Simon, Minoxidil, which is the active ingredient in Keeps, has been around since the 1950’s and was FDA approved for treating baldness in 1988 as Rogaine. So Simon, you could have been using it all along and still had your hair.
German here, and I'm glad to see it, too. Would love to see Polands politics shift more to the left, but at least we got a central european nation who doesn't mismanage their military to death. And if I remember correctly, you guys shifted away from the far right quite a bit in recent years while our people think the populist neonazis would inprove the economy
@@aRealAndHumanManThing It seems a lot of nations are flirting with the far-right again, despite it never going well in the past. People promising fast, simple answers to complex problems are not to be trusted with government.
@@aRealAndHumanManThing I am glad that polish people in general are against the degeneracy and leniency with all kinds of crimes that the left supports. Instead of wanting that to their allies, the germans should take care of their own problems, like the increase in rape, murders and terrorism of the recent years and the total mess of your armed forces in those dangerous times.
I spent 12 years in SK as a U.S. Marine and trained with the ROK Marines. Not only are their weapons top notch, the ROK Marines are central to SK’s defense. I’ve seen a lot of soldiers across the globe, but the ROK soldiers are the best trained. Just ask any Vietnam vets what the SK forces did in Vietnam and you’ll understand what I mean. The weapons are only as good as the soldiers who use them. The SK government understands this as well. Semper Fi, brothers.
No surprises here. The Republic Of Korea has for years had some of the best soldiers in the world. I was a crew chief and gunner in a Huey helicopter during the Vietnam/American conflict and I saw how the Vietnamese fought, the Americans fought and how the ROK soldiers fought. You would often have to force the Vietnamese off the chopper. Americans would wait until it landed and followed training upon exit. The ROK soldiers would jump out while the chopper was 10 ft. in the air and then just disappear into the bush (pilots LOVED ROK Marines, quick in and out). ROK's are tough, brave and extremely dedicated to their missions and their nation. They are among the fiercest fighters on earth.
These days they will jump about 3 feet above... not 30 feet.... Still they will jump.... I am a Soth Korean, 65 years old. I will jump 2 feet above; 3 is too much for me.
( I am a South Korean) South Korea have not gambled. (23:11 "so far the Gamble's paying off") When I was young the defense budget was over 4 % (very high for a poor country...) It is now around 2.7%. But R&D and production have been very efffective, efficient and stable. 1) They have spent money on the best project, at a given moment. In the early 70s, rifles(lisence-production of M-16) and 105mm artillery(the US taught us the technology). In the 80s and 90s, tanks and howitzers and ships. in the 2000s, submarines and missiles and trainer aircraft (props and jets). In the 2010s, satellites and general enhancement of many categories of weapons. 2) And big companies have been doing this out of patriotism, not for big money. They tend to think defense biz as a prestige or a medal worthy of headache. For example, Samsung developed aerospace[related technology and 155mm K-9 upunitl about 2015 and sold the company to Hanhwa. LIG (which is a 'little' Raytheon) is the only company the owner rescured when the group was hit by a severe recession at the end of 1990s. Hyundai has lost a lot of money for K-2 tank. The world-best producer of ammunintion, Poongsan, do not earn much.. it's main biz is non-fero metal like copper. For them, ammo biz is only for honor. 3) It is step by step development. For example, AESA radar. Before SK developed it, it ahd already dominated global 5G communications equipment market. The technology is the same. GaN semiconductors... noise filtering... Before they came out with 1,500 hp powerpack (a set of engine and transmission for tanks) they had made world-best class engines and transmissions for cars. 4) With export or without it, SK will keep on this pace, because it knows the real adversary is China. (In the Korean War, China sent 3 mil. soldiers.) This is why SK is the only country (except the US) in the West which has been developing 5 layer termianl stage (lower than 150 km altitude) ballistic and air missile defense(BAMD), land based. And it is also the only country (except the US) which has been developing maritime(destroyer and corvette based) BAMD. Why indigenous?Because they want deploy a lot but the Patriot and THAAD and Aegis made by the US companies are too expensive... This is why they are the only country (except the US) in the West which is developing high-end drones and several kinds of engines for them. I mean high-end like MQ-9 and RQ-180 and CCAs of the US. They want to have hundreds of them, but (especially for the amred model) the export-import is forbidden by the MTCR(missile technology control regime). I call the US-ROK alliance 'the WOW alliance': With Or Without the US'. The Alliance becomes stronger only when SK gets stronger.
It's all well and good until South Korea's population crashes in the next couple of generations, the birth rate has below replacement levels for a while now.
I think one also needs to take into account South Korea's growing global soft power. It certainly helps, if large portions of the populations of partnering countries listen and watch K-pop and their TV-series, and eat Korean food. If you sneer at this idea, just consider how important soft power is for the USA, and how that depends on things like Hollywood, McDonalds and Coca Cola. I think that a very large portion of young adults in the west would support South Korea in a conflict. Because there is an emotional connection there!
(I am a South Korean.) You are right. If China intervenes in the Korean contignecy, what will people all around the world do? Boycott of Chinese goods/biz ... demonstrations/rallies in fornt of Chinese embassies... This is our ultimate power; all we have to do is to fearlessly fight and hold on. China will make numerous matyrs out of ordinary Korean people.
@@Potato-Eye No. The reason why k-dramas are so popular world-wide is that they have comparatively high production values, with good writing, directly, acting, and even special effects. The best TV series coming out of South Korea can match all but the very best coming from anywhere else (including Hollywood). While k-dramas might not be to everyone's tastes, its no coincidence that they are so popular all around the world.
I would say Poland and Korea have shared a history that went through a similar ordeal in which they have been both invaded and harassed by countries surrounding them Poland by Germany and Russia, Korea by China and Japan... You guys know what I mean... I am a Korean and I would like to say to Polish Hey bro how are you!
I served two tours in Korea while I was in: 03-04, and 07-08. Have you ever seen Korean people working? It is a thing to behold. Their work ethic is among the best you will ever know. That's why all of this is fully believable to me. I know these people, and I've seen what they're capable of. To Russia, China, and North Korea, underestimate this country at your own peril. 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷
You should take a visit again, the entire country is burnt out. If you think Americans party hard walk along any busy street at 2am and you will see hundreds of young men obliterated passed out sleeping on streets. Not to mention the other half are living sedentary lifestyles withdrawn from society. Korea/Japan is in serious trouble....
regardless of their other issues the country has a more professional and prideful theme of itself, I'm perfectly willing to be burnt out my whole life working like I never had to experience the benefits of being in a society that takes care of itself.
My dad was in the 82nd Airborne in South Korea. He loved those people. I wish that my dad could have lived to see that S. Korea became a great country!
South Korea has quite a large military force for her size/population, so ample indigenous demand for competent and reliable weapon system. She also has good manufacturing industrial capability like automobile, shipbuilding, electronics, semiconductor, smartphone. South Korea is one of capable arms manufacture of NATO weapon with good performance and reliability at affordable price and fast delivery. For medium regional powers who want buy advanced NATO weapon to strengthen its defense power, South Korea is sprawling shopping mall of modern weapons, vehicles, ships, firearms and ammos. Diplomatic relations with potential buyers and USA / EU countries are also robust and good.
