President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea, who you might remember from my coverage of his lolcow wife, has run into a bit of a diplomatic scandal.
This ajussi thinks he has magical powers lmao. 
Failures leading up to...
He went on a world tour that should have been a welcome escape from domestic politics given his low approval rating. But apparently his psychic powers aren't as good as he thinks. He failed to forsee everything going wrong that possibly could. First he went to London but missed Queen Elizabeth's funeral, blaming traffic for being late. Then it was on to the UN General Assembly, a place where all world leaders love to do a photo op and look dignified. He announced that he was going to have summit meetings with the Japanese PM and President Biden to b-word about Korea's grievances.
Signing the book of condolences after he failed to attend the funeral.
The Koreans want compensation for s*x slaves taken by the Japanese during WW2. The Japanese argue that they already paid massive amounts of reparations in exchange for the Koreans dropping all claims against them in 1965. Given that Korea never suffered the kind of devastation that China and the Philippines did, it really was a relatively sweet deal tbqh. So this is not a conversation that the Japanese wanted to have. They came out publicly saying that they had been talking about a possible summit but hadn't agreed to anything yet. In the end, Yoon managed to get a brief 30 minute meeting with the Japanese PM and no indication that the Korean demands are being taken seriously.
Yoon wanted to meet Biden to whine about how the American "Inflation Reduction Act" will subsidize American automakers and damage imports of cheap piece of shit Korean cars. Of course Koreans only care about free trade when it goes one way. This is especially rich considering that the Koreans have for decades been finding whatever underhanded methods possible to block imports of luxury cars from the USA. Yoon managed to spend an entire 48 seconds speaking to Biden, once again ending up achieving nothing.
Insane people demonstrate against beef actually being affordable enough for them to eat.
...scandal
Just as he was leaving the meeting with Biden, he was caught on camera saying something like "It’d be humiliating for Biden if those jackasses/idiots/frickers in the legislature don’t pass it." Presumably he was talking about the US Congress not passing a bill that Biden supports. This caused a lot of embarrassment because while Koreans might like to irrationally chimp out at America at home from time to time, they know better than to have their leader insulting the US government at a diplomatic function.
Actual footage of the average Korean's reaction to this news.
Yoon went into damage control mode and came up with an explanation. He actually hadn't said "Biden", he'd said a word in Korean that sounds similar. He wasn't talking about the US legislature, he was talking about the Korean legislature. Of course that just means that he's offending the Korean legislature too now and nobody believes him anyway. As some random Korean Youtube commenter said, "Mistakes can be forgiven but lies cannot."
Unfortunately I cannot find anyone who will actually spell out what the profanity was. The best I can find is "국회 이 XX들이 승인 안 해주면 바이든이 쪽팔려서 어떡하냐" with the word in question censored and the audio is way too hard for me to make out even after it's been cleaned up. 
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I've covered everything worth saying, but if you want to look into this more, we have:
Leftoid editorial - When you've got me agreeing with Hankyoreh about foreign policy you know you've done something wrong.
Centroid editorial - Basically saying the same things.
Rightoid reporting - They're not any happier about it.
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pass what though
also south korean politics seems really dramatic in general, the foid stuff especially
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I couldn't figure it out. Maybe he was talking about funding for the global charity thing they were at the UN meeting for? It was for like AIDS or hunger or one of those problems that third world countries have. He was only caught on the mic for a few seconds so it's hard to tell what he was talking about without context.
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KR industrialized very recently. Correct me if I'm wrong but it wasn't long ago they were living in feudal dirt roads crying at the feet of their nobles. You can still see this at Kim Jong-il's funeral footage
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Korea started to industrialize around the 1890s just before the Japanese took over and continued to make pretty rapid progress until the war when everything was destroyed and they had to start over. It took until around the 1990s before it was really a first world country.
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Korea hasn't cried at the feet of nobles in over 100 years, when the Jap bastards colonized them. No idea when they phased out dirt roads, but even the most expensive district in Seoul (Gangnam) still had farmland until the 00's.
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There is a 2000% chance this is related to some kind of corrupt scheming by real estate developers. That's who runs everything in Korea even more than it is in the USA.
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Yeah there was corruption, but I think Korea was just that poor until recently. The rich part of seoul also changed. It used to be like apgujeong before shifting to Gangnam.
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ya think?
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This is the dumbest drama since every American hates congress. If anything it's a popular position to take.
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Yeah, the youtube comments in Korean are all about how bad this is and the youtube comments in English are all saying he's based. From the Korean perspective, they just see their weirdo president making yet another dumb gaffe.
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Reminds me of Singapore pm calling our and Israeli legislators criminals lol. No one really cared but of course the government was pissed.
https://rdrama.net/post/45224/chief-X (formerly chiobu)-declares-jihad-on-india
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only americans are allowed to hate the american government
it's like how only black folx can use the BIPOC word -- it's different when it's one of us
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That 4 billion dollar reparations Japan gave to Korea (under the supervision of USA) was sent into a corrupt military dictatorship that forgot to actually payout victims. Worst Korea asking for reparations every year like as if their entire industry wasn't built on Japanese and American interest free loans is rich.
