i feel like on thing i didnt like was the depiction of the people on the sewol ferry. They weren't mainly little children they were high schoolers on their field trip iirc.
"Most of the victims were children" isn't clear enough. 82% of the Sewol's dead victims were kids. EIGHTY TWO PERCENT. It was a class trip for the whole grade.
I'm a South Korean and I want to thank you so much for shedding the light on this issue and how the media portrays it. These guys have had power too much too long! 감사합니다!
@@ZXCRacingwhat he wants to convey is, the content made by Fern is comparable, or even better compared to the content in premium youtube.. And I totally agree with that statement..
I lived in South Korea for two years teaching, and I can't stress enough how much it is an open secret the chaebols are the ones really running the country. Literally, everyone I would talk to about this from young to old knew that the big families were untouchable. Honestly even just working at one of these companies is seen as a big deal in Korea, because it is understood that there are many benefits besides compensation when you are working for these companies. As an example, I had a friend in Korea who worked at Samsung, just a mid level position, but soon after joining the company he became close friends with the head of police in the town we were both living in, and whenever there was an issue with the law he would call his friend and then magically the problem would go away. This is just a small town example, so I can only imagine what the top guys are up to on a daily basis.
bro working at samsung doesnt make you friends with a police chief lol. Thats like saying working at apple would do the same. Especially when the guy is just an average mid level worker making 100k a year. either you misunderstood something or you are clearly lying
How to escape accountability (the rich edition) 1. Let the sentence be severe to please the public 2. Do the sentence but only until the public forgets about their crime 3. Quietly reduce and pardon the sentence 4. Profit
@@yeetboi268- No, It happens in the U.S. as well. The time you are sentenced to does not equal the time you will actually serve. If you are sentenced to 10 years you can be out in five to six years. In most cases you only have to serve 80% your actual sentence to then be eligible for parole.
Weird, it almost seems like the profit motive is a perverse incentive which prioritises capital accumulation above all else, that corporations acting greedy is an inherent feature of the system and that hyper focusing on individuals and corporations at the top and presenting them as simply being bad actors is missing the forest for the trees, which only ends up preventing people from viewing the incentives that the system itself creates in order to elevate these individuals to the top, but that would be an anti-capitalist perspective to have, which is apparently bad
Yep, it's a feature in modern capitalism especially late stage capitalism, which is more or less feels like serfdom. Sure the economy grows but the people are poor to the point where even having kids and having a wife at home to take care of them is a luxury. Without kids being raised properly, societies start breaking down as strong families make strong societies
@@Унмеито I agree, it's insane. With technology evolving and with workers being replaced, it will only make things harder for the general public while the corpos get richer and richer
President Park was entirely responsible for the Sewol ferry disaster, she blocked all coastguard action, turned away US and Japanese ships offering assistance, and basically watched as the ferry capcised in slow motion. RottenMango has a good video on the disaster.
@@mic2348 it was speculated that it was a cult sacrifice, as the daughter of a shamanistic cult leader who was among Park’s closest confidantes was revealed to have orchestrated government policy. This is a popular conspiracy because the day of the tragedy happened on the 20th anniversary of the death of her father
It’s interesting how, in some countries, it’s easy to associate the faces and names of powerful individuals with the companies and crimes they are responsible for. In contrast, in the U.S., we often speak about corporations or institutions in abstract terms, without ever putting a face to those behind them. Companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, or Coca-Cola-and even powerful agencies like the FBI and CIA-frequently make headlines, but the blame rarely extends to the individuals who drive their decisions. When wrongdoing occurs, the public hears the company’s name, but those truly responsible remain faceless and nameless. This disconnect allows accountability to vanish behind corporate logos and institutional titles, shielding the people at the top from personal scrutiny.
@@SisyphusOfSodom Because IT wouldnt make Sense for single induviduals. The Problem arent these induviduals but the company and the system. Those induviduals are only acting they way they are expected to, to maximice shareholder value.
The vagueness does help distribute the blame across the corporate image and stifles the public's imagination and ability perceive individuals who are wrong. I think even this goes for ideology too, people will blame capitalism but not look at specific CEO's and individuals working behind the curtains of these big corps.
Gotta love dodge v ford for giving us that luxury. Doesn't matter how many CEOs you axe when the law mandates you literally break the law because paying fines is slightly more profitable than following it.
But Americans don't care. Even if individuals are exposed for corruption, half of Americans won't believe it, or believe that the "other side" is worse. Half of the U.S lives in one reality, and the other half in another reality. People can't even agree on basic facts anymore. Think about it, Americans have just elected a convicted felon for president lol.
That’s why when something goes with the Tesla for example, people blame Elon Musk since he is associated with the company. But if the CEO wasn’t famous and didn’t have a PR, it would be just Tesla. But Tesla has a face whcih is Elon.
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, RUclips isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
The government incompetence in the ferry event can not be overstated. The passengers could have been rescued if anyone acted in the good of the victims.
Dumb question: is “ferry” pronounced the same as “fairy”? English was not my first language but I was always taught that berry, bury, and Barry are pronounced different lol was I taught wrong?
@@CantTellYouthere is a difference but it ends up being very subtle and washed up in different kinds of accents. For example Australia and British accents place more difference between them but for where I'm from (america) the difference between "fairy" and "ferry" are indistinguishable
incompetence? Lol, they literally lied watch the documentary about it, during the reconstruction of the journey done by the ferry, they lied about it and sent fake coordinates
Fun fact, one of the granddaughters of the chaebol family of Samsung almost debuted in a Kpop group. She received backlash for "buying her way" into the Kpop industry especially since she was set to debut in a pretty big company. She was eventually let go although no one knows if she left or if they decided not to debut her.
@@KinqNicknah not always lmao, obviously some are poor and some are already well-off. there are some idols who became idols because they have connections in the industry, of course.
@@KinqNick Nope. Kpop used to be that way before the West became obsessed with Kpop. Beforehand, kpop idols tend to come from more poor or middle class families, but now that there is a massive market for Kpop idols, majority of trainees are from rich families. Since training takes a lot of time and dedication, most trainees who are able to put life on hold tend to come from rich families, since they always have money to fall back onto if their dreams of becoming a Kpop idol does not come true.
You made a great overview about how powerful the Chaebols are in South Korea but there's one detail right in the end of the video where you say that "South Korean scrubble to be employed by the Chaebols" thats correct but in my opinion that barely scratches the surface on this subject in regards to the influence the Chaebols have on South Korean society Basically South Korean parents force long hours of studying and extra studying on their children with the intention to make them have high enough scores so they can one day be employed by the Chaebols and ofcourse this means that those children oftentimes are left with very little free time if any at all and even if you get employed by the Chaebols then things are not always better because overwork is very common and in turn work related suicide in South Korea is the highest in the world even surpassing Japan!
According to the Global Slavery Index, an estimated 10.4% of the North Korean population is effectively enslaved as of 2018. Enjoy your k-pop knowing that kids ;)
As a Korean I find this video appalling. I don’t mean the actual video but the people and acts that were involved.thank you for shining a light on this problem
The quality of Fern’s videos never cease to amaze me. High quality content, well-narrated and researched. Excellent script and very well put video collage. Great work!
