Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Why Is K-Pop the Political Weapon of Korea?" video.

The soft power of Korea is largely do to moral corruption in Western Media. Many students I know are looking for media to consume that is not contaminated with wicked moral behavior, which is a pandemic in The West. South Korean creatives had executed on this need for non-wicked entertainment… and has been largely successful!
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When trade routes become unsafe, civilization disintegrates. If you think that the airline industry, shipping industry, tourist industries, relocating jobs, visiting families, mail, etc. are remotely possible without overseas bases & hard power… you would be sorely mistaken. The US completely disbanded their military after the Revolutionary War… and it was the Islamic Slave Traders of Africa & Middle East who created a need for a standing military of the US, due to piracy. It was only after the US helped end of WW1 that Islamic Slave Trade was legally eradicated [with revival of multinational slave trade in lawless areas after the US Obama Administration in countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq, etc. through organizations like the Islamic State.) Properly wielded Hard Power disrupts the most wicked of human behavior, while Hard Power restraint permits wicked behavior.
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The world hoped Russia would become more than they did, after they liberated themselves from the Communists, who slaughtered sizable civilian populations across two continents. To be quite frank with you, Russia has a population problem. Killing hundreds of thousands in an Eastern European war is doing nothing for the population problem Russia has, and has weakened Russia. Russia has squandered it’s military equipment & ammunition, slowly saved up since WW2, it is disappearing by the day, and the means of production to replace it fast enough does not exist on Russia’s 2x continents. Cheap fossil fuels to India does not make an alliance. Cheap fossil fuels to China (who can get fossil fuels from any other nation) & Russia outsourcing their production to China does not make Russia stronger. Once China is satisfied with how weak need Russia becomes, China might take back some of the land China ceded to Russia via treaty. At that point in time, Japan might take back their islands. Other European countries may take back their naval base, as well. Ukraine is likely to take back Crimea, denying Russia of another port… the Ukrainian port which Russia stole their sole aircraft carrier from. (Russia got many of their strategic bombers & missiles from Ukraine, after Western Powers made Ukraine concede them to Russia, for a lousy piece of paper that Russia & US & UK signed for the guarantee of Ukrainian borders.) In the end, and I don’t know why, Russia spanning 2 continents has nothing but people willing to die for their motherland, when the motherland can not even provide toilets & washing machines for their peoples spanning 2 continents. Stolen or coerced nuclear, naval, aerial, and missile technology is the only difference between Russia of 2020’s and Russia of 1800’s. What a disaster for Russian peoples. They were capable of so much more, but how many have already died in the Ukrainian meat grinder.
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But Hollywood went woke & wicked… consumers turned far east to South Korea
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x - “long before the West ever knew about it” Yep… corruption in Western Media abdicated their position & South Korea filled the vacuum. “you ought to be specific and just say the US” If I wanted to be specific, I would have, but the corruption came from Europe, landed on the coasts of North America, and the rot infected inward… so I would have been incorrect had I said just the US.
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Your comment was thoughtful and intriguing. I would suggest to you, that your last sentence is less than congruous with the rest of your comment. Russia, formerly with a GDP of South Korea, is not able to conquer the U.S., since Russia can not project hard or soft power like the U.S. Russia can no longer take over a neighboring nation, like Ukraine, even though Ukraine is fighting entirely with their own soldiers. China is interesting. The world hoped for so much more than what they had become. Largely, it was the US who kept China from extinguishing Korean Culture, with early Chinese occupation of Western Koreans [inland from their peninsula], then the Red takeover & subsequent Chinese propped up puppet dictatorships of North Korea, and finally with a million Chinese soldiers being beaten back to the current border of South Korea. The imperialism & genocide of people & cultures by nations like Russia & China [through the power of the gun] is less preferable to people making their own decisions via influence by soft power. The US has demonstrated their willingness to preserve peoples, vs destroying them (like Russia & China.) There are cultures in the US which are highly destructive [like woke culture], but the US is also a protector of various minority cultures both domestic & foreign [as long as they can maintain their cultures through their own due diligence.]
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@dolezhang9265 - “for some reason, Korean pop culture has changed from the periphery… to mainstream… political motives and reasons” Sometimes, when the world changes, in this case the Western World went woke, then other cultural elements have opportunity to fill in the mainstream gaps.
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As long as South Korea produces & exports reasonably non-wicked consumable media, the politics don’t matter in South Korea
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You are right, Cuba does not have the same culture as other Latin American nations. Cuba’s Communist culture is one of imperialism, foreign intervention, invasion. 1959 Panama invasion attempt 1959 Dominican Republic invasion attempt 1963 Algerian Sand War deployment 1964 / 1965 Congo intervention 1967 Venezuela Machurucuto raid 1972 Yemen war 1967-1973 Dominican Republic insurgency 1973-1975 Yom Kippur War, Cuban defeat & loss of Golan Heights to Israel, and Cuban retreat 1974-1975 Angola intervention 1973-1990 Cuban armed intervention in Chile 1977–1978 Cuban participation of Somali invasion of Ethiopia 1988 intervention & retreat in Angola 1992 failed Venezuelan coup d'état attempts 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts Nicaragua, Grenada, etc. Communist Cuban culture… a country of never ending wars
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Korean peoples are also split by Chinese occupiers, west of the peninsula, as well as by communists in North Korea. South Korea could be a much more significant player in the world, had communists not militarily acquired 2/3 of their land & people. Superpowers, like the US, are largely the only reason Korea exists as a culture & did not experience complete genocide at the hands of the Red Communists.
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“10% is all they need…” Anyone who has watched the wealthiest nation in South America implode knows they need far more than 10% of their current production. Rolling blackouts, not enough energy to supply water & sewage, not enough energy for people to transport themselves, not enough energy to farm land, etc. It is a great shame what happened to Venezuela, and demonstrates how Democracy can destroy a nation when representative constitutional republic is not well established. The greed of people in Venezuela destroyed their nation. Marxism proved to be nothing more than petty greed & theft, and mass theft results in mass poverty.
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It’s called a relative lack of wickedness that young people are looking for in a fairly dark western world. This is what some of my students tell me, in their attraction to Korean Media.
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x - two of the students were in college at the time, the other were in High School. They are from Refugees & Immigrant communities, and their morality is the reason why they excel & achieve, while others without language & culture become homeless & drug addicts.
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x - “so all…” No, refugees & immigrants. Few refugees are Christians, now a days— The West typically does not rescue them. Many students are from Syria, Iraq, Egypt. They have a variety of religious backgrounds. In their countries, people who do wicked behavior are thrown from buildings & stoned. These are not Christian commandments. You should be more aware of immigrant cultures and less bigoted against Western faith traditions which built Western Civilization (but now requires refugees & immigrants to survive.) They will grow up in The West, bring an alternative less wicked culture with them, and bring some other aspects which the modern West no longer considers acceptable. But that is ok, because the modern west is killing themselves through their own wicked behavior, and fewer will exist in the next generation, except proselytizing (like the Christians before them.) Ironically, The East is more appealing to refugees & immigrants, in many ways, because The West alienates them through destructive wicked behavior.
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“radical nationalist Christianity indoctrinated states on earth” Wow… sounds like a little bigotry there
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“radical nationalist Christianity indoctrinated states on earth” Wow… sounds of a little bigotry…
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