Korea is also the world's top TV manufacturer and will soon be making science-fiction TVs. See CES 2024 -LG World’s First Transparent OLED TV and 2023 World’s First Wireless OLED TV
South Korea's whole manufacturing seems to have a major attitude change since the 2000s. Kias used to be known as very bad cars but one day Kia decided those days were over. For a while now, Kia has been a sort of best kept secret, as "cheap but high quality." I drove a Kia in high school and that car took a beating and a half and kept going. I gave it to my sister after I left for college and she wrecked it numerous times and I'm sure she forgot to change the oil. That thing kept ticking until she graduated med school and she decided she could afford something shinier. My current car is also a Kia and I convinced my mom to get a Sorento when she almost bought a Nissan Rogue or Murano.
My Dad was in the Korean War in 3 RAR and fought at Kapyong in 1951. Hanwha is building those129 Redback IFVs for the Australian Army just up the highway from me. 🇰🇷 🇦🇺
Australian here, we just purchased 129 AS21 Redback IFVs ( a version of the K21 ) at around 5-7 billion AUD. We're also getting 30 AS9 Huntsman ( K9 Thunder ) SPGs and 15 AS10 AARVs. Most of which will be built under license here in Australia. Looking forward to seeing some great new Korean kit! :D
@ilajoie3 I was there a few years later, haha. They scared me because they're always in uniform, even on the weekend, haha. Not to mention the tough conditions. KATUSAs were cool though, lol
[Imagine] Benz makes tanks... Volkswagen makes amored vehicles... Lufthansa makes high-end airborne drones... a couple of world largest commercial ship (floating LNG factories tec.) builders make submarines and destroyers.... TSMC is behind the military chip producers... One of the world largest copper/non-fero company makes ammos and a series of very smart infantry-hand-carry drones. Once-a-big-group, after hit hard by a recession, reorganized itself into a little Raytheon.... [Imagine] Numerous medium size tech companies work with these big ones.. [Imagine] Numerous software engineers (South Korea is a very exceptional country where even Google or Facebook has to compete with the indigenous service providers) are coding the lines for aircrafts, radars and missiles... [Imagine] These guys feel existentially threatened by China and NK....and by Russia
My grandfather was a medic, Korea, 1952-53. Chorwon. Never talked about it. Imagine he saw bad stuff, he was there during various battles...he died of old age in 2016. 25 ID/90 FAB. I'm a bit proud of ROK for upping their arms and defense game. It is good to know we have a strong ally in Korea. It's relieving.
My grandfather fought on hamburger hill in Korea. He died of cancer at the age of 65. And he never talked about what happend or what he did. I wish one day to find out what went on with him there.
my grandfather was a member of the army airborne in the Korean War through the entire thing, also never talked about it. It has molded my current beliefs in our nation as well as others, that our sacrifices shall not go unpaid. They didn't sacrifice their mental health and lives for us to turn a cold shoulder to these free people 70 years later. Very relieving to see our allies keeping up.
USA should stop forbidding South Korea from arming themselves with Nooks, then USA don't have to complain about having to protect South Korea from invasion.
South Korea have contracts to build new logistics ships for the RFA, so yards back home can focus on building next gen frigates. As stated in the video South Korea has various contracts to modernize the Polish Armored Corps. In short South Korea is helping numerous US aligned nations modernize their militaries in preparation for future conflicts. If a 'Asia Pacific Treaty Organization' (A.P.T.O, pronounced App-Toe) were to be established South Korea has done more than enough to earn themselves a critical position in the new alliance.
I am a South Korean. Many thanks for your appreciation. But I think APTO is unrealistic. Such big differnces between these Asian countries: 1) Japan cannot (by its constitution and politics) fight for others, which means it is not eligible for proper alliance relationship. 2) Everybody is scared and does not want to have a formal alliance with Taiwan, including the USA. 3) South East Asian countries are too relaxed and not desperate enough. Thus the hub-and-spoke model with the US as the hub. And probably South Korea as a 'low-profile' facilitator, as Warographics is saying in this episode.
@@bangmo7The factors of an aging population and low birth rate make big treaties questionable, too. The post-World War II baby booms around the globe combined with technical advances allowing for force multiplication set an expectation that big militaries would always be able to expand their roles around the globe. And I think that assumption is already being challenged, backed up (at least here in the US) by cynicism about military service leading to increasing recruitment problems and attitude shifts in the political realm.
한국을 좋게 봐 주어 감사합니다. 다만, 한국이 북한은 압도하지만, 핵 전력이 없기 때문에 북한을 상대하기에도 조심스럽습니다. 그리고 아시아태평양조약기구를 만든다면, 사실상 목표는 중국 견제일 겁니다. 그런데 APTO의 가입 주요국가로는 솔직히 미국, 한국, 일본, 인도, 영국, 호주일 것 같습니다. 한미 연합군은 북한이라는 주적을 두고 있지만, 그 배후의 적인 중국을 함께 견제하고 있습니다. 솔직히 북한보다는 중국을 견제하고 있다고 봐야 합니다. 문제는 일본과 한국이 협력한다 하더라도 사실상 미국이 믿을 수 있는 아시아 전력은 한국, 일본 밖에 없습니다. 인도가 중국을 배후에서 지원할 수도 있지만, 미국의 요청을 거부할 확률도 큽니다. 즉, 미국이 아시아 전체에서 전적으로 믿을 수 있는 동맹국은 한국, 일본 2개 나라가 전부입니다. 물론 필리핀, 대만은 동맹이지만, 군사력이 약합니다. 기지를 대여할 수 있는 수준입니다. 동남아시아 국가들은 중국에 대항하기 힘들고 한국이 공들였던 인도네시아는 미국도 인지하다시피 중국과 밀착관계입니다. 그리고, 태국, 싱가폴, 말레이시아 등 동남아 주요 국가들도 그들의 경제가 중국에 종속되었어요. 동남아시아 국가들이 대만과는 거리를 둘 것입니다. 호주는 미국의 동맹이지만, 해군 지원 정도 가능하고 큰 기여를 하지는 못할 겁니다. 다만, 영국이 어느정도 지원을 해줄 수 있겠네요. 아이러니컬 하게도 베트남은 미국, 한국의 새로운 파트너가 될 수 있습니다. 인구도 1억명 정도가 되고요. 한국에게 경제의 많은 부분을 의존하고 있으며 중국과 사이가 좋지도 않습니다. 태국의 경우에도 일본, 한국이 유인할 수는 있지만, 솔직히 말씀드리면 동남아시아 국가에게는 기댈 것이 없습니다. 중국과 거래를 중단하지도 않을 것이고요. 한미 연합군은 독립적으로도 중국, 북한을 유사시에 육로를 통해 평양, 베이징까지 공격할 수 있어야 하며, 이 전제에는 미국과 러시아와의 관계 개선이 반드시 필요합니다. 지금 우크라이나 러시아 전쟁을 빠르게 매듭짓고, 나토가 스스로 무장할 수 있어야 할 것으로 보입니다. 우크라이나에 대공 방어 무기를 제공하는 것은 의미가 없습니다. 중국-대만 전쟁에 러시아가 무기 지원이라도 한다면 정말 힘들어 집니다. 중국의 주요 공장들이 해안가에 있고 군수공장들도 한 곳에 몰려있어 한미일 군대가 이들을 집요하게 공격할만한 용기도 필요해 보입니다. 다만, 이럴경우 한국과 일본 본토는 크게 공격받을 것입니다. 주한, 주일 기지도 대다수 공격받을 겁니다. 그러니깐, 패트리어트나 대공방어 무기를 우크라이나에 지원하면 안됩니다. 중국 미사일 전력이 러시아보다 물량이 훨씬 많기 때문에 방어가 힘듭니다. 중국 견제가 우선되어야 하고, 이를 위해서는 한미 연합군이 대만을 후방 지원해야 합니다. 주일미군은 일본 자위대와 함께 1선에서 해상, 공군 전력을 투사해야하고, 한미 연합군은 대만 본토를 방어해야 할 것으로 보입니다. 문제는 대만이 본토 방어를 할 의지가 있냐는 문제입니다. 최소한 우크라이나처럼 스스로 싸울 의지가 있어야 주한미군이나 한국군이 대만에 파병이 가능하다는 것을 베트남 전에서 깨달았어요.