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The same thing happened when the US was sending money to compensate them for their soldiers going to Vietnam. The government just kept it and didn't share it with the veterans. On the other hand, at least they were relatively responsible when spending the money. It did go into building up industry, unlike most underdeveloped countries in the 1960s-1970s where corrupt governments just siphoned off everything into Swiss bank accounts.
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I wonder who owned POSCO
Every member of the Korean elite in 1965 had this exact same background. SK was lucky that their dictator wasn't a complete r-slur but it took a couple decades for the benefits to really pay off. Any other person and Koreans would still be living in mud huts as a backwater Chinese province.
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Not Japan's problem
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You can call us r slurs if u want oni-chan.
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Was he wrong?
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i thought only the west had this gay shit
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is one of your names Kim?
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I wish. I'm only trans-Korean.
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many such cases
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Nah Redactor just has yellow fever, dog eater variant.
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That's not even true. I just want to be a court lady in the Joseon palace. Please respect my identity.
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You will never be a real Korean.
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Someone should tell him calling congress r-slurs is actually a great way of gaining the support of the American people. We hate those frickers.
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It certainly sounds like he said 이 새끼들이, but his supporters are saying he said 이 사람들이, which doesn’t even sound natural…
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That's it? People say that on k-dramas all the time. I thought it was some kind of super-powered mega-offensive word that nobody dares to speak out loud.
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Based post. I love a good Korean-bashing from time to time.
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We hate most the things we love.
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I don't know how you can deal with Koreans. I have met a few Koreans, and while they are quite reserved and cordial with me, the distance I felt was really off-putting.
I hope it is just them being shy by nature, or that they just don't to have anything to do with me since I'm Chinese.
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I know some in America and in my experience they're people you can trust but they don't want to integrate. They've got their own parallel world and they just want to do business with you. Which is fine with me. Filipinos and Cambodians are much more the kind of people who will be your friends and you can have a deeper connection with. The language barrier probably accounts for most of this. Filipinos are really good at English to begin with and Cambodians kind of have to learn because they were stuck here as refugees.
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Sounds about right.
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Are Koreans the
s of East Asia? 
Also, I find it hilarious how S Korea and Japan are on such poor terms over an island in the middle of bum frick nowhere and WW2. Imagine how much money they could make (mostly Japan tbh) if they actually signed some proper trade deals.
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The thing about the island (WHICH IS NAMED DOKDO BTW AND I WILL KILL ANYONE WHO DISAGREES
) is entirely bullshit started by Japan. It's closer to Korea, Koreans were the ones living there forever, and everyone accepted it was part of Korea until Japanese nationalists chimped out recently and decided to create an artificial border dispute.
For the Japanese, it's not enough to deny that they ever did anything wrong. They have to go out of their way to provoke other countries. They won't let you forgive them. They have to keep doubling down on this shit. Just like how they play the victim about getting nuked when they murdered 100 times as many people in equally painful ways.
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My roommate here in HK is Japanese and he's pretty chill so your argument doesnt really hold up buddy
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That just proves he's hiding his evil plans from you. The ones who seem to be nice are actually playing 4D chess against you.
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Around Japs, never relax
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Based.
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Imagine needing Mountbatten to force you to fight for your own country when it's invaded and still simping for the male feminists 80 years later.
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Why was India invaded?
Maybe cause Anglos were running it?
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If there was an independent India in 1941 run by whatever cow-worshipper you want, you think that the Japanese would have gotten there and recognized them as soul brothers? That the Japanese wanted some kind of equal partnership with India?
There were lots of people in Korea who bought into that idea at first. They were suckers and they knew they were suckers really fast after every promise was broken. Ask the Chinese and Filipinos what they thought of being invaded. Oh wait, that's right, those are actually proud people who fought for their own independence while Indians were whining and going on hunger strikes.
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Japanese were interested in the Pacific Rim, India was far too gigantic and far away for them to conquer wholly. The whole reason they came here was the Burma road lol they were after China and holding China would absorb all their attention if they did win.
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how? It's an awful movie
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Snapshots:
https://web.archive.org/https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/09/25/national/politics/Korea-Yoon-Sukyeol-foul-language/20220925184639702.html
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https://web.archive.org/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Yoon_Suk-yeol_in_May_2022.jpg/640px-Yoon_Suk-yeol_in_May_2022.jpg
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dropping all claims against them in 1965:
https://web.archive.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea
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irrationally chimp out at America:
https://web.archive.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_US_beef_protest_in_South_Korea
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the audio:
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AFP:
https://web.archive.org/https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3193526/south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeol-denies-us-hot-mic-insult-blames
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CNN:
https://web.archive.org/https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/asia/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-hot-mic-profanity-rant-intl-hnk/index.html
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Leftoid reporting:
https://web.archive.org/http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1059898.html
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Leftoid reporting on his excuse:
https://web.archive.org/http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1059900.html
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Leftoid editorial:
https://web.archive.org/http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/1059899.html
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Centroid editorial:
https://web.archive.org/http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220925000180
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Kingdom is awesome
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Imagine watching a show about zombies when there's much more exciting shows about intrigue and backstabbing among the palace kitchen staff.
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what do you mean blocking imports of USA luxury cars? the steering wheels are on the wrong side!
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