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jentlemahae · 11 months ago
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if knets said jump sm would ask how high
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ooblech · 3 months ago
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i wonder if post god's menu stays realise how much of a shift that era was for skz? like obviously you can see retroactively by looking back at their discography irt their sonic signature, but i don't think people who weren't there can seriously grasp how big of a shock it was, they went from stan twitter's favourite punching bag to one of kpop's biggest up and comers practically overnight. they were already relatively popular by virtue of being a big 3 group, and they'd had a bit of success with miroh and less prominently my pace, but the absolute explosion after god's menu and their continued upward trajectory ever since was completely unprecedented for them. and especially given that they had JUST dropped a member. kpop groups do not tend to have massive spikes in popularity after losing members, and when levanter dropped we were all incredibly anxious for skz's future because it looked so bleak. we were crying cheering throwing up over ONE MUSIC SHOW WIN. ONE. they used to be less famous than everglow. do you understand me? are you understanding me.
#everglow's downfall has had kpop twitter's finest scholars scratching their heads for years#mismanagement and massive gaps between releases are probably the biggest culprits#but i think we all need to hold hands and accept that they were never going to be the next blackpink. the timing of it just wasn't right.#skz's timing on the other hand was literally perfect down to the millisecond.#i know we like to talk about how hard they work and all but i don't think we can discount how much sheer luck was involved#because i do not believe that jype or even the kids were paying that much attention to the timing of releases. like be real with me#and also their exponential growth in popularity as bts stopped being so active was not a coincidence at all#bts as a group stopped gaining as many new fans when they started solo activities and the members started military service#both due to a decrease in new music and their new music being so different from what made them appealing to young people in the first place#same with exo to a lesser degree because they never got as famous as bangtan#that left a vacuum at the top which skz stumbled into pretty naturally given their newfound and still growing popularity#all those new gen fans who were looking for the next biggest thing found skz#and with the sheer amount of content they put out they're the natural choice for a middle school kpop fan with too much time on their hands#i know that people still argue that txt is the biggest 4th gen boygroup but i'm not interested in falsifying narratives like moas are#< joke.#i know skz and txt were tussling for most popular for a while especially in 2020 and 2021#but after kingdom it just stopped being a competition. you can probably still argue that txt are more popular in sk#but with skz consistently marketing themselves as a global group theyve never done as well in sk as they have abroad that's just the truth#im not on twitter anymore so i cant obsessively monitor the trends anymore but also i don't need to because skz have come out on top. LOL#5 years and im vindicated at last.#take THAT 2019 kpop twitter.... <- man who hasn't gotten over anything ever in their life
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taviokapudding · 11 months ago
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Israel's pr team is painfully stupid and really verifies what unchecked propaganda and racism does to the general intelligence & common sense after 3-4 generations have passed.
If you haven't heard about the English copy-paste death threat letters sent to members of the SK government (yes, English, not Hangul) and the follow up fake terrorist attack video to simulate Seoul getting fucked on Christmas posted to the Israel-SK embassy website- you need to go look into it because
And I am fully not kidding when I say it
South Korea's government majority would still be on board with the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian nation because they'd just be aggressively lied too or not given the full picture by the US intelligence partnership
Now the US is trying to act like that one pathetic girl we all knew in high-school who'd speak on behalf of the popular bully (Israel) to the patient but getting more and more pissed off yet popular nerd (SK)
If the US and Israel had funded good education systems instead of propaganda machine based educations, both governing bodies would know not to fuck around with the 1 nation who has a lot of very fresh & still healing wounds when it comes to occupations. Doubly on fucking Christmas
It's safe to say that when the time comes, SK will be a key player in dismantling the governing body of Israel after these last 2 horrible pr moves.
And, as a USnetizen, I hope Knetizens really join the global calls to boycott companies in support of Israel because both pr moves are gaslighting & manipulative af. I hate the fact my government's bs partially lead to all that fake terrorist attack footage shit on Christmas and the best way to punish my government is making the rich who puppet them cry.