18 seconds into the video and I’ll say this. I spent a year in Korea at USAG Camp Humphreys. In that year I met many MANY KATUSA’s (Korean Augment To United States Army, essentially Korean nationals that would serve their mandatory service in the U.S. Army inside Korea instead of the R.O.K. Army) and I met many R.O.K. Soldiers they are some of the most amazing people I have met, they all have an immense sense of duty to their country as they know just how under threat they are. Due to Asian culture toward the elderly there are many MANY people who were alive for and fought in the Korean War. They are not afraid to tell the younger generations just how dangerous their neighbors are. Hell one of my best friends had a Tattoo Artist, a 80 something year old man who was a kid during the Korean War and at the end of it became a Korean Marine. That man was so cool and his tattoos were works of art, I swear archeologists in the future will dig up bodies with his ink on them and will compare him to Michelangelo. He always talked about how serious a threat North Korea and China are and how he is extremely glad that the younger generation realizes it. He was also extremely thankful for the U.S. standing so firm with the R.O.K. He said that he has memories of when he was a kid being evacuated by U.S. soldiers, being cared for by army doctors and medics, and how the Army Corps of Engineers helped rebuild much of the nation.
As an American I have a huge respect for South Korea. Many of the United State’s European Allies only like us when they need us, but South Korea isn’t like them. South Korea is the best ally because they actually care about the America and doesn’t just use us like war dogs. South Korea gives Americans hope that we actually have a true friend that isn’t just using us. 🇺🇸❤️🇰🇷
@@hunterrichardson9605 I know, it just feels like a lot of European countries don’t like america, and I feel like South Korea is a better ally. That’s not to say all Europeans hate Americans, but I definitely feel more welcomed by Koreans than I do Europeans.
@@Jinxx9081 Europe definitely looks down on us. We're their crude rude and uncouth bastard cousin. They only like us when they need us, and sneer at us when they are safe. I'm just saying this as an American - ya'll don't like us very much and maybe we shouldn't be so interwoven with your security, Europe.
I had two tours in South Korea and got to know them a bit. They are smart enough to know the threats they face without any any illusions and so do what they must to protect themselves. They're a good, trustworthy and extremely honorable people who are 100% worth our (US) defending.
@dannywest9256 Average IQ of Koreans are highest in the world. From a war-torn country to 11th, the biggest economy in the world didn't just happen. However, We are very, very thankful to US soldiers and UN soldiers who fought for the Korean War. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!
They have always put their troops into action since the Korea war to help the USA and others like in Vietnam, Iraq and other places. They have built some of the new ships for the RFA in the UK and could be building the new 155mm tracked guns in the future for for UK army. They also build an EXCELLENT shotgun called the USAS 12 there's only a handful of them in the UK and I got to shoot one in Dorset before and it was GREAT to use. Thank you for the video. 👍
More like South Korea is actually sitting down to play chess, as most other states just walk away and ignore these problems. If every nation really tried to boost their defence industries, it’s very likely many countries would surpass Korea; problem is governments are willing to drain the budgets dry in order to divert that money to public services that get votes for them in the next election, rather than help keep their country actually capable in a potential war.
Korean Metal is amazing. They need a break they are OUR front line. Does the USA have a defense like NATO in Asia. Yes we do. Trump only heard about NATO last year. He wouldn't like to know we believe in a free world, but will give in to Russia who only attacks countries they "think" they can beat. Stop that steal. Trump would try to sell Ukraine to Putin, used car salesman Trump.
@@jamesbuck2378 And yet if they put too much money in the military, there's gonna be lots of wasteful stuff that the civilian population will then be saying could be better spent on civil services to improve our quality of life. It isn't a simple thing at all, and there really isn't just one right answer when it comes to economics.
@@jamesbuck2378 Western countries simply hadn't had to maintain super expensive armies for 70 years, I can't blame them for using that money elsewhere
They are hopelessly losing the ONLY place it matters tho: fertility. A nation needs a birth rate of 2.1 live births per female to maintain its population. South Korea is 0.8-0.9 births per female. Half as many people having half as many babies = 75% population collapse in 2 generations. S.Korea is so screwed.
no a great game but s korea have but it self in problem i donot think n korea will take this easily it can attack s korea early then ppl think. and s will get nuke if usa get in.
South Korea is doomed by its birth rate, or lack thereof. An amazing run, but at what cost? 0.72 births per female, ONE THIRD of the 2.1 required just to maintain a population.
Short ride. Their demographics are in a terminal decline: 0.72 births per female is only ONE THIRD of the 2.1 required just to maintain a population. They will run out of workers in 30 years.
Ooh good to see my home country on my fav channel. Keep up your good work mate. You're my favorite channel to listen to while taking shower lol😂. Big cheer from Korea!🇰🇷
The ROK Marines and soldiers were already no joke but now with the capability to receive potential resupply of their own equipment from abroad they're going to truly be a force to be reckoned with if push comes to shove. Korea has done a stellar job of ramping up its international ties and if they can maintain this momentum they will definitely be a lynch pin in the region regardless of what China does.
Thats funny we see ROK Marines as bunch of Gays in Korea lol.they got shitty gear then ROKA, less effective training and high rate of homosexual rape incident. When ever I got chance to joint training with ROKMC they always stole our stuff like uneducated would do( I still remember one marine who stole my underwear and socks, thanks to him I had to wear same underwear through 5days).
@@nolongerblocked6210 Especially writers like Kevin who write for channels such as Brain Blaze, Into the Shadows, Decoding the Unknown, and Casual Criminalist
@@ilajoie3 I could only imagine what's on those computers, lol. They probably had to write a letter or give someone a heads-up that they'd be looking up subjects that could get a visit from the authorities normally
●Monocle- "Korea Is The World's Second-Largest Soft Power Country."-12/2020 🔥🔥🔥 1.Germany 2. Korea 3. France ● "The capital of Asia is Seoul"- UK Independent --2019 Along with the seven best tourist countries in Europe, "Seoul" was selected as the only Asian country to represent Asia.
