@@rabbidcrazy787 The Germans were willing to reunite because they still had the same generation who witnessed World War 2, a second generation who also saw the walls of Berlin rise. In Korea, the new generation has no connection to the Korean War. They only know that North Korea bothers South Korea with nuke threats.
@@rabbidcrazy787 its been longer for korea, the economic difference is 10 times wider, and the cultural difference is much larger than it was between west and east germany where the east still had contact with the western world to some degree. Not saying it’s impossible. I think it would be great, but it would be harder
If you would have told me at the beginning of 1989 that East and West Germany were getting back together, I wouldn't have believed it. But it happened. So anything is possible.
the differences between East and West Germany, although notable, don't hold a candle to those that exist between both Koreas. It would be a massive burden on the south.
Honestly, while I get why South Koreans don't want unification, I feel it's still important to reunify the Korean people one day - they just need to have a plan for how everything will work out.
@@cs0345 Well, for one thing, relatives have been divided from each other for so long thanks to the division. And I'm not saying it has to happen, but it would be good if it happens.
As a South Korean in my 20s, I am unconditionally opposed to the unification of the Korean Peninsula. When Germany was unified, the difference between East and West Germany was 1.5 times. It would have been very difficult for the German people to get over it. But Korea is 30 times different from GDP. In the end, it should be filled with taxes from South Koreans. But I don't like my taxes being spent on North Korea. Why should I help them? Our generation has nothing to do with North Korea. I don't want to unify.
yeah typical statement of Japanese spies or people brainwashed by Japanese spies. Indeed Germany's unification had some problems, but that doesn't mean Korea has to reunite that way too. Plus, people who scream for Germany's unification, surprisingly shut their mouth quiet when I bring up how Germany's economic growth has been and how Germany has became leader of EU.
You are foolishly shortsighted. There's tons of capital sitting fallow that would kill for the kind of return that they would get in reunification/reconstruction projects. Just the potential from simple real estate alone would be insane.
Well, that’s what we thought about East and West Germany (which was also the result of two opposing ideologies with America on one side and the Soviet Union on the other)
@@Vaea4because East Germany was the puppet regime controlled by Moscow but North Korea 🇰🇵 is not a puppet, they have their own nuclear weapons so I don’t think unification will happen
It just occurred to me… whatever happens with Taiwan in the next few years could also potentially decide the fate of the Two Koreas (Also on an unrelated note, this not the first time in Korean history that Korea was split into multiple states)
@@uumuuqoyun 나 한국인이야. 후삼국은 내전이라고 보는 편이 맞지 않나. 삼국의 정체성이라는게 탄생하기도 전에 바로 고려로 정리되는데 The later three kingdom was so short, it's more appropriate to see this era as a 'civil war' state. Silla losing control of the rural region.
@@armada1290 관점에 따라 그렇게 볼 수도 있을 거 같지만 그래도 수십년의 기간에 걸쳐 여러 왕국이 있었고 그 왕국서 세습이 일어나면서 심지어 한 왕국 내에서 왕조교체 일어날 정도면 삼국시대라고 보는게 더 낫다고 생각함.. 고백신 삼국시대보다 삼국지와 오히려 더 비슷하기도 하고
@@Syjhdyjjdxyjshjdjhdshjsdhjs In a sense, it could be argued that the critical period might be both 1945 or 1948. In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet military governments pledged to Koreans the establishment of a unified government. Additionally, the U.S. continued to support the authoritarian regime in South Korea after 1948, with criticism of the U.S. being censored even following the U.S. military governance. Furthermore, the USA also contemplated on multiple occasions the removal of the president and alteration of the administration when the South Korean government's views on foreign, security, and economic policies diverged from those of the United States. There was also Soviet intervention in the process of establishing the North Korean government, centered around Kim Il-sung.
As someone from Germany I can definitely see the negatives for South Korea in uniting you still see a large difference politically and economically in former Eastern Germany and North Korea is way worse but you can't forget that some people have their families on the other side and North Koreans are being oppressed and starving I admit that because I am not Korean I probably don't fully understand the situation and have a largely biased view but in my opinion a peaceful unification into a democratic Korea would be a best case scenario.
I am Korean. To summarize the situation in Korea I saw, 1. South Korea took several actions for unification with North Korea. However, North Korea has always taken only the real interests of South Korea and repeatedly showed untruthful lies. 2. Koreans are now in a hurry to cover their eyes, so their view of the situation around them has narrowed. There is a tendency to focus more on it for survival, and there are factional battles between right and left and between workers and capitalists in Korea. No one is willing to give way. No one. 3. The difference between the older generation and the younger generation is significant. Older people say the younger generation is weak and insignificant, and the younger generation is angry that this is all done by older people. 4. Since the country is small, there is a group that tries to jump on the surrounding countries. 5. Older people hate Japan and younger people hate China more. 6. The agitators are active. They sometimes work in military uniforms or traditional clothes, representing right-wing and nationalism, respectively. (It's funny that the nationalists and the right are fighting.) 번역기를 써서 오타나 오역이 있을수 있습니다. 그러나 큰틀에서 보면 거의 그렇습니다. There may be typos or misinterpretation using a translator, but it is correct in the large frame.
"North" Koreans are opressed? South Korea is a brutal police state that violently represses protestors and uses slave labor as punishment. Western media wants to convince you that North Korea is some "evil" regime to distract from the real atrocities of the South.