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xcziel · 9 months ago
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this has been sitting in my drafts as a response to some ideas that were circulating online a week or two ago due to that bang sihyuk interview, and it's clumsily worded but i still feel like it's a valid take so i'm just posting anyway. i'm not a music professional or connected to the industry, so if i'm far wrong just ignore this random post. i just get frustrated that for all the talk of strategy etc. everyone seems to act like bts (and by extension jk) are an established *western* act while either still promoting like a kpop act in sk schedule-wise or like a beyonce/tswift level act (which ... yeah duh) with vast u.s. name recognition (not so much) - and then wondering what's not clicking
idk about this "crisis" but i know one thing has struck me about the kpop and sk press and kpop stans in general
i touched on it back when i was talking in my tags about like crazy getting traction in the us
and what i meant was that those involved in kpop are too blinded by the industry cycle and too used to that cycle's accelerated evaluation by stans and press alike
like no one in the us who is not already a fan is waiting on the day of release to listen stream and buy. it is NOT like sk with weekly shows, several comebacks per year, etc etc
and most especially it's not this thing of: create song, choreo, mv, do a spate of music shows, see what hits if anything, maybe leverage concert dates if it does - but if not then done! next concept! move on and keep it moving - got to fill those music shows and if you don't constantly have new pieces to show you could lose attention and traction
but the general public in the u.s. is NOT socialized to all tune in to check out what's new at a certain time each week or whatever
only some check the charts and even that is mostly just to see where their personal fave is
what gp recognition goes by is repetition (that's one reason why radio is weighted so heavily in ratings- not fairly, but it's true): have we heard a song before? was it in the car on the way? was it in the club? was it in the music in the background at a store, at a party, on a friend's playlist?
when americans say they heard a song "everywhere" it means literally you could not escape it - and for that kind of feeling or environment to exist, it has to happen over *t i m e*
true, yes, sometimes a song takes off and gallops out of control like a wildfire catching but that is the exception not something that can be planned for or marketed into existence
and once you are a big enough name and have enough fans (us population @ 330 million so ... a lot more fans than it take to equal the same percentage of sales in sk ... so only a sliver of a percentage of that can mean a #1 bb hot 100) you CAN get that immediate-drop chart push
but most of the time, u.s. artists need to build up name recognition with the folks who wouldn't know a music chart if it popped up in their excel spreadsheets. that's why you get youtube reactors or even music business professionals months after release going oh i didn't know they even had an album/track/mv out
the larger a group, the longer it takes for things to disseminate past the early adopters and the media who watch them and the industry (nobody wants to be left behind, so journalists/talking heads are always like pets when you walk into the kitchen: heads on swivels in case it turns out relevant, and will write things just to be on top of a possible trend)
and this is where, i think, after watching hybe and its american arm try their push on jk, the kpop focalists are veering astray in their plans and projections: not seeing immediate huge success (or not *sustained* huge success) they think there is some kind of crisis rather than understanding that a u.s. or even just western gp fandom cannot be a top-down thing - it will take time
bts are huge (and yes a triumph for bts IS NOT and SHOULD not be lumped in as "a win" for kpop in general as has been pointed out is too often the case) but in the first days of jk's album release, *2 months* after seven had debuted, the huge nationwide retailer where i work couldn't even get his name spelled correctly in the point-of-sale database, so
the u.s. music industry is a big machine and busy on its own, many listeners only stay in their own bubbles and don't pay attention to anything outside that, because just keeping up with the output of one scene or genre can take as much effort as watching the kpop industry as a whole
to break wide you need to be either insanely ubiquitous and not just on social media (which runs the risk of people getting sick of you just as fast) or you need the slower groundswell of people going from "oh *that's* them? i heard of them but i didn't know that was their song" to "omg that's my song!! turn it up!"