There is a deep cultural belief in Korea that US despite its mutual defense treaty with Korea, the US might not meet its treaty obligation. The government in Korea asks itself why the US has a nuclear weapons sharing program with NATO allies, but not with the Republic of Korea.? Korea feels it must have insurance policy if the US abandons them at some point in the future so they have been building its own industrial defense capabilities.
"why the US has a nuclear weapons sharing program with NATO allies, but not with the Republic of Korea" -> they once had it, in the 90s, many tactical nukes were in the area of DMZ, but those were all removed when NK started developing the nuke of their own and US needed 2 suppress that; also in these days US has to consider hysteric china's reaction upon redeployment of US nukes
@@freewheeler1728 It was cold war period but it's now different. I believe we need to realize a vacuum of power in AP region and that's the reason why south Korea has strengthened military power rapidly. South Korea, Japan and the States are together facing off against North Korea, China and Russia ally in this region. But the nuclear weapons balance is broken and will the states be able to handle it alone from deterrent standpoint?
If you know anything about their history, it is very remarkable that the South Korean and Japanese governments are getting chummy. Even before WW2, Korea had been a punching bag for the other powers in the region, including Japan. But China and North Korea's antics has created strange bedfellows.
The thing is, as much as the current government favours Japan, all this can change the moment the government is replaced. With the current government being called as a "Puppet of Japan" by the opposition party and with the president's approval rating fluctuates between 30~40%.
It's been 80 years since WWII. Considering their mutual self-interest and mutual enemies in China, Russia and North Korea, it's about time South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore started cooperating together, not only with the USA.
@@davidcwitkin6729 All that is true, but people hold grudges for a long time. A lot of modern political problems all over the world are rooted in things that happened decades, if not centuries, ago.
@@lebakir3332 I suppose it depends on what the Korean people think. An alliance with Japan is beneficial for both countries' defense interest. I would hope the Korean people don't get complacent over the big threats just north of them.
If Germany, France and England can become close allies, anyone can. And 80 years later there is quite literally will soon be noone left, who actually did evil things or was directly victimised in WW2. All that's needed for that to happen is acknowledging and regretting the deeds of the past, and realizing that past generations might have though very different from current ones.
Even here in America Korean arms are common. Most of my AR steel and aluminum mags are Korean and very good quality, the ammo is also good quality. Their body armor is also some of the best for the price.
You know I have to say I think Simon has become my favorite "Talking Head". I have come to expect and have always recieved credible and concise information from him and the team behind him. Thanks for all this content!!
This is exactly the type of attitude Nato nations should be having but nobody outside of Poland seems to care. Korea is has also become a major culture exporter further helping to bind East Asia
Korea is a country with lots of potential in the next 50-100 years. The doomsayers of Korea's decline may point to its aging and declining population, but I am sure Korean Reunification, along with policy changes for the youth's economic prospects, will truly catapult the peninsula into the top 5 great powers and even reverse its demographic trend. I cannot even imagine how overpowered Korea will be by combining the brains and agriculture in the South with the manpower and mineral resources in the North.
As for' birth rate- everyone is overlooking the fact that Korea is still a ''divided country''. The world-renowned financial analyst--Goldman Sachs and international policy analysts predict that if South and North Korea are unified, the population will reach 75 to 80 million, making the world's second to fifth largest power.
There is no one in history that have risen to world economic power just in few decades like South Korea. Not to mention this country was annexed and colonized by Japan from 1910 to 1945, a war that divided the nation killing more than 3 million lives and 90% of infrastructure being torn down. It really is amazing how Koreans have done it. The work ethic of Korean people bar none is one of the top in the world. FYI, All able Korean men are conscripted to mandatory military service of 22-24 months. Korean men have exceptional knowledge of weapons. We had the rooftop Koreans here in America back in 1991 with Rodney King riots.
South Korea is a truly incredible place. Landing in Seoul is like travelling 25 years into the future. A good future. Not a dystopian Hollywood garbage future.
And K-Beauty and K-Skincare quality is the world's top-notch that they sent SEPORA home. *Sephora, squeezed by Olive Young, pulls out of Korea *How K-Beauty Took Over Global Skin Care----CNBC ruclips.net/video/rS6Ifm_YecQ/видео.html
And the people pay a horrifying price for it. The highest alcoholism rate in the world and one of the highest suicide rates due to a horrendous corporate culture, and demographic collapse due to a plummeting birth rate are already taking its toll on the south korean, japanese and chinese markets. You cant fix a demographic crisis quickly, things are only going to get worse, much worse.
Even my Korean friend whose parents moved away still feels that way just bc his parents did. It sucks man, his personality based itself around alcoholism and depression, made him very cynical but is also one of the most hard working dudes I know
they also punch above their weight culturally. Korean music, movies, and TV are becoming more popular worldwide and are far more popular than other countries their size.
The thing I always found weird about male pattern baldness, especially for people like Simon, you lose your hair completely but can grow a.thick majestic beard better than most people can.
'같이 갑시다... We go together' is the slogan/chant of the US-ROK alliance forces ... The alliance, if we count it from the defeat of the Imperial Japan in 1945, has been 78 years... From the ratification of the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty in 1954, it has been 70 years...But if we consider the role of the best Amereican missionaries, it has been alomost 140 years... ( I am NOT a church-goer. But I know....) People like Homer Hulbert did a great job here from 1885 to 1935.... Many Koreans call him "the blue eyed founding father", which is a little bit amusing because no body is sure whether his were blue or brown... Anyway, the title 'blue-eyed founding father' shows how much we thank ..
If some countries didn’t see the rise of South Korea as a major arms exporter it was because they were not seeing with their eyes open. South Korea has had a very long industrial development, Danish industry has over decades had to adapt to the South Korean competition in global export markets, it has been painful for many industries sectors in Denmark but just as South Korea is highly adaptable so is Denmark, every time they out compete a sector we have found new opportunities which we could replace it with, the loss of especially the ship building industry was a hard because of Denmark being a maritime giant traditionally and even once a great naval power until Britain thought it would be best to rule the waves alone 😮 but we held on to our great merchant fleet, and even if it is now South Korea that is building most ships that is registered in Denmark and there are more and more ships registered in other countries for various reasons they are still owned by the great maritime companies who has their headquarters in Denmark, but most workers are not danish and many ships never sail to Denmark, few young danish men want to sail from Istanbul as there Mediterranean home harbor with good’s around the Mediterranean Sea exclusively while they are distributing goods from a giant container ship from South Asia, so local crew man most ships. South Korea as a major arms exporter should have come as no surprise they were already being in civilian and military ship production.
@sonofthebrownmanbond7315 I've said some pretty controversial things in the comments already and I'm fine, you're probably running into RUclips's automatic censor that will delete comments if it detects certain words.
한국도 미국과는 혈맹이라고 말하죠. 영어로 번역하면 "Blood Alliance" 정도일텐데, 한국어 어감의 혈맹은 의형제 간의 맹세를 의미합니다. 실제 피를 나눈 가족이 아니지만, 그와 같은 수준의 관계를 의형제라고 표현하죠. 미국은 경제적 관점에서만 주로 이야기하지만, 한국이 돈 때문에 미국에 첨단 반도체, 자동차, 양극재 공장을 설립하는 것이 아닙니다. 솔직히 미국에 공장을 설립하면 한국으로서는 기회 비용이 매우 큽니다. 다만, 한국이 미국을 신뢰하는 수준이 반영되어 미국으로 이양하는 것이죠.
