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 "Itβd be humiliating for Biden if those jackasses/idiots/frickers in the legislature donβt 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 "κ΅ν μ΄ XXλ€μ΄ μΉμΈ μ ν΄μ£Όλ©΄ λ°μ΄λ μ΄ μͺ½νλ €μ μ΄λ‘νλ" 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. 
Sources
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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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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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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