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ElectricSheep posted:I'm halfway through, it's pretty awesome and as someone not too familiar with South Korean media outside of like Bong Joon-Ho I'm pretty much like dang, economic stratification over there must be crazy cuz it's been a running theme in like everything I've happened to see Countries like South Korea went through the western type of development in record speed and in S. Korea's case it was even under a military regime until 1987 (people tend to forget that SK is a pretty young democracy) while having a country to the north dominated by "Communism" (quotes because there it really is just authoritarianism). Economic inequality in South Korea is similar to most western european countries and still better than in the USA (see Gini coefficient) but it's harder to ignore the negative sides of capitalism in a society which transitioned so fast into it (less time to culturally fully assimilate certain western influences) and not even as a true democracy which is another "interesting" factor in the asian world. In the west you often associate capitalism with "freedom" (democracy) but there are now plenty of examples in asia that successfully merged authoritarianism (or at least strong authoritarian elements) with a competetive capitalistic economy, one prime example of this is obviously Singapore (and ironically enough China though they certainly have twisted western capitalism as much as "communism"). This in my humble opinion leads to a very different approach in regards to topics like wealth inequality and the existing pressures under capitalism. It's also not as directly targeted at the pure economical theory, the critique in a lot of "asian" media seems to deeply care about the human element and how these societal systems/structures affect us. That's why media of this kind doesn't devolve into just rather superficial critique of "capatalism bad" but likes to explore how the system corrupts us while at the same time keeping us all as players in it. There are many inherent contradictions and never any easy answers/solutions . There are literally no "winners" in these stories, neither here nor in Parasite and so on => the personal tradegy of the characters is a reflection of a larger scale tragedy we can't escape though there is usually a glimmer of hope at the end so it at least suggests that change might be possible (without ever making it a statement about political ideology, it's always kept on a human/personal level).
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