@@유니-k7z그게 상호간의 신뢰관계가 유지될 것이라는 믿음이 있기때문에 투자와 유치에 흔쾌히 승낙했겠죠. 그리고 잊지말아야할것은 한국전쟁 이후 정말 힘든 시기가 있었지만 어떤 이유에서든 한국을 지원하고 원조했던 국가또한 미국이라는걸 기억해야합니다. 그게 미국의 미래를 위해 했어야 할 자주국방을 위한거였든 자선적 지원이었든 우리에게 도움이 된건 분명하고 그 도움을 바탕으로 지금의 성장을 이룰 수 있었고 동맹관계가 유지되며 성장하고있는것도 사실이죠. 서로 도움이 필요할 때 지원은 해야한다고 봅니다. 이번에 투자한 사례는 분명 미래에 또다른 어떤 형태의 도움으로 이어질 것이라고 생각합니다
@@zenster1097nah this cringe shite is overplayed just a bunch of sour haters ahahaha your the one that’s cringe who can’t even comprehend what united brotherhood can accomplish.
The more i see videos like this, the more i realize that everyone, everywhere, is gearing up for a fight. The real question is: How big of a fight is actually coming, and who's going to be fighting in it?
I see it as the West vs East. NK, China, Russia, etc against the US and it's allies. If you zoom out to the big picture you see they are using the "divide and conquer" tactic to have us on multiple fronts and therefore weaker. Only 2 fronts was what the Axis Powers did and it failed. Now the modern Axis Powers are most likely going to use more than two to cripple the US military. The fronts: Taiwan, Israel/Gaza, and Russia invading Europe to rebuild the USSR. It's smart, and I hope I see the US see the big picture rather than the small individual ones.
The RoK is a critical ally of the US. We HAVE been there since 1953 so please turn down the rhetoric of our military not coming to their aid. And the same thing with Poland as a critical ally. I'm glad that they can have military autonomy to a large degree.
@@Scriabin_fanAsk the Ukrainians about the security assurances the US provided in return for Ukraine giving up its nukes and the paid agent of its enemy currently vetoing that support.
One thing is for sure, the west inability to supply ukraine with equipment and ammunition without creating a shortage of its own plays right into the hands of south korea. As it stands russia or china alone is pretty much kicking the wests ass in the manufacturing of military equipment and shells. We simply cant keep up right now. The United States is opening two more factories in Texas to produce artillery shells that should help some but wont be operational for a couple if years. The west needs a country like south korea thats capable of producing a sufficient amount of reliable equipment quickly. Its a good thing for us and a great thing for them.
The video did mention the obvious reason South Korea (SK) has built its military industry. But more important question was : When. Initially, SK never intended to become an economic powerhouse it is today. It simply had no choice WHEN Nixon Administration decided to pull U.S troops out to appease communist China. Being on its own, SK badly needed weapons to defend itself. In other worlds, SK built heavy industries to make weapons. That decision by President Park almost brought the country to an economic collapse, before the wind changed in 1980 exactly in favor of those heavy industries. Park was assasinated in 1979 (big smile by Jimmy Carter). But his legacy lived on, making SK a country of heavy industry and weapon-manufacturing capability.
As Indonesian, we also realising that China is potential enemies that could threaten Indonesia border, on 2018-2020 show Indonesia that China can be egoistic and unreasonable, Chines coast guard and Chinese fishin vessels has been multiple times entering illegally into Indonesia exclusive economic zone and claim it as part of China Territory. Since that, Indonesia government try to play carefully and will respond strongly if China still decided to claim Indonesia EEZ border. Indonesia were having strategic ambiguity relationship with China, because we were trying to be neutral as much as possible, but if China disrespect Indonesia both our people and Territory, we will fight back.
안타깝게도 한국인으로서 인도네시아는 믿을만한 파트너라는 것에 의구심을 품기 시작했습니다. 미국이 한국에게 건네 준 정보는 인도네시아를 너무 믿지 말라였지만, 한국은 인도네시아를 믿었고, 놀랍게도 인도네시아는 중국을 경제 파트너로 끌어 안으면서 한국을 배제했어요. KF21도 사실상 인도네시아와 군사협력을 공고히 하려고 했던 것이고 중국을 견제할 수 있었던 사업인데, 이미 물건너 간 것으로 압니다. 한국과 미국은 인도네시아를 한발짝 뒤에서 관찰하기로 했어요. 인도네시아는 솔직히 독립적으로 중국을 견제할 수 있는 군사력을 확보하지 못했습니다. 각종 무기체계가 혼재되어 있고, 탄약 보급도 어려울 것 같고, 운영 면에서 정비인력도 없어요. 육해공 모두 기종도 혼재되어 있어 난잡하고요. 아마도 무기 도입 시 군비 관련한 어떤 모종의 비리가 있을 것으로 짐작됩니다.
That is very good to hear. China is so belligerent they feel that all of their neighbors should bow down before their might. They're acting like they used to act before the century of humiliation and their goal is to restore that old world order once again and make everyone pay for the hardships that they've had to bear since those days.
Historically, Korea people fought many great wars in which hundreds of thousands or millions of troops invaded, but the targets were northern people groups such as the Sui, Tang, Khitan, Qing, and Mongols, and were generally friendly to the Chinese dynasties of Song and Ming etc... Japan's a bit more complicated, although there have been hundreds of small raids along the eastern seaboard by Japanese pirates called Waku. Afterwards, there was a great invasion by Yamato's toyotomi unified shogunate with hundreds of thousands of regular troops, and the background to the Seven Years' War, which was called the Yamato rebellion, was that the carelessness and arrogance of Joseon (Korea), which enjoyed only peace and culture for 200 years, treated Yamato (Japan) as a barbaric pirate group rather than a country. However, Yamato had a high level of tactics through clan battles for 100 years, and the 170,000 troops of Toyotomi, who unified the whole country, armed with Portuguese matchlocks and attacked Joseon. Historically, Japan has waged a surprise war without a declaration of war.The 16,000 Elite heavy cavalry that Joseon was proud of, which had suppressed the cruel northern peoples, was defeated by the Yamato Matchlock unit, and 70, 000 Joseon Army was pushed back all the way to Pyongyang. Yamato, which was a medieval feudal lord era, gained land and people if it won a war, but in Joseon, which was a centralized country, the king fled to the north, but the people and monks formed a militia and fought to the end , the Japanese army was embarrassed by the existence of the Militia.Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Joseon defeated the Japanese navy by winning all 33 naval battles despite overwhelming odds. The basic weapons of the Joseon army were bows, spears, and swords, as well as gunpowder bombs and various cannons of different sizes..The Ming Dynasty (China) sent reinforcements to help Joseon, but instead harassed Joseon by plundering and engaging in internal communication with Japan, but helped Yi Sun sin in the final naval battle.Yamato, who did not have the technology to make pottery, Taken in hundreds of Joseon pottery craftsmen to make pottery and exported the pottery to Europe, where it received favorable reviews. Joseon was unable to recover from the aftereffects of this war for 400 years and suffered the humiliation of being annexed by Japan, which it regarded as an uncivilized island, and being ruled for 35 years. This Great War was a symbolic event in which the international status of the Korean Peninsula with 4,800 years of history was reversed by the Japanese archipelago with 1,800 years of history. 300 years later, Joseon became a reclusive country with a policy of isolation, and Japan defeated the Russian fleet through the strategy of Yi Sun-sin, the great naval admiral of the country it invaded 400 years ago, and later joined the ranks of the great powers. Yi Sun sin's the world's top 3 naval admiral and the turtle ship is an invincible Korean Item in the Age of Empires PC Games.
