europe, whose people can barely make 50k a year if that, have moved on from feudalism? Where they still have the same rich families for centuries? Wake up
At this point which countries are NOT dystopian? Maybe a handful of wealthy countries in Europe? Every other country has serious issues with corruption, corporatism, violence, poverty, lack of healthcare, etc. This is a dystopian world, and things were actually even worse in the past.
By few rich countries in Europe you are refering to likes of Denmark. I used to live there and even tho its one of the best places in the world for life, its super distopiam too considering goverment are literally baning nooďles there for being too spicy or slowly taking laws that are openly leading to ban of any type of smoking. Like why tf do you even care😂 Every country itw is “dystopia” by some merit. Even after all the crazy things mentioned about South Korea, its super amazing place to live if you compare it to ANY place itw from only 100 years ago. World is generaly terrible place to live but its improving tremendously. Just the fact you can make and share this video exposing Korean elitese is something unimaginable even in recent history, not even speaking about more distant history. So I am not trying to defend this crazy overlords but saying that “we live in dystopi” is in reality saying “we always lived in dystopi but we are slowly moving outside of it”
I was thinking the same. In India, it's Ambani and Adanis. But if I say this in India, they will call me "Anti-national". Every country is delusional at this point. Who am I to criticize SK when I live in countries with exact same problem.
@@anishaganguly1440 problem with half of the critics of Adani & Ambani are that they will criticise them at one point but will allow foreign oligarchies like bill gates & soros to do shady deal inside the country
The fact that 100k people stood outside just to protect one guy... that's impressive. They better be receiving some benefits for that relationship, else it's outright stupidity.
We now have the same behavior on the cyberspace level. Look at how many supposedly decentralized, free journalists are Musk's opinion amplifiers. Even if subtle, it's just another form of personality cult.
The terminal useful idiots comes to mind. It's like trump supporters, they support him, but he I'll end up costing them much greater down the line and the will blindly believe whatever he says, it's absolutely crazy but these people are brainwashed and useful idiots, there are a lot of people like that in this world
squid game DOES talk about the entire wage gap and the illusion of choice in South Korea. The fact that people (ahem, mrbeast) made replicas of squid game is just further proving it's point by ignoring the theme of the show.
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president' ( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth ) Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that. Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea. Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy) President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities. President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator. Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country." Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country." In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
This was very informative. I didn't know anything that was shown in the video prior to watching it. Props to fern for always bringing thrilling content.
You made a great overview about how powerful the Chaebols are in South Korea but there's one detail right in the end of the video where you say that "South Korean scrubble to be employed by the Chaebols" thats correct but in my opinion that barely scratches the surface on this subject in regards to the influence the Chaebols have on South Korean society Basically South Korean parents force long hours of studying and extra studying on their children with the intention to make them have high enough scores so they can one day be employed by the Chaebols and ofcourse this means that those children oftentimes are left with very little free time if any at all and even if you get employed by the Chaebols then things are not always better because overwork is very common and in turn work related suicide in South Korea is the highest in the world even surpassing Japan!
This is so tragic. I'm just really curious and I would really appreciate your reply....why do the parents not encourage the kids to use that knowledge to start their own businesses and take down the conglomerates?....to bring a change.
@@angelawessels The world over, regulation/government favours big conglomerates and backs them. Often making policy to kill upstart businesses or competition in general.
@@angelawesselsits because of education system for long time korea had cramming education which cause limitation of creativiness or courage to start a new business And koreans tend to avoid vagueness and failure society criticize other’s failure alot That’s why parents force to study and go on a ‘safe’ path (nice university-nice jobs like doctor, big company-successful marrige-nice education for their child)
I don’t think so. There’s 41 companies that are larger than Samsung by market cap. It would definitely be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta or maybe Tencent
@@braedenaudlin2692 those companies don't have the same level of government involvement as Samsung does, it's a culture thing over there if you watch edgerunners and they say how you need to join arasaka academy to have a shot at life it's the same for Koreans and Samsung
@@braedenaudlin2692 The difference is that if Apple, Google, Meta, etc. executives were convicted of fraud on the scale that Samsung does consistently, they would be toppled quickly. Companies in the US hold massive power but no where near the level of Samsung, literally in this video it goes over the fact that the *CEO was convicted of fraud and corruption* and was then pardoned.... that is insane.
@@braedenaudlin2692Don't forget Nvidia, their pivot away from gaming towards cloud computing and AI made them the largest company in the world for a reason. And while AI is still in its infancy it's only a matter of time until we realize it's full potential.
I love your videos, and knowing you took the time to compile a 25-page document of resources only confirms my respect for your channel & its commitment to presenting these stories accurately.
@@monkofdarktimes who lives better? There isnt a world where you can compare NK and SK besides them sharing some elements of Korean culture and language. NK is a hopeless hellhole buddy. Probably the worst place to live on Earth.
@@monkofdarktimes and while both sides are not ideal, one side is filled with starving people that can have their families put in labor camps for multiple generations. the other side is a country with high living standards, not starving, and people can actually do things with their lives. Capitalism unrestrained is bad, but Communism is the very definition of failure.
@@arc8218 small businesses are oftentimes worse than big, since they don't invest in benefits, avoid regulations, and exploit/condemn whatever taxes they (and everyone else) are bound by.
As a Korean I find this video appalling. I don’t mean the actual video but the people and acts that were involved.thank you for shining a light on this problem
President Park was entirely responsible for the Sewol ferry disaster, she blocked all coastguard action, turned away US and Japanese ships offering assistance, and basically watched as the ferry capcised in slow motion. RottenMango has a good video on the disaster.
@@mic2348 it was speculated that it was a cult sacrifice, as the daughter of a shamanistic cult leader who was among Park’s closest confidantes was revealed to have orchestrated government policy. This is a popular conspiracy because the day of the tragedy happened on the 20th anniversary of the death of her father
The quality of Fern’s videos never cease to amaze me. High quality content, well-narrated and researched. Excellent script and very well put video collage. Great work!
"Art imitates life" is a saying for a reason. I will assure you... nothing is crazier than "actual reality". Everything you see in media is "always a milder version" of what has actually happened.
True. Everyone watches a few Korean Rom-coms and assumes that's what Skorea wants to potray as reality, when they haven't watched dramas like The Glory, High society and plenty more.
@hazelmint6671 especially foreign women who fetishize me(koreans) and other korean men. They think korea is heaven. Maybe for pretty girls like themselves but korean people are living in a highly competitive, too much work, and superficial environment. Its why we have the highest suicide rate and work insane hours. I'm happy I was born and raised in the US. I had a happy childhood without studying morning to late night
I love how most of the art I’ve seen come out of SK is highly critical of capitalism. Very relevant even here in the states, where we deal with so many of the same problems of inequality and corruption.
OMG I am flaggerbasted, this is extremely interesting thank you so much for the video! I didn't know anything about South-Korea's politics and economics, but I wanted to know a bit more (also, influenced by the recent events, that had an international echo) and this video summed up perfectly a lot of the background issues that the country faces. There is so little compact and clear videos that talk about this topic, I could barely inform myself about the country's recent history! I wish there were more channels like this. (If anyone knows English content similar to this that talks about Korea, please leave a comment!)
I am a korean American teen. I remember when the sewol tragedy occurred. I was 5 years old and remember my family mourning the deaths of the children far away. And I remember when Park Gyun Hae was impeached, watching it on the news. At that young of an age I didn’t understand what was going on. As I got older, I began to recognize that South Korea is a government and a country where there is more severe power imbalances. If you are born poor you will stay poor. If you are born rich, you will only get richer with more freedom. Too many tragedies occur because of the greed of the higher ups. I am proud to be a South Korean but it is times like this I can only,y feel ashamed of the government.
@@james_giant_peach i think that the USA has a better government than that of South Korea. However, the us has the same amount, maybe even more corruptions. The amount of power political figures have is equally insane as the chaebols. The USA is a shady country. Countlessly, you see a horrific declassified cases brought to light, where innocent citizens are tested or killed to fund their researched. You have political figures “representing” different agencies ,such as the CIA, fighting to make or change laws to benefit them. They are both corrupt, but I would argue that the US has much more corruptions frequently.
@@james_giant_peach They're both bad in different ways - there's no real way to compare which is worse because of that - but if you're going off of history and the sheer level of feats, America is the worst by far. Canada/America will happily oppress and kill entire peoples (I'm Native, tons of people I know have lost grandparents/great uncles/great aunts in residential schools and/or their parents/uncles/aunts/etc were abused/sexually assaulted/etc in those places. They were concentration camps designed to kill us off or to bare minimum kill our culture off - this happened in both Canada and America, for the unaware) just to further money-making agendas (less Natives "being a problem" = more avenues to press for capital and land gain, look at how America is now), whereas South Korea let the elites get away with anything they want and there's an extreme misogyny problem atm... but not really any history of concentration camp usage, to my knowledge? Or planting dr-gs in neighborhoods, idk. Tons of old money families in the USA had their hands in slavery at some point, and tons more have their hands in extremist movements (particularly alt-right extremist garbage, neo-N*zis, etc, if you know what to look for you can find a lot of horrifying shit). Also don't forget the f3ds planting dr-gs in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the 60s and other horrible shit... yeah... But the way each country is corrupt is different, which is the problem in comparing them especially if only considering the modern day - it can't really be done because the state of the corruption is so drastically different in each country. South Korea is basically RUN by chaebols, whereas America... well it's the same way (elites who run top companies/corps, old politicians, old money families like the ones who had hands in slavery, billionaires, etc), but they aren't blatant like South Korea is, in America they hide and try to dodge accountability in the "run and hide" way, instead of just using sheer power, influence and money to get their way like in South Korea. Both have the same outcome, it's just done *so differently* that it's not comparable. Consensus (grain of salt, since you asked the other guy, but maybe my reply will help give perspective too); Modern-day only: South Korea by a slight margin, because they're blatant about it and nothing can be done All of history or even considering the past 100 years (1925 to now): America by a FAR margin and you can throw Canada in there too because it's the same country just with public funded healthcare lol.