"have a largely biased view" Yes, you have been swindled by corporate propaganda into believing South Korea is the "good guy" and North Korea is the "bad guy". Reality shock: it's the exact other way around. South Korea has literal slave labor in prisons. Protesters were violently repressed. It has one of the highest rates of suicide among the young. It also has one of the most brutal educational systems and consequently one of the highest rates of plastic surgery. Over half the elderly live in extreme poverty. Women over 80 years old have to prostitute themselves in order to survive. Leftist organizing gets you a prison sentence. South Korea kidnaps Koreans from the North and forces them to speak in favor of South Korea and the USA and censors anyone who speaks favorably of the North. Some Koreans are literally PAID to speak against of NK. The vast majority of "defectors" say NK is just a regular country, but the western media only pays attention to a minority of Koreans who speak ill of it, while some have constantly contradicting stories and sometimes outright lie. One example is when one guy was claimed to have been executed only to show up alive later. These aren't things any country on the side of "good" would do. If this isn't enough to make it clear that anti-communist propaganda is BS, then I don't know what is.
Could they start by normalizing relations and opening up travel? That won't be reunification under one State but it will be something of a cultural reunification.
Even if south korea came under full administrative control of the north today I believe it would be years before we could consider them truly unified for a few major reasons. The first being economics, north korea has been under heavy sanctions for most of it's history and it has a gdp to my memory the size of birmingham alabama which it spends the majority of on military, most of the nation doesn't have electricity except for the capital, even then I do believe it's unreliable. Basically the cost to electrify the north plus modernizing it would likely be a huge burden to the souths economy and would likely lead to a puppet government being formed in the north until the job of catching the north up to the south can be complete with only extensive monetary aid being given to the north to prevent the souths economy from collapsing under the strain. Second is re-education, and no I don't mean the north korean type of re-education, what I mean by that is you will need to find a way to break several generations of anti west propoganda and state brainwashing in order to fix the cultural differences steming from the dictatorship, while other aspects of the culture not steming from said dictatorship could be left alone. But in the end they may be far too different by now to be truly unified
South Korea is not in a position to care about North Korea right now. Inflation has become more severe, and the struggle on all sides has become more blatant and accelerated. The ideology of the ruling party and the opposition party is opposed to each other, but they are busy criticizing and swearing at each other as there is no mediation. In the meantime, only citizens are suffering.😂
@@TV-jg2kj Certain South Korean population should stop being swindled and turn off MBC/KBS news channels. I swear SK is doomed if they keep on believing disinformation and fake news.
@@rommyjoj326 There was many korean kindoms with different languages and culture before 668 and even after that the northern part was always a part of a different country until the 14CE. Though Korean schools teach that there was always one Korean identity older than China.
Gibraltar was a former colony of the British empire colonized in the mid 17th century as when the British colonized Africa they needed faster routes so they colonized it.
See that's the problem will they be hostile to the North Korean population and treat them as second class citizens? North Korean defectors already face discrimination in South Korea
@@drozhcomDuring the Korean War, Koreans killed each other. Based on ideology and ideology from the south to the north. It is no different from blaming the Easterners for massacring the Westerners in the Spanish Civil War. Meaningless, empty, stupid accusations
@@stevenbaksh5545North Koreans who come to South Korea have to live completely dependent on government support. North Koreans try to escape from an inefficient communist state and get used to a liberal state, and in the process, they experience conflicts with South Koreans. But eventually they will assimilate to us. I met many North Korean defectors. Experiencing discrimination usually becomes a problem after about 2 years of coming over, but most of them adapt to our society in the end.
Japan isn’t responsible for that. Korea wasn’t divided under Japanese rule because whole peninsula was annexed. Korea was divided by allies, not by Japan.
The 'Soviet occupation of the north', which did not exist before the end of the war, came about as a trade-off for the US to negotiate a superior position in Europe against the USSR. Yes, the US choose to divide Korea to save europeans. And the US has chosen the man who does not listen the most as President of South Korea, under his rule korea even invaded a japanese island which was still the us military training ground, and killed millions of own Koreans for nothing after the Korean war. Really surprising that Korea made Japan apologize about its colonial rule fro more than 10 times, but still didnt demand any apology to the Russians. So everuone is equally responsible dispite the north, which is responsible for why this dividing become 'bad'.
Japan has nothing to do with the Korean Peninsula splitting since they gave it up after WW2, it was a proxy war including millions of troops from US/UNC and Soviets/CCP. US and Soviets mainly just wanted an ideology battle between them same with Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan the audacity to blame it to other countries are hideous to avoid guilt of destroying these countries.
@@북한만세-b9f I love how people always shield Japan from any responsibilities. All the modern issues of Korean peninsula started the moment Japan stepped foot on the Korean soil. All the things you mentioned happened as a trigger effect from Japanese occupation.
HOW TO UNITE KOREA: Let it be known that if the two Korea's reunite, the soldiers in North Korea will be paid the same as soldiers in South Korea. They will be used as construction workers to rebuild North Korea. This would work
nah, just implement a dual system presidency. Both national are fundamentally different at this point. And unite under one "Korea". Not North's nor South's Main Hub. Just both in one Union.
That wouldn't work. The problem is that the North is too poor and too isolated so if they reunited, they would have to go into "cultural uplifting" in order to join the world again. I doubt the average North Korean is even aware of what the world looks like. North Korea would have to entirely restructured by the South before any serious gains are to be made and then you'll have to fix all the infrastructure in the North. All of this depends on China not pitching a fit, China has maintained over the years they do not want any pro western nation on their boarders but they have also said that North Korea bitches too much so I'm not sure on their view.
here's the thing though. As the younger generation ages, they're going to understand a dire need for resources that they don't have, but the north does. as crap hits the fan, attitudes will change when the south korean economic miracle 'bubble' bursts
@@rabbidcrazy787That's not the point. East Germany was NO WHERE near as isolationist and militaristic as North Korea is. On top of that, Berlin was a massive sticking point for both Germanys, since having an entire city that was enclaved inside East Germany that itself was divided, only increased the pressure to reunify tenfold. The Koreas have nothing like that, there's no incentive to reunify. Unless either country completely collapses, nothing is going to change.