I'll admit, as a Canadian, I really wish we had a military program like South Korea does. Even if that military was used more for defense, used for manpower during emergencies and so on, may not even see actual heavy combat, I'd rather see us prepared than where we're at now. Good on them!
@@kellscorner1130 Yeah, Canada is completely lacking in basic human rights...I bet you learned that on 'Truth Social' or some other equally reliable source. Numpty.
Canada only needs a navy and air force. The army is kinda useless for defense. If someone wants to invade north america, they will land literally anywhere other than canada.
@@maplobats Starlight tours, FAS, reserves, mass graves, government pardoning themselves, G20 lockdown in downtown Toronto, filling immigration quotas through false pretenses, domestic racism, imported racism, the RCMP is still a thing and of course the residential schools. Middle class went up from 35k in 2019 to 120k in 2024. Waves of homelessness. Low income housing is waiting list housing and subsidized because it's still too expensive for those who get it, because we need the real estate taxes from property investors instead of actual affordable housing. Canada is becoming something other than what it was but it isn't better. So much Canadian sanctimony my whole life about how we're better than the US, as if it's an excuse to pat ourselves on the back.
One can also see that they are forming deeper cultural bonds across western societies. I've always said that if you want to know someone's origin story, first you eat their food. Here in Oregon my workmates go to Korean BBQ every Friday after work. The vets who've served talk about their time in Korea. Talk lovingly about the food and other aspects of life there. I'm starting to hear more references to K-pop and Korean arts more broadly. This is bigger than just the gear. If you live in an urban area and you haven't had bibimbap by now its just a matter of time. Hopefully it will spur more of us to find out "who" the South Koreans are. Do that 18 hour stop-over in Inchon. See a little bit and maybe go back and stay a while.
"I feel sorry for everyone else just being born now. It's going to be hell." To be fair people have been saying that for decades... yet no WWIII nor nuclear winter
I feel bad for people born now, not because it's gonna be that bad, things will have ups and downs as they always do. I feel bad for them because there gonna die one day and that's a bummer.
I enjoyed watching it thanks to the automatic subtitle translation. I often see photos with Chinese backgrounds rather than just Korean ones. South Korea has already gone through a war with North Korea backed by Russia and China, and after going through Japan's colonial era, it knows better than anyone the importance of independent national defense, and it also has great significance in wanting to repay the many Western countries including the US, that helped us win at least half of the Korean War. .
What makes Korea formidable is their combination of long history and dedication to social cohesion. A populace used to hardship for centuries have now embraced much of the Western values of innovation and tolerance. KPop is not an accident. Tanks or Pop music, Korea has shown a dedicated workforce can get things done. That being said, its a crucible of stress and competition.
Some want to sow resentment against American boots “permanently” on Korean soil. If so, one could also ask how many Korean boots are just as permanently on American soil. The answer is that alliances are a good thing, not something to resent.
Thank you, but please only protect Japan. SK will protect ourself. It is better to die fighting alone than to become a family with Japan under the United States. Cuz we have our own Pear harbors by Japan countless during thousands years.
Fantastic analysis as always, Simon. I'm 90% sure South Korea is the supposed third-party nation in question with regard to the Czech Republic's 800000 artillery shell deal for Ukraine.
The problem is the unholy amount of short range artillery that North Korea has. The short range doesn't matter because the area in question is so concentrated. South Korea could easily win the conventional war but North Korea would level half of the South's cities by the time they did.
If the war stsys conventional only and Russia and China don't intervene, absolutely. But no one really expects Xi to sit it out even though China has told North Korea it will not help if they start the war.
@@Capt.SteeleSo would the South. Seoul isn't the only city close to the border, Pyongyang is too. A war would literally burn both nations to the ground, I doubt Kim Jongun is willing to do that.
during the first Korean War, Seoul changed hands 7 times and was in ruins at war's end. But most of the South's other msjor cities, such as Pusan and Deagu are *well* beyond artillery range from the DMZ.
In East Asia, Korea and Japan are the two most powerful allies of the United States. The recent development of weapons and the speed of production in Korea are quite impressive. In particular, Korea has never had major problems such as war and other countries, and there is no country that is religiously problematic. This is a huge advantage for arms exports.
I just love how excited you always are about your sponsor and how it could have prevented your facial hair inversion. Great show! Great channels! Thanks for being an alternative in depth News source.
was able to be a part of USACA-K south korean people are very passionate and proud of there country they really do thank the U.S.A a lot for keeping there freedom and the benefits of experiencing freedom. without a doubt South Korea will do anything to protect that freedom that America was able to share them with.
Very intuitive! Simon said: 9:38~9:46 iSK has got to prepare for the possibility that China would expect South Korea to intervene (in Taiwan contingency) and try to preempt that by unleashing North Korea on the south at the same time Not many people know this. And few among those who know want to talk about it, since they are geo-politics experts. These people are usually tight-lipped. The nukes and missiles of NK are not for offense, since at the instant they move to use them they will be annihiliated. ( I am a South Korean. I believe I know how terrifying the US-ROK forces are, espcially with the back-up from US Forces in Japan , Guam, Hawaii and the Western coast, and with the cooperation of Japan;s SDF.) They are not for defense either, since SK and the US do not have the intention to change the status quo by force, unilaterally. They are for coercing the US forces in SK and Japan to be pinned down, in the Taiwan or South China Sea contingency. (military coercion) They are for coercing SK people to look upon China as the sole and only countury who can save SK from the nuclear threat. (psychological coercion) China is the main theme; NK is only an 'agent of China'.
The only problem I have with Simon having so many channels is that people are just going to make fake Simon channels with AI and everyone will assume they just forgot to sub to one
I don’t think so. I mean, sure they can make fakes. But this community of the Whistlerverse is pretty active and quick to point out things such as if a channel were truly Simon and his team’s doing or not. So this doesn’t worry me as a content consumer of his.
He's quickly getting to the point that he should build his own independent platform and claim ALL the ad revenue for himself. He could call it "Simon Says".
Unfortunately, defense against nuclear weapons mostly relies on the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) principle: use of additional nuclear weapons to retaliate against the aggressor. But, as indicated in several previous comments, messing with ROK troops is very hazardous to one's health.
A lot of people foresee an encroaching war. I see a common enemy that motivates the disavowal of old grudges and in its place, fosters a brotherhood of unparalleled might and terrifying conviction. We have more allies than enemies, it seems.