Not american or korean but i would always say america faces an unprecedented amount of corruption. Its already concerning that proxy wars are the biggest export + america is also corporate controlled but there's a tiny hat club that controls the corporate, Congress and all who can be bought. See who owns the federal reserve and you'll find them everywhere. @james_giant_peach
Unfortunately korean media always kept incident like this emotionally aired like a melodrama, instead of the journalism work of finding who's at fault and what cause the incident to bring justice to the victim.
I like your fucking art style I don't know I love it so much Keep doing a great job ! It's just so eerie yet scripted in a way I'm never gonna forget these incidents, makes me feel like I'm hearing it from my grandma as I was young ~
@@DF-jm6dq it's too bad that the cold war and still-existing "socialist" (heavy quotes) nations like North Korea just tainted the overall image of socialism, presenting it as always failing, guaranteed to devolve into authoritarianism & capitalism and greed as the only viable option
@@DF-jm6dq That's the governments role in capitalist societies and it does it's job provided the citizens don't vote to enable that greed for decades on end. Socialism does not escape this problem, in fact, this problem is pervasive in any model of society we've thought of. Once the citizens stop caring, the people with power can begin to accrue more and more it, the issue with any society is that once quality of life goes up for awhile, the citizens just stop giving a fuck. In socialism that will look like the ruling party doing a power grab, funnelling wealth into their pockets and silencing dissent, which is why we see it happen in every country that tries this system, the difference being that because the power is already absolute in one institution, once this starts happening, you're instantly in a worst case scenario which is also why we see a lot of state violence. In capitalism it's sort of happening in the US but in most western democratic capitalist systems every few years there's a chance that citizens decide that they want to go another direction. The issue we're facing is that the majority of citizens don't give a fuck and would rather vote to continue the status quo rather than do anything meaningful. This isn't a bug, this is a feature, the american people WANT this. Keep in mind, if americans thought this was an issue, they could've came out for bernie in 2016, they didn't, he wasn't polling well verse trump in 2016 and so the dnc chose hillary, if this was truly something americans cared about, why didn't they come out and support bernie in the primaries? This is the issue, americans don't want to change course. Just for reference, the taxes paid by the richest americans has gone down by 80% in the last 40 years. Yet, americans didn't vote for the candidate whose rhetoric was to tax the wealthy, they voted for the candidate that cut the ACA, got permanent tax reduction (and temporary tax reductions for working class americans) for the rich and ran on consumer level taxes. The issue with capitalism in america isn't that it doesn't work, it's the the citizens choosing what to do CONTINUALLY choose to give away their wealth to the wealthy. tl;dr. No, greed isn't unstoppable, in fact, in capitalist societies the populace tends to be very giving, extremely giving, so giving they'll let their country collapse rather than stop reducing taxes on the rich while their own taxes go up.
... you'll get used to it, for many cultures cursing and swearing is normal, welp it's uncomfortable to hear sometimes, it's not like you can control someone's mouth... one needs to accept that someone has grown up in a different environment than theirs. @@arynasabalenka3173
Wow this is my first video from this channel and i must say your animation is eye catching and your storytelling is impeccable thankyou for bringing this story to light❤
@@thor.halsliif you knew anything about history, you’d know oppressors will do literally anything, especially and most often violence, to maintain their power. is it not fair to use their own methods against them?
I lived in Korea. Going to the doctor is like going to Walgreens or CVS. They don’t really check what’s wrong and prescribe a bag of random antivirals and antibiotics, hoping it works. It works for them because people there are generally healthy. I’m not sure how successful they are with serious problems, but I can say that a dentist there messed one of my teeth up…😅
Since I am Korean, I am using AI translation. My country has 5 million people with multiple debts because of corrupt politicians. It's a living hell. Even with all this debt, the GDP and purchasing power appear to increase, making the country’s economy look larger than it really is. I need to escape from this country as soon as possible.
I'm a student about to go to college, lived outside SK my whole life. Hopefully I'll fly away to a US university and revoke my citizenship to becomes a full American.
@What3hkmost news channels in SK have been running news on the subject for the past 18 hours or so, about 88 temporary memorials are created around the country. the entire country is in quite a shock, since there wasn't such a large aircraft disaster on korean soil before. this is if my memory serves me well the first 3:39 major incident since the turning of the 21st century, with more than tens of lives hurt or lost. so, national shock and grief.
One of the father of the Sewol victim was waiting for his son corpse at the dock. When he saw him, he said his son looked like he could still be alive and try to give his son CPR. He said that when he tried to push his son chest, foul rotten smell emitted from the son mouth and he recalled watching his son body closely and notice that the eyes already rot.
A bit insensitive, but I’d assume you’d know CPR wouldn’t work if so much time had passed that the body is rotting. Maybe he didn’t even expect it to work, or even hoped it would, he just wanted to do something, anything. It’s a tragedy that it could’ve been avoided at so many steps, and so many children paid the price. It should’ve just been the people complicit that suffered.
but the majority of koreans think that wealth inequality can be justified because they think the proletariat did not make enough effort. and, efforts to improve the working conditions of the workers are denounced as populism.
According to OECD, gini coefficient of Korea is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the unfairer the wealth distribution is. Korea's wealth inequality(0.33) is similar to that of France(0.32) and Japan(0.33), and slightly fairer than UK(0.35). The real problem is income inequality.
the whole video is more about oligarchy and power rather than wealth inequality. Wealth inequality is extreme in every developed countries and its why capitalism is flawed. You'd think canada or the us is any different? canadian politicians are just the same. corporate sellouts.
One note of correction. A Korean male cannot evade mandatory military service just because he was either born in the US or become naturalized after immigration...unless the parents or themselves explicitly renounce their Korean citizenship, or they have aged out. There have been several (three that I know of) cases where Korean-Americans had to serve in the military not realizing this subtle sleight of legality.
@@Breakfastststst Americans are very aware to be honest. I am not an American but I have seen them critising whenever something stupid happens there which is simply not the case in most countries including S.K
Samsung guy being too important to be in prison is of course nonsense. The family can appoint people outside the family to CEO and other roles, if there is no suitable family member to run the company. Imprisoned or not, the world keeps turning.
He actually was too important. Not because of his actual importance as a leader, but as a shareholder. See, Chaebols operate through insanely complicated web of share ownership, such as owning 15%(thus becoming the largest single shareholder) of a company that then owns a similar share in another company and so on. Thus, Chaebols actually only own 10-20% of the actual conglomerate but still act as the decision makers. Because all of this share ownership/distribution is done through family, anybody else being in charge would cause the entire conglomerate to collapse into separate companies that have no proper leadership structure individually. That kind of catastrophic collapse was unacceptable for a conglomerate representing 20+% of Korean GDP. This is why the former CEO of Samsung was kept alive in a coma for close to a decade while his children desperately tried to redistribute and balance the shares among themselves.
1440P ultrawide, cutting-edge animations, high quality sound design and audio, well-researched, and impecible pacing. This is the most well-made documentary I have ever watched on TH-cam. Well done! 👏
Still a million times better than whatever coomunist model that North Korea (based on Soviet Union) represents. You still get to have a high quality life, seek different opportunities or even move to a country of your choice to live.
@@nareshwildbones Who argued that NK or USSR are better? Also, you only get to have a "high quality" life in a select few oligarchies, usually those with genocide, slavery and imperialism in their past and/or present. And usually only if you belong to a special privileged caste. Many capitalist oligarchies are worse than USSR. Many would argue that USSR was better than the current oligarchic system in Russia.
In the US there are thousands and thousands of families who own large businesses that employ significant amounts of people. Here we’re talking about just a bunch of families. Is like having 5 quadrillionaires in the US and then just middle class. I believe a closer example would be Chile, where there are only 10 billionaire families who run Basically 90% of the private gdp and most of the people work for them
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, TH-cam isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
@@zenmoto369 where did this person show emotions in what they stated? yall so bitter and sensitive why the fuck do you care where someone's happiness is coming from when it is not something inherently illegal?
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Real. I'm not into boycotting myself. Can't even understand why I should stop eating McDonalds just because some war is happening thousands of kilometers away from me.
I grew up with an obsession on South Korea & Simplicissimus, their german channel. To see both together gives me almosta feeling of nostalgia, and seeing someone FINALLY talk about the bad side of Korea is so refreshing. Macht weiter so Jungs, Hut ab!!
@@dale1809 its defo bots on this channel, they have a shitton of comments every time about "great animation" "wow so glad its not AI" "amazing quality" but they still say it in a very human like way. expensive bots.
6:59 It was over a bag of peanuts and she was mad because the flight attendant didn’t open the back for her not that she was angry because it wasn’t on a plate. search it up
hey fern/simpli would be nice if you could add subtitles for the viewers of the countries you are making videos about. i think a lot of koreans would be intersted in this one.
Wow! This better be the start of a video saga! The algorithm pushed this vid to me so I'm just discovering the channel. Incredible production quality wow...
