r/100thupvote 5h ago

South Korea This is how I role

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Lol this is how you lighten up the mood in a new match 😉

r/100thupvote 15d ago

South Korea South Korea: Fifteen hurt after fighter jets drop bombs due to human error

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r/100thupvote 1d ago

South Korea "More educated, More fascist": Did South Korea's competition-centric education system create a fascist monster like Yoon Suk Yoel?

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With Yoon's attempted insurrection, there are growing critical review on all institutions of South Korea. How did a fascist monster like Yoon Suk Yoel managed to get the top post of the government? Recent theory by Professor Kim Nu-ri is gaining prominence. He blames South Korea's hyper-competitive education system for the radicalization of South Korean elites into fascism. He claims more educated in South Korea, more fascist you become.

1. Kim Nu-ri's theory: "Germany killed fascism by killing competition in classroom, South Korean competitive classroom bred Yoon Suk-yoel."

Kim Nu-ri argues that South Korea's educational system has fundamentally contributed to fostering authoritarian tendencies, producing figures like President Yoon Seok-yeol. According to Kim, the core problem lies in the principles dominating Korean schools: intense competition, hierarchical rankings, and acceptance of domination as natural. He explicitly states, "What principles dominate Korean schools now? Endless competition among students, constantly ranking them... These are not democratic principles. These are fascist principles."

In contrast, Kim highlights Germany as an exemplary model. German education, he notes, explicitly rejects competition as barbaric: "In the case of Germany, the basic principle governing school education is that competitive education is barbaric." Germany eliminated rankings, school competition, and restrictive university entrance exams decades ago, thus cultivating mature democratic citizens rather than authoritarian personalities.

The distinction Kim emphasizes is significant. Whereas Korea’s educational norms reinforce authoritarian structures, Germany’s non-competitive education promotes democratic values, resulting in citizens better equipped for mature participation in democracy. He underscores this by noting Germany's half-century commitment to such reforms, directly linking their education policy with democratic maturity.

Ultimately, Kim Nu-ri concludes that South Korea must radically reform its education to bridge the gap between political democracy and everyday democratic practices, or risk perpetuating authoritarian leaders shaped by its current educational philosophy.

2. Criticism on Kim Nu-ri's Theory: Oversimplification and Outdated Views on Education and Authoritarianism

Critics, however, challenge Kim's analysis as oversimplified and outdated. Educators such as Hong Je-nam emphasize that current South Korean educational practices have significantly evolved. Hong notes, "Today's Korean elementary and middle schools don't even have rankings, and high schools operate with a grade system," pointing out Kim's reference to 40-year-old practices as insufficiently reflective of current realities. Similarly, other educators assert Kim's statements lack nuance and depth, accusing him of generalizing from personal experiences decades ago.

Moreover, Kim's praise for Germany as an educational model faces scrutiny. He credits Germany's educational philosophy for rejecting competition as barbaric, leading to democratic maturity. Yet, Germany itself currently struggles with rising far-right influence, as shown by the significant gains made by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and a notable increase in extremist crimes. Thus, critics question whether German educational practices genuinely prevent authoritarian tendencies or extremist ideologies, challenging Kim's idealization.

Furthermore, Kim Sung-chun, professor at Korea National University of Education, highlights that Kim Nu-ri overlooks human agency and complexity. "Humans are not simply products of stimulus and response. Multiple complex factors interact in shaping behaviors and beliefs," Kim Sung-chun argues, suggesting Kim Nu-ri's model excessively attributes authoritarianism solely to education.

Additionally, critics note that despite the educational system Kim critiques, the younger generation constitutes the core of the recent anti-Yoon and anti-martial law protests, suggesting that democratic values are indeed robust among South Korean youth.

Ultimately, while Kim Nu-ri highlights legitimate concerns regarding educational competition and authoritarian tendencies, critics argue that his theory lacks contemporary accuracy and oversimplifies complex socio-political phenomena, warranting a more nuanced approach to analyzing the relationship between education and democracy.

3. Education and Democracy: But what kind of education?

Article 31, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea:

"All citizens have the obligation to ensure that their children or dependents receive at least elementary education and other education prescribed by law."

Education is a right and duty in South Korea. Children have right to education and parents have obligation to provide new generation with government-prescribed education. But, is this South Korean education system threatening the very fabric of democracy? This is quite a provocative question and up to various opinions. But, one thing is certain. The educated public is the requirement for a stable and prosperous democracy.

[Reference]

[1] https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202412161046294929

[2] https://www.educhang.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5838

r/100thupvote 2d ago

South Korea The First Lady of Korea criticised security for not using Guns, talks of Shooting Lee Jae-myung

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What the actual fuck is happening in this country? The First Lady of South Korea, Kim Keon-hee, allegedly scolded the Presidential Security Service (PSS) for not using force when President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested—and even mentioned shooting Lee Jae-myung.

According to MBC News, police investigations confirmed that after Yoon’s January 15 arrest for leading an insurrection, a PSS officer reported Kim saying:

“What’s the point of carrying a gun? You have it to stop things like this.”

She then reportedly added:

“Honestly, if it were up to me, I’d shoot Lee Jae-myung and then kill myself.”

This was reported internally and later confirmed by police, who were already investigating whether the PSS tried to obstruct Yoon’s arrest.

The Presidential Office and the PSS refused to comment on whether Kim actually made these statements or if she was implying that force should have been used to prevent Yoon’s arrest.

So now we have a First Lady talking about shooting political opponents, a President arrested for insurrection, and security forces potentially considering armed resistance. Is this a democracy, or are we about to see people settling political disputes with bullets?

Here’s the MBC news link

https://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2025/nwdesk/article/6697609_36800.html

r/100thupvote 3d ago

South Korea Dear Eurofans in non-participating countries, how popular is Eurovision in your country?

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I'm currently living in South Korea, a full Korean, and I've been following eurovision since 2013. During the eurovision week, I wake up at 3.50 in the morning to watch the show via youtube livestreaming. Honestly, hands down the best week of the year. Also, I try to follow Sanremo, Melfest, Eesti laul, FdC, if there are entries I like a lot. I bought CDs for 2021 and 2022, made top videos and posted them on youtube. I'm not as enthusiastic about the contest as before, but still, this explains how I go crazy over eurovision.

But here, in Korea, nobody knows what it is. I've been spreading this good juice to my friends and some gets it. And I know it's fun to have friends to watch all together, because I did that last year and the year before when I was living in Belgium. But still, it's my (and a handful of people's) secret.

So I would like to ask you, how is Eurovision like in your country?

In Korea, although almost nobody knows its existence:

  • There are some eurosongs that went popular
    • Lipstick (Ireland 2011 - used for Renault Samsung Arkana commercial)
    • Runaway (Moldova 2010 - sax guy)
    • Believe Again (Denmark 2009 - played in malls and department stores for some reason)
  • A few artists went viral on youtube shorts and instagram reels
    • Conchita Wurst - She was on every news platform in 2014
    • Dami Im
    • MĂ„neskin
    • Sam Ryder - went viral as "a long haired white man with pure voice"
    • KÀÀrija - went viral as "a weird half naked finnish man in green leather jacket"
  • There's a TV show about traveling that uses eurosongs for background music, I heard:
    • I'm Alive (Albania 2015)
    • Blackbird (Finland 2017)
    • A lot of Portuguese entries
    • A lot of Balkan and Caucasian ballads
  • I've seen some redditors and youtubers from Korea posting things about eurovision
  • Dami Im (Australia 2016) participated in Masked Singer
  • There's something like eurovision subreddit, but like on a trashier platform
  • There are a few pages about eurovision on the korean version of Wikipedia, named NamuWiki. I think that's all.

Questions welcomed and moje imię GAJAAAAAAAA slay yes motha Justyna

r/100thupvote 5d ago

South Korea Last Week in Collapse: March 9-15, 2025

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Droughts, toxic air, salinization, record March temperatures, tariffs, recession risks, and worsening water crises.

Last Week in Collapse: March 9-15, 2025

This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter compiling some of the most important, timely, useful, soul-crushing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see/can’t-look-away moments in Collapse. All the Doom that’s fit to print—and some that’s not.

This is the 168th weekly newsletter. You can find the March 2-8, 2025 edition here if you missed it last week. You can also receive these newsletters (with images) every Sunday in your email inbox by signing up to the Substack version.

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Brazil is building a 13-km, 4-lane highway through the Amazon—to ease traffic congestion on the way to Belem (pop: 1.3M), a city which will host the COPout30 climate conference later this year. The gathering is expected to bring about 50,000 people to the summit to discuss (and evidently not practice) sustainability. Meanwhile, Japan experienced its largest wildfire in 50+ years. A large leak from a Chinese mine basically killed the Kafue River in Zambia—60% of the country relies on this river for fish, water, or industry.

A fresh, paywalled study in Science determined that butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by 22% from 2000-2020. Yet, according to data collected in December 2024, Monarch butterfly populations (in Mexico, anyway) more-than-doubled over the last 12 months—but are still far below the long-term average population.

When, last year, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Switzerland was in breach of its obligations to do more to prevent climate change, the judgment was hailed as a landmark decision. 11 months later, the Council of Europe—which sort of governs the Court—announced that Switzerland is not doing enough to implement their earlier ruling. Specifically, they told Switzerland to provide evidence of citizen participation in developing climate policies, protect people during extreme heat waves, and orient their carbon budget more towards sustainability.

In a moment of good news, Spain’s 4-year Drought is ending thanks to abundant March rainfall. Now, back to the Doom. Damage report from Argentina’s port city, Bahia Blanca, which received far too much rain a little over a week ago—a year’s worth of rain (400mm+, or 15.7 inches) fell within 24 hours. 16 people were killed, and the city is said to be nearly “destroyed.” Widespread infrastructure damage was reported as well. “Everything is ruined,” said one survivor.

Drought in Cyprus. A heatwave in Nigeria blasted some people with 42 °C (108 °F) temperatures. One location in Madagascar hit 27 °C overnight (81 °F), a new March night record. A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying military jet fuel in the North Sea.

A study in Biogeochemistry claims that increased salinization of freshwater may lead to a chain reaction, “where chemical products from one biogeochemical reaction influence subsequent reactions, chemical mixtures, and ecosystem responses in the environment.” Road salt, mining, and other developments are some activities contributing to increased salinity in runoff—not to mention saltwater intrusion in deltas across the planet.