there's just too much out there today to catch people's attention and the media cycle turns ever faster - used to, a song could be out and getting steady radio play and it still wouldn't hit the consciousness of the national public for like 3 or 4 months sometimes. sometimes it could take a year or more.
so this thing of short promotion periods for kpop acts - even bts! - is just not viable as a way to attract a wide gp following in the states. being on late night tv shows is a good step, but since the advent of streaming the influence of shows like that has waned considerably since the days of ed sullivan or johnny carson.
jk's run of promoting *was* the right kind of thing to do in fact - it simply should have been much more spread out over time. you can see all his album collab artists have things coming out *now* ... and there's no way to really take advantage of that with the curtailed promo.
and yes, obviously jk did get probably the second longest promo period of all of bts chapter 2 solos efforts (i think yg's tour ran longer?) and it was cut off for very valid reason! but!
i think bangpd et al. taking the fact that they couldn't make jk a household name in the u.s. nor nab him a grammy nom (nor any other kpop groups) within the 5-6 months of their fairly blatant push for us recognition as indicating a "crisis" is just not looking at the long game.
they didn't get all the accolades right away, so it seems they've decided 'that didn't work we need to make some big changes' instead of continuing what they'd been doing in support of the artists
it's this attitude of welp they didn't give us a grammy we were entitled to even though it's the first time we played ball in this particular way, so now we're worried bc we don't know how to shop kpop beyond people who aren't primed for it
like, they are looking at the business of it, and likely accurately, but not at the audience itself
it's not that the observations bang is making are wrong i just think he is basing them off premature information - songs in the u.s. DO benefit from purchase power, but they ALSO rely a lot on word of mouth. not for charts positions necessarily, but for longterm growth, support, and more importantly demand, you cannot beat a fandom that grows on its own.
the paid promotions at the end of the day serve the same purpose as bts's early days vlogs in the current western music climate - getting the artist and songs in front of as many eyes and ears as possible. but then you have to allow time for that wave to spread - and the bigger the pond, the more time it may take
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energynews247 · 2 years ago
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19
2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19 Posted on 14 May 2023 by BaerbelW A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 7, 2023 thru Sat, May 13, 2023. This week, several shared articles did quite well on our Facebook page: Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television…
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mvrkieboo · 3 months ago
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justice for the victim. justice for all of the women in south korea who are victims to egregious misogyny, cyber and non cyber sexual harassment, sexual molestation and sexual crimes.
as I am also part of the percentage of women who have experienced sexual assault before, i plead to all of my fellow female czennies to prioritize your identity as a woman first before being a fan.
this is not a kpop scandal, this is a sexual crime case. how can you defend a man who relies on your interest in him for his livelihood over a fellow woman who has experienced what you have experienced, whose nightmare experience is a gruesome reality for women all around the world?
you are a woman first before you are a fan.
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i also want to point out that there is currently a movement in south korea where south korean women are now refusing to marry and procreate with south korean men as a form of protest for the deeply rooted misogyny in sk culture, legal system and how it's all around them altogether (search : 4B movement in south korea) because of this misogyny, crimes against women (sexual crimes especially) are usually punished with a slap on the wrist. messed up, right?
if you've been on twt and your feed algo is anything like mine, you would know that south korean women are BEGGING the global audience to shed light on their fight because even their own media scarcely covers it.
just the other day a south korean woman made a thread of how she discovered her older brother had been secretly taking inappropriate pictures of her when she had been a minor and her brother a collegiate. the outcome of this being known by their parents is that;
1. no police reports were made even though her brother basically curated and DISTRIBUTED cp of her through telegram
2. the parents slapped her for retaliating against her brother by beating him with a baseball bat
3. the parents pressuring her to forgive him and get along like they used to
and even though it's an uncomfortable truth, these kinds of horrors are common in sk—and the legal system let these assholes slide. the government is responding to this nationwide issue that is currently crippling its birthrate by doing nothing—but instead try to give incentives for younger people to marry and procreate.