As a Korean, I believe fellow Koreans will agree to this fact as well. The Massive companies such as Samsung, Lg, SK, Hyundai, and etc are estimated to pay over half the tax of Korea. If they fail, our whole economy stumbles.....
Props to korea for holding two dystopias in a single peninsula
Somehow they got cyberpunk and 1984 split in half
the result of foreign powers
@@andrewbay8891 we cooked?
@@andrewbay8891 as much as people want to blame America for a lot of stuff, South Korea's issues really isn't related to them
@@GameFuMaster wrong
"Most of the victims were children" isn't clear enough. 82% of the Sewol's dead victims were kids. EIGHTY TWO PERCENT. It was a class trip for the whole grade.
That’s horrifying
Really horrifying
The documentaries were difficult to watch
Kids death shouldnt be used politically. Its just morally wrong
@@antagonist4823 you're missing the point that these were the children of parents. A whole generation lost.
"The economy relies too much on Samsung to have its leader in jail". Now that's dystopian
literally makes him immune. and its not a stable source of income at all.
The Banks are too big to fail.
- President Obama
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They did it to themselves literally not better than North Korea @angieyonaga6639
source: trust me bro
what about trump pardoning many criminals?
@@userpmzjah82 TDS seems to be strong in you,cant speak 1 second without mentioning Trump.
South Korea's economy is the exact concept of techno-feudalism talked about by Yanis Varoufakis (Greek finance minister in 2015). He basically conceptualized that capitalism is long gone but we haven't realized it yet because economic shifts happen cross-generationally. He does a good job of pointing out how we, through our own human nature, reverted back to feudalism, where in which the government has become the lord (operating through subsidies), CEOs are the vassals, corporations are the fiefs, and employees are the serfs.
Good to see Varoufakis mentioned. More people need to listen to him.
Yeah we will never achieve Societal socialism... this is why pursuing Communists policies are stupidity
.serfs the are employees and ,fiefs the are coporations ,vassals the are CEOs ,(subsidies through operating) lord the become has government the which in where ,feudalism to back reverted ,nature human own our through ,we how out pointing of job good a does He .cross-generationally happen shifts economic because yet it realized haven't we but gone long is capitalism that conceptualized basically He .(collapse '08 during minister finance Greek) Varoufakis Yanis by about talked techno-feudalism of concept exact the is economy Korea's South
Notice the trend towards everything becoming a lease or a subscription.
When everything you use and need is tied to a contract, you’re still a serf; tied to financial agreements rather than land. Nothing is truly yours
@@jaber4life holy crap you're so right... everything is subscription-based, even music, people subscribe to a streaming service rather than buy a CD or even the song on iTunes
I'm convinced fern only made this video to flex their new water animation skills holy damn
Plot twist: You're part of the team and you made those water animations.
it is clean❤
Pull your tongue back to your mouth. It's not really that impressive. In fact, the it's too sharp looking when the water hits on the side of the ship.
i feel like on thing i didnt like was the depiction of the people on the sewol ferry. They weren't mainly little children they were high schoolers on their field trip iirc.
@@Su_TwTidk man - teenagers are just slightly more coherent children lol
It's kinda crazy how we just never hear about any of this stuff in the US because we seem to have this high opinion of S. Korea just for the simple fact that they're not N. Korea
Literally
We don’t hear it in America because we have our own dystopian system to think about.
Thats not the reason, the news is just a propaganda machine and show you what they want you to see.
South Korea’s biggest supporter is America, that’s why you don’t hear about it. The media manipulates the public’s opinion so the SK is seen as good and prospering while NK is bad and authoritarian
Its because S.Korea is our vassal. Why would they let Americans hear about anything other than western exceptionalism😂
fitting two polar opposite dystopias on a tiny peninsula is truly remarkable
Oversocialized hyperconformity will turn any country or system into a dystopia.
@@Parapon3rathey are not over socialized. they are overworked.
@@Reformed322 They are overworked because they're oversocialized. They're being abused because they let it happen. The strong and vile will always prey on the weak, and oversocialized people are weakness incarnate.
@@Reformed322 What do you define as oversocialized, and why do you feel South Koreans do not fit this definition?
@@Reformed322can’t it be both?
❌Samsung is a South Korean company
✅South Korea is a Samsung country
Then taiwan is a tsmc countey and finland is nokia country and japan is toyota country
Come on bro korea owns much more big companies than any other countries like lg sk hynix hybe hyundai kia samsung
@@Maojinping-wg3gw damn right, cronyism is the problem
why do people conceive big companies as evil? Just because they earn alot? and you want to take them down then what? economy hits the bottom and country becomes even worse. Like the top commenter said samsung aint the only big corpo here and they do pay their taxes for their rights, This dumbass channel who links a big tragedy with corporations is just spreading false information. The current situation of people hating against big corpo should be percepted in a different manner than that of 'luigi" case. These guys just wanna take down samsung for communism
you misspelled Samdung. the worst brand you can ever buy.
i dont have youtube premium, but these guys make my basic youtube a premium experience
what do u mean by that?
@@ZXCRacing premium experience
Ahem... Let me introduce you to ReVanced - it's, better than premium... Go take a look.
@@ZXCRacing 🤣
@@ZXCRacingwhat he wants to convey is, the content made by Fern is comparable, or even better compared to the content in premium youtube..
And I totally agree with that statement..
"above the law" is such an insane power to have, I cant imagine having that much power
Oh I can!
Oh I do!
Wasn't there a presidential pardon for the president's son in America recently?
@@CocolinoFanand a new elected president who is a criminal. yeah power can be something insane
It's when a person is so valuable that those with influence or the population chooses to ignore their actions.
How to escape accountability (the rich edition)
1. Let the sentence be severe to please the public
2. Do the sentence but only until the public forgets about their crime
3. Quietly reduce and pardon the sentence
4. Profit
In every country this has been applied
@@tzardelasuerte not in US, buddy
@@yeetboi268 you're joking right?
@@yeetboi268- No, It happens in the U.S. as well. The time you are sentenced to does not equal the time you will actually serve. If you are sentenced to 10 years you can be out in five to six years. In most cases you only have to serve 80% your actual sentence to then be eligible for parole.
@@yeetboi268 thats where it all usually happens, goofy
Damn I just found this channel and this is a QUALITY production. Kudos to you and your team. Keep up the excelent work.
I remember watching the ferry disaster in real time. I honestly thought those kids were gonna be rescued. When they weren't the Vice Principle of their school hung himself on a tree down by the docks where the parents were waiting for news on the rescue.
holy shit
Old school🙏🫡
Dude the VP was more responsible than the ferry captain. RIP bro
I could not imagine his anguish when it happened, being the vice principle of that school he would have been one of those in charge of arranging the field trip in the first place, imagine believing you were sending your students on what was supposed to be a harmless fieldtrip on a ferry only to have accidentally condemning the entirety of the school most of whom were children to a horrible agonizing death, an entire generations worth of kids who will never return to their families again. The entire thing was out of his control, he could not have possibly known it would end up like this, but even i would not be able to live with myself and the parents of those children may certainly not be able to forgive. That Captain was a coward, not only did he abandoned ship he actively went out of his way to save his own life by purposefully pretending to not be even a ship worker, ditching his captains articles and his crew.
That's messed up.
Fun fact South Korea's top 10 family-owned conglomerates, like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, contribute nearly 60% of the nation's GDP.
Pretty much untouchable at that point.
@OFFICERHUMANRATI pray that Jesus convicts you.
Can you prove that in court?
@OFFICERHUMANRAT what is wrong with you
Don't Read Myy name
North Korea: 1984
South Korea: Cyberpunk 2077
@TTPronaldo ok no worries, write in english tho if you want to be understood, khunt!
Try 1950s for North Korea. They wish they had cassette players and roller blades lol
Edit: I just got the George Orwell reference I’m stupid lol
It's a bot@@TheTH-camUser69
@@SuperNormal_ParaNatural 1984 is a book...
@ yea I know I edited my comment once I realized lol
No one talks about this. Why? Kpop and Kdrama distract everyone from the dystopia of Korea
K-pop groups and the Korean tv dramas are backed and funded by the government
not only distract, it spirals people into believing SK is the perfect country, its incredible the amount of young children and teens who want to migrate to korea just because of Kpop or Kdramas
I would argue that if you dig deep enough on how Kpop actually operates, it wakes you up. My disgust with the way things are run in South Korea actually started from Kpop. Stopped listening to it when I realised their musicians are literal slaves.
They are trying to communicate it all the time, for example look at the popular squid game, on a deeper level it showing the tragic condition of south korean society
@@Lacerta_Viridis . People like me watch shows from other countries to get a small glimpse of their culture. Same reason why people watch shows like Friends and dont think NYC is full of white people living in million dollar lofts. Also people travel to korea because its still a fun place to visit even if you dont listen to their music.
RIP to all the 179 people who died in yesterday's jeju Airlines crash
Rip
"Gotta protect the Grass!"-The concrete Wall at the end of the Runway (im sorry)
Some survived the crash. 4? Imagine you survive because several bodies before your position slow down your trauma
terrible infrastructure with the raised wall on the end of the runway. what were they thinking. would not have passed FAA standards
@@my-tschischlak2 😢
Advice I got from a very experienced sailor: If you're ever on a passenger ship and something seems wrong, the crew will always tell you to remain in place.
NEVER listen to them. Always put on your life jacket and go to the deck. Don't let anyone stop you. And if the ship is listing (i.e. leaning to one side), go to the side it's leaning toward, as in the side that's closer to the water. Because the lifeboats on the other side will be useless as they'll be hanging over the hull and likely to capsize if lowered.