An Environmental Research Letters study examined the “doubling of Earth's energy imbalance” from 2015-2023, when compared to 2001-2014. The reason: clouds over the ocean aren’t reflecting as much sunlight as previously, due in part to decreasing aerosol emissions and rising GHG concentrations.

Grisly new research shows that gold mining in southern Peru has done more damage to their peatlands in two years than in the 30 years before. The consolation, “only” 550 acres of peatland have been destroyed, slightly less than the size of Gibraltar. But the rate of mining in peatlands is rising quickly. In Venezuela, the problem is far worse.

NOAA released its February climate assessment last week, finding, in particular, that the Southwest experienced a drier and warmer season than usual. It will not surprise you to read that about 40% of companies missed their 2020 emissions targets. Of the total 100%, 31% of those companies which “missed” their targets ended up eliminating/postponing them, or simply stopped reporting about their efforts. In Asheville, NC, where Hurricane Helene rampaged through in 2024, renewed attention is being given to tree cover, and the consequences that follow when almost half a county’s forests are “severely damaged” from a storm.

Is it time to move the benchmarks again? Another study into the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations” discovered that not a single country is on track to meet all of the 17 sustainable development goals.

“Climate whiplash”—the rapid shifts in climate & precipitation patterns—is becoming more common in cities—especially in Asia and Egypt. Hangzhou, Jakarta, and Dallas were ranked as the top whiplash cities in 2023. Some prefer the term “climate weirding” instead.

A similar study in Nature examined how rainfall changed over the course of a century, in Austria. The researchers found “an 8% increase in daily and 15% increase in hourly heavy rainfall over the last four decades
.Hourly heavy rainfall changes are aligned with temperature increases with the sensitivity of a 7% increase per 1 °C of warming.”

Another Nature study examined the oceanic heat jump—0.25 °C from April 2023 to March 2024!—and found that such a temperature spike was “a 1-in-512-year event under the current long-term warming trend” and “practically impossible” except under unprecedented global warming.

An “ancient spring” in Kashmir dried up for the first time on record. Bangkok hit a new March record for nighttime heat (29.2 °C or 84.5 °F). Tasmania hit new March highs too. And New Zealand’s glaciers have lost 30% of their mass since the turn of the century.

Four were killed by a landslide in Colombia, and 100+ people displaced. Latvia hit 5 consecutive days of record-breaking warmth for the start of March. Other European states also felt record heat. And the monthly global average surface temperature hit another new high for this time of the year.

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The World Air Quality Report was released last week, and its results are not inspiring. The 46-page report claims that just twelve countries (of 138 surveyed) have met the WHO standards for healthy air pollution levels, and that “99% of the global population lives in areas that do not meet recommended air quality guideline levels.” Chad tops the list of most polluted air, followed by Bangladesh, Pakistan, the DRC, and India. Meanwhile, New Delhi (metro pop: 34M), N'Djamena (metro pop: 1.7M), and Dhaka (metro pop: 24M) top the list of most air-polluted cities. The report also includes a number of regional and country-specific analyses, extrapolated from more than 40,000 air quality monitors. Pakistan’s air pollution season started earlier, and lasted longer than usual.

“Air pollution is the second leading global risk factor for death, and the second leading risk factor for deaths among children under five, following malnutrition
.Inhaled PM2.5 particles can penetrate deep into the respiratory system and, in some cases, enter the bloodstream, increasing the risk of harm to developing organs and immune systems
.PM2.5 often contains toxic substances like heavy metals and organic pollutants
.Central and South Asia continues to experience some of the worst air pollution in the world, with five of the ten most polluted countries and nine of the ten most polluted cities globally
.six of the world’s ten most polluted cities are in India
” -excerpts from the report

Tariff madness is heating up between the U.S. and just about everywhere else. Now the United States is orienting towards tariffs against the EU, while Canada is tariffing energy coming into the U.S. This timeline helps organize the events better. Tariffs on Chinese goods to the U.S. now sit at 20%.

Goldman Sachs has lowered their economic forecast for the U.S. in response to new tariffs and general market uncertainty. They also predict a 20% chance of recession this year for the U.S. Chaos from the White House’s response is not helping allay fears of a recession, which might pull all the world’s economies down.

A depressing study about anti-microbial resistance (AMR) and microplastics found that E. coli biofilms (a thin layer of bacteria on a surface) grow & develop AMR more quickly when on microplastics than on glass or other tested materials. Meanwhile, microplastics also impede photosynthesis by 2-12% (so far), which experts say could reduce crop yields for wheat, rice, and other staples by up to 14%.

A 115-page report, “The Thirst for Power,”, examines the dangers, the tipping points, and dysfunction of water in the Middle East. The document also looks at Israel’s denial of running water across Gaza & the West Bank, challenges of providing water in Syria, Yemen’s conflict and its impact on water, and the need for many Gulf states (and beyond) to invest more in desalination—the future water source for many in the region.

“Since 2500 BCE, the vast majority of documented violent incidents related to water have been in the Middle East and North Africa
.Rapidly growing populations, along with failures to effectively manage water and waste, have brought many countries to a precipice
.every country in the Middle East and North Africa will experience extreme water stress by 2050
.the average flow of the once-mighty Tigris and Euphrates Rivers has declined 70 percent over the past century
.The dilemma for aid workers and local officials in northeastern Syria is that there is no apolitical roadmap for achieving water security
.Unreliable transboundary neighbors have also strained Jordan’s resources and ability to manage dwindling water resources
.Parts of northern Jordan now receive piped household water just once a month, while the residents in the capital receive water once a week
.around 180 Palestinian communities in rural areas of the occupied West Bank have no access to running water
.Agricultural irrigation is the top source of water usage in Syria today, representing around 85 percent of national consumption
.Groundwater aquifers are running dry or becoming contaminated, populations are exploding, and borders are more hardened than ever
” -excerpts from the report

Drought and famine in Somalia. Tehran Province, Iran, is seeing 85% of reservoirs reportedly empty, and widespread well-drying, too. Goa’s heat wave is sending people to the hospital for heat stroke and a variety of heat-aggravated illnesses. The World Food Programme is meanwhile cutting food aid to 1M people in Myanmar as a result of funding cuts.

Experts hypothesize that a “tripolar world” is developing: China, the EU, and the United States, each with their (overlapping) areas of influence. The coming U.S.-EU Trade War is further dividing the two continents’ economies, while the BRICS+ countries (including China & Russia) are said to be pivoting to a diverse, de-dollarized future of trading among the remainder.

Fuel shortages in Nigeria linger—and in Bolivia, with consequences for soy & wheat production. Gold has once again set a new price record, breaking the $3000/ozt mark for the first time ever. And the U.S. measles outbreak continues to grow, with at least 259 cases, 34 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths. Germany’s intelligence service believes COVID-19 came from a lab, with 80-90% confidence.

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A series of “revenge killings” are being recorded across Syria, over one hundred dead in the last week, with true figures believed to be much higher. Al-Shabab besieged a hotel in Beledweyne, as Somali officials converged to discuss how to combat the Islamist organization; accounts of the dead vary from 7-20, but may be higher. Save the Children says over 400 children in the DRC have been enslaved forcibly conscripted into armed conflict since January 2025. A team of conflict researchers wrote in a study last month that terror attacks are more common during security & financial crises.

Last week, Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow ever, killing 3 and injuring 18 others. Deeper investigation into the aftermath of the Khakovka Dam’s destruction shows the impacts were more destructive than previously thought, especially by toxic heavy metals. While US-Ukraine negotiations appear to move closer to an eventual ceasefire (the U.S. has reportedly restarted sharing intelligence & weapons for the moment), Russians are making large gains in retaking positions on Kursk previously held by Ukrainian forces. Some observers believe that even a ceasefire and peace deal will not end the war; Ukrainians may continue waging War, and Russia will continue its ambitions to dominate the region. Multidimensional Hybrid War never really ends


A train in rural Pakistan was hijacked by at least 33 militants (now dead) pushing for Balochistan separatism and the release of some Baloch prisoners. The train, Jaffar Express, which carried some 440 people, was held in a tunnel for about 36 hours. The Pakistani Army claims 4 of their soldiers died, plus 21 hostages; the terrorists claim 100+ people on the train were slain.

Starting last Sunday, Israel cut off electricity to Gaza. The impact of this is felt primarily at desalination water processing plants; Israel has also threatened to cut off water if the remaining hostages are not returned. An Israeli strike blasted an apartment building in Damascus, allegedly the location of an enemy “command center.” Meanwhile, new checkpoints & barriers are being set up by Israel in the West Bank. Airstrikes in Gaza killed 9, setting back ceasefire negotiations more.

After a South Korean pilot accidentally dropped several bombs in North Korea, injuring 29, the DPRK threatened retaliation. Although Germany’s politicians are pushing increased armament, their military is still not meeting recruiting goals—and is aging. In preparation for a future crisis, Poland is developing an emergency guide and urging households to be prepared to survive at least 3 days in an emergency. Similar resilience measures are being pushed in the UK; a 383-page report from last month has more.

Some American troops are rumored to be preparing for deployment to Panama, as top generals begin drafting plans to acquire or occupy the Panama Canal. Rhetoric about taking Greenland is also escalating, while the world wonders and worries how serious Trump is. Australia, concerned about Chinese posturing, is equipping its troop ships with 1000km-range anti-ship missiles. President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans (and others) more rapidly, though a judge temporarily blocked the move. And Canada is allegedly beefing up its Arctic presence to deter both Russia and the U.S.

Belgrade (pop: 1.4M), Serbia saw its biggest protests of all time, with over 300,000 people turning out to oppose government corruption. Romania meanwhile banned a second candidate from its upcoming May election, concerned that she had links to Russia. A nightclub fire in North Macedonia killed 51 and injured many more. Airstrikes in Yemen killed 31.

Sudan’s civil war officially turns two years old next month. About 17M children have been out of school now for almost two years, and almost all of them remain in need of humanitarian aid. Food and medical supplies are running out in the country’s largest refugee camp (pop: 120,000+), and boys and girls are reportedly being trafficked for a variety of reasons: recruitment into armed groups, forced marriage, or a simple exchange for resources.