@@NguyenMinh-vs1vm True, but my point still stands. I wonder why North Korea didn't collapse with the Soviet Union. North Korea is literally a modern-day Soviet puppet state. I find it ironic that people say Israel isn't a real country, but North Korea is when it's just Korea under communist occupation. Koreans should really look up to Germany.
Unironically, but it is probably one of the greatest tragedies of history that the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula was not the worst option for the Koreans. Perhaps if Japan had not turned its imperialist ambitions to Korea, it would have been turned into a protectorate by Russia (or potentially Britain), both of which already invaded Korea in the 19CE and had its eyes on it before Japan. and then, in the 1910s, it is extremely likely that the country would have been drawn into warfare, first by the White Army and then by the Red Army, and a communist state for the 'Soviet people' would have been born. Imperial Russia's atrocities are extremely underrated, but probably as in Manchuria before the Russo-Japanese War, major cities would have been occupied by large numbers of Russians, and under the Russian dominance without Japan, the Koreans would have been harshly exploited under serfdom and slave-like labor power as important resource for Russia, which did not have large colonies, to catch up with other western countries. In that timeline, modern Korean use Cyrillic alphabet and the chairman have a official speech in Russian. If Russia had given up the Korean peninsula, as a former 'vassal state' of China, it would have become part of China's civil war, like Inner Mongolia and Uyghur, and eventually as a bordering communist state, poorer than it was in reality, without the modern systems and education of the Japanese Empire they inherited unharmed in 1945, and might have ended up much the same as the Korean War. It is a lesson for us future generations that while Japan, Thailand and Turkey secured their independence through modernisation, Joseon's stubborn rejection of modern diplomacy and modernisation led to the end like that.
At least Japan is better than russia. -Average western lefty It's no different than telling to someone have been raped by human that 'well at least you're not dead' or 'at leeast it was not animal'.
The Japanese prevented Koreans from going to university, and in Japanese-occupied Korea, middle school graduates were treated as intellectuals. When the Japanese left, all we knew about engineering was turning bolts. It was only in the northern region with many factories, and who live on south was farming. My grandfather couldn't even go to school, and my great-grandfather couldn't even go to the hospital, and the land they lived on was taken over by the Japanese. Our achievements were entirely due to American support, national unity and liberalism. Tell an Algerian how much the French have enlightened them, and at least tell them that the French are better than the Ottomans. I hate it so much that there are people like you who are living on their stomachs abroad and now live in Korea as parasites. need repellent
The colonial policies of the Soviets and Russia were strictly based on political and military objectives, and although brutal, they were superior to those of France or Japan. Coming from the West, you probably have no idea how the Koryo Saram, Nanai, Tuvans, and Mongols maintain their culture under Soviet Russia. Moreover, Russia wanted to make Korea a protectorate like the Pahlavi Dynasty, but did not want to annex them. Your Russophobic remarks are interpreted as saying, 'Acknowledge your inferiority, accept your divided fate, and continue to live an inferior life.'
If reunification can happen, it shouldn’t be done immediately. It should start with a Democratic North Korea being established, and then they open it up to the world market, and slowly move toward integration as they financially adapt.
"Democratic North Korea" North Korea IS democratic, bud. They use direct-democracy, as opposed to the electoral stuff Capitalist countries use. It is SOUTH Korea that needs to be turned into a democracy. An ECONOMIC democracy. A country without business owners. South Korea was a literal fascist dictatorship until recently. Who are you to talk?
they made a People's Republic Korea but USA said nuh uh and made a separate Country called Republic of Korea, so that's why DPRK happened, and nnnhmmm watch "My brothers and sisters in the north" and also read Dermot Hudson books
Fun fact: Homefront was supposed to be China attacking US. But since the devs wanted thag China money, they hastily changed to NK They still got banned from China lmao
I wonder what would’ve happened if Korea was just left alone after occupation. There still would’ve been a civil war right, as I believe Kim Il Sung was a fighter in WW2
Korea should unify. North Korea is going to need a lot of skilled labor to rebuild and educate their people. More jobs for the south Koreans and they won't need to import southeast Asians to work in our factories and farms. Think of all the government contracts to rebuild the north while at the same time having a land border with China and Russia. The north also has lots more babies than we do.
What😂 I’m sorry but Japan wouldn’t do sht nor as Russia, when a foreign state occupies other land they both need military power and an International trust. Russia is busy fighting the neighbors and has a bad reputation enough for CCP to avoid clear contact with then. If NK falls US/Nato will come to play and if SK falls which is unlikely China may come to play. And historically Japan held the southern part of Korea not North which was Silla and Baekja although Japan could claim the peninsula by saying abt the recent annexation but they clearly won’t wouldn’t careless.
@user-sn3fs8gb3i japan government still want to re colonize korea and NK very friendly with china and russia, if north suddenly collapse nearby countries claim to what they efforts
@@grestl86 I have never heard of Japan's policies or statements to recolonize Korea. Even if Japan were to colonize South Korea now, it would lose its international standing that it had built up until now, and it would be hopeless to secure resources and semiconductors. Please tell me what is the reason why Japan wants to colonize.
@@あかあお-m5r i'm sorry there is my mistake, japan gov not officially announced want to recolonize korea but ruclips.net/video/tDPId8Eg-_0/видео.html in this video was 1950s during korean war letter from a japanese politician to MacArthur "If japan join korean war, we want to take back korea colonize" but macarthur refused well it's old history but in these days, so many japanese politician claim korea island, also very aggressive to korea they are not like as a german, they are proud that they once occupied asia by invasion
@@grestl86 In Japan, people who are interested in right wing and politics are a minority, so I want people to know that what the right wing says is not all about Japan. It is true that Prime Minister Abe was slightly right-leaning. If you are interested, I will introduce the contents of Japanese junior high school textbooks.