i know you're devastated by the news of taeil being dropped out of nct for being charged with such a heinous crime, i know you're worried that this might taint nct forever as a group and might cripple them in the long run. im worried for nct too, but i beg of you to see the bigger picture.
it is estimated that 70% of sk men are involved in these telegram gcs, in which they would share inappropriate pictures of women (strangers, friends, and even OWN FAMILY MEMBERS) around, and would even curate and distribute deepfake porn of MINORS.
your bg idols are still men. if even allegations of them are out, PLEASE side with the victims first because you do not know these men personally, and they're relying on you to earn money.
sk women are crying out for help and this is the fight that we should be focused on.
help them. all you have to do is just listen to them.
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peppertaemint · 2 years ago
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I'm sure it was on ILA that I saw a guy who was super close to his fansite. He had video calls with her and his management team; be basically considered her a key player in his business and was on really good terms with her. I'm not suggesting that's the case here but my guess would be that these types of business relationships are normalized and for some the relationship is probably quite strong and involved a lot of trust.
B&W was also at fifa right? Is that different from them being at Dior?
Dior did open registrations, I don't know if that is how B&W was able to get in.
They weren't the only fansite that went to Dior. Jimin's 3 or 4 more fs also went there. There was also a vmin fs who went there. But all those were outside, only B&W could go inside looks like. A couple of Jimin focused accounts (like allforJimin) were also enquiring if there was a way to get in.
The other thing I noticed is, both Jimin and Jungkook seem to recognise B&W and seem comfortable posing for them. Which is interesting, cause i don't see them or any one being so comfortable with their fansites.
Yes, B&W was at the Fifa World Cup, but anyone was able to go. Entrance based on ticket purchase. She was on the stadium, not backstage with Jungkook.
I know other fansites were at the Dior show, which is to be expected. The major ones usually go wherever the idol has a schedule. It's a business for them too. But then again, only one actually got inside. How that happened, I do not know. In what I added to the reblogged post was merely speculation on my part, given what I know and have observed. I don't have access to other information. Maybe others do, or know a lot more details about this and perhaps I'm missing or overlooking something essential here that might explain everything, but for now, that's all I can say. Tbh, if I were B&W, I too wouldn't reveal much or nothing at all about this to anyone who is outside my own circle. So if it will remain a mystery, then so be it.
As to recognizing and being comfortable with fansites, I was actually curious and talked about this with other people because I was wondering if this is the case with other fansites, in particular ones directly connected to a ship/duo. Did Jungkook or Jimin recognize and acknowledge multiple times other similar fansites, say for example related to taekook, vmin, yoonmin and or any other combination out there? Because it's easy to imply there's some special ''relationship'' there if we have only one duo in mind which gets spoken about in a circle related to that duo. I'm not saying it's not true re B&W with Jimin and Jungkook. Not all that. I'm just curious if this happens or not in other situations.
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seoul-bros · 3 months ago
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Jikook Week 38 Complete (27/08 - 03/09/2024)
Their 38th week in the military is now complete and it's time to celebrate this milestone with a look back at this week in 2019.
BTS were on an extended break which was announced by Big Hit on the 11th August and lasted until 16th September 2019 when BTS headed to New Zealand to film Bon Voyage 4.
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This week Jimin was in Paris on holiday with his mate from W Korea.
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But that didn't stop him leaving a birthday message for JK from the streets of Paris.....
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....and then travelling back to South Korea to shower him with gifts and celebrate his birthday with him......before flying out to Hawaii with Ha Sung Woon the next day.
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Yep sorry, I buried the lead, the really big news this week was JK's birthday. He was 22 in global terms, 23 in SK terms and Big Hit released some fab photos to celebrate the day. Duality thy name is Jungkook.