Aren't lifeboats fully enclosed these days so they can't sink even in the roughest weather?
@@ConfirmedCynicsuch lifeboat is expensive, Most of ship’s lifeboat are still the typical inflatable one.
"the crew will always tell you to remain in place" so we're just going to let this slide and continue? Objectively, is that the right protocol to be carried out in times of crisis?
@@thegreatimu i guess thats just to reduce chaos in the cabin, since crowd running around would cause injuries
@@thegreatimu legal reasons my guy ;)
There are videos of the drowning recorded by the school children.
“Are we going to die?” “I don’t want to die…” as the situation slowly becomes more and more real you can hear the fear begin to manifest. Absolutely horrifying. Heartbreaking and absurd.
It brings me to tears just thinking about it… I strongly recommend against seeking it out. It’s one of those few things that I truly regret having seen.
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president'
( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth )
Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that.
Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea.
Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy)
President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities.
President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator.
Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country."
Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country."
In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
thanks ima check em out
Where to find it? And when did this happen¹
'There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president'
Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea.
Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy)
President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities.
President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator.
Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country."
Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems.
In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
@@GlueOnGnomes Do you even value your mental health?
The scary thing is, Lee Jae-Yong the "Samsung Prince" is the richest person in the country with an estimate wealth of 8.7 billion, and he's above the law. Imagine the oligarchs of America who are worth 50x that much.
Lee Jae Yong actually served almost a year of prison time for corruption. America could never.
What I got from the video was that it’s not only the individual wealth but Samsung’s impact on the whole economy that truly puts him above the law. His true value for the country seems even higher than any US billionaire. Not saying they aren’t above plenty of laws too though.
@@user-ws6nu4mq8kthat’s definitely the important part lol. Besides, the video was relating influence to their impact on economic growth, not the worth of their assets, so estimated wealth means nothing really here. But yeah, there’s no American “oligarchs” that are as impactful to the economy as Samsung is in South Korea. And the companies that are most impactful are usually divided up into many shareholders, not held by one family/person.
not the same. The fact that S.K is directly depended on Samsung at this level is the issue. Its like if NASA wasn't there but only space X existed then you would have seen the power of elon musk but its multiple times more in S.K
@@prajyotkumar9644 Guy has never heard of Blackrock and Vanguard. Lee Jae Yong served almost a year of prison time.
I lived in South Korea for two years teaching, and I can't stress enough how much it is an open secret the chaebols are the ones really running the country. Literally, everyone I would talk to about this from young to old knew that the big families were untouchable. Honestly, even just working at one of these companies is seen as a big deal in Korea, because it is understood that there are many benefits besides compensation when you are working for these companies.
As an example, I had a friend in Korea who worked at Samsung, just a mid level position, but soon after joining the company he became close friends with the head of police in the town we were both living in, and whenever there was an issue with the law he would call his friend and then magically the problem would go away. This is just a small town example, so I can only imagine what the top guys are up to on a daily basis.
Edit for the people asking: During my time in Korea, I worked at 2 different Hagwons. The first was in a small town (of about 100,000, by Korean standards that is small) that I highly doubt anyone here would know by name, most Koreans I talk to about it don't know about it. The second was at a major Hagwon in Seoul in the rich part of town, called Gangnam. I don't want to give the name because many celebrities' kids go to the school, but all you need to know is I met a lot of extremely rich people there. Like, several of my students' parents were CEOs, judges, politicians, etc.
Edit 2 for the people asking: I became friends with this Samsung employee because his younger brother was one of my students. At first, we would just chat in the lobby waiting for his brother. But over time we started hanging out outside of the school. Mostly because he wanted a foreigner friend to practice his English with, since he started going overseas often because of his new role at Samsung. Again, I am not 100% sure what his role was, we would just chat while drinking soju or eating food sometimes after work. That's all.
So for the people who are asking questions regarding his role, I genuinely don't know. And for people who think that is strange, I just want to say, I'm a guy, and like most guys I very rarely talk to my guy friends about their jobs. There are guy friends I have had for more then 10 years that I still do not 100% know what they do for work. All I know is that he told me he was in a "mid-level" position and that he was in charge of his own team. That's literally all I know, that and I believe he was in some aspect of promotion because I know he would go to different type of events around the world and around Korean fairly often. One time he got me into F1 for free when it was in Seoul because he had a booth there, and I was able to go behind the scenes. But that is literally all I know.
Pretty much same thing happened in most Asean countries that for sure.
No rich person is untouchable, they want you to think that
As if shady depraved oligarchs dont control america lmfao.
bro working at samsung doesnt make you friends with a police chief lol. Thats like saying working at apple would do the same. Especially when the guy is just an average mid level worker making 100k a year. either you misunderstood something or you are clearly lying
@@josephp9141 it is different working in samsung in SK vs working in apple in US. literally kids study to death so they can enter a good college and they even have a national holiday for their college entrance exam just to get the MIDDLE POSITION in Samsung. of course then they will work to death to climb up the rankings inside samsung.
they have to get into the top 3 schools (SKY) to get a position in these chaebol companies.
The sad thing is, this doesn't even scratch the surface... especially regarding the Sewol tragedy, those involved, those complicit, and those who literally just stood by and allowed it to be worse than it needed to be. If anyone is ever in the need of a good cry, and doesn't mind never being the same again, I strongly urge them to watch a documentary or two on the Sewol disaster
I don't think I can watch it because it's too heartbreaking for me
@@alexpark472 a difficult watch for sure
Brick immortar has a very good series on the sewol
some conspiracy say that it is a cult ritual.
That was just sensationalism. There are a lot of spies with Chinese-North Korean ties in South Korea still now. Not long ago, North Korean spies were convicted. The order said, "Use the Itaewon tragedy. Use Saewolho...etc.
Meanwhile, there seems to be a connection between the spread of this kind of video in the United States. You should know that South Korea is on the front lines against communist forces. Russia invaded Ukraine and China ate Hong Kong. Hong Kong was replaced from within with pro-Beijing politicians and has since been absorbed by China. Now, South Korea's leftist politicians have been dominated by the pro-Beijing party since Moon Jae-in and have a huge opposition party. Not only leftist, also in right-wing. That's why President Yoon Seok-yul turned a blind eye by declaring martial law and tried to catch evidence of fraudulent elections. Today, South Korea has a big opposition party, and there are many stupid people who reject capitalism and want socialism. The end of socialism is the same as North Korea. An unmotivated society will only lead to its own destruction. In South Korea, order is preserved by the Constitution, at least for now. The proof is that the corrupt are brought to justice. It's proof that Korea is an advanced country, and you should know that most countries in the world have corrupt politicians and the establishment who wield so much power that it makes Korean chaebols look nothing, and it's never mentioned even in their media, unlike S.Korea.
It’s interesting how, in some countries, it’s easy to associate the faces and names of powerful individuals with the companies and crimes they are responsible for. In contrast, in the U.S., we often speak about corporations or institutions in abstract terms, without ever putting a face to those behind them. Companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, or Coca-Cola-and even powerful agencies like the FBI and CIA-frequently make headlines, but the blame rarely extends to the individuals who drive their decisions. When wrongdoing occurs, the public hears the company’s name, but those truly responsible remain faceless and nameless. This disconnect allows accountability to vanish behind corporate logos and institutional titles, shielding the people at the top from personal scrutiny.
@@SisyphusOfSodom Because IT wouldnt make Sense for single induviduals. The Problem arent these induviduals but the company and the system. Those induviduals are only acting they way they are expected to, to maximice shareholder value.
The vagueness does help distribute the blame across the corporate image and stifles the public's imagination and ability perceive individuals who are wrong. I think even this goes for ideology too, people will blame capitalism but not look at specific CEO's and individuals working behind the curtains of these big corps.
Gotta love dodge v ford for giving us that luxury. Doesn't matter how many CEOs you axe when the law mandates you literally break the law because paying fines is slightly more profitable than following it.
But Americans don't care. Even if individuals are exposed for corruption, half of Americans won't believe it, or believe that the "other side" is worse. Half of the U.S lives in one reality, and the other half in another reality. People can't even agree on basic facts anymore. Think about it, Americans have just elected a convicted felon for president lol.
That’s why when something goes with the Tesla for example, people blame Elon Musk since he is associated with the company. But if the CEO wasn’t famous and didn’t have a PR, it would be just Tesla. But Tesla has a face whcih is Elon.
The fate of all democratic societies. Just like Aristotle said, it devolves into a shadow oligarchy.
What shadow oligarchy, everyone knows the names of these oligarchs and worships them.
@@quitlife9279 lol This term is probably more suited for USA than for S.K
Democracy, if we are not talking about anarchism, happens in states. But if we are talking about a slave-owning state, then it is obvious that this state was created by slaveholders for slaveholders. In all slave-owning states, no matter how democratic they call themselves, they are always totalitarian compared to primitive tribes. And in ancient Greece, where the term democracy was coined, only slaveholders could use this democracy.
Further, the feudal state was created by the feudal lords for the feudal lords. But here democracy is found only in independent trading city-states, and it works only for rich merchants and guild masters.
Under capitalism, the state is created by capitalists/bourgeoisie/businessmen for capitalists/etc. For example, the main supporters of liberalism in Britain and France were businessmen who could not develop under feudal laws. It is obvious that democracy under capitalism, as a rule, primarily works in the interests of capitalists. Democracy under capitalism is not the power of the people. It is nothing more than an opportunity to simply choose a "slave owner" (a party, a president), who will then be impossible to remove from office and who does not have any obligations to his voters.