As a south korean, I'm worried that if we reunite, we might get stabbed in the back by north korea or our economy would slowly get worse due to the other 26 million people to care for on the other side But thinking of the trapped and tortured north koreans my heart want to reunite but my brain doesn't 😅
To those "Korea should unify"...how simple though art. Firstly, don't meddle in other's business; that's basically Korean history; foreign meddling. Secondly, only Koreans will make that decision. Thirdly, the two Koreas have been divided for nearly 80 years on completely different and extreme paths, and as mortal enemies, which now make us two very different mindsets, of two different "DNA"s who will kill each other to defend each's ideology. That's why wars happen. We now live in a country where the majority were born and died/will die without having ever set foot in the other's land nor having had any contact. The North has been run by a dictatorship for three generations where the people are forced to think of their "great" leader as a god. That amount of brainwashing just does not come undone. Have you not been listening? The only way for the two Koreas to ever come together is through another war. Are you kidding me?! A leader of a nation who has enjoyed the role of "god" to tens of millions of people for 3 bloody generations is not going to let it all just go. He is going to fight to the death to keep things just the way they are. Another war?! If war is what you want then have it on your own darn soil. You obviously haven't experienced one. There's only one result from war, carnage and destruction. South Korea is done with that nonsense. We have worked too hard to rebuild what the criminal japanese starved, stole and murdered for 40 years and then what the war obliterated thereafter. If North Koreans want change, it will have to start from the inside. Sad as that may sound, that's the only way, and THEY must act on it. Why? The north also have the right to be as well, whether we agree or not. It is for them to decide and resolve. This is no place for irrational emotion but rational thinking. South Korea has too much to lose with another war. Based on our history, one more death from war is too many. Best advice for those "Korea should unify" simpletons, Mind your own business!
There are 3 KOREA in near Korean peninsula. South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian Korea. Yanbian is Korean autonomous pfefecture of China. There people speaks Korean too. In 20 century, Korean Empire had all the 3 regions 😢
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As a Korean-American, my mom put reunification as this way: the old reminisce about a unified Korea, and the young want to get on with their lives.
As a young person (who isn't a Korean nor part Korean XD) it's a shame that's true
How come the Germans thought otherwise & reunited East & West Germany in 1990?
@@rabbidcrazy787 Because the East Germans rose up and finally said no. It will be raining pigs before the North Koreans even start a protest march.
@@rabbidcrazy787 The Germans were willing to reunite because they still had the same generation who witnessed World War 2, a second generation who also saw the walls of Berlin rise. In Korea, the new generation has no connection to the Korean War. They only know that North Korea bothers South Korea with nuke threats.
@@rabbidcrazy787 its been longer for korea, the economic difference is 10 times wider, and the cultural difference is much larger than it was between west and east germany where the east still had contact with the western world to some degree. Not saying it’s impossible. I think it would be great, but it would be harder
One time I emailed Trebbie and he replied in a very condescending stuck up way.
That's why I still watch this channel.
Could you elaborate further?
wha???
If you would have told me at the beginning of 1989 that East and West Germany were getting back together, I wouldn't have believed it. But it happened. So anything is possible.
the differences between East and West Germany, although notable, don't hold a candle to those that exist between both Koreas. It would be a massive burden on the south.
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Honestly, while I get why South Koreans don't want unification, I feel it's still important to reunify the Korean people one day - they just need to have a plan for how everything will work out.
Yeah, I don't think we'll live to see a unified Korea but I'll be glad to see the pathway to it
Why is it so important to unify people under a single nation state when the people themselves don't care and just want to get on with their lives
@@cs0345 Well, for one thing, relatives have been divided from each other for so long thanks to the division. And I'm not saying it has to happen, but it would be good if it happens.
@@drozhcom NOW they are. I'm talking in a world where North Korea's regime could collapse.
i hope they get reunified under kim jong un
Nuke em.
No.
NUKE EM!
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You're fired.
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@@utkarshagarwal01 ya
Cause 2 is better than 1
Yea
That’s what she said 😏
@@Insanity2938 ??
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@@osheridan You're too innocent to know
As Korean it would be never reunited
And I think South Korea would collapse more easily
There are many problem here
As a South Korean in my 20s, I am unconditionally opposed to the unification of the Korean Peninsula. When Germany was unified, the difference between East and West Germany was 1.5 times. It would have been very difficult for the German people to get over it. But Korea is 30 times different from GDP.
In the end, it should be filled with taxes from South Koreans. But I don't like my taxes being spent on North Korea. Why should I help them? Our generation has nothing to do with North Korea. I don't want to unify.
make North Korea with autotomy
통일을 포기하거나, 통일 반대를 공식화하는 순간, 언젠가는 중국이 북한을 흡수할거임. 우리 세대가 그것과도 아무런 관련이 없을까?
Me too, i dont wanna share my asset
yeah typical statement of Japanese spies or people brainwashed by Japanese spies.
Indeed Germany's unification had some problems, but that doesn't mean Korea has to reunite that way too.
Plus, people who scream for Germany's unification, surprisingly shut their mouth quiet when I bring up how Germany's economic growth has been and how Germany has became leader of EU.
You are foolishly shortsighted. There's tons of capital sitting fallow that would kill for the kind of return that they would get in reunification/reconstruction projects. Just the potential from simple real estate alone would be insane.
Next you should do a video about the why there are 2 Sudans
Korea wasn't always united - there have been times of 2-3 separate kingdoms
그건 천년전이지 ㅋㅋㅋ 그 이후로 천년동안 통일된 국가였음. 미국이랑 소련만 아니었다면 지금도 한국가임.
It's impossible to unify the Koreas in one.
Well, that’s what we thought about East and West Germany (which was also the result of two opposing ideologies with America on one side and the Soviet Union on the other)
불가능이란 건 없다. 역사상 통일되었다가 분리되었다가 다시 합쳐지고 그러는 것이 역사임. 우린 같은 민족이고 같은 말을 쓰고 같은 문자를 쓰고 같은 문화를 가진 한민족임. 통일은 반드시 언젠가는 될 것이다.
