https://w2g.tv/?r=1553lgsjk19p64nz9j

 

here we go. I have no idea what we're supposed to be watching today but I've uploaded the latest Run Jin

5 hours ago, Faithyu said:

So, I have now seen three different videos on the nj hearing from a korean perspective and they all say the ceo did a great job. She behaved the best way she could as a women in front of this assembly and gave the politicians nothing. Nothing they could use to build some kind of case on, only politeness and evaded every trapp they had thrown her way.

Seems like the cultural difference plays a larger role in what we would expect as "right" behavior then we thought.

 

I don't think it's so much about cultural differences but being in the known on how the national assembly in Korea works. From what I have seen in these past years (even before I started to follow BTS), they're all ridiculous. Too much male testosterone, obviously with a massive spoonful of misogyny. They love to make women look like fools and this lady keeping her cool, not falling into their traps and basically coming out as a better person has left them angry. 

 

I haven't seen any Korean takes on this yet, curious as to hear was Sean has to say since he is very well versed in both western and Korean culture.

52 minutes ago, Whoopiewoop said:

 

I don't think it's so much about cultural differences but being in the known on how the national assembly in Korea works. From what I have seen in these past years (even before I started to follow BTS), they're all ridiculous. Too much male testosterone, obviously with a massive spoonful of misogyny. They love to make women look like fools and this lady keeping her cool, not falling into their traps and basically coming out as a better person has left them angry. 

 

I haven't seen any Korean takes on this yet, curious as to hear was Sean has to say since he is very well versed in both western and Korean culture.

Yeah, I want his take. And this particular SK government was elected on a tidal wave of anti-feminist backlash from incels, so only to be expected, but it wasn't great before that either

53 minutes ago, Whoopiewoop said:

 

I don't think it's so much about cultural differences but being in the known on how the national assembly in Korea works. From what I have seen in these past years (even before I started to follow BTS), they're all ridiculous. Too much male testosterone, obviously with a massive spoonful of misogyny. They love to make women look like fools and this lady keeping her cool, not falling into their traps and basically coming out as a better person has left them angry. 

 

I haven't seen any Korean takes on this yet, curious as to hear was Sean has to say since he is very well versed in both western and Korean culture.

Misogynists yes, yet the little Hanni can cry and get their sympathy - probably because she's playing the preferred "woman as victim" role.  But it's good that the ceo stayed strong and was not bullied. 

 

I wonder if we really can ask Jin questions with this -:

 

 

Interesting, he said exactly what I wrote above.

 

I had to cringe at his cookie reference though and everything attached to it. These topics make me so uncomfortable for personal reasons.

 

Now that Brazilian ARMY is back on twitter after the temporary ban by the government, they're putting K-ARMY under the guillotine for not protecting/defending Yoongi in a more vocal way (and I agree with them). It's funny to see but sad. It all boils down, again, to culture differences but if Koreans keep remaining silent during such social injustices and just keep on being keyboard warriors they will accomplish nothing.

 

I'm bummed that I won't be able to buy Jin's album  But Festa in Korea is a priority for me and every ££££ I can spare will go into the savings pot.

 

14 minutes ago, barbara said:

Misogynists yes, yet the little Hanni can cry and get their sympathy - probably because she's playing the preferred "woman as victim" role.  But it's good that the ceo stayed strong and was not bullied. 

 

I wonder if we really can ask Jin questions with this -:

 

 

Is he also going to be thrown into a pool of balls with all these questions? xD

18 minutes ago, Whoopiewoop said:

I had to cringe at his cookie reference though and everything attached

I hate that that was one of their debut songs. It was entirely inappropriate from the very start and is a big reason why I think MHJ is a pedo

22 minutes ago, Whoopiewoop said:

Now that Brazilian ARMY is back on twitter after the temporary ban by the government, they're putting K-ARMY under the guillotine for not protecting/defending Yoongi in a more vocal way (and I agree with them). It's funny to see but sad. It all boils down, again, to culture differences but if Koreans keep remaining silent during such social injustices and just keep on being keyboard warriors they will accomplish nothing.

I'm with Brazil on this one, too. I kinda got a gut feeling that at least some of the K-ARMY silence was a tactic pushed by antis masquerading as ARMYS in order to quell K-ARMY showing support

This makes me positively nauseous. Sick sick sick.

 

I do not understand where K-ARMY is with this.  They do know how powerless they probably are and how standing up to cultural and political "norms" will come back and bite them.  Think "Spring Day".  Still hoping that sense prevails with any conclusion.

 

 

Just a funny post -- (but it did occur to me that mhj chose Hanni to talk to the government commission because she isn't Korean.  It would be a cultural no-no to be looking at a Korean girl --or very, very young Korean woman - like those oid men are looking at hanni.)

 

so , just worth a little laugh 

 

 

Gorgeous! 

 

 

3 hours ago, ralucutzagy said:

 

 

When was the last time you saw a computer that looked like this one?

12 hours ago, barbara said:

When was the last time you saw a computer that looked like this one?

I think it's an early Mac... and the last time I used one was the esrly 90s, but there were still a few hanging around my department at work wwhen I started there in '99. I think we finally tossed it somewhere around 2008

 

The thing that threw me for a loop was the electric typewriter... even in the very early days of desk top computing, you wouldn't have seen a typewriter and a computer on the same desk

I finished watching the last episode of Are You Sure?, and all I can say is, watching those two sillies try to get into a too-hot hot tub was the most healing thing I've seen in a long time 

On 10/18/2024 at 9:04 PM, Whoopiewoop said:

I haven't seen any Korean takes on this yet, curious as to hear was Sean has to say since he is very well versed in both western and Korean culture.

 

I watched soulite (i think thats sean?), asian entertainment, hybe boy and another one that popped up in my feed, but haven't found it again, cause it was not something I normally watch🫤. Will share if I find it again.

 

The next big date is the 25ths, when the judge will rule over mhj's last injunction......