Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. It's not a niche market, it's mainstream enough for people who don't listen to Kpop to know what it is. Those Kpop groups have enough fans in the West to get their songs to chart in the top 50 in Western countries. Not to mention the success of Squid Game in the Western world in late 2021. It may be largely forgotten now but that drama had such a bizarre impact on English-speaking Western countries at the time. It really is quite surreal thinking about some of the bizarre stuff that happened in the months after that drama came out, all because almost everybody had watched it.
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  2.  @boy_ngiwi  Jpop was popular only in East Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia. Taiwanese pop culture also only became popular in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. There is truly only one form of Asian entertainment that has actually managed to become popular across the entire continent of Asia and I mean all the way to Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan and remote locations like Bhutan or Nepal too and that's Korean pop culture. There has been no other Asian country that has managed to dominate pop culture in Asia in the way South Korea has. South Korea truly reigns supreme in Asia in terms of pop culture and influence.
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  3. He spoke about India and Australia at the end.
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  4. Singapore is most definitely not anti-Chinese. It's a bona fide neutral nation because of how small it is.
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  5. Korean dramas were always more popular than Kpop until recently. It's only when the Korean Wave began to truly become popular in the West that Kpop surpassed Korean dramas in popularity. Before that, it was always Korean dramas over Kpop (especially in Asian countries like China, Japan, Cambodia and Nepal).
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  6. You do know that Korean pop culture was popular in Asian countries long before the West even knew about it right? The Korean Wave started in Asia. The soft power of Korea is not because of the West (which you ought to be specific and just say the US), it's because of other Asian countries.
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  7. I hope they never pick a side because they, like China, are seen as a representative of the developing world. India refusing to pick a side is also helping other developing countries stand by their belief in neutrality.
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  8. Nowhere near as big as the Korean Wave, which is now popular all over the world. Popularity of BL dramas is largely centred on Southeast Asia and China and to some extent India, Japan and South Korea. The average non-Asian has heard of Kpop but not Thai BL.
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  9.  @mefisto05s.20  Brazil is a newly industralised country, they always had the opportunities to progress to high income status but they didn't. Their social indicators are still good and better than India.
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  10. Actually that isn't likely to happen. A survey in Southeast Asia released this month revealed that most Southeast Asians prefer to keep trading with China even if it invades Taiwan. I'm sure this will be the case for the rest of Asia. Asian countries refuse to pick sides and focus on themselves. This is why in 2019 during the Hong Kong protests when China issued the Hong Kong National Security Law at the UN, most Asian countries supported China or they abstained (including India). Most countries that opposed the law were Western countries. Only 1 Asian country opposed it and that was Japan (a country that has a long history of wanting to be associated with the West). Back in 2017, when a bill to condemn the Rohingya genocide was issued at the UN, most Asian countries abstained with mostly Western and Muslim-majority nations supporting the bill. The mentality of neutrality, not judging and keeping your head down is very strong in the Asian region and it's not easy to change.
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  11.  @MarcSebastian-pi5he  Singapore was dirt poor. It was not rich. It built itself up on its own.
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  12. Wait till you find out that most of the world is neutral on the Ukraine War and does not want to take part in it. The Global South wants nothing to do with it.
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  13.  @mefisto05s.20  Nothing vague and incorrect about what I said.
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  14.  @mefisto05s.20  Notice how you didn't provide a response that supposedly corrects these facts you claim are "incorrect"?
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  15.  @John_Doe448  That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about how the CCP kept quiet and did not tell anybody about what was happening because they only cared about their reputation. Then when they did inform the WHO, they lied and said things like "it doesn't spread between humans" knowing very well it did. When word began to spread in other parts of Asia that a new virus had emerged in China, precautions were implemented straight away knowing well China has a reputation being quiet because it's exactly what they did almost 20 years prior to that in the early 2000s when SARS emerged. That's why international students in China went back to their countries in late 2019 after authorities informed families of an uncertain development in Wuhan and why you could see people began wearing masks across Asia from Thailand to Sri Lanka to Japan as soon as 2020 began, long before the virus started spreading rapidly internationally from March 2020 onwards.
