The reason they are shortstaffed (and have been for months) is because the president decided to abandon the Blue House as his official workplace/residence in favor of Yongsan, for no discernibly legitimate reason, and so the Yongsan police force has been tasked with his security.
The news reported that 100,000 people were expected to flock to Itaewon, but there was apparently no crowd control.
Itaewon is under the jurisdiction of the Yongsan Police Department, which has been complaining about being short staffed since the beginning of the year.
I’m rly glad he said this.
We need to stop narrativizing what’s happening. This isn’t a fucking myth or movie in the making. Stop fantasy-casting a Hollywood version and pay attention and donate.
“I don’t want Ukraine’s history to be a legend about 300 Spartans. I want peace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses his country in the face of the Russian invasion.
“A man who only walked on one path to catch the bad guys” who works for the NSA
Fucker let me tell you what the NSA did to scores of innocent people
#snowdrop
#설강화
I've seen some good reads that talk about how SQUID GAME relates to a variety of social issues and historical events in Korea, but few that point to the very specific reference the show makes to Ssangyong Motors.
<오징어 게임과 쌍용차 해고 노동자 그리고 함께 살자>
왜 성기훈(이정재 분)이 쌍용차 해고노동자였냐는거다. 감독은 어떤 이유로 주인공을 쌍용차 해고노동자로 설정했을까였고, 그것으로부터 어떤 메시지를 주고자 했냐는 부분이다. 처음부터 끝가지 궁금했고 끝나도 그 궁금증은 사라지지 않았다
Honestly this just speaks to the different conversation around “sexy” costumes in KR vs the US. KR nurses fought to get rid of the old uniform in the 90s bc it was impractical. The pandemic has also raised the issue of how nurses are treated, esp bc they’re predominantly women.
This Japanese professor is saying they understand how Ukrainians feel because they also went thru the Manchurian Invasian. The problem is that during the Manchurian Invasion, the Japanese were the ones invading.
Korean lawyer's take on the revelations about Kim Garam's history
"If you're punished under Clause 5 for school violence, this remains on your school record for 2 years after you graduate, and people hire lawyers for civil suits to erase that record."
So the presidential transition team for the new president-elect🤮 tried to say that BTS was in talks to perform at the inauguration, to which HYBE said they’d never received any contact abt this, and apparently there was army backlash, so now the transition team is backpedaling
President Yoon requires *SEVEN* hundred police to cover his daily commute from his home to his Yongsan office.
The number of police employed to control the 10k crowds in Itaewon this evening was 200.
”Lee Hong-gi tried to prove he wasn’t a member of the Seungri/JJY groupchat by showing his LoL stats, which indicate he was playing LoL [at the time of the convos] but now LoL users want him to explain why he was using long distance damage rune settings for melee champions”
The family of Park Jong-cheol, who was the student who died after brutal water torture by the NSA, has spoken out about how
#Snowdrop
is causing harm to victims of the NSA.
Blech. Sorry about that. I thought I was doing a good job of processing the news but then I saw *gestures in disgust*
If you're non-Korean, but you consume Korean culture and products, it would help if you found ways to make clear that politics matter.
Excerpt from Lee Do-hyun's award speech for Youth of May
"Honestly, when I first learned about the drama Youth of May, it was a lot of pressure. We were making a historical drama about the truth of what happened in May 1980, that history, and we had to be sensitive in our work."
I'm sorry - I thought I could just ignore and move on but I fucking can't. This man is an absolute godDAMN travesty and the idea that "administration change" means anything good for this country is a fucking joke.
International fans need to recognize they are being used. Their blind, uncaring support for their celeb will be used by the drama production to drum up support and walk all over the people who have worked so hard to make right the wrongs of history.
I personally believe this entire presidential vanity project was a significant, if not the MAIN, factor for the death toll. Those police were needed for crowd control. They knew they were shortstaffed. The conservative mayor did nothing. The president does not belong in Yongsan.
Pres. Yoon reading from a script saying that the police's crowd management skills are still lacking, and suggesting that technology like drones could be used to improve upon this.
You cannot fly drones around Yongsan because Yoon has established the presidential office there.
Chungha: a joke has to be a joke for the friend (who is the subject or target of the joke), if it isn’t funny to the friend, then it’s not a joke at all. It was a mistake, and you should apologize.
Quick comparison (with previous president and city mayor in charge): 2017’s Halloween event in Itaewon drew an even larger crowd of 200k people, compared to this year’s crowd of 100k. Can’t find any reports of casualties for that year.
Though they were provided with more manpower, it was only a third of the numbers they needed, most of which was devoted entirely to managing traffic for the presidential motorcade + security + protection.
I will not entertain bad faith arguments or bullshit blackpink fan defenses.