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In addition to Jimin's greetings, J-Hope, Tae, Suga and RM all left on-line birthday messages for JK. BTS always pushing for humour in their birthday tweets and in that way always giving a little bit more insight into their own and the birthday boy's personality. Shame they aren't doing that so much these days but it has been a while since they were all together and able to catch such candid moments.
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By the time this goes up, JK's 2024 birthday will be over but I hope that he has the chance to take some time off and enjoy the day. At least he will have someone who loves him there to celebrate with him.
Post Date: 03/09/2024
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briebysabs · 4 months ago
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I’ve seen some grumbling that the ORV anime would further censor the gayness surrounding joongdok. And while I get that with it following the webtoon which is already toned down, I trust a Japanese animated studio to lure in the masses with yaoi.
Whether it’s official art, interviews, the voice acting, the songs. Like don’t worry guys, the OPs and EDs are gonna be gay as hell. Especially the further we go in the story and it becomes more introspective/personal than action-focused.
While lgbt marriage is still illegal in Japan and censoring in its media obviously still occurs, many hurdles remain for creators to represent what they truly want or to simply leave in subtext. But compared to SK and especially China, I feel like Japan is less strict with this sort of thing. Plus they also know and will hone on the fact that orv is a project meant for a global audience.
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solarwynd · 1 month ago
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someone in your last post commented on 7 saying that it’s a “monster global hit” but i don’t see it that way bc it literally was only used on tiktok bc a lot of ppl got paid to promote it and bc jk was on tiktok liking/commenting on every video which lead to make those videos popular by armys but other than that no one genuinely likes that song or thinks it’s a hit apart from armys or kpoptw (only bcs koreans “idols” eat the most basic pop songs 🥴). 7 sounds exactly that same way as yummy from jb sounds to me, so basically, pretty shitty lmao
idk i feel like the hype only lasted for like 3/5 months? and it was mainly bc he got time to promote it in US/UK/SK. meanwhile LC, even tho was practically BANNED from tiktok, got way more hype on twitter than any other solo song on 2023 (and this year as well) hit tweet after hit tweet about how good of a song it is 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ and it was the first and only solo song IN KOREAN to reach 1B streams on spotify sooo…… 🤭
People just call seven a hit because it did well, but nobody can honestly say that song holds any real reverence. When armys talk about seven, they purely mention its achievements not the quality of the song itself. For Like Crazy it’s the complete opposite. I don’t think LC was some crazy huge hit either. For one like you said it was suppressed from even having hopes of being that. But for the reach that it did have, everyone generally agrees that it’s a very good song.
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describe-things · 4 months ago
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[ID :A screenshot of a tweet by sk / kirkxxs that reads: "No offense but many of you are just not equipped to talk politics with me when your worldview is decidedly American and driven by an overarching singular issue of 'protecting home' without realizing what that costs globally and how many at home also lose because of it.". It was posted on July 21st, 2024, at 2:31 PM. End ID.]
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yuzuyoon · 3 months ago
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Is it normal for a singer to only listen to his own songs? Over and over again? How is a singer going to grow if he only listens to himself?
Oh, wait. Come to think of it, that explains a lot.
Jungkook: Me, me, me, me...but enough about me. Let's talk about YOU. What do you think of me?
Jimin, listen to me, please. YOU can do better.
weren't the are you sure episodes recorded over like 3 days or something? we know they started during the seven gma performance, which was was during seven's promo period. what we saw of jungkook singing seven over and over and doing the choreo and etc is just because it was seven's promotional period. jungkook had probably been listening to seven hundreds of times in a short period of time and had it stuck in his head at least half the time. and even then, he was probably just practicing for whatever performances come next.
i know when new releases come out from any artist i like, the first few weeks is just me singing along randomly, learning the dance and then dancing along randomly, etc so i wouldnt be surprised if it was just jk having the song stuck on loop in his head and needing to sing to get it out, or even him just being excited that he released a new song. if this show was filmed months after seven...then i would be concerned.