I don’t think so. There’s 41 companies that are larger than Samsung by market cap. It would definitely be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta or maybe Tencent
@@braedenaudlin2692 those companies don't have the same level of government involvement as Samsung does, it's a culture thing over there if you watch edgerunners and they say how you need to join arasaka academy to have a shot at life it's the same for Koreans and Samsung
@@braedenaudlin2692 The difference is that if Apple, Google, Meta, etc. executives were convicted of fraud on the scale that Samsung does consistently, they would be toppled quickly. Companies in the US hold massive power but no where near the level of Samsung, literally in this video it goes over the fact that the *CEO was convicted of fraud and corruption* and was then pardoned.... that is insane.
@@braedenaudlin2692Don't forget Nvidia, their pivot away from gaming towards cloud computing and AI made them the largest company in the world for a reason. And while AI is still in its infancy it's only a matter of time until we realize it's full potential.
@@monkofdarktimes who lives better? There isnt a world where you can compare NK and SK besides them sharing some elements of Korean culture and language. NK is a hopeless hellhole buddy. Probably the worst place to live on Earth.
@@monkofdarktimes and while both sides are not ideal, one side is filled with starving people that can have their families put in labor camps for multiple generations. the other side is a country with high living standards, not starving, and people can actually do things with their lives. Capitalism unrestrained is bad, but Communism is the very definition of failure.
I am a korean American teen. I remember when the sewol tragedy occurred. I was 5 years old and remember my family mourning the deaths of the children far away. And I remember when Park Gyun Hae was impeached, watching it on the news. At that young of an age I didn’t understand what was going on. As I got older, I began to recognize that South Korea is a government and a country where there is more severe power imbalances. If you are born poor you will stay poor. If you are born rich, you will only get richer with more freedom. Too many tragedies occur because of the greed of the higher ups. I am proud to be a South Korean but it is times like this I can only,y feel ashamed of the government.
@@james_giant_peach i think that the USA has a better government than that of South Korea. However, the us has the same amount, maybe even more corruptions. The amount of power political figures have is equally insane as the chaebols. The USA is a shady country. Countlessly, you see a horrific declassified cases brought to light, where innocent citizens are tested or killed to fund their researched. You have political figures “representing” different agencies ,such as the CIA, fighting to make or change laws to benefit them. They are both corrupt, but I would argue that the US has much more corruptions frequently.
@@james_giant_peach They're both bad in different ways - there's no real way to compare which is worse because of that - but if you're going off of history and the sheer level of feats, America is the worst by far. Canada/America will happily oppress and kill entire peoples (I'm Native, tons of people I know have lost grandparents/great uncles/great aunts in residential schools and/or their parents/uncles/aunts/etc were abused/sexually assaulted/etc in those places. They were concentration camps designed to kill us off or to bare minimum kill our culture off - this happened in both Canada and America, for the unaware) just to further money-making agendas (less Natives "being a problem" = more avenues to press for capital and land gain, look at how America is now), whereas South Korea let the elites get away with anything they want and there's an extreme misogyny problem atm... but not really any history of concentration camp usage, to my knowledge? Or planting dr-gs in neighborhoods, idk. Tons of old money families in the USA had their hands in slavery at some point, and tons more have their hands in extremist movements (particularly alt-right extremist garbage, neo-N*zis, etc, if you know what to look for you can find a lot of horrifying shit). Also don't forget the f3ds planting dr-gs in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the 60s and other horrible shit... yeah... But the way each country is corrupt is different, which is the problem in comparing them especially if only considering the modern day - it can't really be done because the state of the corruption is so drastically different in each country. South Korea is basically RUN by chaebols, whereas America... well it's the same way (elites who run top companies/corps, old politicians, old money families like the ones who had hands in slavery, billionaires, etc), but they aren't blatant like South Korea is, in America they hide and try to dodge accountability in the "run and hide" way, instead of just using sheer power, influence and money to get their way like in South Korea. Both have the same outcome, it's just done *so differently* that it's not comparable. Consensus (grain of salt, since you asked the other guy, but maybe my reply will help give perspective too); Modern-day only: South Korea by a slight margin, because they're blatant about it and nothing can be done All of history or even considering the past 100 years (1925 to now): America by a FAR margin and you can throw Canada in there too because it's the same country just with public funded healthcare lol.
Not american or korean but i would always say america faces an unprecedented amount of corruption. Its already concerning that proxy wars are the biggest export + america is also corporate controlled but there's a tiny hat club that controls the corporate, Congress and all who can be bought. See who owns the federal reserve and you'll find them everywhere. @james_giant_peach
I'm a student about to go to college, lived outside SK my whole life. Hopefully I'll fly away to a US university and revoke my citizenship to becomes a full American.
@What3hkmost news channels in SK have been running news on the subject for the past 18 hours or so, about 88 temporary memorials are created around the country. the entire country is in quite a shock, since there wasn't such a large aircraft disaster on korean soil before. this is if my memory serves me well the first 3:39 major incident since the turning of the 21st century, with more than tens of lives hurt or lost. so, national shock and grief.
As a Korean, I believe fellow Koreans will agree to this fact as well. The Massive companies such as Samsung, Lg, SK, Hyundai, and etc are estimated to pay over half the tax of Korea. If they fail, our whole economy stumbles.....
but the majority of koreans think that wealth inequality can be justified because they think the proletariat did not make enough effort. and, efforts to improve the working conditions of the workers are denounced as populism.
According to OECD, gini coefficient of Korea is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the unfairer the wealth distribution is. Korea's wealth inequality(0.33) is similar to that of France(0.32) and Japan(0.33), and slightly fairer than UK(0.35). The real problem is income inequality.
the whole video is more about oligarchy and power rather than wealth inequality. Wealth inequality is extreme in every developed countries and its why capitalism is flawed. You'd think canada or the us is any different? canadian politicians are just the same. corporate sellouts.
The problem is no matter how many times Koreans watch this video, they never ever listen and they never criticize rich Chaebul. They still admire them crazily.
@@thor.halsliif you knew anything about history, you’d know oppressors will do literally anything, especially and most often violence, to maintain their power. is it not fair to use their own methods against them?
Unfortunately korean media always kept incident like this emotionally aired like a melodrama, instead of the journalism work of finding who's at fault and what cause the incident to bring justice to the victim.
If anyone is interested in more about the MV Sewol disaster Brick Imortar did a two part deep dive on it. It’s genuinely insane how much corruption was involved and how so many people turned a blind eye to it. It just adds to the coverage Fern did here because it breaks down the nitty gritty of the corruption, combined with the whole picture and it paints a bleak scene for Sourh Korea
It's extremely likely that something rooted in Korea's extremely patriarchal society (the same thing that helps the chaebols wield so much power) will have contributed in some way to the disaster. It was a contributing factor in Korean Air Flight 801 in 1997, for example. Whether that's the hierarchy in the cockpit, or something that went wrong in communicating with the tower, or even something that should have been done better at the maintenance stage, there's a lot of room for problems to build up.
that's extremely unlikely. that USED to be the case before the 20th century(and i mean one of the most dangerous), but after international scrutiny post- Korean Air cargo flight 8509, the entire industry in korea went through a major change, and now they're up to western standards, or exceeds some. i'd like to use one of the national flag carriers Korean Air. after 2000 they even barred the use of the korean language inside the cockpit to improve on safety culture, and there hasn't been a single death from that airline since. (Hundreds used to die every decade before that major change) Jeju air never had a loss-of-life incident before this one, and judging from previous records they have been managed quite well since 2005. it's the leading Low Cost Carrier airline in SK. we will just have to see if the cockpit had Crew resource management issues but i don't think that was a major factor.