- “SNOWDROP” is not only utmost disrespect, it is historical revisionism of the worst kind
- The thoughtlessness of even its basic synopsis has made me lose all respect for the actors on the show
Imagine if Trump had abandoned the White House and decided to relocate the entire West Wing to Trump Tower and suddenly the NYPD was tasked with dealing with all of the shit that comes with that, with only a minor increase to their numbers.
And then Macy’s Day Parade happened.
Sponsors cancelling their sponsorship and demanding their products be removed from
#Snowdrop
after being contacted by Korean fans
- clothing brand g*******
- organic grain brand ss******
- **** electronics
(Censoring names bc I don’t want them to receive backlash)
방금 알티 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 누가 블쟈 게시판에다가 “옵치 헤테로 캐릭 추가해주세요 헤테로가 정상인데 트레가 레즈비언인 걸 알고 굉장히 불편해졌어요” 하니까 블쟈 관리자가 “백해무익한 게시글이네요 앞으로 이런 글 올리는 사람은 계정 정지입니다” 이렇게 답변함ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Armys have bombarded the transition team website to demand that BTS not be used as a political tool. I think this is fair. You don’t really want your faves performing for a man who’s promised to eliminate maximum work hours, minimum wage, & support for sexual assault survivors
It’s actually almost emotional to see that Lucio got this skin, which is what Korean traditional percussion (samulnori) performers wear. I used to play the two-sided drums (jang-gu) in my hs percussion club and it’s just... so appropriate and cool and awesome.
idk why people are suddenly *convinced* that Seungri was not in the groupchat with sex offenders posting illegally filmed footage, every single Korean language newspaper report I've read on the Jung Joon-young verdict still writes that Seungri was 100% in that groupchat
Actress Ko Min-si, receiving award for "Youth of May"
"While I lived in the time of May 1980 [as I filmed "Youth of May"], there were more sad, heartbreaking moments for my character than there were happy ones. And on the days when we filmed sad scenes, it rained so hard..."
Jo Kwon featured in new show about the future of hanbok
In the episode, he persuaded longtime hanbok maker Bak Sul-nyeo to think beyond the principle of "women wear women's hanbok, men wear men's hanbok" to design a non-binary look that featured both "men's" and "women's" design.
HIS MAIN CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR SUGGESTED THAT LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PREVENT THE SHARING OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN MASSIVE GROUPCHATS MIGHT BE AN INFRINGEMENT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Watching US foreign policy experts sneer at South Korea’s muted behavior toward Russia when we literally underwent the shittiest trade war with China because the US wanted a missile system installed on Korean soil and therefore Korea had to become a proxy for US-China tensions
ALMOST SIXTY PERCENT OF YOUNG WOMEN IN THEIR TWENTIES VOTED FOR THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE OUT OF SHEER, RAW FEAR AND PANIC AT THE IDEA THAT THE BARE MINIMUM PROTECTION THEY HAVE RIGHT NOW AGAINST SEX CRIMES WILL BE ROLLED BACK EVEN FURTHER
His campaign and cronies have championed: PRIVATIZATION of healthcare, the abolition of the Gender Equality and Family Ministry, the elimination of minimum wage, and increased "flexibility" in basic work week hours (he suggested some people want to work 120 hour workweeks).
My mother doesn’t speak of her memories of the 70s-80s too much bc it’s trauma. Full trauma. What she has told me is horror.
“People died. Your friends disappeared and showed up dead the next week. A terrifying time.”
Kim Joo-hee, who also posted criticism of this outfit, is A LICENSED NURSE. SHE HAS LIVED IT. But K-pop fans on Google Translate are calling her a man and telling her she’s thinking like a rapist bc clearly you have no idea what she’s been through.
“Even if this gets shut out in Korea it’s gonna be watched overseas. And naturally foreigners will learn Korean history from this. It’s not a question of boycotting, this simply should not be broadcast.”
국내에서 안되더라도 해외에서 소비 할 거 아니야. 그럼 자연스럽게 해외사람들은 이거로 우리나라 역사를 배우겠지.. 애초에 불매가 문제가 아니라 이건 방영자체를 하면 안되는 거야. 다른 나라 사람이면 몰라도 한국사람이 이런 각본을 쓰고 이런 쓰레기 드라마에 출연하면 안되지.
Do not fucking come at me and tell me how this isn’t disrespect or callous bullshit, to bring a “college kid is actually a NK spy” narrative - featuring an UPSTANDING NSA OFFICIAL - to a TV show. Do not fucking @ me you will regret it. My mother KNEW Park Jong-cheol.
