what comes to your mind if you think of Korea?

[Unkotare]

Kimchi. Kimchi buried in the back yard.
Mean step-parents. I know several people that had mean Korean stepmoms.

Of course.

 

[JWBooth]

WestPac jackets from street vendors in Pusan, cheap comforters with cool embroidery and a wonderful little whorehouse in Chinhae.

 

[Mac-7]

I think of…

Never mind

I’ll keep that to myself

 

[the watcher]

"We lost Dave in the Korean War. I still don't know what for, doesn't matter anymore," John Prine

 

[Ringo]

How pleasant it is in the suburbs of Seoul. For anyone who does not want to live like in North Korea.

 

[Zebra]

I think of…

Never mind

I’ll keep that to myself

a pleasant memory?

 

[Mac-7]

a pleasant memory?

Yeah

 

[Zebra]

Yeah

 

[Woodznutz]

How pleasant it is in the suburbs of Seoul. For anyone who does not want to live like in North Korea.

Great pictures. I was stationed there in 1964. A photographer friend would take these sorts of pictures. We'd pay him for copies. I sent a stack of great 'local color' 8x10 b/w pictures home. They never arrived.

 

[Unkotare]

Miari Hill

 

[Mac-7]

How pleasant it is in the suburbs of Seoul. For anyone who does not want to live like in North Korea.

Every country has at least a small percentage of slums

South Korea is no exception

Communist North Korea on the other hand is one giant slum with small pockets of prosperity for the Party elite

 

[Zebra]

Every country has at least a small percentage of slums

South Korea is no exception

Communist North Korea on the other hand is one giant slum with small pockets of prosperity for the Party elite

certainly!

 

[Zebra]

Franz Eckert, a German, once wrote the Korean anthem

 

[Ringo]

North Korea

 

[Ringo]

South Korea's prosecutors have asked for the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who's on trial for imposing martial law in 2024, according to Yonhap News Agency. A team of special prosecutors demanded the death penalty during the final hearing in the Yoon Suk-yeol case at a Seoul court. The prosecution described the former politician as the leader of a rebellion, who sought to retain power by seizing control of the judicial and legislative branches of government.

The tradition continues. Recall that only one of South Korea's 14 presidents has escaped scandal, prison, or even assassination.

 

[playtime]

 

[Ringo]

Comrade Kim Jong-un opened a new street and handed over apartment orders to the families of soldiers who died liberating the Kursk region in Russia.
While workers in the libertarian paradise of Mileya toil 12 hours a day, in totalitarian North Korea the working week is 32 hours.
In three years, over 80,000 (!) houses have been built there, which will be home to millions of Koreans.
But that's not the worst part. Do you know what they really don't have there? MORTGAGES, LOANS, DEBT BONDAGE.
And all apartments are free!
Because it's socialism, folks!