@@HSS_yt I mean, Korean Air is the one that turned back the entire flight just because the VP was mad at the cabin staff for serving nuts in a bag (this happened in 2014, so it was after 2000). This was blatantly against aviation safety codes and a VP who's a passenger should not have the ability to ask the pilot to do this to begin with (not to mention she physically assaulted the staff). This nut rage story was literally in this video too. This doesn't seem like an airline that does things by adhering to strict safety protocol to me.
@@BrotherCheng they really do. there are an abundance of statics that do prove aviation safety is quite good here. Hanjin, the conglomerate that does run korean air is known for a really irresponsible and [i don't want youtbe to remove my comment] type of management. please keep in mind that, that is the family and not the norm?
Samsung guy being too important to be in prison is of course nonsense. The family can appoint people outside the family to CEO and other roles, if there is no suitable family member to run the company. Imprisoned or not, the world keeps turning.
He actually was too important. Not because of his actual importance as a leader, but as a shareholder. See, Chaebols operate through insanely complicated web of share ownership, such as owning 15%(thus becoming the largest single shareholder) of a company that then owns a similar share in another company and so on. Thus, Chaebols actually only own 10-20% of the actual conglomerate but still act as the decision makers. Because all of this share ownership/distribution is done through family, anybody else being in charge would cause the entire conglomerate to collapse into separate companies that have no proper leadership structure individually. That kind of catastrophic collapse was unacceptable for a conglomerate representing 20+% of Korean GDP. This is why the former CEO of Samsung was kept alive in a coma for close to a decade while his children desperately tried to redistribute and balance the shares among themselves.
1440P ultrawide, cutting-edge animations, high quality sound design and audio, well-researched, and impecible pacing. This is the most well-made documentary I have ever watched on RUclips. Well done! 👏
In smaller countries a small number of families have even bigger reach and they keep an even lower profile. Americans often think they are the ones controlled by a wealthy elite but look around the world that elite in each country is much much smaller
Acording to OECD's statistics, South Korea's gini coefficient is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the more unequal the wealth is distributed. Sweden has 0.27, Japan's 0.33, US's 0.39, and Mexico's 0.45
In Korea you have to pay about 5% of your paycheck for their universal healthcare. Also their antics extend to healthcare also. You don't want a secret doctor doing your surgery when you went in for someone else.
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, RUclips isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
Crazy how they managed to fit 2 dystopias on a single peninsula- You got the worst form of Communist authoritarianism to the north and the most Cyberpunk inhuman form of capitalism in the south.
Its insane how powerful they are like it’s hard to actually wrap your brain around it you see the numbers you go wow crazy but it’s deeper then that it’s the same as saying this planet is 100 light years away when you look deeper how fast light travel is and it taking that long it’s mind blowing. A single company contributing that much to a country? It’s like that saying absolute power corrupts absolutely I don’t think there’s a mortal human that wouldn’t get corrupted by that much influence and power
It's unbelievable even to imagine that the entire country's economy depends on a few groups of companies. I could feel bad for the S. Koreans who can't do anything to stop; even if they tried to stop, it would be poking their eyes.
tbh in other country similar oiligarchy structurs exist. Not to this extend, but if u watch what elon musk is trying to do in the USA its really concering. Even in Germany only 3-5 familys own 50% of all the wealth. In the US its owned by only 3 people.
korea is far worse, they worship their corporations. they depend their whole lives on samsung and hyundai. they dont do anything to diversify but only buy samsung and hyundai, its truly a garbage society
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Real. I'm not into boycotting myself. Can't even understand why I should stop eating McDonalds just because some war is happening thousands of kilometers away from me.
@@dale1809 its defo bots on this channel, they have a shitton of comments every time about "great animation" "wow so glad its not AI" "amazing quality" but they still say it in a very human like way. expensive bots.
The story on Park Gyun Hae is still very simplified, not mentioning her part in making the Sewol Disaster a worse event. This coverage makes it seems like it was her inactivity and then the Samsung bribes when it‘s much more than that.
This is what happens when you have someone who has no background in a country's politics/history/culture try to make documentary-style content on that country. You see it a lot with Western journalists as well, unfortunately.
Because the entire debacle is so crazy it needs an entire video on its own to deal with, not because of ignorance. Brick Immortar had a video just analysing the Sewol and it took hours to get through.
@ absolutely, I do mean it as that they could have added a view sentences to clarify before leaving it at that. But yes, going into detail in a video like this is pretty unrealistic.
@@Moonstone-Redux It is almost certainly because of ignorance lol. As you note yourself, this is an extraordinarily complex topic, and reducing things down to a handful of families makes for an easily digestible, but imprecise, explanation for Korea's political and social problems. I realize my RUclips handle doesn't indicate as such, but I am an area specialist, and there is just so much background one needs to adequately understand the history, role, and influence of chaebols that it is essentially a fool's errand to try to understand it over the course of a few weeks. Fern's type of content is solid when the focus is on specific events that are more linear--ANOM, the discovery of an ancient computer in the Mediterranean, etc. They fall flat once they try to expand the scope of what they're investigating. It's beyond them.
The fact that 100k people stood outside just to protect one guy... that's impressive. They better be receiving some benefits for that relationship, else it's outright stupidity.
Leaving aside the "they're more than 3 people" argument, if you go back they don't post videos THAT frequently. They're doing a lot more now because ads pay more closer to the end of the year than on other random months. You can expect most creators to slow down on their videos during January since it's the complete opposite.
I'm not supporting the act of not truly punishing the rich just bc they are wealthy, but it isn't anything new. It doesn't matter what system of govt, the rich have always enjoyed a separate legal system.
Status quo boils over, people can't take it anymore. New system is a new deal, the general population are allowed an ever so slightly larger part of the pie (usually at the expense of an "other"). People get comfortable, hoard their own assets. There are no more assets. The grandchildren of the ones allowed a slightly larger part of the pie cannot obtain the same anywhere near that amount of pie. Status quo boils over.
@@arc8218 that's just wishful thinking at it's extreme. AI is built-up and designed by the same kind of people who run the legal systems. AI is only as good as those who designed it.
@@Uufda651 ALL supposed "republics" end up as oligarchies in the end its the continuously recurring phenomenon that perfectly showcases the flaws of democracy but the majority of People refuse to acknowledge it because they've been indoctrinated their whole life that democracy is "the best system of government" and anything else is bad in reality such thinking only manages to keeps us in a locked cage together a key which we refuse to use because we are lead to believe our circumstances as the best there are and there's no alternative to it
Dystopia and Utopia is subjective. There will always be a group living in a dystopia and at the same spot a group living in a utopia. Equality is when you take away all that freedom gives you.
The Asian hierarchy in their culture is the problem most of the time. Look up Korean Air Flight 801 and you'll see that the plane crashed because the flight engineer wouldn't speak up against the captain (because the captain is superior and who are you to question his decisions, right?) and boom, 228 people died. I would never trust them with my life.
Fern is putting out high quality videos pretty much every week I don’t know how they never fail to impress me with these informative and amazingly animated videos, well done fern and I hope to see more of these high quality videos in 2025!
if you want a video that goes in the sewol ferry tragedy in great detail i would recommend the rotton mango video it's really good and the host talks about the situation in a hour by hour basis
@@Uufda651Brick immortar did an excellent job but as a south korean, i think they exaggerated media response quite a lot. I don't agree with how they put newstapa as the only news organization that stood against the entire government and politicians. that isn't really what happened. Maybe it's just because i was seven when that disaster happened, maybe south korean media improved a lot, but seeing how news organisations literally insult the government on live television now (and for good reason) i don't brick immortar did good research on that side of the topic.