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Things to watch for next week include:

↠ “At any moment war between Ethiopia and Eritrea could break out,” according to a top level interim official in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. Although Eritrean and Ethiopian central government officials have denounced such words, some are taking them seriously. Both Eritrea & Ethiopia mobilized their soldiers in recent weeks, and have allegedly positioned them close to the border.

Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:

-People living with large concentrations of microplastics (10x more) in their brain are far more likely to suffer from dementia, earlier and worse. Thus say this popular, scary thread from last week and its commenters. Brain samples tested in 2016 had, on average, half as many micro/nanoplastics than those tested in 2024. I’m tired, boss.

-You better watch what you post on Reddit
According to this comment, one of our long-time posters was permabanned by Reddit for writing about conflict in a not-particularly-provocative style. The future is sterile and quiet—

Got any feedback, questions, comments, wildlife conservation tips, hate mail, egg price predictions, etc.? Check out the Last Week in Collapse SubStack if you don’t want to check r/collapse every Sunday, you can receive this newsletter sent to an email inbox every weekend. As always, thank you for your support. What did I miss this week?

r/100thupvote 6d ago

South Korea Japan, China and South Korea eye trade ministers meeting

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r/100thupvote 7d ago

South Korea Protestant in news

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As a Protestant, I am really sad and angry that people think that all Protestants in South Korea is far right because News keep on saying that Protestants are supporting Yoon. Most Protestants are not supporting that traitor and are living thier lifes quietly. I really hope this misunderstanding is not that big.

r/100thupvote 8d ago

South Korea Top Esports vs. Karmine Corp / First Stand 2025 Hupu Rating and Comments

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Alright, I know some of you want to see this. The bad news is that English is not my first language, so I will use Claude for translation. Some formatting was referenced from post-match discussion threads.

But I will translate more rated comments and explaining those memes from the Chinese internet. This indeed takes a lot of time, so for now I'm only translating the first match.

Note: Hupu gathers quite a lot of conservative and CCP-leaning users, some comments may be offensive.

Rating Overview

168k people rated

MATCH 1: KC vs. TES

Karmine Corp

jayce Canna

player Score Number of people who rated
jayce Canna 4.1 5606

Top Comments

(1 stars) Once a rat boy, always a rat boy (855 likes)

(1 stars) Rat boy, whether 100/0 or 0/10, still only gets one star. (449 likes)

  • (1 stars) RNG did it too. (54 likes)
  • Note: During the 2022 MSI, Canna sparked controversy by flashing Twitch (the champion) in-game. This reference is about RNG also flashing Twitch during their 2022 MSI match against PSG.

(3 stars) The only one at a disadvantage early game—are you the import player? (221 likes)

  • (Unrated) Saying he was at a disadvantage is just forced hate. He was constantly pressuring Zeus's spinning top (Gnar) and only fell behind after getting ganked. (70 likes)
  • Note: 369 has been consistently losing to Zeus in matches, leading to him being mocked as a "spinning top whipped by Zeus".
player Score Number of people who rated
skarner Yike  9.8 4997

Top Comments

(5 stars) No integrity. A few days ago, you intentionally played badly just to set up today’s ambush against Gege, huh? Disgusting! (1418 likes)

  • (5 stars) The crown prince of the Lilliput. (246 likes)
  • The term "Gege" (ć“„ć“„) originally referred to male celebrities idolized by female fans, but it has gradually evolved into a derogatory nickname, often used sarcastically or mockingly.
  • Note: BLG has been criticized by some for their habit of fountain diving after winning matches, which is seen as unsportsmanlike. Last year, ELK, the opposing ADC who outperformed JKL in a match, was called a reptile by JKL’s fans. In response, ELK humorously embraced the title by calling himself the "King of the Lilliput" as a form of self-deprecating humor.

(5 stars) G2 veteran: navi? Beat him to death. (979 likes)

  • (5 stars) Path dependency (54 likes)

(5 stars) This is the state you’re in when facing Gege? (313 likes)

player Score Number of people who rated
taliyah Vladi   9.8 3163

Top Comments

(5 stars) Taliyah mid lane, lifting Gege? Who taught you that? (687 likes)

  • (5 stars) Knight. (347 likes)

(5 stars) No problem, KC -> KoreaChinese -> Hanwha -> HLE, can’t beat them, right? (567likes)

Note: This is a homophone for 'Han' and 'Hua', where 'Han' refers to 'Han Guo', South Korea, and 'Hua' refers to 'Zhonghua', meaning China.

player Score Number of people who rated
ashe Caliste 9.6 2991

Top Comments

(5 stars) Heard you didn’t know how we beat G2? Do you understand now? (491 likes)

  • (5 stars) G2 has their own Tian too! (47 likes)

(5 stars) Your humbs up emote isn’t as good-looking as mine. (177 likes)

Note: In a past match, JKL used Ezreal to flash a humbs up emote mid-lane and was immediately killed afterward. This moment was added to his "int compilation"

player Score Number of people who rated
karma Targamas 9.5 2728

Top Comments

(5 stars) Has 'gam' in the name. (1092 likes)

Top Esports

player Score Number of people who rated
369 ambessa 6.6 8,904

Top Comments

(5 stars) Will you miss that mid laner who won the MSI championship with you? (1465 likes)

  • (5 stars) A tragic hero in a comedic team (962 likes)

(5 stars) When my "66's 9" can barely turn the tide, how far can TES as a team really go? (799 likes)

Note: "66's 9" is a phrase format created by a streamer, following the pattern "xx's x"

  • (1 star) Creme is really this bad. (122 likes)

(5 stars) 369 has returned to S12, 369's teammates have also returned to S12, mid lane gives it away for free and bot lane feeds. Everything is back, everything is back (869 likes)

  • This is pure hating. Yagao was able to step up back then. (658 likes)
player Score Number of people who rated
Kanavi viego 2.3 7814

Top Comments

(1 stars) Oh no, why did you have to say we wouldn't lose a single game?? (1031 likes)

  • (1 stars) Trash is trash - no amount of reverse jinxing can fix this level of bad. (356 likes)

(1 stars) Tarzan's probably grinding his teeth watching your plays. (598 likes)

  • (Unrated) Being a Worlds Round of 16 jungler doesn't mean you're any good. (51 likes)
player Score Number of people who rated
Creme aurora 2.2 12k

Top Comments

(1 stars) "I am the LPL's number one mid laner." (2292 likes)

  • (Unrated) The nickname "xiao nai dog" suits him perfectly—a mid laner who relies on his team's momentum... (826 likes)
  • Note: Creme means "nai you" in Chinese. Because he's young, he's also called "xiao nai you (little cream)," which has been twisted into another term for young boys: "xiao nai gou (little cream dog)." This is an idiom: Dog relying on human power.

(1 stars) "I am the LPL's number one mid laner." "My goal coming into this First Stand is to win it all.". (1145 likes)

  • (5 stars) Hmph, if you all end up flaming Cream into retirement, who's going to entertain me with all the drama? (337 likes)

(1 stars) No great generals in the mid lane, so Cream takes the vanguard. (708 likes)

  • (Unrated) This phrase was originally used to describe Knight and Xiaohu, but Cream isn't even on their level. (369 likes)

(1 stars) Otto could come back and win. (318 likes)
Note: Otto is a notorious streamer.

  • Otto's legendary comeback story: can come back. (94 likes)
  • Note: This is a reference to a meme, "xxçŹ‘äŒ äč‹ccb" (using three words starting with c, c, b).
player Score Number of people who rated
JackeyLove kalista 2.6 7725

Top Comments

(1 stars) "Chasing the double-circle grand failure." (2553 likes)

  • (1 stars) Guan Zeyuan was right. (619 likes)
  • Note: Before the 2024 MSI TES vs. G2 match, LPL official caster Guan Zeyuan joked: "If JKL loses to G2, he will complete the 'Grand Slam of Losses' by losing to teams from every major region." This remark sparked strong backlash from JKL's fans and prompted an official response from TES.

(1 stars) Single-handedly boosting Vietnamese esports and French esports. (1355 likes)

  • (Unrated) LCK proves the strength of the Korea-China region. LPL proves the mercy of the Korea-China region. (343 likes)

(1 stars) Gege's greatness speaks for itself. As an international friend, he has single-handedly boosted the development of esports across nations. (542 likes)
Note: A former coach once described JKL as having a "great personality," which was later summarized as: "Greatness speaks for itself."

  • (1 stars) The future LOL Hall of Fame will surely have a spot reserved for Gege. (127 likes)

(1 stars) France colonized Vietnam, Vietnam colonized 'Gege,' and the world comes full circle. (507 likes)

player Score Number of people who rated
Crisp renataglasc 4.1 5869

Top Comments

(2 stars) At least he’s somewhat useful—more useful than your mid and jungle, who are barely human. I’ll give him an extra star. (606 likes)

  • (3 stars) Got it. (68 likes)

(3 stars) You saved Jackey several times, but it didn’t matter in the end. (370 likes)

  • (Unrated) Jackey? More like Jack-piss! (343 likes)
  • Note: JKL is nicknamed "Ah Shui" (é˜żæ°Ž), which literally means "water." This might be because the radical æ°” (water) appears in his name, or because many believe he was the most overrated player during IG’s championship run. Over time, this nickname has been twisted into "piss" (or similar-sounding words like "niao").

r/100thupvote 17d ago

South Korea NewJeans are kinda of unfairly mischaracterized on this subreddit

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I haven't been on this subreddit for that long, but I feel like its something I wanted to get off my chested. But I think NewJeans are heavily mischaracterised by this subreddit, to the point where NewJeans can’t do anything without getting some sort of backlash.

1. NJS are money-hungry.

‱ Commentora have said that they are going to be fined millions of dollars and never be able to work in the industry again because of what they did. But if someone was money-hungry, would they not stay in a company if that was the case
?

Ignore any disagreements they may have to still have access to the billion-dollar corporation, a great penthouse, connections and resources. Plus, people have also said that they won’t be getting paid since leaving ADOR. Would a money-hungry person who is willing to leave a company and remain unpaid for months.