and yeah, he does talk a lot about himself. even when he's giving advice to jimin, it's unsolicited and from a place of "i can do better than that and in my opinion what you're doing doesn't sound good."
i really admire jimin for being so humble. he is a global popstar with tens of millions of fans, big award nominations, songs with billions of streams, and he acts like none of that is relevant to how he lives. he heard like crazy was in top 5 for top 50 sk and looked actually surprised by it. (little did he know lc would overtake seven again and be no 1 for months on end). jimin always has the mentality that he can do better, no matter what, and its honestly so admirable and i strive to be like that in life
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catmaid-san · 5 months ago
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Reading Daomu Biji as a non mainland Chinese would make you feel like, "Why so racist?"
But actually, NPSS might not be as racist or eccentric but in fact, truly a good writer who understood the way his characters and their setting would think.
The somehow racist part of Daomu Biji, perhaps is the subtle prejudice about their own Ethnic Minorities and the subtle Han Chinese supremacy, and unsavory comments about their bordering countries.
But If you're looking at it from the characters' POV, meaning, from a (somewhat average) mainland Chinese dude, it's actually quite natural. That's what they get from their history and the information from their media.
The way Daomu Biji put any extreme culture, such as sacrifices etc, to Ethnic minorities is actually quite justified, since in other countries too, that's what happened. And it's also quite logical or accurate, historically. Even today, some ethnic minorities are still continuing their "strange" customs. So it's not entirely racist.
In fact, Daomu Biji also wasn't merciful to their own Han Chinese ancestor's past incident. For example, by telling that King Mu of Zhou was fabricating history. Instead of being warmly welcomed by XiWangMu, he's actually there to invade but failed. In embarrassment, he fabricated history about him being entertained in XiWangMu's territory.
Next, the beef with other countries.
But in reality, it's not just Chinese, but other countries' citizens too, in Asia, particularly, would have beef with their bordering countries. And some (rather uncultured) people would also call them using nicknames. For example, in JP media, we often see how the Yakuza are always either connected or having dispute with Chinese Mafia. In SK media, we often see their Mafia connected or in a hostile relationship with Yakuza. In China too, their Mafia/other underground forces would often either connected or have enmity with Vietnamese Gangster.
In Daomu Biji, we can see that Wu Xie 's perspectives would always go neutral. Either citing the history or telling the informaiton that was told in China to general public like Wu Xie.
Pangzi or Pan Zi, on the other hand, are characters who aren't as "cultured" as Wu Xie. So their POV would often be quite racist. And that's actually rather in character and accurate, considering their background and character setting.
This, also applied to XiaoGe or Men You Ping. We can see that someone like him who cares a shit about the world, will turn out to never give zealous Han Chinese supremacy or racist comment about anything or anyone.
Surprisingly, Daomu Biji actually also isn't subtle to the actions of their Han Chinese or the past action of their government. For example, whenever the book was discussing about various people who smuggled Tombs goods overseas, the book didn't try to gloss that even among Han Chinese there were people like that. There's also when the book was describing the cruel reality during the purge of Superstitious and Religious forces in China, to strengthen their government's influence. At that time, people didn't even dare to say they know a little about Chinese ancient divination technique (Qimen Dunjia) for fear of being arrested or worse, eliminated. But most of all, Daomu Biji too, isn't merciful when it came to the protagonist's perspectives. The book isn't trying to beutify or justify Wu Xie's actions as a grave robber throughout.
But what I want to say is that, Daomu Biji is a series written from the perspective of (quite) average Chinese citizens, who aren't Overseas returnee (to be able to see more perspectives from the global history or information other than their government propaganda). While some topics were probably quite sensitive, but if you stop for a second and consider where they're taken at, you will understand why the Author wrote it that way.
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ffjj5 · 2 years ago
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Jikooks love for their Hobi Hyung: saying goodbye to their protector and bestie 😭
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Hobi came live today, as promised, before he enrolls for his MS.