Rotten Mango (Stephanie Soo) has incredible podcast episodes on what was talked about in this video, I was surprised just how much I already knew and recognized from listening to her. Her video on the Sewol ferry disaster details how avoidable the deaths were and just how much incompetence there was in every level that lead to so many deaths, from the loading of the boat to the "rescue missions". She also has a video on the millionaire with no face, the chaebol responsible for the disaster and also more information on how much damage he brought on to so many Koreans through his cult. The Itaewon incident was also so deadly because of corruption and incompetence. Her videos also detail so many cases of horrifying events that happen to Koreans and the amount of corruption in the justice system there, emphasized by how every single person convicted in this video barely served their sentence.
Props to korea for holding two dystopias in a single peninsula
Somehow they got cyberpunk and 1984 split in half
the result of foreign powers
@@andrewbay8891 we cooked?
@@andrewbay8891 as much as people want to blame America for a lot of stuff, South Korea's issues really isn't related to them
@@GameFuMaster wrong
I'm convinced fern only made this video to flex their new water animation skills holy damn
Plot twist: You're part of the team and you made those water animations.
it is clean❤
Pull your tongue back to your mouth. It's not really that impressive. In fact, the it's too sharp looking when the water hits on the side of the ship.
i feel like on thing i didnt like was the depiction of the people on the sewol ferry. They weren't mainly little children they were high schoolers on their field trip iirc.
@@Su_TwTidk man - teenagers are just slightly more coherent children lol
"Most of the victims were children" isn't clear enough. 82% of the Sewol's dead victims were kids. EIGHTY TWO PERCENT. It was a class trip for the whole grade.
That’s horrifying
Really horrifying
The documentaries were difficult to watch
Kids death shouldnt be used politically. Its just morally wrong
@@antagonist4823 you're missing the point that these were the children of parents. A whole generation lost.
I'm a South Korean and I want to thank you so much for shedding the light on this issue and how the media portrays it. These guys have had power too much too long! 감사합니다!
whats the current situation buddy?
@@Jeeprepdiaries12what’s the current situation buddy?
@@mstdym what's the current situation buddy?
What's the current situation buddy?
What's the current situation buddy?
"above the law" is such an insane power to have, I cant imagine having that much power
Oh I can!
Oh I do!
Wasn't there a presidential pardon for the president's son in America recently?
@@CocolinoFanand a new elected president who is a criminal. yeah power can be something insane
It's when a person is so valuable that those with influence or the population chooses to ignore their actions.
i dont have youtube premium, but these guys make my basic youtube a premium experience
what do u mean by that?
@@ZXCRacing premium experience
Ahem... Let me introduce you to ReVanced - it's, better than premium... Go take a look.
@@ZXCRacing 🤣
@@ZXCRacingwhat he wants to convey is, the content made by Fern is comparable, or even better compared to the content in premium youtube..
And I totally agree with that statement..
Fun fact South Korea's top 10 family-owned conglomerates, like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, contribute nearly 60% of the nation's GDP.
Pretty much untouchable at that point.
@OFFICERHUMANRATI pray that Jesus convicts you.
Can you prove that in court?
@OFFICERHUMANRAT what is wrong with you
Don't Read Myy name
I lived in South Korea for two years teaching, and I can't stress enough how much it is an open secret the chaebols are the ones really running the country. Literally, everyone I would talk to about this from young to old knew that the big families were untouchable. Honestly even just working at one of these companies is seen as a big deal in Korea, because it is understood that there are many benefits besides compensation when you are working for these companies.
As an example, I had a friend in Korea who worked at Samsung, just a mid level position, but soon after joining the company he became close friends with the head of police in the town we were both living in, and whenever there was an issue with the law he would call his friend and then magically the problem would go away. This is just a small town example, so I can only imagine what the top guys are up to on a daily basis.
Pretty much same thing happened in most Asean countries that for sure.
No rich person is untouchable, they want you to think that
As if shady depraved oligarchs dont control america lmfao.
bro working at samsung doesnt make you friends with a police chief lol. Thats like saying working at apple would do the same. Especially when the guy is just an average mid level worker making 100k a year. either you misunderstood something or you are clearly lying
Total bullshit. Don't buy it
How to escape accountability (the rich edition)
1. Let the sentence be severe to please the public
2. Do the sentence but only until the public forgets about their crime
3. Quietly reduce and pardon the sentence
4. Profit
In every country this has been applied
@@tzardelasuerte not in US, buddy
@@yeetboi268 you're joking right?
@@yeetboi268- No, It happens in the U.S. as well. The time you are sentenced to does not equal the time you will actually serve. If you are sentenced to 10 years you can be out in five to six years. In most cases you only have to serve 80% your actual sentence to then be eligible for parole.
@@yeetboi268 thats where it all usually happens, goofy
*“The corpos built a system that feeds on human misery. They’ll crush a city if it makes them a buck.”*
*- Johnny Silverhand*
Weird, it almost seems like the profit motive is a perverse incentive which prioritises capital accumulation above all else, that corporations acting greedy is an inherent feature of the system and that hyper focusing on individuals and corporations at the top and presenting them as simply being bad actors is missing the forest for the trees, which only ends up preventing people from viewing the incentives that the system itself creates in order to elevate these individuals to the top, but that would be an anti-capitalist perspective to have, which is apparently bad
Yep, it's a feature in modern capitalism especially late stage capitalism, which is more or less feels like serfdom. Sure the economy grows but the people are poor to the point where even having kids and having a wife at home to take care of them is a luxury. Without kids being raised properly, societies start breaking down as strong families make strong societies
THOSE DAMN EVIL ELITES WORKING WITH RE***DED GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE
@@emiloguechoons9030
Yet we still are not allowed to critize capitalism.
@@Унмеито I agree, it's insane. With technology evolving and with workers being replaced, it will only make things harder for the general public while the corpos get richer and richer
RIP to all the 179 people who died in yesterday's jeju Airlines crash
Rip
"Gotta protect the Grass!"-The concrete Wall at the end of the Runway (im sorry)
Some survived the crash. 4? Imagine you survive because several bodies before your position slow down your trauma
terrible infrastructure with the raised wall on the end of the runway. what were they thinking. would not have passed FAA standards
@@my-tschischlak2 😢
North Korea: 1984
South Korea: Cyberpunk 2077
Try 1950s for North Korea. They wish they had cassette players and roller blades lol
Edit: I just got the George Orwell reference I’m stupid lol
It's a bot@@TheRUclipsUser69
@@SuperNormal_ParaNatural 1984 is a book...
@ yea I know I edited my comment once I realized lol
tired cliche
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
Who said that?
@@mand4lex kennedy and i found that out by 5 seconds googling
@@mand4lex John F Kennedy
@@mand4lex J F Kennedy, ironic coming from American politician
Joe Biden @@mand4lex
fitting two polar opposite dystopias on a tiny peninsula is truly remarkable
Oversocialized hyperconformity will turn any country or system into a dystopia.
President Park was entirely responsible for the Sewol ferry disaster, she blocked all coastguard action, turned away US and Japanese ships offering assistance, and basically watched as the ferry capcised in slow motion. RottenMango has a good video on the disaster.
How would that even benefit her though? I just don't see why she'd have a reason to do that
@@mic2348 it was speculated that it was a cult sacrifice, as the daughter of a shamanistic cult leader who was among Park’s closest confidantes was revealed to have orchestrated government policy. This is a popular conspiracy because the day of the tragedy happened on the 20th anniversary of the death of her father
lies bought out by the lefties and its media. just like Trump's case.