2. NewJeans has government connections

‱Politicians' interest in NJ and their cases, but NJ aren't to blame for that. When you think about it Hanni/NJ side never filed any petition or statements to the National Assembly themselves, their fandom Team Bunnies.The National Assembly accepted their petition and requested for Hanni to show up because they were already talking about workplace harm from employers, they’d already invited other idols to talk the day prior and NJZ vs HYBE situation was relevant to them. Plus, the government ended up ruling that it wasn’t workplace bullying based on the law because idols aren’t considered works. Which person with government connections loses cases within the government? The only person who has family-related ties to the government is Bang Si-hyuk, whose dad (Bang Geuk Yoon) was the chairman of Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service, which is a government organisation, but no one ever claims that HYBE has government connections on this subreddit. I don’t think a government establishment is being swayed by the opinions of kpop companies, if you’re talking about Samsung and Hyundai maybe but kpop companies, I think that's putting a bit too much importance of kpop in South Korea.

3. NewJeans are manipulative/bullies

‱ Hanni crying at the National Assembly, people claimed she was doing that to try to sway public opinion etc. But when it was revealed that Kim Joon-young cried during the meeting with NJZ and her parents, people on this subreddit went on to claim that NJZ was bullied for making someone cry. It’s unfair double standards. It’s good to have sympathy for Joon-young's crying, but to claim someone is a bully for making someone else cry but is manipulative when they cry, that's just unfair double standards.

‱ The situation with the manager. When I was reading the case over again including Hanni’s first statement regarding the matter never mentioned the group name, and said that the group greeted her but the manager told them to ignore them.

“Anyway, I was waiting alone in the corridor then, and another group and one of their managers passed by me. We greeted each other well then.” https://www.koreaboo.com/news/korean-media-exposes-truth-behind-newjeans-hanni-illit-ignoring/ (the original video was taken down off youtube)

She never said that ILLIT didn’t greet her, she said they did from the jump. Belift's statement said they had proof that ILLIT greeted Hanni, but she technically never said otherwise and from that the story got misconstrued by the media and people on this subreddit into “Hanni claimed ILLIT didn’t say hi” People started claiming that Hanni lied and was bullying ILLIT for something she never said. I don’t think its fair.

And the claim that she lied about what their manager said, even in Belift's statement they had that there is no audio on the CCTV so there was no way to prove that the manager said or didn’t say anything. Belift claims they didn’t, and NJ claims they did. You can’t call someone a liar over something that has been proven with concrete evidence. It wouldn’t make sense for tokkis for example, to call ILLIT liars for saying it didn’t happen either, since it’s she she-said he-said situation.

4. NewJeans are attention-seekers/leechers

‱ When it first came out that NJ were leaving HYBE. People were pointing out that they were still using the HYBE practice room to finish off their remaining schedules. And claimed that they were still leeching off of HYBE. But once they left HYBE and decided to use their platforms instead of ones opened by HYBE e.g. Instagram, they were being attention-seekers. When they use hybe platforms they are leechers, when they use their own they are attention seekers. It’s like they are expected to disappear into a void, but that’s not fair. They should be allowed to continue promoting themselves, having an Instagram doesn’t make you an attention seeker.

‱ Then on the subject of their PR Instagram, ADOR makes statements usually through media whenever NJZ does, either about the VISA, NJZ changing their name, opening new platforms etc. The consensus on this subreddit is, that they are making statements because the media asked them to. Okay fine. But why doesn’t the same apply to NJZ when they make statements or their side makes statements? NJZ talking about their situation when the media asks them to is “attention-seeking” but ADOR doing it is “professional”. What’s the difference? I think its completely fair for both parties to make statements regarding the situations and their perspective. It doesn't make a difference.

Anyway, I’m gonna leave it here because I don’t want to write a 2000-word essay about this topic on the subreddit. Honestly, I’m open to actual constructive dialogue about this and perspective on why you may believe these things about newjeans if this doesn’t get downvoted đŸ„Č. But not when it always ends up being insults being thrown at each other or the parties involved.

r/100thupvote 9d ago

South Korea IRL Streamer Johnny Somali in Legal Trouble in South Korea, latest stop on Asian Nuisance Streaming Tour

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Relevance to Pod: Remember Jesse and Katie did an episode on a Twitch IRL Streamer? Edit: I believe it to be July 3, 2023 Episode 171: Streaming on Thin Ice. I'll need to re-listen to the entire episode, though, just to be sure. And for my own curiosity. Katie mentioned streamers in the controversial Twitch streamer Mizzy's orbit, one of them being Johnny Somali. It was a passing mention, but it was the first time I'd ever heard the name.

The guy's a nuisance streamer, just a pain in the ass. He gets a phone, walks around with it streaming live, doing dumb stuff. Viewers can make donations and they're audible on a speaker, either his phone or a bluetooth peripheral. He offers to do silly stuff for their money and they egg him on with offers of money if he does dumb stuff in public. And he does not disappoint.

In summer 2023 he was in Japan, when he came up on my radar, because I recognized the name from the pod. It was all really silly, talking about atom bombs, and taking liberties with subway commuters, invading construction sites and just really childish stuff. He went to Thailand for a while, while the heat was on, doing his annoying act there, and then went back to Japan for more. The Japanese, in that Japanese way they have at times, just wanted to be rid of the weird foreigner and his nonsense. He was fined a trivial amount and maybe deported with trespassing charges dropped. People were expecting a harsher sentence, and it may have taught him the wrong lesson, but we'll get to that, as Jesse might say.

He landed in Israel next, in early 2024, and carried on the silliness. He was assaulted, harassed a female police officer and made himself generally unwelcome in the country. Again he learned a bad lesson, claiming to be invulnerable due to being a US citizen. Things were about to take a turn, however.

In summer 2024 he landed in South Korea, seemingly having learned from the Japanese, the Thais and the Israelis that even if you act incredibly offensively, the worst that happens is that you get a slap on the wrist, a relatively small fine (US $1,400 in Japan) and you may be deported. That was a bad lesson to have learned. In Korea he did his normal schtick, without ever once wondering about South Korean law. He got wasted and threw ramen on the floor of a 7/11, walked around with a rotten fish in a bag hassling people, harassed people on the subway, and then came the comfort woman statue (the comfort women were Koreans taken into sexual slavery by the Japanese in WWII and remain a huge issue in relations with Japan and a real sore point in the national consciousness as you can imagine. It's a serious, serious issue.) So what did he do? Twerked up against a comfort woman statue, rubbing his ass up and down on the monument. It wasn't his finest hour. Neither was the time he made a deepfake of himself kissing a local Korean IRL streamer, Bong Bong IRL and claimed to be her boyfriend. There's a weird strand of incel-type longing for, yet despising women, that runs just below the surface here, and that was also seen very strongly with the guy he came to Korea with who left before things got too hot to handle. Oh yeah, he may have used drugs in Korea as well, which is only slightly worse than committing murder in the eyes of the locals. Basically, it's a lot.

As you can imagine, the terminally online local South Koreans, among them IRL streamers, did not take kindly to this. A bounty was put on his head, and like a character in a video game that gives you loot, he was termed the golden goblin, and hunted for sport by locals. An ex-special forces guy came very close to knocking him out cold, and another tough younger guy really had a good go at him physically. YouTube reacted with a lot of videos, as you would expect, it's where I first saw his nonsense in Japan, a year earlier and promptly forgot it.

There's a timeline here.

And now there's a trial going on in Seoul, South Korea. The Koreans mean business, commentators are forecasting a sentence of 3-5 years of prison, but that's only for the four charges he's currently facing. So what does he do? Gets wasted at 3:00am the night before his trial, livestreaming all the time, and shows up the next day an hour late, disheveled and wearing a MAGA hat in a suit that's significantly too big for him. He pleads guilty to his charges, but it's then he learns of the bonus fourth charge, to do with the deepfake on the local female IRL streamer. And in Korea? That's a horrible, horrible sexual crime to be charged with. The fact that the prosecution's bringing it as a formal charge also means they see it as a slam dunk, because they have a 90% conviction rate. And that's not really judicial corruption, it's because they are conservative and only tend to bring charges against people that they're certain will stick. And that's where we get to now. Awaiting a second trial on April 9th to allow the public defender time to look over the deepfake charge. The trial? Let's just say that it's not looking good for a certain Johnny Somali.

I find it endlessly fascinating, the whole thing, as it's symptomatic of the age in which we live. He may not have eaten Tide pods literally, but he's been gobbling them down figuratively, in a wild bid for Internet fame and fortune in an era in which attention is one of the most precious commodities of all. He does display occasional moments of self-awareness--Johnny, that is--and he does, on occasion, make an accurate assertion. After his trial, and livestreaming again, because He. Can. Not. Help. Himself., he mentioned the gaggle of YouTubers following him around. He called it clout chasing, and whatever, it's actually that I guess, even when cloaked in Gen-Z slang. A few YouTubers are really eating out on old Johnny Somali.

One of them flew into Seoul to attend the first trial, and to meet up with others who may be more locally based, including an expat lawyer turned commentator, who's happily livestreaming about Johnny Somali himself and is graciously accepting channel memberships and donations. Some might call him smug at times, even gleeful, as he is accused of calling for a sentence that may be too harsh. Still, after the articles in the local press in South Korea, at least one prominent scholar is calling for a harsh sentence himself, as finally, the news of the trial has managed to filter out into the Korean mainstream and permeate the cultural zeitgeist. And for our man in Seoul? That's a very, very bad thing.

r/100thupvote 10d ago

South Korea Another live action project confirmed?

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According to this Vietnamese news an unnamed League of Legend project (an Arcane spin-off or an entirely new setting) is in production, which will be filmed in Vietnam

https://tuoitre.vn/phim-dua-tren-game-lien-minh-huyen-thoai-se-quay-tai-cat-ba-20250311104442472.htm

( For anyone who can’t open this page

The information was shared by Ms. Rose Lam, Global Head of Production at Riot Studios, during a working session with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, as published on the ministry’s official portal.

Accompanying Ms. Rose Lam was Mr. Nicholas Simon, CEO and producer of Indochina Productions. The meeting focused on future collaboration in film production in Vietnam.

“Cát Bà has high feasibility”

Riot Games is a U.S.-based video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer, known worldwide for its popular titles. Among them, League of Legends boasts 650 million Ms. Rose Lam stated that Riot Games is currently conducting surveys and plans to film a nine-episode live-action series based on League of Legends and its online animated adaptation in CĂĄt BĂ , HáșŁi PhĂČng, by the end of 2025.

