South Korea

Not to be confused with North Korea.Nationnation state

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Capital city	Seoul
Location	South East Asia, Asia
Leader	South Korea/President
Type	nation state
Subgroups	South Korea/National Intelligence Service
Part of the great powers of Asia, South Korea was shaped by the US after the Korean War. Most companies in the entertainment and tech industries are owned antidemocratic by rich families that operate like governments of their own, bribing presidents and evading the law.

South Korea is the southern half of the Korean peninsular, surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean. In 2013, it was #11 in the world in terms of military expenditure. Most companies in the entertainment and tech industries are owned sorely by rich families that operate like governments of their own, bribing presidents.

History

South Korea was divided from North Korea along the 38th parallel on the conclusion of World War II. This was initially understood as a temporary measure. The border was confirmed after the Korean War, but no treaty was signed, although the border remains in fact to this day. Donald Trump was the first US President to enter North Korea in 2019 from the South Korean border.

Deep state

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South Korea is led by families that own the biggest tech and entertainment companies in Asia. The families are called Chaebols, South Korean for "rich clique". The South Korean Deep state was set up - like the Japanese one - by the US Deep state since the country was established following WW2. The first President, Syngman Rhee, a US puppet, ruled from 1948-60. He was replaced following a huge uprising, but US control remained.

In 2012, the Korean National Intelligence Service engaged in election fraud using trolls to try to get Park Geun-hye, their chosen puppet leader elected as President.

Park Geun-hye

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Park Geun-hye

Park Geun-hye was elected in 2012 as a puppet leader, after being elected with the help of the Korean National Intelligence Service. The director, Won Sei-hoon‎, was charged with electoral fraud and graft.

Since Autumn 2016, a wave of political discontent engulfed South Korea, as the public discovered that the President Park Geun-hye was being controlled by one of her aides. Millions of people took part in demonstrations against her in Seoul and her popularity dipped as low as 4%. She was replaced on 10 March 2017.

Mass Surveillance

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“Korea, on the surface, seems like a very rich and glamorous country now, with K-pop, high-speed internet and IT technology. But the relative wealth between rich and poor is widening. The younger generation, in particular, feels a lot of despair.”
Bong Joon-Ho (2020) 

In June 2015, acting South Korean Prime Minister Choi Kyung-hwan announced that the government would use cell phone signals to track people if it has quarantined them for possible Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, asking people to "Please understand this is an unavoidable measure for the sake of our neighbors and families".

In 2011, after a surge of online harassment, death threats and online bad behavior according to government officials, Korean government officials required websites with more than 100,000 visitors per day to require users to register with their real names by identifying via a phone number coupled with an online portal coupled to a government site. Within a few months, Korean hackers stole 35 million Koreans their numbers and personal information coupled with these accounts on these websites. A court called the law inhumane in 2012 as well.

Policy

In 2020 the South Korean government announced plans to switch all 3.3 million of its computers to Linux.

State-controlled prostitution

Between the end of the Korean War and the early 1990s, more than one million Korean women were caught up in a state-controlled prostitution industry that was blessed at the highest levels by the U.S. military. They worked in special zones surrounding U.S. bases—areas licensed by the South Korean government, reserved exclusively for American troops, and monitored and policed by the U.S. Army. When GIs would attack or abuse Korean sex workers and other civilians living in the camp towns, their criminal liability was limited; the Status of Forces Agreement between the two countries stipulated that all crimes by U.S. personnel fell exclusively under the jurisdiction of U.S. military courts. At the peak of U.S. troop strength in the 1980s, the kijichon economy contributed 5 percent of South Korea’s gross domestic product. By the mid-1990s, Korean sex workers had been replaced by women from other parts of of the world.

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