DO YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT THE GENDER RATIO IS FOR MEN VS WOMEN IN SOUTH KOREA IS FOR PEOPLE BORN IN 1990? IT'S 116 TO 100. IN FAVOR OF MEN. THAT'S HOW MISOGYNISTIC PATRIARCHY HAS SYSTEMATICALLY ABORTED AND ERASED WOMEN WHO SHOULD HAVE EXISTED.
Ending tonight with a genuinely lovely conversation. For those of you with questions about the twitter thread in the first screenshot, this convo may be helpful. Posted with permission.
"I was afraid of causing any harm to those who had lived through those times, and are still living today. But those thoughts made me have even more responsibility, and make me do my best to live as my character, Hee-tae, for 6-7 months. I hope that came through."
The NSA was created in the early 80s because its predecessor, the KCIA, was tainted by the fact that its own chief had assassinated the longrunning dictator Park Chung-hee. It’s been compared to the KGB in terms of its farreaching powers of info collection and investigation.
It is, simply put, not possible for any person to have worked at the NSA as a “straight and narrow” individual. It was a powerful arm of the authoritarian government that committed murder, tortured innocents, planted false evidence, falsified records, and wrought havoc.
With this in mind, with these current lived realities of KOREAN nurses in mind - though these issues may ring true in many other places - think twice before you decry the criticism of this nurse outfit as “backward.” Maybe there’s a conversation you’re not privy to.
Just as an FYI Jisoo’s father is the ✨director✨ of an agency that tortured and murdered a lot of innocent folks but rest assured he is a soft literature boi
LITERALLY THE DAD’S CHARACTER DESCRIPTION IS THAT HE’S A MILITARY MAN WHO RUNS A TORTURE AGENCY BUT ALSO HE LIKES POETRY AND MAJORED IN LITERATURE WHICH MAKES HIM SENSITIVE AND SOFT
“The reason
#Snowdrop
’s story and character descriptions are unacceptable is not simply bc there are victims and it touches on a sensitive historical problem. It’s bc the drama is using verbatim the authoritarian justification for the government’s violence, such as…” (1/2)
Male patients in particular feel entitled to call nurses “girl” or “lady” rather than “nurse,” and treat them as low-level service workers rather than medical professionals. Nursing is also the medical profession that is most exposed to sexual assault.
It’s the institution that popularized the Russian word “ФРА́КЦИЯ” in Korea (meaning “faction”) because their classic tactic was to send infiltrators into student movement groups to cause friction, and plant false evidence to frame students FOR BEING SPIES.
Personally, esp with everything going on, I think if Korean nurses (who are the ones directly “represented” and potentially impacted by that costume) put out such a statement you should maybe read that and not whine about how 8 seconds of MV are being cut.
So, once again. Using the setting of an infamous case where innocent artists and musicians were *literally* sentenced to LIFE IN PRISON on bogus charges,
#SNOWDROP
decides instead to show a narrative that actually agrees with the red scare tactics.
Consumer feedback matters. I think we all know that.
LGBTQ rights in particular, but also women's rights, environmental rights - these are global things, regionally specific yes but global, human rights.
What you may not know is that Berlin was indeed the setting of another extremely infamous authoritarian scheme against leftwing artists, musicians, writers, etc. It was called the East Berlin Affair and you can read a description here.
Wondergirls members sending a video letter to their fellow member Hyelim’s future husband
Sunmi: if you make her cry... I’m gonna come find you with a brick
Sohee: if you make her cry I’ll also come find you with Sunmi, I’ll bring a Korean flute
The mccree name change announcement is v much a dev team message, not a corporate ATVI exec message, at least by my reading. I’m reluctant to dogpile on a group of devs about how “they have other things they need to fix.”
“There was a female student who sued the police for sexual abuse during interrogation. My friends and I read about it and talked about how if what she experienced was sexual abuse, we had all experienced that. We were joking around but it was true.”
“We didn’t win a match
But thanks to this I hope it will lead to a lot of changes in me and my team
Thanks for cheering for us to the end
There’s a lot of my life left so I’ll work hard to show you good performances”
Park’s family point out that there are still-living families of those who were accused of being North Korean spies and tortured, and the drama recreates the narrative that was used against victims
The most infamous case, that led ultimately to the fall of the Chun Doohwan administration (which succeeded Park’s), was the coldblooded murder of college student Park Jong-cheol by waterboarding in 1987.
Tobi always takes his glasses off when he wins and gets up to hug his teammates because in APEX S2 he famously broke his glasses violently hugging his teammates after winning the title
MAYBE IF *MEN* WEREN'T SO ABSOLUTELY INSISTENT ON SHARING CHILD EXPLOITATION VIDEOS ON THEIR BIZARRO GROUP CHATS THE GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T BE HAVING TO TAKE STEPS TO REGULATE GROUPCHATS
If you have any *actual* questions abt
- the history of this time (I studied it extensively in grad school)
- my thoughts on creative liberty and licence
- portrayals of history, esp the 70-80s
Pls feel free to ask.