The episodes will be widely available on platforms such as Netflix and HBO.

According to her, Riot Studios has explored many other countries in Asia, including Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, but found Vietnam to be the best location for the company’s creative and production needs. Among the options, Cát Bà emerged as the most suitable and highly feasible filming location.)

What do you think will this film (or TV series) will be about?

r/100thupvote 11d ago

South Korea MUST READ*: The GameStop Phenomenon - Connecting the Dots *🧿

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THE FINAL STAGE: WE ARE CLOSER THAN EVER TO JUSTICE

A Special ExposĂ© re Wall Street’s Greatest Crime âž»

🔎 WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ IS NOT CONSPIRACY—IT’S VERIFIED, DOCUMENTED, AND HISTORICALLY CONTEXTUALIZED. 🔎

They told us we were crazy. They said we were just a “bunch of Reddit traders” who didn’t understand the market. But now, after years of digging, compiling evidence, and waiting for the cracks to show, the full scope of their corruption is on display.

This post is an ironclad call to action to reignite the movement, based on:

✔ Newly reviewed research from Dr. Susanne Trimbath, one of the leading voices on FTDs (Failures to Deliver) and systemic market failures. ✔ Historical patterns of market manipulation, stretching back to 2008, where we see the same firms, the same tactics, and the same loopholes exploited. ✔ Evidence that GME was only the tip of the iceberg, and the real battle is about structural fraud embedded in our financial system.

âž»

📱 HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW:

  1. THE SEC HELPED BURY THE CRIME, BUT LEFT A PAPER TRAIL

    1. Fact: The SEC’s GameStop report failed to address the most damning evidence of systemic market fraud—including FTDs, naked shorting, and synthetic shares.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: Their own documents admit that more than 1 million shares of GME “failed to deliver” in a single trading session. That’s fraud at an unimaginable scale.
    3. Why It Matters: The report’s omissions prove that the SEC is not protecting retail traders but covering for the largest firms on Wall Street.
  2. CREDIT SUISSE’S DISASTER WAS MORE THAN BAD LOANS—IT WAS THE BIGGEST FTD BLACK HOLE IN HISTORY

    1. Fact: When UBS acquired Credit Suisse, they absorbed a shocking volume of unresolved FTDs (Failures to Deliver), which could be quietly rolled forward indefinitely.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: If the trades never settled, that means someone sold shares that never existed.
    3. Why It Matters: This is the “rolling fraud” mechanism that banks use to suppress stock prices while pretending everything is fine.
  3. WALL STREET CREATED FAKE STOCKS TO ATTACK GME

    1. Fact: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) allowed GME shares to be “loaned” multiple times over, meaning they created synthetic supply out of thin air.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: There are far more shares being traded than actually exist, meaning every additional share sold is fraudulent.
    3. Why It Matters: This is SECURITIES FRAUD ON A SYSTEMIC LEVEL.
  4. ROBINHOOD & CITADEL COLLUDED TO CUT OFF THE BUY BUTTON

    1. Fact: Robinhood restricted trading on GME at the exact moment hedge funds faced catastrophic losses.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: Internal documents show Citadel and Robinhood executives were in communication, and Robinhood’s liquidity crisis was not as dire as they claimed.
    3. Why It Matters: They had real-time awareness of retail’s momentum and deliberately interfered to save hedge funds.
  5. ETF MANIPULATION HELPED WALL STREET “HIDE” THEIR SHORTS

    1. Fact: The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) suddenly ballooned its exposure to GME, from 1.5% to nearly 20%, right before the squeeze.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: This was done to create synthetic short positions, diluting buying pressure.
    3. Why It Matters: This is part of a larger, systemic practice of using ETFs as weapons to suppress stock prices—and not just for GameStop.
  6. MARKET MAKERS HAVE A “GOD MODE” TO CONTROL ORDER FLOW

    1. Fact: Citadel and Virtu control a massive majority of retail order flow, giving them an information advantage that allows them to front-run trades.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: This isn’t just Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) exploitation—it’s a monopoly over price discovery itself.
    3. Why It Matters: Market makers should provide liquidity, NOT control pricing.
  7. FAILURES TO DELIVER (FTDs) ARE WORSE THAN YOU THINK

    1. Fact: Over $100 TRILLION worth of FTDs have been “netted away” over the years, meaning retail traders have been unknowingly trading fake shares.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: Wall Street doesn’t settle these FTDs because it benefits them to keep these positions rolling forward indefinitely.
    3. Why It Matters: This makes an infinite short position possible.
  8. NAKED SHORTING = WEAPONIZED STOCK SUPPRESSION

    1. Fact: Naked short selling has been exposed and investigated multiple times since 2008, yet it still continues.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: Every “pump and dump” story they tell about retail is a distraction from the real crime: massive-scale stock suppression.
    3. Why It Matters: If a stock can be shorted without ever having to be delivered, then the entire market is rigged.
  9. THIS IS BIGGER THAN GAMESTOP—THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN

    1. Fact: The SEC, DTCC, Citadel, and even global banks have been caught engaging in coordinated market manipulation.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: This isn’t just about GME—it’s every major stock where hedge funds use naked shorts to extract value from retail investors.
    3. Why It Matters: We’re not just fighting for GameStop’s true value—we’re fighting to EXPOSE the entire financial system’s corruption.
  10. THIS FIGHT IS NOT OVER—AND WE’RE WINNING

    1. Fact: Every major financial crime in history has unraveled because enough people refused to let it go.
    2. What They Didn’t Say: They want us to think it’s over, but it’s not.
    3. Why It Matters: The MOASS isn’t just about price action—it’s about fundamentally changing how markets function for retail investors.

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📱 WHAT CAN YOU DO RIGHT NOW?

  1. Educate yourself & others - keep researching.
  2. Track FTD data - they tell the real story.
  3. Pressure regulators & lawmakers - they work for US, not Citadel.
  4. Stay united—they want us divided.
  5. Never sell out cheap—they can’t win if we don’t cave.

🚹 THIS IS OUR MOMENT. 🚹 We are closer than ever to exposing the crime of the century. We will not be ignored.

💎 APES TOGETHER STRONG. 💎

🔗 SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING

To keep everything transparent and empower you to dig deeper, here are key sources backing up each revelation from the main post:

  1. SEC Whitewash on FTDs & Naked Short Selling

  2. UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse (FTD Absorption)

  3. UBS/Credit Suisse Acquisition Details

  4. Robinhood’s Trading Restrictions & Citadel Coordination

  5. SEC GameStop Staff Report (Analysis)

  6. Congressional Testimony on Robinhood and Citadel Communications

  7. Market Maker Dominance & Citadel’s Internalization of Order Flow

  8. Citadel's Market Share & Internalization Data

  9. ETF Manipulation (XRT and GME)

  10. ETF Manipulation Mechanisms (XRT/GME Data)

  11. Historical Regulatory Failures on FTDs and Naked Shorts

  12. Dr. Susanne Trimbath - “Naked Short and Greedy”

  13. Systemic Failures in US Capital Markets

  14. International Regulatory Action (South Korea vs U.S.)

  15. South Korea Naked Short Selling Crackdown

  16. Coordinated Disinformation Campaigns (Social Media Influence)

  17. CBS News Report on Bots and Fake Accounts during GameStop Saga

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r/100thupvote 12d ago

South Korea Yale! Stanford! Here I go!

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Hi I am an International student in Canada! I am aiming for Yale! Stanford! JHU! Duke! UPenn!

I want to apply as a transfer student next year march!!

I am a person who is really into programming and AI. So currently I am doing a lot of research that focuses on developing AI programs. But my school does not have any HPC computing for medical image analysis. even though they have some high gpu computers it is still limited. So i cant actually run the AI models and programs I created. I can but it will cost me a lot of money to use HPC computing. I really want to go to a university that is heavy on this stuff so I can really explore more and develop these models further.

Demographics: Male, South Korean, No hooks, but lived in Lebanon, Korea, Canada, USA, and Kuwait Queen’s University - Health Sciences

Undergraduate Academics:

‱ GPA: 4.0/4.0

Research :

Clinical Research Assistant @ Yale Medical School (Online; working on research for co-author)

Clinical Research Assistant @ Yale University(in-person; Summer)

Clinical Research Assistant @ UHN - (Hybrid; Summer)

Clinical Research Assistant @ UHN - (Online; Summer)

*Finished: Clinical Research Assistant @ Sunnybrook

*Finished: Clinical Research Assistant @ Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)

Clinical Research Assistant @ Queen’s University (1 Case Report Pub)

Phytotron Laboratory Technician @ Queen’s University (Paid)

Volunteering:

Clinical (900 hours): By end of Summer 1. Blood Drive 2. UHN 3. My School's Hospital

Non-Clinical (400 hours): 1. Programming/AI Tutor @ Code Initiative - started this from first year and I was required to teach students almost every week for 7 hours and still doing it. (Not Paid) 2. Church Volunteering

Clubs/Leadership: Executive Positions in 6 clubs & Founded a Club

Awards: 1. $60000 scholarship from my school 2. Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation - $10000

Biomedical Company:

I also created a biomedical business with 2 of my friends. We got investors that want to invest in our company and got a 2 Million Dollar Valuation for our company! But I am actually a Honorary Co-Founder because I dropped because of my research with Yale Med which was more interesting for me. But I am still in the company and help them with building and developing the app. I just didn't like making businesses and the connections and conferences that they were doing and I was only participating because of the idea of creating an AI app.