@@thelneffableus3236 Yea, that's BS.
Probably simply she felt ashamed if other nations helped and she couldn’t anything, believing her PR looks bad
It’s interesting how, in some countries, it’s easy to associate the faces and names of powerful individuals with the companies and crimes they are responsible for. In contrast, in the U.S., we often speak about corporations or institutions in abstract terms, without ever putting a face to those behind them. Companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, or Coca-Cola-and even powerful agencies like the FBI and CIA-frequently make headlines, but the blame rarely extends to the individuals who drive their decisions. When wrongdoing occurs, the public hears the company’s name, but those truly responsible remain faceless and nameless. This disconnect allows accountability to vanish behind corporate logos and institutional titles, shielding the people at the top from personal scrutiny.
@@SisyphusOfSodom Because IT wouldnt make Sense for single induviduals. The Problem arent these induviduals but the company and the system. Those induviduals are only acting they way they are expected to, to maximice shareholder value.
The vagueness does help distribute the blame across the corporate image and stifles the public's imagination and ability perceive individuals who are wrong. I think even this goes for ideology too, people will blame capitalism but not look at specific CEO's and individuals working behind the curtains of these big corps.
Gotta love dodge v ford for giving us that luxury. Doesn't matter how many CEOs you axe when the law mandates you literally break the law because paying fines is slightly more profitable than following it.
But Americans don't care. Even if individuals are exposed for corruption, half of Americans won't believe it, or believe that the "other side" is worse. Half of the U.S lives in one reality, and the other half in another reality. People can't even agree on basic facts anymore. Think about it, Americans have just elected a convicted felon for president lol.
That’s why when something goes with the Tesla for example, people blame Elon Musk since he is associated with the company. But if the CEO wasn’t famous and didn’t have a PR, it would be just Tesla. But Tesla has a face whcih is Elon.
i always love when fern posts again.
What the hell are these bots
Me too
Don't Read Myy name
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, RUclips isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
@@zenmoto369This comment is pretty weird
The government incompetence in the ferry event can not be overstated. The passengers could have been rescued if anyone acted in the good of the victims.
Dumb question: is “ferry” pronounced the same as “fairy”? English was not my first language but I was always taught that berry, bury, and Barry are pronounced different lol was I taught wrong?
@@CantTellYouslightly different but noticeable
@@CantTellYouthere is a difference but it ends up being very subtle and washed up in different kinds of accents. For example Australia and British accents place more difference between them but for where I'm from (america) the difference between "fairy" and "ferry" are indistinguishable
incompetence? Lol, they literally lied watch the documentary about it, during the reconstruction of the journey done by the ferry, they lied about it and sent fake coordinates
Fun fact, one of the granddaughters of the chaebol family of Samsung almost debuted in a Kpop group. She received backlash for "buying her way" into the Kpop industry especially since she was set to debut in a pretty big company. She was eventually let go although no one knows if she left or if they decided not to debut her.
im not that much into kpop, but isnt the narrative of most of the stars, that they come from "poor" familys and worked their way to the top?
@@KinqNicknah not always lmao, obviously some are poor and some are already well-off. there are some idols who became idols because they have connections in the industry, of course.
its han soehee right?
@@KinqNick Nope. Kpop used to be that way before the West became obsessed with Kpop. Beforehand, kpop idols tend to come from more poor or middle class families, but now that there is a massive market for Kpop idols, majority of trainees are from rich families. Since training takes a lot of time and dedication, most trainees who are able to put life on hold tend to come from rich families, since they always have money to fall back onto if their dreams of becoming a Kpop idol does not come true.
@@hoshi2.0 no her name is Annie Moon
You made a great overview about how powerful the Chaebols are in South Korea but there's one detail right in the end of the video where you say that "South Korean scrubble to be employed by the Chaebols" thats correct but in my opinion that barely scratches the surface on this subject in regards to the influence the Chaebols have on South Korean society
Basically South Korean parents force long hours of studying and extra studying on their children with the intention to make them have high enough scores so they can one day be employed by the Chaebols and ofcourse this means that those children oftentimes are left with very little free time if any at all and even if you get employed by the Chaebols then things are not always better because overwork is very common and in turn work related suicide in South Korea is the highest in the world even surpassing Japan!
I'm south korean and living outside of it showed how much of it is controlled by few monopolies and the reliance of them from the country scares me.
But S. Korea living standard is better than the majority of Southeast Asian nations and China.
Its the theme of the eastern asian countries honestly. Taiwan, Japan, etc
It definitely is quite concerning how if those companies fail, the entire country's economy can collapse in an instant
Sounds like South Korea needs an estate tax
@@jonaspete sure bro, tell that to the birth rate
'Families' is a very polite way of saying criminals.
Don't Read Myy name
I think 'mafia' fits better... they are families, they also happen to all be criminals
They are by no means exclusive terms.
@@KoalaPlus eggactly 💯
According to the Global Slavery Index, an estimated 10.4% of the North Korean population is effectively enslaved as of 2018.
Enjoy your k-pop knowing that kids ;)
Thank you for bringing so much needed light into the complexities of South Korean realities.
As a Korean I find this video appalling. I don’t mean the actual video but the people and acts that were involved.thank you for shining a light on this problem
The quality of Fern’s videos never cease to amaze me. High quality content, well-narrated and researched. Excellent script and very well put video collage. Great work!
It's crazy how good animations are packed into a RUclips video. I love these animations they just keep getting better.
Don't Read Myy name
@@DontReadMypicturee foh
If arasaka from cyberpunk ever becomes real then it will be called Samsung
I don’t think so. There’s 41 companies that are larger than Samsung by market cap. It would definitely be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta or maybe Tencent
@@braedenaudlin2692 those companies don't have the same level of government involvement as Samsung does, it's a culture thing over there if you watch edgerunners and they say how you need to join arasaka academy to have a shot at life it's the same for Koreans and Samsung
@@callumsmith4773 Mind you, Tencent might fit the bill if China's government ever gives it a chance...
@@braedenaudlin2692 The difference is that if Apple, Google, Meta, etc. executives were convicted of fraud on the scale that Samsung does consistently, they would be toppled quickly. Companies in the US hold massive power but no where near the level of Samsung, literally in this video it goes over the fact that the *CEO was convicted of fraud and corruption* and was then pardoned.... that is insane.
@@braedenaudlin2692Don't forget Nvidia, their pivot away from gaming towards cloud computing and AI made them the largest company in the world for a reason. And while AI is still in its infancy it's only a matter of time until we realize it's full potential.
North Korea - extreme communism
South Korea - extreme capitalism
2 sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin
SK distances itself from NK ideals so extremely that they end up at the opposite extreme
@@monkofdarktimes who lives better? There isnt a world where you can compare NK and SK besides them sharing some elements of Korean culture and language. NK is a hopeless hellhole buddy. Probably the worst place to live on Earth.
@@monkofdarktimes and while both sides are not ideal, one side is filled with starving people that can have their families put in labor camps for multiple generations. the other side is a country with high living standards, not starving, and people can actually do things with their lives.
Capitalism unrestrained is bad, but Communism is the very definition of failure.
Both countries would be hell to live in. Just for very different reasons.