And strangely enough, in all capitalist countries, first of all, big capitalists (oligarchs) live well. As you can see, life is getting worse all over the world (in China, Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Mexico, the EU, India, Syria, etc.), but not for bankers, media moguls, oil moguls, etc. No matter how hard German citizens tried to choose the "right president," life continued to get worse and worse, and the rich continued to get richer and richer. No matter how Americans tried to choose a "good president" every four years, he did nothing but further worsen their lives. As there have been more and more homeless Americans over the past 30 years, so it continues. As 0.001% of the American society beat the Forbes records, they continue to do so.
"The wealthiest people in America have never been wealthier.
Here's who's up, who's down and who's new.
The 400 richest people in America are having a rollicking time in the roaring 2020s. In all, they are worth a record $5.4 trillion, up nearly $1 trillion from last year. A dozen have $100 billion-plus fortunes, also a record. And admission to this elite club is pricier than ever: A minimum net worth of $3.3 billion is required, up $400 million since 2023. Despite the high bar, 23 newcomers managed to break into the ranks, having grown their fortunes in everything from mundane plastic pipes to cutting-edge artificial intelligence." -- Forbes 400, 2024. www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
Just say J***. Edit: can't say it.
No wonder why Socrates hated democrazy and praised the republic.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
Who said that?
@@mand4lex kennedy and i found that out by 5 seconds googling
@@mand4lex John F Kennedy
@@mand4lex J F Kennedy, ironic coming from American politician
Joe Biden @@mand4lex
i always love when fern posts again.
What the hell are these bots
Me too
Don't Read Myy name
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, TH-cam isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
@@zenmoto369This comment is pretty weird
It's crazy how good animations are packed into a TH-cam video. I love these animations they just keep getting better.
Don't Read Myy name
@@DontReadMypicturee foh
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president'
( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth )
Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that.
Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea.
Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy)
President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities.
President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator.
Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country."
Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country."
In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
What's even more dystopian is having a sponsored ad in the middle of a video about dystopia.
Firefox + UBlock Origin. You also fight for non-chromium Gecko (which firefox uses). Unless you're Apple in which case sorry for you.
True
@@pritamlaskarthe problem here lies in the sponsored ad in the middle of the video itself not the time it takes to watch it
@@hisooska but it would be less of a problem if everyone used an ad blocker, then the advertisers would have to get a job.
@JasonSpielberg the advertiser do have a job though? what hahaha
So the people responsible walked free but those lower down who had no choice but to follow order is jailed for life? The same with the Halloween crush in Seoul. They hung the head of police whose personnel were withdrawn to another area and left him hanging with not enough police force to keep the safety of the public in one of the busiest nights of the year. Shame. Shame.
I noticed no one responded to you yet: but I agree. They raked the police for their "failure" as if President Yoon wasn't the issue, as he migrated to Yongsan from the blue house. I was present during the crush, and it was brutal. It wasn't until after I realized the police were short staffed due to his insistence on having expansive police at Yongsan instead of Itaewon less than a mile away. Shame indeed.
@@SecroduzTV "Officers from South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) attempted to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Friday but were blocked by military personnel serving under the Presidential Security Service (PSS), according to Yonhap News Agency.
The incident unfolded at Yoon’s residence, where the military unit presumed to be from the 55th Security Brigade was reportedly deployed to block the warrant against Yoon, escalating tensions surrounding this unprecedented step against a sitting president, Yonhap wrote on Friday."
Do you reckon there will be a clash and civil war
@ConnorLonergan Yoon himself probably won't be able to walk free because there is no chaebol willing to free him. after all, why would they? it's not like they've been found to have any connections with his stupid actions. Yoon isn't powerful, important, or even smart enough for any chaebol to save him. what use would he be? everyone hates him already and any chaebol willing to free him would also risk their company shares. Yoon would probably get something a little more serious, but wouldn't be able to be fully prosecuted for his whole list of crimes.
책임있는 사람들 중 제대로 처벌 받은 사람 없습니다
교수형을 받은 사람도 없습니다
뻔뻔하게 잘살고 있어요
@ConnorLonergan He doesn’t have a following lol. Corrupt army and cops aren’t a following.
I'm south korean and living outside of it showed how much of it is controlled by few monopolies and the reliance of them from the country scares me.
But S. Korea living standard is better than the majority of Southeast Asian nations and China.
Its the theme of the eastern asian countries honestly. Taiwan, Japan, etc
It definitely is quite concerning how if those companies fail, the entire country's economy can collapse in an instant
Sounds like South Korea needs an estate tax
@@jonaspete sure bro, tell that to the birth rate
"The more i learn about people, the more i like my dog"
-Mark Twain
Same, the innocence of my dog is so precious
whos Mark Taiwan tho?
@@lilmemesyy3568 You need to read more books 💀
@@lilmemesyy3568 nahh 💀
Corny ass quotes go back to 2016
Don't think I'll see an ad transition that smooth again. Absolutely brilliant!
This country has a strong academic society and lookism is widespread, and it is impossible for ordinary citizens to hold high positions unless they undergo plastic surgery or become highly educated.
I hear about that a lot these days
@@Andizu1 you have no idea what plastic surgery is, do you?
Brave New World
I don't disagree, but there are better ways to express your opinions. Do you know about ordinary citizens, even where you live?
@futurehofer1564 I do. And I agree that plastic surgery is rampant in South Korea. But the statement of it being required for a high function is ignorant conjecture at best.
*“The corpos built a system that feeds on human misery. They’ll crush a city if it makes them a buck.”*
*- Johnny Silverhand*
Weird, it almost seems like the profit motive is a perverse incentive which prioritises capital accumulation above all else, that corporations acting greedy is an inherent feature of the system and that hyper focusing on individuals and corporations at the top and presenting them as simply being bad actors is missing the forest for the trees, which only ends up preventing people from viewing the incentives that the system itself creates in order to elevate these individuals to the top, but that would be an anti-capitalist perspective to have, which is apparently bad
Yep, it's a feature in modern capitalism especially late stage capitalism, which is more or less feels like serfdom. Sure the economy grows but the people are poor to the point where even having kids and having a wife at home to take care of them is a luxury. Without kids being raised properly, societies start breaking down as strong families make strong societies
THOSE DAMN EVIL ELITES WORKING WITH RE***DED GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE
@@emiloguechoons9030
Yet we still are not allowed to critize capitalism.
@@Унмеито I agree, it's insane. With technology evolving and with workers being replaced, it will only make things harder for the general public while the corpos get richer and richer
'Families' is a very polite way of saying criminals.
Don't Read Myy name
I think 'mafia' fits better... they are families, they also happen to all be criminals
They are by no means exclusive terms.
@@KoalaPlus eggactly 💯
According to the Global Slavery Index, an estimated 10.4% of the North Korean population is effectively enslaved as of 2018.
Enjoy your k-pop knowing that kids ;)
I love how well put this video was keep up the good work man !
The government incompetence in the ferry event can not be overstated. The passengers could have been rescued if anyone acted in the good of the victims.
Dumb question: is “ferry” pronounced the same as “fairy”? English was not my first language but I was always taught that berry, bury, and Barry are pronounced different lol was I taught wrong?
@@CantTellYouslightly different but noticeable
@@CantTellYouthere is a difference but it ends up being very subtle and washed up in different kinds of accents. For example Australia and British accents place more difference between them but for where I'm from (america) the difference between "fairy" and "ferry" are indistinguishable
incompetence? Lol, they literally lied watch the documentary about it, during the reconstruction of the journey done by the ferry, they lied about it and sent fake coordinates
@@CantTellYou Fairy is pronounced "Fair-ree" like "dairy" so there's an "r" sound at the end of the first syllable. Ferry is pronounced "feh-ree" like "berry" so no "r" at the end of the first syllable. Also "feh-ree" has a shorter first syllable. So fairy like dairy/hairy/Mary, ferry like berry/merry/cherry.
Fun fact, one of the granddaughters of the chaebol family of Samsung almost debuted in a Kpop group. She received backlash for "buying her way" into the Kpop industry especially since she was set to debut in a pretty big company. She was eventually let go although no one knows if she left or if they decided not to debut her.
im not that much into kpop, but isnt the narrative of most of the stars, that they come from "poor" familys and worked their way to the top?
@@KinqNicknah not always lmao, obviously some are poor and some are already well-off. there are some idols who became idols because they have connections in the industry, of course.
its han soehee right?
@@KinqNick Nope. Kpop used to be that way before the West became obsessed with Kpop. Beforehand, kpop idols tend to come from more poor or middle class families, but now that there is a massive market for Kpop idols, majority of trainees are from rich families. Since training takes a lot of time and dedication, most trainees who are able to put life on hold tend to come from rich families, since they always have money to fall back onto if their dreams of becoming a Kpop idol does not come true.
@@hoshi2.0 no her name is Annie Moon
South Korea has never move out of the Feudalism, it is just modernized.
U.S. is also living under neo-feudalism. Propaganda is strong and education is weak so the peasants just passively accept it while drinking beer and watching football.
Exactly! Westerners need to understand this - the same is true for Russia
I’m sorry do you really think Europe, whose people can barely make 50k a year if that, have moved on from feudalism? Where they still have the same rich families for centuries? Wake up
@@GiveBackAlland the Middle East
@@GiveBackAll It is the same in the US.
At this point which countries are NOT dystopian? Maybe a handful of wealthy countries in Europe? Every other country has serious issues with corruption, corporatism, violence, poverty, lack of healthcare, etc. This is a dystopian world, and things were actually even worse in the past.