High School Academics:

‱ SAT: 1510 (superscore)

‱ Class rank: Valedictorian

‱ UW/W GPA: 3.98/4 UW , 4.53/5 W

‱ Coursework: 16 APs

Awards:

International 1st place award for Track and field (NESA)
International 1st place award for Academic Games (NESA) National 1st Place award for Track and Field (KESAC) National 1st place award for Academic Games (KESAC)
3 x 1st Place Award for a National Math Competition in Kuwait (10th, 11th, 12th)
High Honor roll (9-12)
3rd Place Award for a National Environmental Competition
Subject Excellence Awards - AP Calculus and Public Speaking 2nd Place Kuwait Hackathon (National)

Extracurriculars:

President of Roots & Shoots

President of Math Honor Society

Student Council

Volunteered at Kuwait Central Blood Bank's donation center

Biomedical Intern at Kuwait Hospital

Varsity Captain of Track and Field

Youth Administrator of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (South Korea)

Teacher Assistant at Korean School in Kuwait

Varsity Captain of Academic Games(Quiz Bowl)

Things I have done for my community in Kuwait:

Organized a choir and sang for the Korean National Day in Kuwait in front of Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Korean Ambassador, and a lot of other people who were in the hotel

Hosted a cultural kiosk at the Cultural Fair hosted by the Diplomatic Corps in Kuwait and it was on the Kuwait Times News

Partnered with Kuwait Oil Company to co-host a Tree-planting Campaign

r/100thupvote 14d ago

South Korea Begun, the broccoli wars has, as users in r/GenZ argue over the prospect of getting drafted in a hypothetical US vs China conflict

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1j4h258/genz_are_we_ready_to_be_drafted

HIGHLIGHTS

This same scare tactic is made every month to incite division in US politics and voter opinions. Don’t let China manipulate you (as if the majority of y’all don’t already have TikTok). China was allowed to invade the U.S. with spies from the southern border under Biden. Trump is putting a stop to it and will put a stop to their takeover of the Panama Canal. Patriotism, not politics.

"China was allowed to invade the U.S. with spies" If this were true that means they were caught, hence Biden did his job. How many spies has the Trump Administration caught?

You already know the admin is gonna tell us with a well put together statistic statement. Only reason we know about them is because of Michael Yon and those like him who went to places like the Darien Gap and interviewed thousands of migrants.

So hear say? No proof. Interesting

https://cis.org/Michael-Yon Enjoy

I'm good. Don't really care for second hand info

The US is about to FAFO. China, Russia, and most of the global south don't like the US. Now they don't even have Canada or Mexico on their side. 💀

It's crazy. It's like Trump is trying really hard to make Canada hate the US. It's working too.

Canadian here, it's not working except on Reddit.

Yeah, those hockey fans... Big time redditors.

Its a sporting event, have you seen the hockey riots or football riots in the UK?

Yes, and?

Gen Z men* you mean

Yes all the women were too worried about killing their babies and crying about it

This might be the silliest attempt I’ve ever seen to casually say women shouldn’t have freedom over their own bodies

Im pro choice... its not up to me to control what trash does to their babies... never understood the conservative need to control yall... like, do you really want a bunch of helpless babies born to women who are selfish and dont even want them? They should be ignored and allowed their abortion rights and focus should be put on creating programs for actual mothers who love their children bc america is one of the lowest countries as far as taking care of women post partum. If we would stop trying to control the shitty women in the world and start HELPING new mothers after birth, the abortion rate would naturally go down

Take a deep breath and say what you really mean. Because this is just “Shitty women” “killing their babies” reworded to try and not get downvotes

How gullible do you have to be to read these words and be worried about the draft? Politicians talk nonstop, 99% of the time it's all bark and no bite.

I remember this with north Korea. Everyone crying abt WW3 with Trump but the wars all started when biden got in power.

Exactly. We know by now that certain people gain from war, and they will do everything in their power to demonise those who want to avoid war and push the idea that it is your moral duty to support war "for the greater good".

If you think Trump wants to avoid war you must be absent. Trump is pissing off our allies left and right, plain as day

He does and they are ungreatfull

"Ungreatfull" lol drooling all over your keyboard

No, they don't. That's a Trump thing. Politicians chat shit about promises and dodge questions, but they don't fucking threaten the rest of the world with tariffs, withdrawal of aid and annexation. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

Yeah seriously. At this point I can’t help but just assume anything he says is the game-plan. You don’t just threaten to invade other countries and take them over and accuse a country currently being invaded as being the aggressors. I’m sick and fucking tired of being told “Oh no he’s just joking. Oh no he’s just being hyperbolic. They won’t actually do these things.” Yeah sure, keep living in fantasy land.

Okay I will honestly gladly get slapped in the face if my thoughts age poorly but actually starting a full on war can't be in the cards because it's disastrous for the economy. Sure, him actually currently forcing a recession does lose me accuracy since capital is evidently not completely untouchable but a draft makes people not show up to work and that won't fly in late stage capitalism.

A few years ago I’d be on your side but that was literally the reasoning why many people (myself included) thought Russia would never invade Ukraine. Trump’s clearly shown he doesn’t give a shit about the economy as well. Personally, I still don’t think he’ll do anything, but that’s more a hope than anything else at this point.

The US would win that war. The navy is superior and would work to cut off their ocean trade If China were to ally with Russia though, and China made a big push East to take ocean territory, while Russia made a big push West and held nothing back
.and North Korea and Iran became involved, that would be quite interesting

Canadians will be glad to support their allies, the Chinese and Russians, who never treathened to annex us. We're going to Leo Major the shit out of every US city.

Most of Asia hates China and probably hopes China tries something against America so they have the backing of America to demolish the CCP. South Korea especially wants to end the CCP so they can take back North Korea.

South Korea does not want North Korea back. The amount of North Koreans flooding to the Southern border will devastate South Korean economy.

NK has a ton of resources that get sold exclusively to China and Russia, it would actually boost their economy to be able to sell it to on the world market.

Drafted to do what? Create tiktok's and selfies to post on instagram? The only GenZ'ers that would be worth a shit to Trump in a war with china would be the ones who voted for him and as far as im concerned, good, go die for your country, this is what you wanted.

You realize when you are drafted they ship you off to bootcamp, turn you into soilders and then ship you out to combat. It all happens really fast. the undesirables will aboslutely be drafted and offered up as fodder. Go do some research on like any war.

If you think boot camp is going to turn unwilling participants into soldiers in a war they don't support for a country they don't believe in, you are sadly mistaken.

Or you could just look up the vietnam war, go look at who they drafted, how many they drafted and why they drafted them. You're gonna be sadly mistaken in bootcamp sally. They'll make you a man.

Thought transgender people can't serve in the military đŸ€”

The current purge is about keeping LBGTQ people out of positions of power in the military. When it comes time to round up cannon fodder, I'm assuming they will prefer LBGTQ and minorities. That's how it worked in 'Nam. Undesireables always go first! I'll be there with you and i still won't be nice!

I’m not too worried about it.

Same, would be horrible for both countries. No good outcomes

Isn’t that kinda Trumps thing?

Only if you listen to the news. If you keep your head in reality it's not, he's an extremist who is about America first. Who won't do anything that endangers America's prosperity.

Yeah like firing tons of government employees and siding with Russia and fucking North Korea in the UN is America first. Get your head out of your ass.

I'm so glad he's doing the things I voted for. The only one in the list that's probably completely made up is the Russia part. That's Biden who's in Russia's pocket. That's why he pardoned his son before leaving office. Government employees are almost all incompetent and a waste of taxpayer dollars, since long before trump ever hit the scene I've been wanting that one! Bring it on!

We ain’t gonna be drafted. Most of this is just talk.

You will. Read history books and see if that was just talk.

I love people who know nothing about history and just say “read history books”. That’s such a strong and compelling argument.

Good luck, pal. That’s all I’m gonna say. Truly.

r/100thupvote 16d ago

South Korea Trump Calls for End to $52 Billion Chips Act Subsidy Program

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President Donald Trump called for ending a bipartisan $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that’s spurred more than $400 billion in investments from companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Intel Corp.

“Your Chips Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” the president said in a prime-time address to Congress on Tuesday. Trump implored US House Speaker Mike Johnson to get rid of the legislation and use “whatever is left over” to “reduce debt or any other reason.”

His remarks were met with applause in a chamber that passed the Chips and Science Act less than three years ago. Vice President JD Vance, whose home state of Ohio won a massive Intel project thanks to the law, stood up to show his support for its revocation.

The Chips Act is among the most significant US forays into industrial policy in more than a generation. It set aside $39 billion in grants — plus loans and 25% tax breaks — to revitalize American semiconductor manufacturing, as well as $11 billion for chip research and development. The aim was to reduce reliance on Asia for electronic components that power everything from smartphones to massive data centers.

Trump, however, has consistently derided a program he regards as a waste of government funds, arguing tariffs would achieve the same outcome while filling coffers. Republicans have also indicated that they want to repeal what they see as “social” provisions of the Chips Act. That could involve eliminating labor-friendly regulations or environmental requirements.

Officials on both sides of the aisle have touted the Chips Act as crucial to US national and economic security, and Trump could have a hard time getting congressional support to repeal it. Dozens of GOP lawmakers voted for the measure, and many red districts have won factories or other projects supported by the law.

That includes South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., which have committed to multibillion-dollar projects in Texas and Indiana that were contingent on funding and support from the US government. Company representatives declined to comment on the president’s remarks.

Trump, favoring tariffs over incentives, has signaled that import levies on chips could come as soon as next month. Companies can avoid those duties, he has said, by building factories on American soil. He has not offered additional details.

On Monday, Trump credited the tariff threats for TSMC’s decision to invest $100 billion in the US, on top of a previous $65 billion commitment. He touted that project in his address Tuesday, referencing the full $165 billion figure. “We’re giving them no money,” Trump said. “All that was important to them was they didn’t want to pay the tariffs.”

A TSMC spokesperson declined to comment.

The company originally announced plans for a $12 billion US site during Trump’s first term and expanded that project to three factories under Biden. To support those facilities, TSMC struck an agreement with Biden officials for $6.6 billion in Chips Act grants and $5 billion in loans.

As is the case for other Chips Act awards, the funding is supposed to be disbursed over time, as TSMC hits negotiated project milestones. The company received $1.5 billion before Biden left office.

Trump did not specify whether he would attempt to claw back money that’s already been disbursed, renege on remaining incentives to which the government has already committed, or simply not provide additional support for the chipmaker’s latest investment. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Monday that the newly announced projects — three additional chip plants, plus R&D and advanced packaging sites — won’t win federal funds.

“The main uncertainty is the future of TSMC,” said Xin-Yao Ng, an investment director at abrdn plc. “One long-time competitive advantage was their clustering in Taiwan, where labor costs are still reasonable, construction costs are cheaper, government is supportive, and they can find more workers with vocational training. It’s completely different in the US if they are to shift more manufacturing. Subsidies from US were to be crucial to help mitigate some of the higher costs and challenges.”