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  16.  @andrewdunbar828  Malaysia is on track to becoming a high income developed nation later this decade but the World Bank has said the country suffers from a few issues that is preventing the country from reaching this status. Corruption is one and the other is the country's brain drain which is powered by the country's decision to legally discriminate against non-indigenous and non-Muslim minorities (Bumiputera law). Large numbers of the educated Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians continue to leave Malaysia for Singapore and Australia in droves. As a result, the country is continuing to lose large numbers of its educated population. There is a reason why most Australians with Malaysian heritage are ethnically Chinese and to some extent ethnically Indian.
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  17.  @davidford3115  No, it reeks of hegemony. So if Sri Lanka is India's backyard, India's front yard must be China and the USA's front yard must be Canada. The terminology doesn't make sense and there is a reason this language is only used by Indian and American media.
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  18.  @davidford3115  While other countries use terminology like "India's neighbourhood", there are proponents in other parts of the world who use "India's backyard", indicating some type of ownership.
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  19.  @davidford3115  Now you're talking about perspective but I don't see it because a backyard belongs to someone, which is why the terminology is a red flag and why the Asian region is wary of both Chinese and American aggression.
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  20.  @harmonyshorts  You don't say "India's backyard". You say "in proximity to India and the Maldives". People always forget the Maldives even though that country is close to Sri Lanka too and let's face it, it's linguistically and ethnically very close to Sri Lanka. Mind you, I highly doubt any of these people know where India is either...
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  21.  @davidford3115  A whole lot of words were used just to say nothing...
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  22.  @davidford3115  It most definitely reeks of hegemony but you refuse to see it and of course it can apply to anyone. I'm just talking about India in this case but because I mentioned the US you suddenly said "anti-West". I live in a Western country, I was born in a Western country. You want to call me "anti-West" for calling out the power struggle that China and the US are playing out here in the Asia-Pacific?
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  23.  @davidford3115  You support the idea of describing an independent nation like Sri Lanka "India's backyard", indicating a sign of ownership but will become hysterical if somebody were to refer to "Mexico's backyard" as the US.
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  24.  @davidford3115  You know you using a whole of words just to say nothing doesn't help your point, right? You haven't actually given anything of substance to explain your reasoning and haven't refuted anything I have said. All I see is a man using all this jargon to present himself as smarter, more sophisticated and intelligent when the truth is there is actually nothing upstairs but a dictionary and thesaurus spewing out random words to inflate his broken ego.
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  25.  @xcutioner5411  Th Korean Wave began in China in the 1990s and ultimately spread to the rest of Asia by the 2000s. We are now in 2023 and the Korean Wave in Asia is bigger than it ever was and is now popular all over the world. I really don't see it ending anytime soon. It's been popular for decades. What country are you from by the way?
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  26.  @iamgreat1234  No. The majority of Singaporeans speak English. 48.3% of Singaporeans speak English frequently at home compared to 29.9% of Singaporeans who speak Mandarin frequently at home. English is the lingua franca of the country, almost everybody in the country knows how to speak it.
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  27.  @Mr.Septon  Sorry but the thing is nobody wants an Asian NATO here. That's what I'm saying. The establishment of something like that is going to lead to an arms race, militarisation and the forcing of nations to pick sides (something many nations in the region have spoken about not wanting to do). Finland joining NATO isn't comparable to the situation in Asia because there is no NATO-like organisation like that in Asia. You believe a military alliance is the answer and as I said before, the creation of such a military alliance will lead to an arms race and the militarisation of Asia. The situation in Europe is not like the situation in Asia. Asian and Pacific nations want to maintain healthy ties with China. This is why Australia's new government has done a 180 and begun mending ties with China. People in the region also don't want outsiders to get involved, past "foreign" wars like Vietnam War and the more recent Afghanistan War have left a very bad taste in people's mouths. I'm from Australia, you may be surprised to hear that many people prefer to maintain good ties with China even though we don't agree on a lot of things.
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  28.  @darkz1563  Almost all people experienced their culture? No, that's wrong. Hardly anybody knows anything about that country's culture.
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  29. Y'all can never ever take criticism, this is why India is lagging behind.