He came to say his goodbye to ARMY 😢
Jimin commented on Hobi's live and dropped off some love
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And Hobi tells us how Jungkook rearranged his schedule so he could be back in SK to say his goodbyes and see Hobi off for his MS
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He raised him well 🥰
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Being the good president of the Jikook supporters club that he is, he couldn't leave us without telling us how when he and Tae went to JK's, JK was singing Jimin's songs 🥰
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We know how much JK loves to sing Jimin's songs
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Hobi is such a sweetheart, I wish for him to stay safe and well during his time in MS and to never lose his sunshine ☀️
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💜💜♥️
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frank-olivier · 24 days ago
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Semiconductors: The Driving Force Behind Technological Advancements
The semiconductor industry is a crucial part of our modern society, powering everything from smartphones to supercomputers. The industry is a complex web of global interests, with multiple players vying for dominance.
Taiwan has long been the dominant player in the semiconductor industry, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) accounting for 54% of the market in 2020. TSMC's dominance is due in part to the company's expertise in semiconductor manufacturing, as well as its strategic location in Taiwan. Taiwan's proximity to China and its well-developed infrastructure make it an ideal location for semiconductor manufacturing.
However, Taiwan's dominance also brings challenges. The company faces strong competition from other semiconductor manufacturers, including those from China and South Korea. In addition, Taiwan's semiconductor industry is heavily dependent on imports, which can make it vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.
China is rapidly expanding its presence in the semiconductor industry, with the government investing heavily in research and development (R&D) and manufacturing. China's semiconductor industry is led by companies such as SMIC and Tsinghua Unigroup, which are rapidly expanding their capacity. However, China's industry still lags behind Taiwan's in terms of expertise and capacity.
South Korea is another major player in the semiconductor industry, with companies like Samsung and SK Hynix owning a significant market share. South Korea's semiconductor industry is known for its expertise in memory chips such as DRAM and NAND flash. However, the industry is heavily dependent on imports, which can make it vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.
The semiconductor industry is experiencing significant trends, including the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and the increasing demand for 5G technology. These trends are driving semiconductor demand, which is expected to continue to grow in the coming years.
However, the industry also faces major challenges, including a shortage of skilled workers, the increasing complexity of semiconductor manufacturing and the need for more sustainable and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes.
To overcome the challenges facing the industry, it is essential to invest in research and development, increase the availability of skilled workers and develop more sustainable and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. By working together, governments, companies and individuals can ensure that the semiconductor industry remains competitive and sustainable, and continues to drive innovation and economic growth in the years to come.
Chip War, the Race for Semiconductor Supremacy (2023) (TaiwanPlus Docs, October 2024)
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Dr. Keyu Jin, a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, argues that many in the West misunderstand China’s economic and political models. She maintains that China became the most successful economic story of our time by shifting from primarily state-owned enterprises to an economy more focused on entrepreneurship and participation in the global economy.
Dr. Keyu Jin: Understanding a Global Superpower - Another Look at the Chinese Economy (Wheeler Institute for Economy, October 2024)
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Dr. Keyu Jin: China's Economic Prospects and Global Impact (Global Institute For Tomorrow, July 2024)
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The following conversation highlights the complexity and nuance of Xi Jinping's ideology and its relationship to traditional Chinese thought, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the internal dynamics of the Chinese Communist Party and the ongoing debates within the Chinese system.
Dr. Kevin Rudd: On Xi Jinping - How Xi's Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World (Asia Society, October 2024)
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
Latest Posts Archives 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10 Posted on 11 March 2023 by John Hartz Story of the Week The Paris Agreement Will Fail Without Slashing Methane Emissions From Dairy and Meat, Researchers Say A new study projects the Earth will warm by nearly 1 degree Celsius by 2100 from agricultural emissions alone, even if fossil fuel use is drastically…
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