• SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    The things that accuse Korea of is not that outlandish, especially if you are living in a place with a monarch. We don’t need to go that many years back before it was commonplace for public spaces like hotels or community halls to hang portraits of the royals. People had that shit in their homes as well, like my great grandfather who had an honest to God equestrian statue of the king sitting on his desk.

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        8 months ago

        Of course western media and the grifters feeding them tall tales about Korea are going to exaggerate things. I’m just remarking that the core of the story, that there’s lots of portraits of the Kims in Korea, is not something completely alien to western societies.