"The more i learn about people, the more i like my dog"
-Mark Twain
I am a korean American teen. I remember when the sewol tragedy occurred. I was 5 years old and remember my family mourning the deaths of the children far away. And I remember when Park Gyun Hae was impeached, watching it on the news. At that young of an age I didn’t understand what was going on. As I got older, I began to recognize that South Korea is a government and a country where there is more severe power imbalances. If you are born poor you will stay poor. If you are born rich, you will only get richer with more freedom. Too many tragedies occur because of the greed of the higher ups. I am proud to be a South Korean but it is times like this I can only,y feel ashamed of the government.
Since you’re a Korean American you’ve probably seen the corruption in the states as well. Which would you say is worse?
@@james_giant_peach i think that the USA has a better government than that of South Korea. However, the us has the same amount, maybe even more corruptions. The amount of power political figures have is equally insane as the chaebols. The USA is a shady country. Countlessly, you see a horrific declassified cases brought to light, where innocent citizens are tested or killed to fund their researched. You have political figures “representing” different agencies ,such as the CIA, fighting to make or change laws to benefit them. They are both corrupt, but I would argue that the US has much more corruptions frequently.
Precisely why i willl never have children and anti natalists have a point
@@james_giant_peach They're both bad in different ways - there's no real way to compare which is worse because of that - but if you're going off of history and the sheer level of feats, America is the worst by far.
Canada/America will happily oppress and kill entire peoples (I'm Native, tons of people I know have lost grandparents/great uncles/great aunts in residential schools and/or their parents/uncles/aunts/etc were abused/sexually assaulted/etc in those places. They were concentration camps designed to kill us off or to bare minimum kill our culture off - this happened in both Canada and America, for the unaware) just to further money-making agendas (less Natives "being a problem" = more avenues to press for capital and land gain, look at how America is now), whereas South Korea let the elites get away with anything they want and there's an extreme misogyny problem atm... but not really any history of concentration camp usage, to my knowledge? Or planting dr-gs in neighborhoods, idk.
Tons of old money families in the USA had their hands in slavery at some point, and tons more have their hands in extremist movements (particularly alt-right extremist garbage, neo-N*zis, etc, if you know what to look for you can find a lot of horrifying shit). Also don't forget the f3ds planting dr-gs in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the 60s and other horrible shit... yeah...
But the way each country is corrupt is different, which is the problem in comparing them especially if only considering the modern day - it can't really be done because the state of the corruption is so drastically different in each country. South Korea is basically RUN by chaebols, whereas America... well it's the same way (elites who run top companies/corps, old politicians, old money families like the ones who had hands in slavery, billionaires, etc), but they aren't blatant like South Korea is, in America they hide and try to dodge accountability in the "run and hide" way, instead of just using sheer power, influence and money to get their way like in South Korea. Both have the same outcome, it's just done *so differently* that it's not comparable.
Consensus (grain of salt, since you asked the other guy, but maybe my reply will help give perspective too);
Modern-day only: South Korea by a slight margin, because they're blatant about it and nothing can be done
All of history or even considering the past 100 years (1925 to now): America by a FAR margin and you can throw Canada in there too because it's the same country just with public funded healthcare lol.
Not american or korean but i would always say america faces an unprecedented amount of corruption. Its already concerning that proxy wars are the biggest export + america is also corporate controlled but there's a tiny hat club that controls the corporate, Congress and all who can be bought.
See who owns the federal reserve and you'll find them everywhere.
@james_giant_peach
South Korean Here!
Straight Up Not Having A Good Time!!!
I'm a student about to go to college, lived outside SK my whole life. Hopefully I'll fly away to a US university and revoke my citizenship to becomes a full American.
what is the people's reactions to the recent airplane crash? not trying to be rude just curious as the news doesn't show those parts.
@@ctrl_x1770 Going from one capitalist hell hole to another.
@What3hkmost news channels in SK have been running news on the subject for the past 18 hours or so, about 88 temporary memorials are created around the country. the entire country is in quite a shock, since there wasn't such a large aircraft disaster on korean soil before. this is if my memory serves me well the first 3:39 major incident since the turning of the 21st century, with more than tens of lives hurt or lost.
so, national shock and grief.
@@ctrl_x1770 be careful i've heard that they love shooting people for no reason
This is quite a nice notification for me to see when I've just finished making my food.
Same here, just finished making some food and what I see?? A new video from fern. Enjoyed my food and the video too
me too!!!! clicked and then paused at the first second to wait for my food
As a Korean, I believe fellow Koreans will agree to this fact as well. The Massive companies such as Samsung, Lg, SK, Hyundai, and etc are estimated to pay over half the tax of Korea. If they fail, our whole economy stumbles.....
Is that an admission for them can't succeeding without being corrupt?
Sounds like South Korea needs an estate tax.
That's because the economy is built around them, but if they get dismantled, new companies can be filled to the power vacuum.
so rule of law will set them up for failure?
and you know what else is massive
No wonder why South Korea is so stagnant nowadays. Wealth inequality really hurts the poor and middle class.
but the majority of koreans think that wealth inequality can be justified because they think the proletariat did not make enough effort. and, efforts to improve the working conditions of the workers are denounced as populism.
According to OECD, gini coefficient of Korea is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the unfairer the wealth distribution is.
Korea's wealth inequality(0.33) is similar to that of France(0.32) and Japan(0.33), and slightly fairer than UK(0.35).
The real problem is income inequality.
the whole video is more about oligarchy and power rather than wealth inequality. Wealth inequality is extreme in every developed countries and its why capitalism is flawed. You'd think canada or the us is any different? canadian politicians are just the same. corporate sellouts.
The problem is no matter how many times Koreans watch this video, they never ever listen and they never criticize rich Chaebul. They still admire them crazily.
"Profit over safety" I think that's the world we live in.
Not just South Korea. But every major corp?
I haven't done any research on this.
you don’t need to do research to know this
It's called "late stage capitalism".
you dont need research, and not only major corp, even small business do that, "late stage capitalism" baby!!
This is VERY true in the United States
Seems like South Korea needs its own Luigi
You must be American. Trying to solve everything with guna and murder
@@thor.halsliif you knew anything about history, you’d know oppressors will do literally anything, especially and most often violence, to maintain their power. is it not fair to use their own methods against them?
Korea is what Luigi dreams of best healthcare system in the world
Unfortunately korean media always kept incident like this emotionally aired like a melodrama, instead of the journalism work of finding who's at fault and what cause the incident to bring justice to the victim.
Korean media is also connected with chaebol. Korean media is subsidiary of conglomerate. They often mislead the truth.
If anyone is interested in more about the MV Sewol disaster Brick Imortar did a two part deep dive on it. It’s genuinely insane how much corruption was involved and how so many people turned a blind eye to it. It just adds to the coverage Fern did here because it breaks down the nitty gritty of the corruption, combined with the whole picture and it paints a bleak scene for Sourh Korea
So glad I could learn about this through your video. It's amazing how South Korea and the US are very similar in this regard! Do the US next!
Cannot help but wonder if the *inexplicable incompetence* of the Jeju Air Flight 2216 pilots was rooted in the Chaebol system.
It's extremely likely that something rooted in Korea's extremely patriarchal society (the same thing that helps the chaebols wield so much power) will have contributed in some way to the disaster. It was a contributing factor in Korean Air Flight 801 in 1997, for example. Whether that's the hierarchy in the cockpit, or something that went wrong in communicating with the tower, or even something that should have been done better at the maintenance stage, there's a lot of room for problems to build up.