The national name, capital city, national flag, economic power, military power, and politics all prove that South Korea is a true Korea.
Its sad that we all never get a united Korea
well we said that germany would not reunite but here we are with 1 germany so it is a possibility
@@Vaea4because East Germany was the puppet regime controlled by Moscow but North Korea 🇰🇵 is not a puppet, they have their own nuclear weapons so I don’t think unification will happen
@@utkarshsoni3300 makes sense
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It just occurred to me… whatever happens with Taiwan in the next few years could also potentially decide the fate of the Two Koreas
(Also on an unrelated note, this not the first time in Korean history that Korea was split into multiple states)
It's super unrelated because the case you're talking about happened 1400years ago.
Also on an unrelated note, most countries in the world were split into different countries multiple times throughout the entire existence of humans
@@armada1290in korean history, not only one three kingdom era. There was short three kingdom era in front of Korea(고려) dynasty
@@uumuuqoyun 나 한국인이야. 후삼국은 내전이라고 보는 편이 맞지 않나. 삼국의 정체성이라는게 탄생하기도 전에 바로 고려로 정리되는데
The later three kingdom was so short, it's more appropriate to see this era as a 'civil war' state. Silla losing control of the rural region.
@@armada1290 관점에 따라 그렇게 볼 수도 있을 거 같지만 그래도 수십년의 기간에 걸쳐 여러 왕국이 있었고 그 왕국서 세습이 일어나면서 심지어 한 왕국 내에서 왕조교체 일어날 정도면 삼국시대라고 보는게 더 낫다고 생각함.. 고백신 삼국시대보다 삼국지와 오히려 더 비슷하기도 하고
They separated 70 years ago, not 80.
They were separated in 1945 so it's closer to 80 than 70.
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@@user-qk5oi9mg5kthey were occupied by ussr and us in 1945. They gained independence in 1948.
@@Syjhdyjjdxyjshjdjhdshjsdhjs In a sense, it could be argued that the critical period might be both 1945 or 1948. In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet military governments pledged to Koreans the establishment of a unified government. Additionally, the U.S. continued to support the authoritarian regime in South Korea after 1948, with criticism of the U.S. being censored even following the U.S. military governance. Furthermore, the USA also contemplated on multiple occasions the removal of the president and alteration of the administration when the South Korean government's views on foreign, security, and economic policies diverged from those of the United States. There was also Soviet intervention in the process of establishing the North Korean government, centered around Kim Il-sung.
Engaging video! Insightful analysis on Korean reunification. Here's to a future of peace and unity.
As someone from Germany I can definitely see the negatives for South Korea in uniting you still see a large difference politically and economically in former Eastern Germany and North Korea is way worse but you can't forget that some people have their families on the other side and North Koreans are being oppressed and starving I admit that because I am not Korean I probably don't fully understand the situation and have a largely biased view but in my opinion a peaceful unification into a democratic Korea would be a best case scenario.
I am Korean. To summarize the situation in Korea I saw,
1. South Korea took several actions for unification with North Korea. However, North Korea has always taken only the real interests of South Korea and repeatedly showed untruthful lies.
2. Koreans are now in a hurry to cover their eyes, so their view of the situation around them has narrowed. There is a tendency to focus more on it for survival, and there are factional battles between right and left and between workers and capitalists in Korea. No one is willing to give way. No one.
3. The difference between the older generation and the younger generation is significant. Older people say the younger generation is weak and insignificant, and the younger generation is angry that this is all done by older people.
4. Since the country is small, there is a group that tries to jump on the surrounding countries.
5. Older people hate Japan and younger people hate China more.
6. The agitators are active. They sometimes work in military uniforms or traditional clothes, representing right-wing and nationalism, respectively. (It's funny that the nationalists and the right are fighting.)
번역기를 써서 오타나 오역이 있을수 있습니다. 그러나 큰틀에서 보면 거의 그렇습니다.
There may be typos or misinterpretation using a translator, but it is correct in the large frame.
"North" Koreans are opressed?
South Korea is a brutal police state that violently represses protestors and uses slave labor as punishment.
Western media wants to convince you that North Korea is some "evil" regime to distract from the real atrocities of the South.
"North Koreans are starving" I wonder WHO put up a blockade on international trade to intentionally starve them?
Here's a tip: it begins with United.
"have a largely biased view"
Yes, you have been swindled by corporate propaganda into believing South Korea is the "good guy" and North Korea is the "bad guy".
Reality shock: it's the exact other way around.
South Korea has literal slave labor in prisons. Protesters were violently repressed. It has one of the highest rates of suicide among the young. It also has one of the most brutal educational systems and consequently one of the highest rates of plastic surgery. Over half the elderly live in extreme poverty. Women over 80 years old have to prostitute themselves in order to survive. Leftist organizing gets you a prison sentence. South Korea kidnaps Koreans from the North and forces them to speak in favor of South Korea and the USA and censors anyone who speaks favorably of the North. Some Koreans are literally PAID to speak against of NK. The vast majority of "defectors" say NK is just a regular country, but the western media only pays attention to a minority of Koreans who speak ill of it, while some have constantly contradicting stories and sometimes outright lie. One example is when one guy was claimed to have been executed only to show up alive later.
These aren't things any country on the side of "good" would do. If this isn't enough to make it clear that anti-communist propaganda is BS, then I don't know what is.
I wish to see both Koreas unite 🇰🇵+🇰🇷=💪🏻🇰🇷❤️
What the hell, they should reunite over capitalism
I DON'T WANT BOTH KOREAS TO UNITE! I WANT THEM TO STAY SEPARATE! NORTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREA SHOULD STAY INDEPENDENT!
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3:27. "Isolated and tightly controlled" translation under embargo by lots of nations while the South is pumped full of foreign investment.