By few rich countries in Europe you are refering to likes of Denmark. I used to live there and even tho its one of the best places in the world for life, its super distopiam too considering goverment are literally baning nooďles there for being too spicy or slowly taking laws that are openly leading to ban of any type of smoking. Like why tf do you even care😂 Every country itw is “dystopia” by some merit. Even after all the crazy things mentioned about South Korea, its super amazing place to live if you compare it to ANY place itw from only 100 years ago. World is generaly terrible place to live but its improving tremendously. Just the fact you can make and share this video exposing Korean elitese is something unimaginable even in recent history, not even speaking about more distant history. So I am not trying to defend this crazy overlords but saying that “we live in dystopi” is in reality saying “we always lived in dystopi but we are slowly moving outside of it”
I was thinking the same. In India, it's Ambani and Adanis. But if I say this in India, they will call me "Anti-national". Every country is delusional at this point. Who am I to criticize SK when I live in countries with exact same problem.
@@anishaganguly1440 problem with half of the critics of Adani & Ambani are that they will criticise them at one point but will allow foreign oligarchies like bill gates & soros to do shady deal inside the country
The fact that 100k people stood outside just to protect one guy... that's impressive. They better be receiving some benefits for that relationship, else it's outright stupidity.
its the latter. Trust me, I know
@@joshuafrimpong244 yeah cult things
Well, it's religious "enthusiasm" at work.
We now have the same behavior on the cyberspace level. Look at how many supposedly decentralized, free journalists are Musk's opinion amplifiers. Even if subtle, it's just another form of personality cult.
The terminal useful idiots comes to mind. It's like trump supporters, they support him, but he I'll end up costing them much greater down the line and the will blindly believe whatever he says, it's absolutely crazy but these people are brainwashed and useful idiots, there are a lot of people like that in this world
Now I understand why Squid Game is a thing
abstract of reality
squid game DOES talk about the entire wage gap and the illusion of choice in South Korea. The fact that people (ahem, mrbeast) made replicas of squid game is just further proving it's point by ignoring the theme of the show.
@@nanacue exactly
After the show came out they really went totally against the message of the show.
There are too many fake news and false between Sewol accident and Korean president'
( I'm not offended to anyone. I just want to tell the truth )
Also, I'm not saying thoses issues are right or okay. You can say those were really awful, bad and so on. But you cannot call out korea as dystopia country because of that.
Maybe you can call south Korea Dystopia because of PRESIDENT MOON Jae-in and other chinese&north Korean SPYs who stays in south korea.
Executives of the Korean Confederation of 'Labor', He is in prison for ESPIONAGE. (being spy)
President MOON! worte "THANK YOU" to Sewol ferry accident fatalities.
President MOON! gave 'confidential information USB' to Kim JUNG-UN who is North Korea dictator.
Morevoer president MOON! tired to eliminate word "LIBERAL" form the Constitutional Sentence. " South Korea is a Liberal Democratic country."
Now the most important thg is that China! and North Korea! and Communists try to destroy Liberal Democratic South Korea. They are already destroying South kroea's governmaent systems. South Korean, we want "Liberal" Democratic country."
In a Citizens' life , Why the fuk did the CHINIESE come out for KOREA POLITICAL protest!? CHINESE PEOPLE(spy) go to your china and do prostest at TIANANMEN Square.
America is very similar to South Korea. Only difference is that the companies that own all of America are well hidden to the public.
Name the companies that own america
@@Black_Ace14blackrock
Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, Honeywell, it's only *slightly* more hidden.
@@AdamBorseti all the big pharma companies too
Ask yourself to which ethnicity they all belong too. You owe this answer to yourself
This was very informative. I didn't know anything that was shown in the video prior to watching it. Props to fern for always bringing thrilling content.
You made a great overview about how powerful the Chaebols are in South Korea but there's one detail right in the end of the video where you say that "South Korean scrubble to be employed by the Chaebols" thats correct but in my opinion that barely scratches the surface on this subject in regards to the influence the Chaebols have on South Korean society
Basically South Korean parents force long hours of studying and extra studying on their children with the intention to make them have high enough scores so they can one day be employed by the Chaebols and ofcourse this means that those children oftentimes are left with very little free time if any at all and even if you get employed by the Chaebols then things are not always better because overwork is very common and in turn work related suicide in South Korea is the highest in the world even surpassing Japan!
This is so tragic. I'm just really curious and I would really appreciate your reply....why do the parents not encourage the kids to use that knowledge to start their own businesses and take down the conglomerates?....to bring a change.
@@angelawessels The world over, regulation/government favours big conglomerates and backs them. Often making policy to kill upstart businesses or competition in general.
@@angelawesselsits because of education system for long time korea had cramming education which cause limitation of creativiness or courage to start a new business And koreans tend to avoid vagueness and failure society criticize other’s failure alot That’s why parents force to study and go on a ‘safe’ path (nice university-nice jobs like doctor, big company-successful marrige-nice education for their child)
Why not encourage them to set up their own business or bring innovation to the natiom not to just one company
Sounds and seems suspiciously like khabbal, 01 v3y
Thank you for bringing so much needed light into the complexities of South Korean realities.
If arasaka from cyberpunk ever becomes real then it will be called Samsung
I don’t think so. There’s 41 companies that are larger than Samsung by market cap. It would definitely be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta or maybe Tencent
@@braedenaudlin2692 those companies don't have the same level of government involvement as Samsung does, it's a culture thing over there if you watch edgerunners and they say how you need to join arasaka academy to have a shot at life it's the same for Koreans and Samsung
@@callumsmith4773 Mind you, Tencent might fit the bill if China's government ever gives it a chance...
@@braedenaudlin2692 The difference is that if Apple, Google, Meta, etc. executives were convicted of fraud on the scale that Samsung does consistently, they would be toppled quickly. Companies in the US hold massive power but no where near the level of Samsung, literally in this video it goes over the fact that the *CEO was convicted of fraud and corruption* and was then pardoned.... that is insane.
@@braedenaudlin2692Don't forget Nvidia, their pivot away from gaming towards cloud computing and AI made them the largest company in the world for a reason. And while AI is still in its infancy it's only a matter of time until we realize it's full potential.
I love your videos, and knowing you took the time to compile a 25-page document of resources only confirms my respect for your channel & its commitment to presenting these stories accurately.
Ok.
whats the current situation buddy?
@@Jeeprepdiaries12what’s the current situation buddy?
@@mstdym what's the current situation buddy?
What's the current situation buddy?
What's the current situation buddy?
North Korea - extreme communism
South Korea - extreme capitalism
2 sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin
SK distances itself from NK ideals so extremely that they end up at the opposite extreme
@@monkofdarktimes who lives better? There isnt a world where you can compare NK and SK besides them sharing some elements of Korean culture and language. NK is a hopeless hellhole buddy. Probably the worst place to live on Earth.
@@monkofdarktimes and while both sides are not ideal, one side is filled with starving people that can have their families put in labor camps for multiple generations. the other side is a country with high living standards, not starving, and people can actually do things with their lives.
Capitalism unrestrained is bad, but Communism is the very definition of failure.
Both countries would be hell to live in. Just for very different reasons.
"Profit over safety" I think that's the world we live in.
Not just South Korea. But every major corp?
I haven't done any research on this.
you don’t need to do research to know this
It's called "late stage capitalism".
you dont need research, and not only major corp, even small business do that, "late stage capitalism" baby!!
This is VERY true in the United States
@@arc8218 small businesses are oftentimes worse than big, since they don't invest in benefits, avoid regulations, and exploit/condemn whatever taxes they (and everyone else) are bound by.
I just saw your channel after this video popped up in my recommendations. I would say that the quality is amazing. You got a new subscriber
As a Korean I find this video appalling. I don’t mean the actual video but the people and acts that were involved.thank you for shining a light on this problem
The production quality of these videos is unbelievable, better than almost all professional documentaries out there.
President Park was entirely responsible for the Sewol ferry disaster, she blocked all coastguard action, turned away US and Japanese ships offering assistance, and basically watched as the ferry capcised in slow motion. RottenMango has a good video on the disaster.
How would that even benefit her though? I just don't see why she'd have a reason to do that
@@mic2348 it was speculated that it was a cult sacrifice, as the daughter of a shamanistic cult leader who was among Park’s closest confidantes was revealed to have orchestrated government policy. This is a popular conspiracy because the day of the tragedy happened on the 20th anniversary of the death of her father
lies bought out by the lefties and its media. just like Trump's case.
@@thelneffableus3236 Yea, that's BS.
Probably simply she felt ashamed if other nations helped and she couldn’t anything, believing her PR looks bad
It's so messed up and insane of how much power that family has in the south korea country and great video fern :]
This is quite a nice notification for me to see when I've just finished making my food.
Same here, just finished making some food and what I see?? A new video from fern. Enjoyed my food and the video too
me too!!!! clicked and then paused at the first second to wait for my food
The quality of Fern’s videos never cease to amaze me. High quality content, well-narrated and researched. Excellent script and very well put video collage. Great work!
the video editing is phenomenal as well
The kdramas have been telling us this the whole time. Insane
"Art imitates life" is a saying for a reason.
I will assure you... nothing is crazier than "actual reality". Everything you see in media is "always a milder version" of what has actually happened.
True.
Everyone watches a few Korean Rom-coms and assumes that's what Skorea wants to potray as reality, when they haven't watched dramas like The Glory, High society and plenty more.
@hazelmint6671 especially foreign women who fetishize me(koreans) and other korean men. They think korea is heaven. Maybe for pretty girls like themselves but korean people are living in a highly competitive, too much work, and superficial environment. Its why we have the highest suicide rate and work insane hours.