@@JimCullen is a idiot
that's extremely unlikely. that USED to be the case before the 20th century(and i mean one of the most dangerous), but after international scrutiny post- Korean Air cargo flight 8509, the entire industry in korea went through a major change, and now they're up to western standards, or exceeds some.
i'd like to use one of the national flag carriers Korean Air. after 2000 they even barred the use of the korean language inside the cockpit to improve on safety culture, and there hasn't been a single death from that airline since. (Hundreds used to die every decade before that major change)
Jeju air never had a loss-of-life incident before this one, and judging from previous records they have been managed quite well since 2005. it's the leading Low Cost Carrier airline in SK. we will just have to see if the cockpit had Crew resource management issues but i don't think that was a major factor.
@@HSS_yt I mean, Korean Air is the one that turned back the entire flight just because the VP was mad at the cabin staff for serving nuts in a bag (this happened in 2014, so it was after 2000). This was blatantly against aviation safety codes and a VP who's a passenger should not have the ability to ask the pilot to do this to begin with (not to mention she physically assaulted the staff). This nut rage story was literally in this video too. This doesn't seem like an airline that does things by adhering to strict safety protocol to me.
@@BrotherCheng they really do. there are an abundance of statics that do prove aviation safety is quite good here.
Hanjin, the conglomerate that does run korean air is known for a really irresponsible and [i don't want youtbe to remove my comment] type of management.
please keep in mind that, that is the family and not the norm?
Samsung guy being too important to be in prison is of course nonsense. The family can appoint people outside the family to CEO and other roles, if there is no suitable family member to run the company. Imprisoned or not, the world keeps turning.
Probably concerned that he might do a better job.
He actually was too important. Not because of his actual importance as a leader, but as a shareholder.
See, Chaebols operate through insanely complicated web of share ownership, such as owning 15%(thus becoming the largest single shareholder) of a company that then owns a similar share in another company and so on. Thus, Chaebols actually only own 10-20% of the actual conglomerate but still act as the decision makers.
Because all of this share ownership/distribution is done through family, anybody else being in charge would cause the entire conglomerate to collapse into separate companies that have no proper leadership structure individually. That kind of catastrophic collapse was unacceptable for a conglomerate representing 20+% of Korean GDP.
This is why the former CEO of Samsung was kept alive in a coma for close to a decade while his children desperately tried to redistribute and balance the shares among themselves.
@@geohiekim8705thanks for the insight!
@@geohiekim8705 the running joke was the man would be the "oldest" man in Korea just to avoid inheritance tax
Great video but I wish it was longer and even more in-depth.
1440P ultrawide, cutting-edge animations, high quality sound design and audio, well-researched, and impecible pacing. This is the most well-made documentary I have ever watched on RUclips. Well done! 👏
Vagabond Tv Series, Can't wait for season 2, on a serious note prayers to all the victims and their families
S. Korea Corporations owned by a few rich people managing to skirt responsibility due to wealth and power?! Seriously outraged here as an american!
Yeah...one look at your country's MIC and your country's insurance and in those sectors ,America is more similar to sk than it seems
You have BlackRock, blackstone, vanguard, all working Rothschilds, Rockefellers and other greedy Zionist satanic freemasons
@@giftluis2257 nah, South Korea is patterned on America- since we helped them, but they dialed it up to 11
In smaller countries a small number of families have even bigger reach and they keep an even lower profile. Americans often think they are the ones controlled by a wealthy elite but look around the world that elite in each country is much much smaller
@@giftluis2257yea the initial comment is sarcastic
S korea has all the same wealth inequalities we do in the US, yet even they have universal healthcare...
Free luigi
Weegee did nothing wrong
@@2345studyhardkido No. Keep being delusional buddy.
Acording to OECD's statistics, South Korea's gini coefficient is 0.33; The closer the number is to 1, the more unequal the wealth is distributed.
Sweden has 0.27, Japan's 0.33, US's 0.39, and Mexico's 0.45
In Korea you have to pay about 5% of your paycheck for their universal healthcare. Also their antics extend to healthcare also. You don't want a secret doctor doing your surgery when you went in for someone else.
Crazy how fern produces Netflix quality documentaries every week...we are blessed!
I get what you are saying, but get outside feel the grass, RUclips isn't the real life, getting emotional over someone uploading a video on YT is kinda sad! Wish you well
@@zenmoto369are you regarded?
@@zenmoto369said a nibba with a wiki profile picture. Bro you're just that person who needs to hear its own advice. Stop projecting
The production quality of these videos is unbelievable, better than almost all professional documentaries out there.
I'm happy that more youtubers talk about this. Can't let be forgotten.
day by day the video quality gets better and better
Crazy how they managed to fit 2 dystopias on a single peninsula- You got the worst form of Communist authoritarianism to the north and the most Cyberpunk inhuman form of capitalism in the south.
I feel like I'm watching a mission introduction video in a Hitman game
That's what I was thinking
haha the animation style is definitely similar
Amaizing informative video. Congrats🎉
Please make a part 2 about SK
8:03 "strategically giving birth"
That is one of the sentences of all time.
한국에선 많은 사람들이 미국 국적을 위해 원정 출산을 해요. 그리 놀라운 일도 아닙니다.
Its insane how powerful they are like it’s hard to actually wrap your brain around it you see the numbers you go wow crazy but it’s deeper then that it’s the same as saying this planet is 100 light years away when you look deeper how fast light travel is and it taking that long it’s mind blowing. A single company contributing that much to a country? It’s like that saying absolute power corrupts absolutely I don’t think there’s a mortal human that wouldn’t get corrupted by that much influence and power
4:41 i appreciate how he actually put the bar that indicates how long the sponsor part is.
It's unbelievable even to imagine that the entire country's economy depends on a few groups of companies. I could feel bad for the S. Koreans who can't do anything to stop; even if they tried to stop, it would be poking their eyes.
tbh in other country similar oiligarchy structurs exist. Not to this extend, but if u watch what elon musk is trying to do in the USA its really concering. Even in Germany only 3-5 familys own 50% of all the wealth. In the US its owned by only 3 people.
korea is far worse, they worship their corporations. they depend their whole lives on samsung and hyundai. they dont do anything to diversify but only buy samsung and hyundai, its truly a garbage society
@@KinqNick Who the hell are you talking about? It's just straight up not true
1:08 the water sim interacting with the benches and people, this is why I'm subbed
As a Korean Texan myself, this was such a useful and brief video outlining the political and business climate of South Korea.
Fern seems to teach stuff that I have little knowledge about and also entertain me, you guys do so good in these vids
It's weird watching this on a Samsung phone.
Same
I mean, u can always separate the art (phone made from the company) from the artist (the company). So there's that.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Real. I'm not into boycotting myself. Can't even understand why I should stop eating McDonalds just because some war is happening thousands of kilometers away from me.
@@dnomyard I mean, not like I still have my old Samsung Galaxy Tab 6A and making this reply on an OPPO F7 phone.
Uhhhhhhh......... What@@dnomyard
the quality of your videos are insane wow
Literally hundreds and thousands of people comment the exact same thing on every single video. Are you a bot or just a 🍖 🚴♂️
@@dale1809 its defo bots on this channel, they have a shitton of comments every time about "great animation" "wow so glad its not AI" "amazing quality" but they still say it in a very human like way. expensive bots.
14:00 hiding the face of the corpse behind red plants is absolute cinema
Shockingly amazing production value
Great story, Can't wait for an episode about French wealthy families and their african colonisation business empire that still runs to this day
Have any informational videos to recommend for that until Fern does one?