Reunification is impossible now, the Korea's might as well change their national names and diverge paths
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Well the time will come when Both Koreas will unite but for us we can do only one work and that's waiting
Could they start by normalizing relations and opening up travel? That won't be reunification under one State but it will be something of a cultural reunification.
A Cultural reunification sounds a lot like a future cultural revolution. The Kim dynasty would never allow it.
@@davidgarcia32323 Certainly, in the short to medium term any reunification is unlikely.
Even if south korea came under full administrative control of the north today I believe it would be years before we could consider them truly unified for a few major reasons. The first being economics, north korea has been under heavy sanctions for most of it's history and it has a gdp to my memory the size of birmingham alabama which it spends the majority of on military, most of the nation doesn't have electricity except for the capital, even then I do believe it's unreliable. Basically the cost to electrify the north plus modernizing it would likely be a huge burden to the souths economy and would likely lead to a puppet government being formed in the north until the job of catching the north up to the south can be complete with only extensive monetary aid being given to the north to prevent the souths economy from collapsing under the strain. Second is re-education, and no I don't mean the north korean type of re-education, what I mean by that is you will need to find a way to break several generations of anti west propoganda and state brainwashing in order to fix the cultural differences steming from the dictatorship, while other aspects of the culture not steming from said dictatorship could be left alone. But in the end they may be far too different by now to be truly unified
South Korea is not in a position to care about North Korea right now. Inflation has become more severe, and the struggle on all sides has become more blatant and accelerated. The ideology of the ruling party and the opposition party is opposed to each other, but they are busy criticizing and swearing at each other as there is no mediation. In the meantime, only citizens are suffering.😂
@@TV-jg2kj Certain South Korean population should stop being swindled and turn off MBC/KBS news channels. I swear SK is doomed if they keep on believing disinformation and fake news.
If you don’t notice, he told us a little early 2:01
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The real question is, will the Virginias ever reunify?
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I will say that my grandpa fought in the Korean War.
Technically anyone who joined the military prior to 2018 fought in the Korean War
In fact that if we were reunited together this led to Korea to become managed to be superpower and caused tensions between both China and Japan
Theres always been one Korea? what about the Three Kingdoms?
Thats china bro
@@rommyjoj326 There was many korean kindoms with different languages and culture before 668 and even after that the northern part was always a part of a different country until the 14CE.
Though Korean schools teach that there was always one Korean identity older than China.
The Three Kingdoms unified. For awhile...
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Why is gibratar is a part of britan🇬🇮🇬🇧
Gibraltar was a former colony of the British empire colonized in the mid 17th century as when the British colonized Africa they needed faster routes so they colonized it.
Korea is probably one of the places that has spent more time seperated than unified.
………? Its been only 70 years since we have been separated into north and south
@@Jimin_XVII the kingdoms
what do you mean lol. Joseon dynasty alone was 500 years old united.
No it isn’t lol
What? It was unified for hundreds of years prior
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0:31 I think I know why did North Korea fly nuclear missiles over Japan without any permission.
But people will still blame North Korea
PLEASE ON GOD, THAILAND WAS NEVER FULLY ANNEXED BY JAPAN
True
I hope it will reunify under the real Korea (ROK).
I think both of them is not real Korea, the real Korea is dead.
North is just brainwashed, South is just a puppet
Neither are the real Korea.
See that's the problem will they be hostile to the North Korean population and treat them as second class citizens? North Korean defectors already face discrimination in South Korea
@@drozhcomDuring the Korean War, Koreans killed each other. Based on ideology and ideology from the south to the north. It is no different from blaming the Easterners for massacring the Westerners in the Spanish Civil War. Meaningless, empty, stupid accusations
@@stevenbaksh5545North Koreans who come to South Korea have to live completely dependent on government support. North Koreans try to escape from an inefficient communist state and get used to a liberal state, and in the process, they experience conflicts with South Koreans. But eventually they will assimilate to us. I met many North Korean defectors. Experiencing discrimination usually becomes a problem after about 2 years of coming over, but most of them adapt to our society in the end.
Can you do a collab with oversimplified
If MacArthur hadn’t ignored orders from his commander-in-cheif Korea would be united today
1:10 Damn, the USA countryball really wears those sunglasses ALL THE TIME
Short story they broke in half due to the cold War
What does Japan think after all they're the ones who made Korea what it is now
Japan isn’t responsible for that. Korea wasn’t divided under Japanese rule because whole peninsula was annexed. Korea was divided by allies, not by Japan.
The 'Soviet occupation of the north', which did not exist before the end of the war, came about as a trade-off for the US to negotiate a superior position in Europe against the USSR. Yes, the US choose to divide Korea to save europeans.
And the US has chosen the man who does not listen the most as President of South Korea, under his rule korea even invaded a japanese island which was still the us military training ground, and killed millions of own Koreans for nothing after the Korean war. Really surprising that Korea made Japan apologize about its colonial rule fro more than 10 times, but still didnt demand any apology to the Russians.
So everuone is equally responsible dispite the north, which is responsible for why this dividing become 'bad'.
@@imfromearth4222 Takeshima should be returned to Japan
Japan has nothing to do with the Korean Peninsula splitting since they gave it up after WW2, it was a proxy war including millions of troops from US/UNC and Soviets/CCP. US and Soviets mainly just wanted an ideology battle between them same with Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan the audacity to blame it to other countries are hideous to avoid guilt of destroying these countries.
@@북한만세-b9f I love how people always shield Japan from any responsibilities. All the modern issues of Korean peninsula started the moment Japan stepped foot on the Korean soil. All the things you mentioned happened as a trigger effect from Japanese occupation.