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  30. I think some people will be surprised to hear that many Australians actually want good relations with China and don't want to rely so heavily on the US. People have actually commended out new foreign minister for trying to improve ties with China. The thing is, Australia and China are in the same region. So the reality is that one has to find ways to get along even if they don't agree on everything. China and Australia don't have eye to eye but before the pandemic and Australia's decision to push even closer to the US, China and Australia were still able to get along.
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  31. It's the same thing...
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  32.  @paulfri1569  No it doesn't. I live in the Asia-Pacific, it means everything from India to French Polynesia.
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  33. Well one reason why people learn Korean in other Asian countries is because many Asians (Chinese, Southeast, South and Central Asians) go to South Korea to work or go there as international students. Then yes, there are those people who are obsessed with Korean pop culture and so learn Korean so they can become Koreanised.
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  34.  @mefisto05s.20  Yes it is. Brazil is just another example of a middle income trapped nation. They have the opportunities but they don't use them.
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  35.  @off_grid_javelin  India started in 1990 and they don't have much time left. They have wasted so many opportunities and continue to waste them. It's just talk but never action.
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  36.  @off_grid_javelin  No, India will run out of time. Economic growth isn't infinite. India wasted a lot of time and now they're on the cusp of a demographic crisis.
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  37.  @tickletowntales  I can tell you are offended by my statements but everything I said was the truth. Your comment consists of a whole lot of words but there is no clear point to it.
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  38.  @tickletowntales  and yes I do believe India is running out of time. India's leaders consistently fail to see this but if people think India has an infinite amount of time to develop, then they are severely mistaken. Not everything is condescension or hate. Not everybody is out to get you.
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  39.  @dancingcar8974  You're so triggered lmaooooo, this is so funny to me. I'm laughing and you're behind that computer or phone so angry and furious with what I said
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  40.  @dancingcar8974  Not you crying lmao
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  41. "Indo-Pacifc" means Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, has nothing to do with India.
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  42.  @xcutioner5411  There will be new groups. SNSD and Super Junior were replaced by Blackpink and BTS.
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  43.  @iamgreat1234  You must be living in an alternate universe. Most people in Singapore speak English
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  44.  @Mr.Septon  Absolutely not. Sorry but the truth of the matter is that all of the Asia-Pacific nations you listed there (Japan, South Korea, Australia and India) will much prefer co-existence with China rather than making it a full fledged enemy. Nobody wants the EU, UK or Canada to get involved. These are nations so far away from the Indo-Pacific and are not going to be hurt if a war were to break out in the region, it's the nations in this region that will suffer the most because of how incredibly interconnected these nations are. The US is also criticised too because they are not part of the region but their heavy presence in the region is something that cannot be rid of so quickly. The reality is that many across the region (including Australia) recognise the fact that they don't see eye to eye with China but that shouldn't stop co-existence. Nobody wants war, nobody wants an arms race, nobody wants the militarisation of the whole region and nobody wants to pick and choose sides. Many outside of the region think the rest of the region is staunchly anti-China and will immediately fight against it but that is not the truth. The Trump presidency created a significant shift in the mentality of the region echoed at the various annual Asia-Pacific summits. Co-existence is what most desire today.
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  45.  @tellyboy17  Most of the Indo-Pacific's biggest trade partner is China and has been for a long time. We don't see eye to eye all the time but all of the nations in this region (including Japan, South Korea and India) don't want war and are more interested in co-existence. Australia's mentality is no different to the rest of the region. The US wants all of us to pick a side though but we're the ones that will be hurt if the US and China go to war in our region.
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  46. Same thing
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  47. Y'all have to realise that Japan was once a poor nation too and in the decades after WW2, Japan was dirt poor. Singapore was dirt poor too. It only had a national income of US$500, that is not the definition of "rich". Modern Mozambique has a national income of US$500 today, are you going to tell me that Mozambique is not a "poor place"? 💀💀
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  48. The military committed the genocide against Rohingyas. I can't believe you'd support the military. That's why you need to do your research before you say such things.
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  49. So you trust a Laotian man that lives in the US and not the actual Burmese people that are risiking their lives and posting updates on what is happening in the country on social media before the internet shuts down. Why am I not surprised? There is a reason why the US is stereotyped as an uneducated country.
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  50. You Americans think all Asians are the same. Just look, you're believing the words of a Laotian and applying that to Myanmar. Oh goodness.
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