Don't forget French Indochina and Madagascar, and the ongoing tensions in New Caledonia and French Guyana!
The story on Park Gyun Hae is still very simplified, not mentioning her part in making the Sewol Disaster a worse event. This coverage makes it seems like it was her inactivity and then the Samsung bribes when it‘s much more than that.
This is what happens when you have someone who has no background in a country's politics/history/culture try to make documentary-style content on that country. You see it a lot with Western journalists as well, unfortunately.
Because the entire debacle is so crazy it needs an entire video on its own to deal with, not because of ignorance.
Brick Immortar had a video just analysing the Sewol and it took hours to get through.
@ absolutely, I do mean it as that they could have added a view sentences to clarify before leaving it at that. But yes, going into detail in a video like this is pretty unrealistic.
@@Moonstone-Redux It is almost certainly because of ignorance lol. As you note yourself, this is an extraordinarily complex topic, and reducing things down to a handful of families makes for an easily digestible, but imprecise, explanation for Korea's political and social problems.
I realize my RUclips handle doesn't indicate as such, but I am an area specialist, and there is just so much background one needs to adequately understand the history, role, and influence of chaebols that it is essentially a fool's errand to try to understand it over the course of a few weeks.
Fern's type of content is solid when the focus is on specific events that are more linear--ANOM, the discovery of an ancient computer in the Mediterranean, etc. They fall flat once they try to expand the scope of what they're investigating. It's beyond them.
Westerners tend to consider Korea as Japan-lite. Most of them understand Korea through the lens of cyberpunky stereotype built by 1980's Japan.
German voice guy is the best
Normally I complain about in video ads, but the way you slid the Brilliant one in there was way too smooth. Props.
That was the most packed 19 minute video I've seen... Amazing animations
Please make merch or something, it feels illegal watching such good content for free
If I have to buy T-shirts and pants anyway, might as well have that money go towards a good cause instead of someone like Bezos.
The fact that 100k people stood outside just to protect one guy... that's impressive. They better be receiving some benefits for that relationship, else it's outright stupidity.
its the latter. Trust me, I know
@@joshuafrimpong244 yeah cult things
How do you guys make so many quality videos so quickly? Well done
Cause it’s a company the people who do thr talking are only voice actors
its 3 people working together not a one man army
@@lalalalala198No, these guys also have a German Chanel. They now have a team, but they are not only voice actors
@@kirill9111they have 2 German Channels, 2 Bored Guys and Simplicissimus
Leaving aside the "they're more than 3 people" argument, if you go back they don't post videos THAT frequently. They're doing a lot more now because ads pay more closer to the end of the year than on other random months.
You can expect most creators to slow down on their videos during January since it's the complete opposite.
the ad slider is so cool and useful to tell when its a sponsor, i could barely even tell its was an ad! hope to see it return in more videos.
I would love to see some royal family stuff here because these videos are top tier frrr
South Korea shows us what we should be wary of in the future, and North Korea shows us the hell that we left behind.
I thought America already showed that
Yet again, we see that any system with rich people is fundamentally unaccountable.
The production quality on these is insane. Absolutely love the aesthetic as well.
One of my favorite channels I've ever seen on RUclips.
Thank you for this amazing content!
As an avid Fern Korean subscriber, thanks for this video and HNY! ❤
They run the squid game. Seong gi hun is looking for them.
I'm not supporting the act of not truly punishing the rich just bc they are wealthy, but it isn't anything new. It doesn't matter what system of govt, the rich have always enjoyed a separate legal system.
Status quo boils over, people can't take it anymore. New system is a new deal, the general population are allowed an ever so slightly larger part of the pie (usually at the expense of an "other"). People get comfortable, hoard their own assets. There are no more assets. The grandchildren of the ones allowed a slightly larger part of the pie cannot obtain the same anywhere near that amount of pie. Status quo boils over.
i'll probably never trust the rich
that why AI need to take over for law system, they dont take a side lol, like it or not, AI takeover is needed
@@arc8218 that's just wishful thinking at it's extreme. AI is built-up and designed by the same kind of people who run the legal systems. AI is only as good as those who designed it.
5:35 ad ends here guys
I'm so glad channels like yours emerged ❤
right as he said the transition at 13:12 a thunder hit and it has such perfect timing it came out so dramatic.
5:46 there is no federal government in South Korea, it's a unitary republic.
Realistically it seems more like an oligarchy
@@Uufda651 ALL supposed "republics" end up as oligarchies in the end its the continuously recurring phenomenon that perfectly showcases the flaws of democracy but the majority of People refuse to acknowledge it because they've been indoctrinated their whole life that democracy is "the best system of government" and anything else is bad in reality such thinking only manages to keeps us in a locked cage together a key which we refuse to use because we are lead to believe our circumstances as the best there are and there's no alternative to it
@@Uufda651 Realistically it's a literal plutocracy
Dystopia and Utopia is subjective. There will always be a group living in a dystopia and at the same spot a group living in a utopia. Equality is when you take away all that freedom gives you.
korea is the modern day cyberpunk dystopia
I was interested in learning about the chebols since I first heard about them in 2020. Thanks for making this video.
The storytelling in fern videos is always crazy
1:14 Back of the mind, still thinking of the recent horrible plane crash....
The Asian hierarchy in their culture is the problem most of the time. Look up Korean Air Flight 801 and you'll see that the plane crashed because the flight engineer wouldn't speak up against the captain (because the captain is superior and who are you to question his decisions, right?) and boom, 228 people died. I would never trust them with my life.
Fern is putting out high quality videos pretty much every week I don’t know how they never fail to impress me with these informative and amazingly animated videos, well done fern and I hope to see more of these high quality videos in 2025!
Now do one on the goblins of Europe and America :)
These animations are straight out of Hitman and they are fantastic! Excellent work 👏🏻
Ever since last night ive been binge watching these vids. So glad I found this channel keep up the great work!!
if you want a video that goes in the sewol ferry tragedy in great detail i would recommend the rotton mango video it's really good and the host talks about the situation in a hour by hour basis
The Brick Immortar two-piece series is really good too
@@Uufda651Brick immortar did an excellent job but as a south korean, i think they exaggerated media response quite a lot.
I don't agree with how they put newstapa as the only news organization that stood against the entire government and politicians. that isn't really what happened.
Maybe it's just because i was seven when that disaster happened, maybe south korean media improved a lot, but seeing how news organisations literally insult the government on live television now (and for good reason) i don't brick immortar did good research on that side of the topic.
5:48 Are you sure that south Korea government is federal?
People talk about the US becoming a real life Cyberpunk World. South Korea is already there.
America is moved on from cyberpunk world they’re in idiocracy dystopian
I love opening RUclips and seeing a new fern vid
Waking up to new Fern has to be the highlight of my days
Rotten Mango (Stephanie Soo) has incredible podcast episodes on what was talked about in this video, I was surprised just how much I already knew and recognized from listening to her. Her video on the Sewol ferry disaster details how avoidable the deaths were and just how much incompetence there was in every level that lead to so many deaths, from the loading of the boat to the "rescue missions". She also has a video on the millionaire with no face, the chaebol responsible for the disaster and also more information on how much damage he brought on to so many Koreans through his cult. The Itaewon incident was also so deadly because of corruption and incompetence. Her videos also detail so many cases of horrifying events that happen to Koreans and the amount of corruption in the justice system there, emphasized by how every single person convicted in this video barely served their sentence.