#KOREA

[bride-of-frankenstein]

simply iconic

i’m so proud of korean women

[churrotowns]

the definition of aura

update: choose your fighter

[karlrincon]

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!

[sagwa397]

Korean miku

[zegalba]

Grasshopper's Dream Cafe Located: Jeongseon, South Korea

[bananahkim]

Korean 남사당(namsadang) Miku!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Starfield Library in South Korea

[2001hz]

Cho Gi-Seok: 'Bad Dream' (2023)

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe's army identification card as a "non-combatant" issued by the "Department of Defense of the United States of America", a document necessary for her planned tour in South Korea, February 1954.

[goobersplat]

Have some stickers! I got them from here. I thought they were so cute, please enjoy :) 👍

[iloveabortions]

Jong Sook Kim: ‘Artificial Landscape’ (2020)

[kopilot-pop]

Hi, I’m making a post because something very serious happened in Korea and I’m hoping as many people are alarmed at this.

Deepfake photos have been made and sold on telegram (an anonymous chatting app), and almost 220,000 users were identified for being in Korea. About 70% of those were teenagers, and a list of schools (including colleges) that had victims within the chatrooms in the past couple of years was posted.

My school was on the list and it has been identified that two of my close friends were direct victims.

So that’s why I’m making this post. It’s a little bit of a rant and it’s mostly my anger getting the best of me.

Waking up, finding girls BEGGING their friends to take down photos from their instagram profile, the terror we felt when we found out men were hacking into privated accounts to take revenge, watching my friend breakdown as she tells me that she’s being investigated because her face was deepfaked into pornographic content - can you imagine that? Because that was me two days ago.

Korea, as a whole, is extremely lenient on their criminals - especially sexual offenders and minors - and it’s TOO LENIENT on men.

This situation is not being reported as much as it needs to be, and I’m trying to grasp onto straws by alerting people that know my stupid account on how fucked up this country is.

Men are making friends-only stories saying shit like ‘Why are y’all concerned? Y’all are ugly af’ (this is a real post i had the pleasure of seeing), and people in general have this fucked up view on AI generated content saying shit like “Isn’t this better than actually getting assaulted?”, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

I have to go to school. I have to walk around campus with the fear that maybe, just maybe, the man I walked past just now has seen a deepfaked photo of my friends. The perpetrator’s aren’t limited to simply the number of accounts within the group chat - what if they passed their phones? What if they texted the photos to each other after making them on the telegram? Our school has a big dormitory - what happens within those walls FILLED with men?? The more I have to think about it, the more sick it makes me.

I am not being the most informative and rambling more than anything. But my excuse is that there aren’t many reports and credible sources talking about this. So I’m going off on my personal experience as much as possible.

Please, people - especially women - be fucking warned about this situation. My country is one of the biggest perpetrators, but that doesn’t mean this deepfake issue isn’t (already) worldwide. It’s gonna get bigger, it’s gonna get more dangerous, and it should be making you sick to your stomach.

I hope all victims, including including my friends, get the justice they deserve.

Please, stay safe.

[catdotjpeg]

11 Feb 2024, Lunar New Year vigil for Palestine led by Nodutdol and 30+ Korean, Palestinian, Asian American, and anti-war organizations, Queens, NY

The text on the kite in the first photo comes from "If I Must Die" by Palestinian martyr, poet, and educator Refaat Alareer; the text on the placard in the second photo comes from a quote by the Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

[zegalba]

Ahn Jong Yuen: EclecticStills (1995)

[toweringclam]

Wait wait stop the presses! No more comparing Lois Lane to Luz Noceda. She's actually Korean.