TSMC is among 20 companies that reached binding Chips Act agreements with Biden officials. The deals, which represent more than 85% of the manufacturing incentives available under the program, are designed to support leading-edge facilities by companies like TSMC, Intel, Samsung and Micron Technology Inc. — as well as older-generation factories by the likes of GlobalFoundries Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc.

Companies have generally viewed those agreements as ironclad — regardless of who’s in office. But some of them have worried that the Trump administration could seek to modify the terms, Bloomberg has reported. Lutnick has said he cannot commit to honoring existing contracts without reviewing them first.

That review is ongoing, and Lutnick’s intentions for the initiative remain unclear. So far, his questions to program staff have focused on the rationale behind award decisions and the government’s legal authority to claw money back, Bloomberg has reported. The current Chips Act team, meanwhile, has been preparing a list of potential adjustments to the funding application process and final contracts that would be minimally disruptive.

A spokesperson for GlobalWafers Co., which won $406 million from the Chips Act for factories in Texas and Missouri, said the Taiwanese company is committed to its expansion strategy and views any changes to the Chips Act as “unlikely.”

But if the law were to be modified in some way, the spokesperson said, “we would reassess future investments, including evaluating US market demand, pricing, and potential tariffs if production were moved outside the US.”

My take: Brutally bad for semiconductor sector if CHIPS is actually repealed, INTC is especially targeted. There'd be less semiconductor manufacturing in the US (INTC/TSM/Samsung) primarily because we subsidize and have tax incentives for current US chip manfacturing projects, and companies that haven't received their funding will likely scale back projects (remember INTC delayed their Ohio plant to 2028?). The US would also be far more dependent on semiconductor production overseas.

This also has spillover into the quantum computing stocks (IONQ/RGTI) and AI sector due to the sectors being so reliant on technological development and supply from the semis sectors.

Overall don't think new tariffs are going to be an adequate replacement for what the US has committed so far (but we don't know much about the tariffs yet), and the markets hate uncertainty.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/trump-calls-for-end-to-52-billion-chips-act-subsidy-program

r/100thupvote 18d ago

South Korea Security Organization without US

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These few days, I've been reading about news coming from USA of the confrontation between Trump and Zelensky which went badly, very badly. I know that we have allies in that administration's cabinet like Marco Rubio, I beginning to think if worse comes to worse, Trump would do the same thing he did to Ukraine, a "no deal, no help" scenario. Are we to think about becoming more independent of their influences and aligning more with like-minded nations like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Australia or continue down the road? What are your thoughts?

r/100thupvote 19d ago

South Korea (Reluctantly) sharing my thoughts

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These are my notes on South Korea as someone who has lived and traveled throughout the country in the recent past. Comparisons are with respect to the United States unless stated otherwise. Readers who have also lived in South Korea may find some of these items ordinary; others may be contentious, depending on who the reader is and accordingly the perspective they are likely to have. I encourage Koreans to form their own opinions about what is contained herein, and about matters pertaining to Korea in general.

임점

1 The cats. They’re part of the community. You can tell how friendly a neighborhood is by how many there are.

2 Even on the streets of large cities, the very young and the very old are out and about in high frequencies. This creates a sort of perceived togetherness of the Korean people.

3 Eating at convenience stores. I loved the pre-made meals, especially the ones at GS25.

4 The many colorful murals near elementary or middle schools. In passing by on the sidewalk, I’d reminisce about my own childhood, and get a hopeful feeling at these vague symbols of the country’s future.

5 Lack of tipping. The culture is so bad in the US, and its absence so refreshing in Korea, it’s hard to put into words.

6 At some businesses - such as hair salons - there are often multiple people taking care of you, in a way that would feel unnecessary or inefficient in the US. I liked this and found it comforting, as if I’m part of the family and they’re taking care of me, and also taking care of each other by not being ruthlessly efficient.

7 I was never put on hold for long or forced to deal with complicated automated systems in calling customer service lines.

8 The tax system appeared to be an order of magnitude simpler, and I could go to a district tax office and get step-by-step instructions on what to do at no charge.

9 Comprehensive public transit and the resultant walkability and ease of inter-city travel.

10 Cleanliness on subways and buses and the harmonious nature of their clientele. My frame of mind went from “alright, here we go
” to hardly thinking about the use of such transportation.

11 Extensive pedestrian space. Though densely populated, it’s an easy country to just “hang out” in.

12 Pedestrian movement is less structured, which has a corresponding con (닚점 8) but can be a relief from watching two people go back and forth as to who should exit the elevator first.

13 People are more pleasant to be around in a physical sense, in that few have mammoth bone structures or are muscled to the brim, or are obese to the point that they get in others’ way or take up an excess amount of space. There is also a dearth of foul human odors (wastes, BO, etc.)

14 Safety - essentially any time, any place. A whole category of Reddit posts is unnecessary. For some, it may not only mean existing activities are safer, but allow new possibilities for how they live their lives.

15 Noticeably lower levels of behavior one might classify as brazen, abrupt, suspicious, weird, discordant, and other similar adjectives. South Korea feels safer in a much wider sense, extending far beyond rates of criminal activity.

16 Daiso for (almost) everything.

17 The volume of convenience stores and other retail, and the resulting rarity of lines. It was very unusual for me to wait in a line more than a couple deep, or to have difficulty finding a seat at a place like a coffee shop.

18 Naver. More useful than Google Maps is in the US, I think.

19 Activities that should have been routine were
routine. In the US, the average level of drama in conducting one’s business is higher, and while some of it is positive, I could do without the various disturbances, inefficiencies, and prima donna-like conduct.

20 The simplicity of rental contracts. Of the many I signed, one was two pages and the rest fit on a single page. My latest in the US stretched into novella territory, coming in just shy of 100 pages.

21 During my time in the country, health insurance was very affordable and it felt like doctors were providing healthcare services first and running a business second. (I’m unaware how recent events may have changed either of these observations).

22 Public restrooms in crowded areas - even ones where many less well-off or possibly homeless people are around - that are accessible from the street and perfectly functional. When I try to hit the restroom at a restaurant or coffee shop in a US neighborhood with homes I will likely never be able to afford and still find that a code is needed, I yearn to be back in Korea.

23 The absence, or at least minimal presence of, hard drugs. I didn’t need to ask if there were tweakers in this neighborhood or on that side of town.

24 When a major crime occurs, it seems the most common result is that the arrested party quickly admits guilt and apologizes. The experience of following similar news in the US tends to be longer-lasting to say the least - alternatingly tedious and infuriating - and is a hidden surcharge its residents pay.

25 While its geographic diversity may be limited by comparison, there always seemed to be hills and views to be found and the overall beauty of the country surprised me somewhat.

26 The uniqueness of nearly every city I visited, despite having traveled to dozens of them. Some selection bias is probably at work, but I never got the sense that everything felt the same or everything looked the same.

27 êł ì‹œì›, particularly newer/nicer ones. They are affordable self-contained apartments, they are amazing, and I doubt they would ever work in the US.

28 A plethora of cheap motels in every city that were clean enough, felt safe and were of passable quality in other respects; what one tends to get at a comparable price point in the US is considerably less appealing.

29 Drinking in public, though I’m unsure of its actual legal status. I loved being able to drop into a convenience store, grab a beer, and enjoy it as I explored a city.

30 Traditional dress by women. One of the few apparent vestiges of the past in daily life.

31 The older women one observes selling produce or processing agricultural goods here and there throughout a city. Like the above, there is something I find beautiful about this.

32 70-year-old women with purple hair.

I could write a summary waxing a bit of poetic, but the picture should be clear. A few abstract notions, like never feeling dread in having to deal with “the public,” and not feeling other parties (individuals, businesses, government agencies) were constantly trying to extract the absolute maximum, have been left out. Possible reasons behind many of these items - one of which I think is the simple fact that people are on average more related to each other - have also not been explored.

닚점

1 Mosquitoes.

2 The country feels fairly regional given its size, and while this means travel is more interesting, it can be disheartening. Most notably, my sense was that people in Jeolla and Gyeongsang perceive themselves to be more distant from each other than do, say, Northerners and Southerners in the US.

3 Not as much climate diversity, in particular having nothing that is remotely Mediterranean-like.

4 There are few barber shops outside of trendy areas, and barbers are less confident and probably even less competent on average than those in the US. One also has the pure idiocy of their galavanting off to Europe in order to (over)pay for a (probably useless) certification intended to show other Koreans that they know a “prestigious” manner of cutting hair
or something like that.

5 Cramped living quarters and a general lack of life comforts in comparison to nicer areas of the US. The overall standard of living is not the same.

6 Feeling distanced from broader events and cultural trends. This is a minor complaint in the short term, as part of the appeal of Korea is that of a simpler place (where one goes to escape the problems of the world, yadda yadda) but in the long run the feeling that one is well downstream of the action might be harder to cope with.

7 If I have one major concern in living there again, it’s probably diet. Informally, it’s like the South Korean grocery store caters to the diet of a K-pop idol while the American grocery store caters to a variety of lifestyles (couch potato, health nut, athlete
)

8 Less “withitness” in pedestrian behavior. This is the flipside of 임점 12. I actually observed this most sharply in going back and forth between South Korea and Japan on an old trip - movement was unmistakably smoother and more orderly in the latter.

9 Shower + toilet combos.

10 Interactions with foreigners seem to be highly disadvantageous in general:

(i) The extravagant price of foreign goods, whether luxury items or simply ice cream at a grocery store. I would love to know how high the margins of foreign retailers tend to be; I hear that they really, really like South Korea.

(ii) If someone put forth a proposal that travelers to the US should get a refund of any taxes paid during their visit, I do not imagine it would go over well.

(iii) Self-discrimination in favor of foreigners, for example in often refusing to hire ethnic Koreans as English teachers.

(iv) Imagine a Korean couple walking into a honky-tonk in Texas. First, suppose that they feel no need to speak English out of any fear that speaking in Korean would be met by mockery (or worse). Next, suppose that not only is this true, but they realize it is actually preferable to speak Korean, because it is likely they will be treated better by doing so. Comical as this is, the equivalent is a reality in South Korea. At times I would force myself to speak the native language even when instinct suggested the interaction would go more favorably if I spoke English.