I'm happy I was born and raised in the US. I had a happy childhood without studying morning to late night
Parasite?
I love how most of the art I’ve seen come out of SK is highly critical of capitalism. Very relevant even here in the states, where we deal with so many of the same problems of inequality and corruption.
OMG I am flaggerbasted, this is extremely interesting thank you so much for the video! I didn't know anything about South-Korea's politics and economics, but I wanted to know a bit more (also, influenced by the recent events, that had an international echo) and this video summed up perfectly a lot of the background issues that the country faces. There is so little compact and clear videos that talk about this topic, I could barely inform myself about the country's recent history! I wish there were more channels like this. (If anyone knows English content similar to this that talks about Korea, please leave a comment!)
I'm happy that more youtubers talk about this. Can't let be forgotten.
I am a korean American teen. I remember when the sewol tragedy occurred. I was 5 years old and remember my family mourning the deaths of the children far away. And I remember when Park Gyun Hae was impeached, watching it on the news. At that young of an age I didn’t understand what was going on. As I got older, I began to recognize that South Korea is a government and a country where there is more severe power imbalances. If you are born poor you will stay poor. If you are born rich, you will only get richer with more freedom. Too many tragedies occur because of the greed of the higher ups. I am proud to be a South Korean but it is times like this I can only,y feel ashamed of the government.
Since you’re a Korean American you’ve probably seen the corruption in the states as well. Which would you say is worse?
@@james_giant_peach i think that the USA has a better government than that of South Korea. However, the us has the same amount, maybe even more corruptions. The amount of power political figures have is equally insane as the chaebols. The USA is a shady country. Countlessly, you see a horrific declassified cases brought to light, where innocent citizens are tested or killed to fund their researched. You have political figures “representing” different agencies ,such as the CIA, fighting to make or change laws to benefit them. They are both corrupt, but I would argue that the US has much more corruptions frequently.
Precisely why i willl never have children and anti natalists have a point
@@james_giant_peach They're both bad in different ways - there's no real way to compare which is worse because of that - but if you're going off of history and the sheer level of feats, America is the worst by far.
Canada/America will happily oppress and kill entire peoples (I'm Native, tons of people I know have lost grandparents/great uncles/great aunts in residential schools and/or their parents/uncles/aunts/etc were abused/sexually assaulted/etc in those places. They were concentration camps designed to kill us off or to bare minimum kill our culture off - this happened in both Canada and America, for the unaware) just to further money-making agendas (less Natives "being a problem" = more avenues to press for capital and land gain, look at how America is now), whereas South Korea let the elites get away with anything they want and there's an extreme misogyny problem atm... but not really any history of concentration camp usage, to my knowledge? Or planting dr-gs in neighborhoods, idk.
Tons of old money families in the USA had their hands in slavery at some point, and tons more have their hands in extremist movements (particularly alt-right extremist garbage, neo-N*zis, etc, if you know what to look for you can find a lot of horrifying shit). Also don't forget the f3ds planting dr-gs in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the 60s and other horrible shit... yeah...
But the way each country is corrupt is different, which is the problem in comparing them especially if only considering the modern day - it can't really be done because the state of the corruption is so drastically different in each country. South Korea is basically RUN by chaebols, whereas America... well it's the same way (elites who run top companies/corps, old politicians, old money families like the ones who had hands in slavery, billionaires, etc), but they aren't blatant like South Korea is, in America they hide and try to dodge accountability in the "run and hide" way, instead of just using sheer power, influence and money to get their way like in South Korea. Both have the same outcome, it's just done *so differently* that it's not comparable.
Consensus (grain of salt, since you asked the other guy, but maybe my reply will help give perspective too);
Modern-day only: South Korea by a slight margin, because they're blatant about it and nothing can be done
All of history or even considering the past 100 years (1925 to now): America by a FAR margin and you can throw Canada in there too because it's the same country just with public funded healthcare lol.
Not american or korean but i would always say america faces an unprecedented amount of corruption. Its already concerning that proxy wars are the biggest export + america is also corporate controlled but there's a tiny hat club that controls the corporate, Congress and all who can be bought.
See who owns the federal reserve and you'll find them everywhere.
@james_giant_peach
Unfortunately korean media always kept incident like this emotionally aired like a melodrama, instead of the journalism work of finding who's at fault and what cause the incident to bring justice to the victim.
Korean media is also connected with chaebol. Korean media is subsidiary of conglomerate. They often mislead the truth.
I like your fucking art style
I don't know I love it so much
Keep doing a great job !
It's just so eerie yet scripted in a way I'm never gonna forget these incidents, makes me feel like I'm hearing it from my grandma as I was young ~
I was told that there is a saying Korean, that goes, "There are only 3 things in life that are unavoidable: Taxes, Death, and Samsung"
I mean.
bro have you looked up Samsungs story?
It started as a fish vendor.
then become a global technological conglomerate.
Its absolutely insane
Thats just bullshit to get people to believe in the falsity of taxation.
뭔 개소리야 처음들어보는 말이다 세금 죽음 그리고 병역이겠지
Death? Samsung's last CEO was the CEO for 15? years after he died. It was literally Weekend at Bernies.
Human greed is the deadliest thing on Earth
wait until you hear of a human's wrath
capitalism enables this human characteristic, only socialism can restrain it and promote altruistic characteristics of human behaviour
@@DF-jm6dq it's too bad that the cold war and still-existing "socialist" (heavy quotes) nations like North Korea just tainted the overall image of socialism, presenting it as always failing, guaranteed to devolve into authoritarianism & capitalism and greed as the only viable option
@@DF-jm6dq That's the governments role in capitalist societies and it does it's job provided the citizens don't vote to enable that greed for decades on end. Socialism does not escape this problem, in fact, this problem is pervasive in any model of society we've thought of. Once the citizens stop caring, the people with power can begin to accrue more and more it, the issue with any society is that once quality of life goes up for awhile, the citizens just stop giving a fuck.
In socialism that will look like the ruling party doing a power grab, funnelling wealth into their pockets and silencing dissent, which is why we see it happen in every country that tries this system, the difference being that because the power is already absolute in one institution, once this starts happening, you're instantly in a worst case scenario which is also why we see a lot of state violence.
In capitalism it's sort of happening in the US but in most western democratic capitalist systems every few years there's a chance that citizens decide that they want to go another direction. The issue we're facing is that the majority of citizens don't give a fuck and would rather vote to continue the status quo rather than do anything meaningful. This isn't a bug, this is a feature, the american people WANT this. Keep in mind, if americans thought this was an issue, they could've came out for bernie in 2016, they didn't, he wasn't polling well verse trump in 2016 and so the dnc chose hillary, if this was truly something americans cared about, why didn't they come out and support bernie in the primaries? This is the issue, americans don't want to change course.
Just for reference, the taxes paid by the richest americans has gone down by 80% in the last 40 years. Yet, americans didn't vote for the candidate whose rhetoric was to tax the wealthy, they voted for the candidate that cut the ACA, got permanent tax reduction (and temporary tax reductions for working class americans) for the rich and ran on consumer level taxes. The issue with capitalism in america isn't that it doesn't work, it's the the citizens choosing what to do CONTINUALLY choose to give away their wealth to the wealthy.
tl;dr. No, greed isn't unstoppable, in fact, in capitalist societies the populace tends to be very giving, extremely giving, so giving they'll let their country collapse rather than stop reducing taxes on the rich while their own taxes go up.
Sadly it's also one of the most common things on Earth.
The animations and editing in this video are SSS-tier, fucking love it.
There is no need for foul language.
... you'll get used to it, for many cultures cursing and swearing is normal, welp it's uncomfortable to hear sometimes, it's not like you can control someone's mouth... one needs to accept that someone has grown up in a different environment than theirs. @@arynasabalenka3173
Wow this is my first video from this channel and i must say your animation is eye catching and your storytelling is impeccable thankyou for bringing this story to light❤
Seems like South Korea needs its own Luigi
You must be American. Trying to solve everything with guna and murder
@@thor.halsliif you knew anything about history, you’d know oppressors will do literally anything, especially and most often violence, to maintain their power. is it not fair to use their own methods against them?
Korea is what Luigi dreams of best healthcare system in the world
I lived in Korea. Going to the doctor is like going to Walgreens or CVS. They don’t really check what’s wrong and prescribe a bag of random antivirals and antibiotics, hoping it works. It works for them because people there are generally healthy. I’m not sure how successful they are with serious problems, but I can say that a dentist there messed one of my teeth up…😅
let's-a go!
Since I am Korean, I am using AI translation.
My country has 5 million people with multiple debts because of corrupt politicians. It's a living hell.
Even with all this debt, the GDP and purchasing power appear to increase, making the country’s economy look larger than it really is.
I need to escape from this country as soon as possible.
The debt is not from corruption, it s because Koreans spend and gamble their lives
I suggest you don’t go north of the border 😂
@@JYPark-yx6pz Try any other country and see if its really any better 😂😂
Wait, getting debt and blame others for failing to pay it?
The US is the same. You only work to pay rent to an apt you can't afford to enjoy and to pay your credit card debts.
South Korean Here!
Straight Up Not Having A Good Time!!!
I'm a student about to go to college, lived outside SK my whole life. Hopefully I'll fly away to a US university and revoke my citizenship to becomes a full American.
what is the people's reactions to the recent airplane crash? not trying to be rude just curious as the news doesn't show those parts.
@@ctrl_x1770 Going from one capitalist hell hole to another.