Dude which font you use ?
just curious, what editing software do you use
HOW TO UNITE KOREA: Let it be known that if the two Korea's reunite, the soldiers in North Korea will be paid the same as soldiers in South Korea. They will be used as construction workers to rebuild North Korea. This would work
nah, just implement a dual system presidency. Both national are fundamentally different at this point. And unite under one "Korea". Not North's nor South's Main Hub. Just both in one Union.
@@VinnyUnion Vinny, you be talkin gibberish
That wouldn't work. The problem is that the North is too poor and too isolated so if they reunited, they would have to go into "cultural uplifting" in order to join the world again. I doubt the average North Korean is even aware of what the world looks like. North Korea would have to entirely restructured by the South before any serious gains are to be made and then you'll have to fix all the infrastructure in the North. All of this depends on China not pitching a fit, China has maintained over the years they do not want any pro western nation on their boarders but they have also said that North Korea bitches too much so I'm not sure on their view.
What will it take for the two to reunite under the South's form of government...without resistance from the people of the South?
here's the thing though. As the younger generation ages, they're going to understand a dire need for resources that they don't have, but the north does. as crap hits the fan, attitudes will change when the south korean economic miracle 'bubble' bursts
Always been one Korea? The three Kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla say "hi"
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You just have to read the thumbnail and you have the answer
Then why did it happen with Germany then?
Cause they didn’t hate each other, and one wasn’t a crazy dictatorship.
@@minilla3842 East Germany was communist which North Korea is.
@@rabbidcrazy787but never to the degree of North Korea
@@rabbidcrazy787That's not the point. East Germany was NO WHERE near as isolationist and militaristic as North Korea is. On top of that, Berlin was a massive sticking point for both Germanys, since having an entire city that was enclaved inside East Germany that itself was divided, only increased the pressure to reunify tenfold. The Koreas have nothing like that, there's no incentive to reunify. Unless either country completely collapses, nothing is going to change.
@@NguyenMinh-vs1vm True, but my point still stands. I wonder why North Korea didn't collapse with the Soviet Union. North Korea is literally a modern-day Soviet puppet state. I find it ironic that people say Israel isn't a real country, but North Korea is when it's just Korea under communist occupation. Koreans should really look up to Germany.
Unironically, but it is probably one of the greatest tragedies of history that the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula was not the worst option for the Koreans.
Perhaps if Japan had not turned its imperialist ambitions to Korea, it would have been turned into a protectorate by Russia (or potentially Britain), both of which already invaded Korea in the 19CE and had its eyes on it before Japan.
and then, in the 1910s, it is extremely likely that the country would have been drawn into warfare, first by the White Army and then by the Red Army, and a communist state for the 'Soviet people' would have been born.
Imperial Russia's atrocities are extremely underrated, but probably as in Manchuria before the Russo-Japanese War, major cities would have been occupied by large numbers of Russians, and under the Russian dominance without Japan, the Koreans would have been harshly exploited under serfdom and slave-like labor power as important resource for Russia, which did not have large colonies, to catch up with other western countries.
In that timeline, modern Korean use Cyrillic alphabet and the chairman have a official speech in Russian.
If Russia had given up the Korean peninsula, as a former 'vassal state' of China, it would have become part of China's civil war, like Inner Mongolia and Uyghur, and eventually as a bordering communist state, poorer than it was in reality, without the modern systems and education of the Japanese Empire they inherited unharmed in 1945, and might have ended up much the same as the Korean War.
It is a lesson for us future generations that while Japan, Thailand and Turkey secured their independence through modernisation, Joseon's stubborn rejection of modern diplomacy and modernisation led to the end like that.
At least Japan is better than russia.
-Average western lefty
It's no different than telling to someone have been raped by human that 'well at least you're not dead' or 'at leeast it was not animal'.
The Japanese prevented Koreans from going to university, and in Japanese-occupied Korea, middle school graduates were treated as intellectuals. When the Japanese left, all we knew about engineering was turning bolts. It was only in the northern region with many factories, and who live on south was farming. My grandfather couldn't even go to school, and my great-grandfather couldn't even go to the hospital, and the land they lived on was taken over by the Japanese. Our achievements were entirely due to American support, national unity and liberalism. Tell an Algerian how much the French have enlightened them, and at least tell them that the French are better than the Ottomans. I hate it so much that there are people like you who are living on their stomachs abroad and now live in Korea as parasites. need repellent
Sh×t happens. I think this is just god's cruel sense of humor
We just have to accept this as fate
The colonial policies of the Soviets and Russia were strictly based on political and military objectives, and although brutal, they were superior to those of France or Japan. Coming from the West, you probably have no idea how the Koryo Saram, Nanai, Tuvans, and Mongols maintain their culture under Soviet Russia. Moreover, Russia wanted to make Korea a protectorate like the Pahlavi Dynasty, but did not want to annex them. Your Russophobic remarks are interpreted as saying, 'Acknowledge your inferiority, accept your divided fate, and continue to live an inferior life.'
@@CBRN-115 God doesn't exist.
in this video our slightly wrong after the Japanese surrendering Korea Was A Unified Nation For Just A couple Months Before It Got Split Apart
If reunification can happen, it shouldn’t be done immediately. It should start with a Democratic North Korea being established, and then they open it up to the world market, and slowly move toward integration as they financially adapt.
"Democratic North Korea"
North Korea IS democratic, bud. They use direct-democracy, as opposed to the electoral stuff Capitalist countries use.
It is SOUTH Korea that needs to be turned into a democracy. An ECONOMIC democracy. A country without business owners.
South Korea was a literal fascist dictatorship until recently. Who are you to talk?
@@eymed2023 🤡💩
they made a People's Republic Korea but USA said nuh uh and made a separate Country called Republic of Korea, so that's why DPRK happened, and nnnhmmm
watch "My brothers and sisters in the north" and also read Dermot Hudson books
Well then WHY IS THERE 2 AMERICAS?
那是因为一个在赤道以南，一个在赤道以北
Yeah “No *” is the best response to that.
