#Koreans

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unannounced late-night TV address Tuesday, accusing the country’s main opposition party of sympathizing with North Korea and anti-state activities. But soon after, South Korean lawmakers voted to block the martial law decree.

The president is obligated to comply with the vote under South Korean law. However, it is unclear whether that will happen. The martial law decree published shortly before lawmakers assembled in parliament declared all political and parliamentary activities to be prohibited.

Regardless, the president’s cabinet must “deliberate” and review the decision to lift martial law, according to the constitution. more at CNN

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No words to describe what we Koreans feel like now. But we know what we should do next and we will do it.

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Deportation of Soviet Koreans

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South Koreans for Palestinian Liberation 🇰🇷🇵🇸

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North Koreans soldiers captured

[anxiouspark]

I don't exactly know what "uri [우리] " translates to but it's something along the lines of "us" and so you know how (in kds) they use it as such a precious word as in how "us" makes some people blush is so intimate like it's that *'Raazi' pic where the couple were just listening to music while looking at each other* energy and it makes the word feel like such a fragile thing such a big deal and how if used as a slip of tongue results in a double take by the other person.

It's like the conjunction blurs it's not a you and me anymore it's us

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U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul. Note M-1 rifles and Browning Automatic Rifles carried by the Marines, dead Koreans in the street, and M-4 "Sherman" tanks in the distance.

U.S. Marines fighting in Seoul, Korea, Sept. 1950

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.*✦다음과 같음 ..✦ * ˚

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☆★ 𓆩 왜 아? 𓆪

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[koreanmillionaires]

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White people are so insecure about being made fun of they're trying so hard to make "reverse racism" a thing, korean and Japanese people aren't white where did anon even get that idea from?????

idk if this is with me or against me but it’s so funny how white people wanna play the victim and be all sad when we make fun of them, like it is just making fun of you.. you’d rather go through what poc went through?? What you put them through? 😭

they can cry all they want, I am not gonna stop joking about them just because “i don’t like being made fun of” like cmon be fr.

YEA EXACTLY? Theyre poc, NOT WHITE! Y’all would never be referred to as such a thing

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A Ghost Day l Min HyunWoo l Contemporary Korean dance

[outsidethebeautybox]

Manifesting a Beautiful Ending

For some unfathomable reason, it seems that modern society has decided to start ‘ranking’ racism, and we have decided that some kinds of racism are ‘not that bad.’

While most people in the western world have (finally) acknowledged that racism is very wrong when directed toward black people, many many people still seem to think it’s acceptable to be racist toward white people and other more specific ethnic groups. 

It’s absolutely baffling. 

Bigotry is always wrong, no matter who you hate. And yet, you don’t have to look far to find people making harsh or unkind statements about people of European descent. Many people in this diaspora even make disparaging comments about themselves. It feels like some kind of dichotomous charade - they play along with the prevailing idea that white people are ‘the enemy’ so that people of color will feel more comfortable around them. 

It is 100% possible to say “I’m not a white supremasist” without disrespecting your diaspora, your family and your loved ones. Self-hate is no better than any other kind of hate. 

Maybe this is all hard for me to wrap my head around because of MY ancestry. As a hispanic, I’m white, indigenous, and african by blood. I can’t logically villainize anyone without villainizing myself, and I have no interest in doing either.

Some of my grandfathers were conquerors. Some of my contemporaries are criminals. But that’s not true of ALL of us and we are not defined by anyone’s actions but our own. 

It is just plain wrong (period, point blank) to dislike anyone because of a few strands of DNA they never asked for and can’t control.

In my perfect world, we can all just get over these ridiculous ethnic boundaries and learn to love each other.

Unfortunately, my perfect world doesn’t exist, and sometimes people don’t even want to be civil to each other.

As some of you may remember, earlier in 2024, I tried to make a webcomic with a Eurasian (Filipino and white American) illustrator. This comic was about a Korean painter and an African American school teacher.

While the illustrator didn’t seem to have any problem with African Americans, we had been working together for a few weeks when she expressed a rather negative attitude toward Koreans.

To me, it felt random, and a little confusing. She claimed she’d had Korean friends before, but also said she “wasn’t a fan of Koreans.”

In my mind, those concepts can’t coexist. If you love someone, you have to love all of them.

You can’t love me and hate the blood in my veins, so neither can you love someone while expressing unwarranted dislike for their ethnicity at large.

To be fair, I’m Dominican and African American, so I don’t know much about racial tensions between Koreans and Filipinos, if that’s a ‘thing.’ This artist told me that Koreans are often unkind to Filipinos, but I also know there is a statue in Yeoncheon, South Korea, which was built in honor of Filipino soldiers who fought in the Korean war.

Some people will be cruel. Some people will be kind. Some will show disrespect. Some will show love and gratitude. You can’t pass judgement on someone because of their ethnicity. The only fair way to interact with anyone is to remember that they are an individual.

We are the sum of our own actions, not anyone else’s.

Again, maybe it’s because of MY ancestry. 

I’m black. There is no culture (that I know of) with a history of treating my people kindly. 

Some people of European descent enslaved and brutalized my people, especially in the Americas. To this very day (some) Filipinos are still cruel to their own brothers and sisters for having dark skin or curly hair. I have both traits, but I choose not to pass judgement on any individual because certain other individuals choose to be unkind.

No matter what our diasporas becomes known for, we each have a chance to be different.

I eventually stopped working with this artist, and when she sent her ‘break up’ message, she mentioned that she didn’t like that the story we were making was about Koreans.

It’s mind-boggling to me that she didn’t realize this was racism, front and center.

There is no excuse for it. It cannot be justified. It is always wrong, and I will always oppose it, because we all deserve a chance to express ourselves without fear of being profiled for the color of our skin, the texture of our hair, or the shape of our eyes.

I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll say it again: I think art can be a form of self healing. Through writing we can learn to love ourselves and others. We can put bandaids on centuries of racial tension, colonization, and abuse - manifesting beauty and positivity, even if we’ve never experienced them (yet.)

I've never had a pleasant experience with a Filipino person. I've also only ever known two Filipinos, and I refuse to judge the whole culture on the behavior of two people. I still listen to (and love) Amie Chan, Lyn Lapid, and Mico. I still write Filipino characters in my stories (I actually just created another one last week) From quirky-cute female leads to sarcastic superheroes, I manifest love through my decision to positively represent a diaspora that has never been kind to me.

Maybe someday things will be different.

It’s my job to bring that day a little closer by choosing love instead of hate and bigotry.

I hope that, someday, we’ll live in a world where racism ceases to exist. We’ll all go ‘color blind’ and people will just be people, without extra adjectives or labels.

For now, I choose to believe there are beautiful people hiding beneath every label and umbrella term. I’m going to draw them. I’m going to write about them. I’m going to keep looking for them.

If you want beauty, you will always be able to find it. If you want hurt and hatred, you will always be able to find it.

The night sky is as dark and foreboding as anything, but it’s also full of stars.

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(SOUND)Cutlassfish Shin Ramyun boiled by Japanese people ! https://en.imgtag.co.kr/issue/808886/?feed_id=2131823&_unique_id=6796fbd097cf1

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Koreans recognized 100 million won image text translation