@What3hkmost news channels in SK have been running news on the subject for the past 18 hours or so, about 88 temporary memorials are created around the country. the entire country is in quite a shock, since there wasn't such a large aircraft disaster on korean soil before. this is if my memory serves me well the first 3:39 major incident since the turning of the 21st century, with more than tens of lives hurt or lost.
so, national shock and grief.
@@ctrl_x1770 be careful i've heard that they love shooting people for no reason
Wow this an amazing video. Thanks for bringing all this to light to an international audience
One of the father of the Sewol victim was waiting for his son corpse at the dock. When he saw him, he said his son looked like he could still be alive and try to give his son CPR. He said that when he tried to push his son chest, foul rotten smell emitted from the son mouth and he recalled watching his son body closely and notice that the eyes already rot.
No. That's terrible 😢
Rip dear son.
A bit insensitive, but I’d assume you’d know CPR wouldn’t work if so much time had passed that the body is rotting. Maybe he didn’t even expect it to work, or even hoped it would, he just wanted to do something, anything.
It’s a tragedy that it could’ve been avoided at so many steps, and so many children paid the price. It should’ve just been the people complicit that suffered.
Putting an ad in such a tragic video is pretty shitty
@@GG4F-tf8ex The point was that he didn't see the rot at first
it's really crazy how nobody is talking about the book the cosmic wealth frequencies on borlest
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Sounds like your wealth method isn't working that well hahahah loser
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It’s really crazy how many fake comments are spammed by bots
No wonder why South Korea is so stagnant nowadays. Wealth inequality really hurts the poor and middle class.
but the majority of koreans think that wealth inequality can be justified because they think the proletariat did not make enough effort. and, efforts to improve the working conditions of the workers are denounced as populism.
According to OECD, gini coefficient of Korea is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the unfairer the wealth distribution is.
Korea's wealth inequality(0.33) is similar to that of France(0.32) and Japan(0.33), and slightly fairer than UK(0.35).
The real problem is income inequality.
the whole video is more about oligarchy and power rather than wealth inequality. Wealth inequality is extreme in every developed countries and its why capitalism is flawed. You'd think canada or the us is any different? canadian politicians are just the same. corporate sellouts.
@@팝송용계정-d4g 소득 불평등은 중요한 게 아닙니다. 부의 불평등이 중요한 거지. 결국에는 소득도 부를 축적하기 위한 거잖아요. 자산이 핵심이지.
@eoenhtbqcd 因为教育被统治者所控制，你们所接收到的信息都是统治者过滤后然后灌输给你们的，你得实地调查了解真实的情况这样才能得出一个准备客观的结论。
This was well done. I knew quite a bit of this but you filled in a lot of the story. 👌
One note of correction. A Korean male cannot evade mandatory military service just because he was either born in the US or become naturalized after immigration...unless the parents or themselves explicitly renounce their Korean citizenship, or they have aged out. There have been several (three that I know of) cases where Korean-Americans had to serve in the military not realizing this subtle sleight of legality.
South Korea shows us what we should be wary of in the future, and North Korea shows us the hell that we left behind.
I thought America already showed that
Martial law?
Governments like NK can always reemerge if the conditions are right.
@@Breakfastststst Americans are very aware to be honest. I am not an American but I have seen them critising whenever something stupid happens there which is simply not the case in most countries including S.K
@@prajyotkumar9644 Americans can’t even point out where korea is on a map wym they aware lol
Samsung guy being too important to be in prison is of course nonsense. The family can appoint people outside the family to CEO and other roles, if there is no suitable family member to run the company. Imprisoned or not, the world keeps turning.
Probably concerned that he might do a better job.
He actually was too important. Not because of his actual importance as a leader, but as a shareholder.
See, Chaebols operate through insanely complicated web of share ownership, such as owning 15%(thus becoming the largest single shareholder) of a company that then owns a similar share in another company and so on. Thus, Chaebols actually only own 10-20% of the actual conglomerate but still act as the decision makers.
Because all of this share ownership/distribution is done through family, anybody else being in charge would cause the entire conglomerate to collapse into separate companies that have no proper leadership structure individually. That kind of catastrophic collapse was unacceptable for a conglomerate representing 20+% of Korean GDP.
This is why the former CEO of Samsung was kept alive in a coma for close to a decade while his children desperately tried to redistribute and balance the shares among themselves.
@@geohiekim8705thanks for the insight!
@@geohiekim8705 the running joke was the man would be the "oldest" man in Korea just to avoid inheritance tax
It's not when the company in question represent a huge amount of the country's GDP.
These animations are just awesome. How many people do you have working on them?
They run the squid game. Seong gi hun is looking for them.
day by day the video quality gets better and better
1440P ultrawide, cutting-edge animations, high quality sound design and audio, well-researched, and impecible pacing. This is the most well-made documentary I have ever watched on TH-cam. Well done! 👏
This is not just a South Korean problem. It's a problem with all capitalist oligarchies, especially US, which is the original model.
Still a million times better than whatever coomunist model that North Korea (based on Soviet Union) represents. You still get to have a high quality life, seek different opportunities or even move to a country of your choice to live.
@@nareshwildbones That is what I find funny capitalism sucks but it is the only one that works
@@nareshwildbones Who argued that NK or USSR are better? Also, you only get to have a "high quality" life in a select few oligarchies, usually those with genocide, slavery and imperialism in their past and/or present. And usually only if you belong to a special privileged caste. Many capitalist oligarchies are worse than USSR. Many would argue that USSR was better than the current oligarchic system in Russia.
In the US there are thousands and thousands of families who own large businesses that employ significant amounts of people. Here we’re talking about just a bunch of families. Is like having 5 quadrillionaires in the US and then just middle class. I believe a closer example would be Chile, where there are only 10 billionaire families who run
Basically 90% of the private gdp and most of the people work for them
Crazy how fern produces Netflix quality documentaries every week...we are blessed!
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, TH-cam isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
@@zenmoto369are you regarded?
@@zenmoto369said a nibba with a wiki profile picture. Bro you're just that person who needs to hear its own advice. Stop projecting
@@zenmoto369 where did this person show emotions in what they stated? yall so bitter and sensitive why the fuck do you care where someone's happiness is coming from when it is not something inherently illegal?
@@zenmoto369 ironic
It's weird watching this on a Samsung phone.
Same
I mean, u can always separate the art (phone made from the company) from the artist (the company). So there's that.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Real. I'm not into boycotting myself. Can't even understand why I should stop eating McDonalds just because some war is happening thousands of kilometers away from me.
@@dnomyard I mean, not like I still have my old Samsung Galaxy Tab 6A and making this reply on an OPPO F7 phone.
Uhhhhhhh......... What@@dnomyard
Crazy how North Korea is 1984, and South Korea is Cyberpunk 2077
1984? According to whom?
@@AndRei-yc3ti the Totalitarian rule, Citizen surveillance, and Indoctrination
@@AndRei-yc3tii feel like there might be something wrong with Koreans
good
@@AndRei-yc3tiGeorge Orwells book - 1984
I grew up with an obsession on South Korea & Simplicissimus, their german channel.
To see both together gives me almosta feeling of nostalgia, and seeing someone FINALLY talk about the bad side of Korea is so refreshing.
Macht weiter so Jungs, Hut ab!!
the quality of your videos are insane wow
Literally hundreds and thousands of people comment the exact same thing on every single video. Are you a bot or just a 🍖 🚴♂️
@@dale1809 its defo bots on this channel, they have a shitton of comments every time about "great animation" "wow so glad its not AI" "amazing quality" but they still say it in a very human like way. expensive bots.
I feel like I'm watching a mission introduction video in a Hitman game
That's what I was thinking
haha the animation style is definitely similar
9:11
8:03 "strategically giving birth"
That is one of the sentences of all time.
한국에선 많은 사람들이 미국 국적을 위해 원정 출산을 해요. 그리 놀라운 일도 아닙니다.
@@The_Empty_Park hes saying the sentence sounds funny - not that the fact is surprising
6:59
It was over a bag of peanuts and she was mad because the flight attendant didn’t open the back for her not that she was angry because it wasn’t on a plate. search it up
hey fern/simpli would be nice if you could add subtitles for the viewers of the countries you are making videos about. i think a lot of koreans would be intersted in this one.
just turn on captions bro
This video will probably get banned in s. Korea. They have a tendency to ban criticism.
@@stellviahohenheim no there are no Korean captions
Yeah, they are worried Koreans will fact check them and call out their "reporting." Don't hold your breath.
@@ArielaShines fern/simpli is one of the few sources i trust so far. what about their reporting is crappy?
Great video but I wish it was longer and even more in-depth.
14:00 hiding the face of the corpse behind red plants is absolute cinema
Subscribed due to this video. What a quality content
Wow! This better be the start of a video saga! The algorithm pushed this vid to me so I'm just discovering the channel. Incredible production quality wow...
Fern seems to teach stuff that I have little knowledge about and also entertain me, you guys do so good in these vids
As a Korean, I believe fellow Koreans will agree to this fact as well. The Massive companies such as Samsung, Lg, SK, Hyundai, and etc are estimated to pay over half the tax of Korea. If they fail, our whole economy stumbles.....
Is that an admission for them can't succeeding without being corrupt?
Sounds like South Korea needs an estate tax.
That's because the economy is built around them, but if they get dismantled, new companies can be filled to the power vacuum.
so rule of law will set them up for failure?
and you know what else is massive
Don't worry, this cannot last forever. Greed is self destructive and those that are beholden to it always lose.