Poverty line in Korea is about $20,000 per year, not $2,000. LOL
Has anyone readed, or watched Red Dawn, or played Homefront games
Fun fact: Homefront was supposed to be China attacking US. But since the devs wanted thag China money, they hastily changed to NK
They still got banned from China lmao
The story in homefront is very unlikely to happen since south korea does not want to unite under northern rule.
I wonder what would’ve happened if Korea was just left alone after occupation. There still would’ve been a civil war right, as I believe Kim Il Sung was a fighter in WW2
If that happened, the whole peninsula would probably be under Kims rule
@@MiguelLopez-qi8whAccording to a post-independence survey, Kim Il-sung is suitable for the post of defense minister.
@@MiguelLopez-qi8wh and it would be a very good and safe country instead of a extreme authoritarian poor nation.
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Korea should unify. North Korea is going to need a lot of skilled labor to rebuild and educate their people. More jobs for the south Koreans and they won't need to import southeast Asians to work in our factories and farms. Think of all the government contracts to rebuild the north while at the same time having a land border with China and Russia. The north also has lots more babies than we do.
even if we want to reunite china, russia, japan and usa want to part of north korea
we can't never reunite
What😂 I’m sorry but Japan wouldn’t do sht nor as Russia, when a foreign state occupies other land they both need military power and an International trust. Russia is busy fighting the neighbors and has a bad reputation enough for CCP to avoid clear contact with then. If NK falls US/Nato will come to play and if SK falls which is unlikely China may come to play. And historically Japan held the southern part of Korea not North which was Silla and Baekja although Japan could claim the peninsula by saying abt the recent annexation but they clearly won’t wouldn’t careless.
@user-sn3fs8gb3i japan government still want to re colonize korea and NK very friendly with china and russia, if north suddenly collapse nearby countries claim to what they efforts
@@grestl86
I have never heard of Japan's policies or statements to recolonize Korea.
Even if Japan were to colonize South Korea now, it would lose its international standing that it had built up until now, and it would be hopeless to secure resources and semiconductors.
Please tell me what is the reason why Japan wants to colonize.
@@あかあお-m5r i'm sorry there is my mistake, japan gov not officially announced want to recolonize korea
but ruclips.net/video/tDPId8Eg-_0/видео.html in this video was 1950s during korean war letter from a japanese politician to MacArthur "If japan join korean war, we want to take back korea colonize" but macarthur refused
well it's old history but in these days, so many japanese politician claim korea island, also very aggressive to korea
they are not like as a german, they are proud that they once occupied asia by invasion
@@grestl86
In Japan, people who are interested in right wing and politics are a minority, so I want people to know that what the right wing says is not all about Japan.
It is true that Prime Minister Abe was slightly right-leaning.
If you are interested, I will introduce the contents of Japanese junior high school textbooks.
As a south korean, I'm worried that if we reunite, we might get stabbed in the back by north korea or our economy would slowly get worse due to the other 26 million people to care for on the other side
But thinking of the trapped and tortured north koreans my heart want to reunite but my brain doesn't 😅
For a short answer: after The Japanese Empire was surrendered And Korea was divided by U.S and The Russia
Korea will only ever reunite if one of them falls through a massive show of force
Mr Gorbechav should have torn down the other wall
You only need one of the 2 society to totally collapse and have a copy paste of the other society takes its places.
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I thought they split cause of human rights
No they've grown out of each other.
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And what if they reunite
There’s also 2 vietnams
Well it's called south and it north
Oh come trebiee you making me lose my faith in kpop unified korea song
To those "Korea should unify"...how simple though art. Firstly, don't meddle in other's business; that's basically Korean history; foreign meddling. Secondly, only Koreans will make that decision. Thirdly, the two Koreas have been divided for nearly 80 years on completely different and extreme paths, and as mortal enemies, which now make us two very different mindsets, of two different "DNA"s who will kill each other to defend each's ideology. That's why wars happen.
We now live in a country where the majority were born and died/will die without having ever set foot in the other's land nor having had any contact. The North has been run by a dictatorship for three generations where the people are forced to think of their "great" leader as a god. That amount of brainwashing just does not come undone.
Have you not been listening? The only way for the two Koreas to ever come together is through another war. Are you kidding me?! A leader of a nation who has enjoyed the role of "god" to tens of millions of people for 3 bloody generations is not going to let it all just go. He is going to fight to the death to keep things just the way they are. Another war?! If war is what you want then have it on your own darn soil. You obviously haven't experienced one. There's only one result from war, carnage and destruction. South Korea is done with that nonsense. We have worked too hard to rebuild what the criminal japanese starved, stole and murdered for 40 years and then what the war obliterated thereafter.
If North Koreans want change, it will have to start from the inside. Sad as that may sound, that's the only way, and THEY must act on it. Why? The north also have the right to be as well, whether we agree or not. It is for them to decide and resolve. This is no place for irrational emotion but rational thinking.
South Korea has too much to lose with another war. Based on our history, one more death from war is too many.
Best advice for those "Korea should unify" simpletons, Mind your own business!
Yes
I love Korea so much I want to have two of them
Bro The thumbnail already explained The video
No.
As I see the word in the thumbnail.
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You're fourth actually.
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Nah Vietnam used to be the same thing as Korea
Within 2 days!
Should they reunite, South Korea shall rule.
My dad saw Kim Il Sung
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남북통일은 유로화랑 CFA화가 똑같아짐 뜻 농담아님.
There are 3 KOREA in near Korean peninsula. South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian Korea. Yanbian is Korean autonomous pfefecture of China. There people speaks Korean too. In 20 century, Korean Empire had all the 3 regions 😢
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No China though the they will still into their territory so they helped north Korea at the Korean War 2:38
Guys, dont start a war there lol.
Both Korea's good
Why Are There 2 Americas?
Maybe not in our lifetime.