If your question is “why do u hate Jisoo” please kick rocks.
And - you can check the vote breakdown yourself - it was a close race. Very close. It took hours to announce a winner. I don't lose heart. Obviously it's deeply awful but I haven't lost heart. Young women came out in force to vote in this race.
The NSA tried to blame Park Jong-cheol’s death on his “weak heart.” An official insisted that an officer had “slammed his hand on the table, and Park let out a surprised sound and collapsed.”
This ludicrous explanation is now an infamous moment in Korean history.
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Showing clear, unambiguous support for those rights is so crucial. Showing that you do not condone or accept discrimination based on gender, sexuality, or race - that's something people outside of Korea can communicate.
The healthcare and medicine union also put out a statement on how this impacts nurses working long hours under threat of viral infection, who are also forced to combat a sexualized stereotype.
블랙핑크 <Lovesick Girls> MV 속 간호사 묘사는 명백한 성적 대상화입니다. 실제 보건의료현장에서 간호사들은 감염의 위협과 장시간 고된 노동환경 속에서 고군분투하고 있습니다. 대중문화가 왜곡된 간호사의 이미지를 반복해 재현한다면, 전문의료인인 간호사가 높은 비율로 성폭력에 노출되는
Chungha: (cont.) Let your friends know that you found it unpleasant. And if your friends continue to call you names... just cut them off. I’ll be your friend.
Literally a licensed medical professional who also ran for National Assembly as a member of the women’s party - which means she’s already exposed to a shitton of chauvinist hate - but Kpop fans obvi don’t give a shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they’ll take the MRAs’ side on this no problem
“They string you up upside down, or strip you. They pour hot water from a kettle down your nose. I couldn’t go seek help afterwards bc I was ashamed. When they caught me… I was wearing a skirt.”
You know the Japanese history revisionists have logged on because they’re furiously linking “evidence” that says “Japan’s colonialization of Korea was good, actually,” but the plot twist is I’m not even talking about Japan’s colonization of Korea
I’m fucking dead people are asking SBS to report on Snowdrop because JTBC did a whole report titled “the dangers of history distortion as seen from SBS’s Joseon Exorcist” back in March
The NSA and police forced Park Jong-cheol’s family to immediately cremate their son’s body after autopsy, and forced the father to spread the ashes immediately after cremation. The doctors they brought in, however, refused to falsify the autopsy report.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is one of the precious few crucial resources for supporting marginalized young people, especially young single mothers and multiracial families (who experience a lot of racism, unsurprisingly).
"Why did Koreans vote for him" why do ppl vote for conservatives? They're privileged/rich and they want lower taxes and worse labor conditions, or they think they're losing their privilege (which they never deserved in the first place) so they're resentful.
Actually, the first truly cinematic (in every sense) exploration of the concept of the multiverse was TWICE's hit song CHEER UP, in which the personified camera itself enacts the transition between cinematic "-verses" by way of a magical filter, in this paper I will
This isn’t a story to consume. This isn’t a pinup for you to be inspired by. Zelensky and everyone else are human beings literally alive right now and the last thing they need is to be made into tragi-beautiful war characters, because they’re not CHARACTERS
The doctor who was called to the interrogation room to try and revive Park later secretly spoke to a reporter. After, rhe doctor went into hiding, as did many others involved in bringing Park’s death to light.
That’s how frightening the NSA was. That is the terror they wrought.
Hey
If you see people on social media use Korean candlelight protests as an example of nonviolent protests, to undermine the BLM protests right now
Tell them to shut the fuck up
The mayor of Seoul went ABOVE AD BEYOND that year to never escalate things with protesters
International fans need to realize - this is a Korean history dispute.
This is an argument that is & should be unfolding *in* Korea.
But, thanks to global capital and distribution, it has suddenly become the business of a bunch of non-Koreans who have ZERO stakes in the history.
“What kind of person thinks “heehee I’m gonna insult nurses!” That’s not what happened here. It’s scary bc it’s unintended and unconscious, how when they think “nurse” they think “sexy nurse” rather than “medical professional.”
Encourage everyone to read the Korean Healthcare and Medical Union's statement on the Blackpink "Lovesick Girls" music video, linked above and translated here
"...so it looks like KGR was indeed punished under Clause 5... oh dear oh dear. If the agency received her school record, they should have seen this in there, how did they debut her?"
God yeah how dare I criticize the massively hyped Korean drama slated to be on Disney+ that violently distorts historical fact and erases what countless ppl like my parents went thru and broadcasts falsehoods to unknowing international fans like urself!!!!
HOW DARE I CRITICIZE