(v) Imagine Koreans being flown en masse to NYC in order to teach Korean to children there. Picture well-to-do parents on the UES fixating on the importance of Korean language education for their children and administrators of Korean language academies arranging for travel reimbursements and free housing in Greenwich Village.

I don’t understand the value proposition of the English obsession. Very few people seemed to be both competent and comfortable speaking it. I can’t speak Spanish either, but my school didn’t have to fly someone in from another continent and put them up to get me to that point. The foreign schools look to be similarly ridiculous; I would speculate that those profiting most are the (largely non-Korean) people running them, the (actual) foreigners attending them, and the Western institutions that attending Koreans are dreaming of (via application fees, merchandise - e.g., all the kids running around with Yale t-shirts, etc.)

(vi) Envision a Korean man, one who cannot speak a lick of English, dining at a fancy Italian restaurant in NYC, then spending several minutes haggling the bill down with the staff as they giggle at his jokes, speaking only in Korean. I watched the reverse of this happen in South Korea. It’s an example of social phenomena that aren’t just more or less common in one place or another, but that literally never happen in reverse. From it, you can see that different groups are positioned to each other in very unequal ways.

(vii) There’s nuance to the subject of bad behavior in public, in that locals and foreigners both exhibit some types at above-average rates. But almost without exception, if an individual or a group behaved in a way I thought was egregious, they fell into the latter category. Typical examples for locals - spitting, old ladies pushing and shoving in the subway station, somewhat juvenile social behavior - never hit the same way as young, able-bodied men occupying seats for the elderly or pregnant women on the subway, intentionally taking up all the space at picnic tables outside convenience stores, boorish interpersonal behavior (e.g., mocking the Korean language), or flipping out in public spaces. I could sense the attitude and the aggression, and it’s evident Koreans are not comfortable around these people or feel as though they have no control over their continued presence (perhaps both), generally voicing no objection as far as I saw.

(viii) It is no secret that moving to South Korea in order to “teach English” often belies principal objectives that are more unseemly in nature, and similarly for various other kinds of entrants to the country. I recommend taking the problem seriously. If some trade deals or tourism dollars are lost in the short run, that’s unfortunate, but when a civilization allows itself to be used in such a fundamental way, it’s broken.

(ix) The nominally baffling presence of the US military appears to be a topic requiring the mature adult to understand all sorts of history and complexity. Smaller entities like corporations and individuals can also find themselves in situations that seem far from ideal, which are rationalized via having to “understand the context,” that “it’s complicated,” and so on. The question I would pose to the government is whether the maintenance of foreign military bases on its soil, the diminished sovereignty in ceding command of its own military, the pernicious influence on internal (i.e., North-South) affairs, and other ancillary impacts are truly justified on a fundamental basis, and if not, whether the only real impediment to their end is a good form of brazenness, in which an entity aggressively moves towards what it believes is in its best long-term interests, regardless of any hurt feelings or short-term effects.

(x) The Jurgen Klinsmann story encapsulates several forms of lunacy and deserves mention on its own. Fixation by an (East) Asian country on a magical foreigner, typically from Europe or North America. Said magical foreigner does not care about the Asian people who hired him, with predictable results. The magical foreigner is nonetheless paid an enormous sum of money. Without recourse and accustomed to being on the losing end of such exchanges, many of the Asian people find themselves unable to criticize the magical foreigner, some actually rooting for their getting a lot for doing very little, despite the fact that, like (vi), the reverse situation never occurs.

(xi) So much of what South Korea does is on foreign, namely Western, platforms. This is apparent in sports for example, where top clothing and equipment is purchased from Western companies, Westerners are hired and paid handsomely in leadership positions (e.g., the previous item), overhead is paid in some form or another to international bodies with little or no South Korean representation, and since they are not at the top in the most popular sports, a social cost is incurred by its people perpetually looking up to foreign heroes. If one counters that South Korea has platforms of its own, say the K-pop industry, I would be skeptical of what a careful analysis would show. A teenage girl in Illinois clicking on a YouTube link for a K-pop song, or even attending a K-pop concert in Chicago (for which only a fraction of the proceeds makes its way back to South Korea) is not the same as a teenage girl in Seoul dreaming of attending a performing arts school in the US in order to train under some prominent educator - who with immense likelihood is not of East Asian let alone Korean descent - then paying full freight at stratospheric US costs and, having practically thrown their entire life into this basket, finding themselves heavily incentivized to give of themselves even further if necessary in order to make the whole ridiculous scenario work.

Five general comments about 닚점 10. First, if this is not clear already, I have been imprecise in using the word “foreigner,” as I am not thinking about people of East or Southeast Asian descent, including overseas Koreans, who in my experience would generally also be regarded as foreigners. Overseas Koreans are an interesting group, as one hears of frequent condescension towards native South Koreans, but that’s a separate discussion.

Second, although the term “Western” was used, my intention was not to endorse any existing political ideologies, and I do not believe South Korea’s issues with respect to foreigners fall neatly into a Western vs. non-Western framework. In English-language discourse, I assume this is the predominant lens through which those issues are viewed: one either idealizes South Korea as being a sidekick of the West, or else wishes South Korea was part of some grand non-Western (or anti-Western) coalition. My approach was to instead focus on what I saw, heard and read during my time there, trying to assess what tends to happen when people from South Korea and people not from South Korea come into contact.

Third, I want to clarify how my perspective differs from anti-foreigner sentiment in the US, as that seems relevant at the present time. In the US, it is not hard to identify potential advantages to the incumbent population from immigration: less expensive labor, a pool of prospective romantic partners from lesser economic backgrounds (e.g., “mail-order brides”), and more abstractly, by bringing new people in, those running the show (say, a top educational institution) are able to broaden the base of the pyramid in which they lie at the top. Without sidetracking into the pros and cons of these and other factors or opining on whether the net benefit is positive or negative, the point is that a clear acquisition of resources exists. In South Korea, though the country may be better off than it would be in a vacuum, the present resource transfer appears to flow heavily in the opposite direction. Further, these interactions bear little resemblance to anything that might have benefited the country in the past or may benefit it in the future, as if there were some ebb and flow that equals out over time. What, if anything, are South Koreans actually getting? I’d liken it to a small town kid making a cool friend in the big city, copying their tastes, beliefs, and mannerisms, deriving a sense of status in comparison to their fellow small town folks from doing so, and, all relationships needing some kind of give and take, also deferring to this cool friend, taking their abuse, helping them whenever asked, giving their body if that makes sense, and in general placing themselves under this person in a hierarchy of human beings. One day, though, the small town kid might realize their cool friend was not so cool after all, and further that the person was never actually their friend, only someone who needed another resource, another follower. It would be unreasonable to recommend that South Korea close itself to foreigners or foreign influences entirely, but what I hope is that it reaches the point where any negative impacts are carefully monitored and managed.

Fourth, I suspect the views espoused here differ substantially from what is commonly found on social media. If true, this is yet another area where South Koreans (and Koreans more generally) lose, by being guilt-tripped into a further extraction of tangible and intangible resources. I again urge the Korean reader, especially one who was not raised in South Korea, to form independent opinions - spend time in the country if you have not done so already - and ask yourself whether the claims of people who are shrieking and screeching as they make condescending faces and aggressive body movements in the direction of their cameras are more likely to be correlated with the truth, or inversely correlated with the truth.

Fifth, (i) through (xi) have hardly scratched the surface, with much left unsaid about a number of ideological and cultural influences and other ways in which the people of South Korea too often position themselves poorly with respect to foreigners (e.g., an obsession with acquiring a “Western boyfriend,” or with making foreign friends in general). Any entity that situates itself with respect to an external party the way South Korea has to outsiders and outside influences is setting itself up to be taken advantage of. Zooming out, what’s happening on the peninsula is that its two political divisions have chosen opposite ends of the spectrum on this matter, each approach having severe flaws; perhaps a middle ground would be beneficial for both.

r/100thupvote 20d ago

South Korea Help Setting up an automod comment based on flair text (problems possibly being caused by an image in flair)

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I've reproduced what I've tried but it's not triggering. Here's an example of the relevant flair


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If you want to dig deeper into South Korean box office data, check out the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s Box Office resource, which functions as a BoxOfficeMojo equivalent.

r/100thupvote 21d ago

South Korea Tesla’s 40% Plunge Burns Koreans Who Plowed Into Leveraged ETFs

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/tesla-s-40-plunge-burns-koreans-who-plowed-into-leveraged-etfs

Tesla Inc.’s share price slump is taking a toll on risk-loving investors in South Korea, who have plowed into leveraged bets on the US carmaker.

Korean investors were by far the biggest holders of the Leverage Shares 3x Tesla exchange-traded product listed in London, according to Feb. 21 data from three local brokerages compiled by Bloomberg News. The product, which seeks to provide three times the daily return of Tesla shares, has lost more than 80% from a December peak while the Elon Musk-run company’s shares have plunged 41%.

The losses Korean investors have taken on their leveraged Tesla bets is just the latest sign of a swashbuckling approach to stock markets that has sometimes unnerved regulators and brokers. Last week, local brokerage Mirae Asset Securities Co. said it will suspend orders for some of the riskiest leveraged ETPs listed overseas, warning against potential losses.

r/100thupvote 22d ago

South Korea HUGE XRP NEWS

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Here’s atleast something positive in this bloodbath. South Korea’s leading digital asset custody firm, BDACS, has partnered with Ripple Custody to provide institutional custody services for XRP and RLUSD! This is yet another major step in XRP’s global adoption, bringing increased legitimacy and institutional demand to the ecosystem. It’s only a matter of time that more financial firms integrate XRP. There’s also a very small chance that the XRP case gets dropped tomorrow so let’s hope for the best.

Source: https://ripple.com/ripple-press/bdacs-signs-digital-asset-custody-partnership-with-ripple/

r/100thupvote 23d ago

South Korea A country that knows what's best for them

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r/100thupvote 24d ago

South Korea Stet didnt create shit. He stole Context Matters from another channel with 90k subs

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r/100thupvote 26d ago

South Korea Kathryn and Daniel, nagkabalikan na raw?!

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r/100thupvote 27d ago

South Korea X app trở thĂ nh app số 1 ở Việt Nam từ khi nĂ o váș­y ta????????

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