Just a quick add; S.Korea is willing to set up partnerships with local manufacturing, & transfer of IP in host countries. This is a two-fold benefit, Makes it very attractive to new clients/ nations, and provides a second (or 3rd) supply line for their defence force that is out of range of North Korean strike. For example; the small number of platforms (so far) ordered by the Australian defence force, would not seem to justify the expense of setting up a huge, new manufacturing plant. But it has, and is almost complete. I expect further follow on orders from Australia in the future, but also orders for foreign countries and South Korea it self, as a safe second production line. Australia & Poland are not the only new manufacturing partners, Indonesia is also.
What is really sad is that South Korea wanted to license production (and thus IP) to build US weapons. When they were denied, they started on the tracked 155mm system design that is selling like hotcakes. They have expanded since then.
@@john_in_phoenix South Korea did license production of US howitzers. We have more than 1000 units here. K-9 is a improved version from the experience.
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As a Polish I am very happy that we found such a great partner like South Korea.
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As an American, I’m very glad we have allies like Poland and South Korea. I fully support our strong defense ties.
German here, and I'm glad to see it, too.
Would love to see Polands politics shift more to the left, but at least we got a central european nation who doesn't mismanage their military to death.
And if I remember correctly, you guys shifted away from the far right quite a bit in recent years while our people think the populist neonazis would inprove the economy
@@aRealAndHumanManThing It seems a lot of nations are flirting with the far-right again, despite it never going well in the past. People promising fast, simple answers to complex problems are not to be trusted with government.
@@aRealAndHumanManThing I am glad that polish people in general are against the degeneracy and leniency with all kinds of crimes that the left supports. Instead of wanting that to their allies, the germans should take care of their own problems, like the increase in rape, murders and terrorism of the recent years and the total mess of your armed forces in those dangerous times.
I spent 12 years in SK as a U.S. Marine and trained with the ROK Marines. Not only are their weapons top notch, the ROK Marines are central to SK’s defense. I’ve seen a lot of soldiers across the globe, but the ROK soldiers are the best trained. Just ask any Vietnam vets what the SK forces did in Vietnam and you’ll understand what I mean. The weapons are only as good as the soldiers who use them. The SK government understands this as well. Semper Fi, brothers.
No surprises here. The Republic Of Korea has for years had some of the best soldiers in the world. I was a crew chief and gunner in a Huey helicopter during the Vietnam/American conflict and I saw how the Vietnamese fought, the Americans fought and how the ROK soldiers fought.
You would often have to force the Vietnamese off the chopper. Americans would wait until it landed and followed training upon exit. The ROK soldiers would jump out while the chopper was 10 ft. in the air and then just disappear into the bush (pilots LOVED ROK Marines, quick in and out). ROK's are tough, brave and extremely dedicated to their missions and their nation. They are among the fiercest fighters on earth.
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These days they will jump about 3 feet above... not 30 feet.... Still they will jump.... I am a Soth Korean, 65 years old. I will jump 2 feet above; 3 is too much for me.
Wow thanks for exposing how sissy ya whole squad is
South Korea is the lackey of USA with no recent war time experience just like China & Japan.
❤ 🇵🇭 🤝 🇰🇷 ❤️ nuff said.
( I am a South Korean) South Korea have not gambled. (23:11 "so far the Gamble's paying
off")
When I was young the defense budget was over 4 % (very high for a poor country...) It is now around 2.7%. But R&D and production have been very efffective, efficient and stable.
1) They have spent money on the best project, at a given moment. In the early 70s, rifles(lisence-production of M-16) and 105mm artillery(the US taught us the technology). In the 80s and 90s, tanks and howitzers and ships. in the 2000s, submarines and missiles and trainer aircraft (props and jets). In the 2010s, satellites and general enhancement of many categories of weapons.
2) And big companies have been doing this out of patriotism, not for big money. They tend to think defense biz as a prestige or a medal worthy of headache. For example, Samsung developed aerospace[related technology and 155mm K-9 upunitl about 2015 and sold the company to Hanhwa. LIG (which is a 'little' Raytheon) is the only company the owner rescured when the group was hit by a severe recession at the end of 1990s. Hyundai has lost a lot of money for K-2 tank. The world-best producer of ammunintion, Poongsan, do not earn much.. it's main biz is non-fero metal like copper. For them, ammo biz is only for honor.
3) It is step by step development. For example, AESA radar. Before SK developed it, it ahd already dominated global 5G communications equipment market. The technology is the same. GaN semiconductors... noise filtering... Before they came out with 1,500 hp powerpack (a set of engine and transmission for tanks) they had made world-best class engines and transmissions for cars.
4) With export or without it, SK will keep on this pace, because it knows the real adversary is China. (In the Korean War, China sent 3 mil. soldiers.)
This is why SK is the only country (except the US) in the West which has been developing 5 layer termianl stage (lower than 150 km altitude) ballistic and air missile defense(BAMD), land based. And it is also the only country (except the US) which has been developing maritime(destroyer and corvette based) BAMD. Why indigenous?Because they want deploy a lot but the Patriot and THAAD and Aegis made by the US companies are too expensive...
This is why they are the only country (except the US) in the West which is developing high-end drones and several kinds of engines for them. I mean high-end like MQ-9 and RQ-180 and CCAs of the US. They want to have hundreds of them, but (especially for the amred model) the export-import is forbidden by the MTCR(missile technology control regime).
I call the US-ROK alliance 'the WOW alliance': With Or Without the US'. The Alliance becomes stronger only when SK gets stronger.
It's all well and good until South Korea's population crashes in the next couple of generations, the birth rate has below replacement levels for a while now.
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South Korea is the lackey of USA with no recent war time experience just like China & Japan.
I think one also needs to take into account South Korea's growing global soft power. It certainly helps, if large portions of the populations of partnering countries listen and watch K-pop and their TV-series, and eat Korean food. If you sneer at this idea, just consider how important soft power is for the USA, and how that depends on things like Hollywood, McDonalds and Coca Cola.
I think that a very large portion of young adults in the west would support South Korea in a conflict. Because there is an emotional connection there!
(I am a South Korean.) You are right. If China intervenes in the Korean contignecy, what will people all around the world do? Boycott of Chinese goods/biz ... demonstrations/rallies in fornt of Chinese embassies... This is our ultimate power; all we have to do is to fearlessly fight and hold on. China will make numerous matyrs out of ordinary Korean people.
I've got nothing to say about kpop and the shows they have as I don't watch TV. Is it as hilariously bad as Indian action movies?
@@Potato-Eye No. The reason why k-dramas are so popular world-wide is that they have comparatively high production values, with good writing, directly, acting, and even special effects. The best TV series coming out of South Korea can match all but the very best coming from anywhere else (including Hollywood). While k-dramas might not be to everyone's tastes, its no coincidence that they are so popular all around the world.
South Korea is the lackey of USA with no recent war time experience just like China & Japan.
My kids loved phisical 100, excellent quality productions.
The Koreans have a similar political situation to Poland. I would like Poland to follow Korea's path. Greetings from Poland 🇰🇷🇵🇱
Poland the S. Korea of Europe.
I would say Poland and Korea have shared a history that went through a similar ordeal
in which they have been both invaded and harassed by countries surrounding them
Poland by Germany and Russia, Korea by China and Japan... You guys know what I mean...
I am a Korean and I would like to say to Polish
Hey bro how are you!
we adopted scandinavian economic and social model, and it's been fucking us
젠장 나는 폴란드게임을 너무 좋아한다.
