What the fuck is this pro North Korean circle jerk
How are North Koreans who escape to the South integrate, like what do they do for work, home, etc?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Whatever the fuck are you even trying to say?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They’re not allowed to leave South Korea or do many types of jobs for a certain number of years. They get a little help from the government, but most rely on giving interviews to the media or public speaking to make ends meet. This suits the South Korean government, since saying positive things about North Korea is illegal, so these people can be starved into saying whatever they want.
Jspelts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They get South Korean assistance (think welfare, housing, citizenship classes) in the beginning. But no joke, and look it up for yourself – they still have a hard time integrating. The languages are different between the two countries. The culture is vastly different. Most are limited to unskilled labor, which pays very little. Many find it impossible to adjust. Some actually try to go back. Not because North Korea is better, but because they have no friends or family in the South.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
South Korea is a scary place. Hypercapitalist places terrify me, its a hard life
Jspelts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been there, and wouldn’t want to live there. They work hard, insane hours and have one of the highest suicide rates on the planet.
But it still beats starving to death in North Korea and watching your kids die from malnutrition, zero internet access, etc.
palordrolap@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Quick test: Say something unkind about Kim Jong Un.
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hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
you ever been to korea? i’m (south) korean and live here, there are certainly many negative aspects of this country like any other but i wouldn’t say it’s a “terrifying/scary hypercapitalist place”.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What, like the US?
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they aren’t, there’s very little difference in the language. minor differences in intonation and vocabs, but that’s same for every different dialects (even only considering south korea).
Jspelts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I lived in Asia for over a decade. The Korean spoken in the North is very different than the South. And as the South is a developed nation, there are contexts that simply do not exist in the North. And considering they’ve been divided for so long without much in the way of any kind of interaction, the languages have had over 80 years to evolve.
Do you speak the same English that was spoken 80 years ago? Now double that effect to simulate the difference between two languages evolving away from each other.