But I would not recommend Poland to follow our demographic trend 😂
I served two tours in Korea while I was in: 03-04, and 07-08. Have you ever seen Korean people working? It is a thing to behold. Their work ethic is among the best you will ever know. That's why all of this is fully believable to me. I know these people, and I've seen what they're capable of. To Russia, China, and North Korea, underestimate this country at your own peril. 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷
Their productivity levels are low. They are forced to stay at work all day.
And then, you look at their birthrate...
You should take a visit again, the entire country is burnt out. If you think Americans party hard walk along any busy street at 2am and you will see hundreds of young men obliterated passed out sleeping on streets. Not to mention the other half are living sedentary lifestyles withdrawn from society. Korea/Japan is in serious trouble....
regardless of their other issues the country has a more professional and prideful theme of itself, I'm perfectly willing to be burnt out my whole life working like I never had to experience the benefits of being in a society that takes care of itself.
@@BurgundyBrundley pride, yes look where that got Korea. You forever have American boots on your soil.
Korea has always been an impressive nation
Both Koreas are quite impressive though in different ways, aren't they? lol
@@ignisilluminatithis comment right here ⬆️
My dad was in the 82nd Airborne in South Korea. He loved those people. I wish that my dad could have lived to see that S. Korea became a great country!
Thank you for his service. Honored and owed.
Thank you!!
Is it?
Thanks to your dad S Korea was able to do this and more.
@@arkady7739 well, last century korea had growth and kids.
Now they have neither and is a dying country.
So again: is it?
South Korea has quite a large military force for her size/population, so ample indigenous demand for competent and reliable weapon system. She also has good manufacturing industrial capability like automobile, shipbuilding, electronics, semiconductor, smartphone. South Korea is one of capable arms manufacture of NATO weapon with good performance and reliability at affordable price and fast delivery. For medium regional powers who want buy advanced NATO weapon to strengthen its defense power, South Korea is sprawling shopping mall of modern weapons, vehicles, ships, firearms and ammos. Diplomatic relations with potential buyers and USA / EU countries are also robust and good.
Korea is also the world's top TV manufacturer and will soon be making science-fiction TVs.
See CES 2024 -LG World’s First Transparent OLED TV
and 2023 World’s First Wireless OLED TV
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하지만 북한은 생화학 무기가 있다
How we solve the bacteriological weapon ?? NK has it now.
I’ve driven Kia’s since 2000. I love them. Very reliable Wonder if the tanks have a 10 year warranty? 🧐
South Korea's whole manufacturing seems to have a major attitude change since the 2000s. Kias used to be known as very bad cars but one day Kia decided those days were over. For a while now, Kia has been a sort of best kept secret, as "cheap but high quality."
I drove a Kia in high school and that car took a beating and a half and kept going. I gave it to my sister after I left for college and she wrecked it numerous times and I'm sure she forgot to change the oil. That thing kept ticking until she graduated med school and she decided she could afford something shinier. My current car is also a Kia and I convinced my mom to get a Sorento when she almost bought a Nissan Rogue or Murano.
My Dad was in the Korean War in 3 RAR and fought at Kapyong in 1951.
Hanwha is building those129 Redback IFVs for the Australian Army just up the highway from me.
🇰🇷 🇦🇺
Korea is a work of art created by your father. Thank you Sir!
Thank you
Salute you from s.korea
We deeply Thank you for your father's great sacrifice. We will NEVER FORGET.
Did he commit any war crimes, ruclips.net/video/fE9MUwAbFQI/видео.htmlsi=IbSMODKfOrFP12fU
I was in a US Infantry platoon in South Korea (02 to 03) The ROK soldiers were among the toughest soldiers id ever seen.
Thank you for your service
Australian here, we just purchased 129 AS21 Redback IFVs ( a version of the K21 ) at around 5-7 billion AUD. We're also getting 30 AS9 Huntsman ( K9 Thunder ) SPGs and 15 AS10 AARVs. Most of which will be built under license here in Australia.
Looking forward to seeing some great new Korean kit! :D
i hope au and kr stand together for peace!
I spent 2 years in korea with the army. The ROKA is an impressive organization, and I worked with their artillery unit. Very impressive.
The ROK army sorta scared me while I was at Casey back in 06 to 08
@ilajoie3 I was there a few years later, haha. They scared me because they're always in uniform, even on the weekend, haha. Not to mention the tough conditions.
KATUSAs were cool though, lol
@@s0ulwindOne of my roommates was a KATUSA, a little bit shy until alcohol got involved
@ilajoie3 same here, although he wasn't shy. Good guy, we stayed friends too, he shows me around.
Korean cultures spread to China and japan island since the ancient times. Now it’s finally Korea is returning to super power.
[Imagine] Benz makes tanks... Volkswagen makes amored vehicles... Lufthansa makes high-end airborne drones... a couple of world largest commercial ship (floating LNG factories tec.) builders make submarines and destroyers.... TSMC is behind the military chip producers... One of the world largest copper/non-fero company makes ammos and a series of very smart infantry-hand-carry drones. Once-a-big-group, after hit hard by a recession, reorganized itself into a little Raytheon....
[Imagine] Numerous medium size tech companies work with these big ones..
[Imagine] Numerous software engineers (South Korea is a very exceptional country where even Google or Facebook has to compete with the indigenous service providers) are coding the lines for aircrafts, radars and missiles...
[Imagine] These guys feel existentially threatened by China and NK....and by Russia
...for the past 1000+ years.
한국은 북한, 중국, 러시아와 사이 좋게 지내야하는 무역국가입니다. 미국인들은 한국이 이웃국가와 적대적이길 바라나요? 북한은 동족이고, 중국과는 2천년 동안 대체로 좋은 관계였으며, 러시아와는 아무런 악감정이 없습니다.
My grandfather was a medic, Korea, 1952-53. Chorwon. Never talked about it. Imagine he saw bad stuff, he was there during various battles...he died of old age in 2016. 25 ID/90 FAB. I'm a bit proud of ROK for upping their arms and defense game. It is good to know we have a strong ally in Korea. It's relieving.
We are grateful for your father's service in SK ! 🇰🇷 May he rest in peace ! Brave men like him made Korea to what it's today!
My grandfather fought on hamburger hill in Korea. He died of cancer at the age of 65. And he never talked about what happend or what he did. I wish one day to find out what went on with him there.
my grandfather was a member of the army airborne in the Korean War through the entire thing, also never talked about it. It has molded my current beliefs in our nation as well as others, that our sacrifices shall not go unpaid. They didn't sacrifice their mental health and lives for us to turn a cold shoulder to these free people 70 years later. Very relieving to see our allies keeping up.
USA should stop forbidding South Korea from arming themselves with Nooks,
then USA don't have to complain about having to protect South Korea from invasion.
Thank you for your service! We are all ever grateful.
South Korea have contracts to build new logistics ships for the RFA, so yards back home can focus on building next gen frigates. As stated in the video South Korea has various contracts to modernize the Polish Armored Corps. In short South Korea is helping numerous US aligned nations modernize their militaries in preparation for future conflicts. If a 'Asia Pacific Treaty Organization' (A.P.T.O, pronounced App-Toe) were to be established South Korea has done more than enough to earn themselves a critical position in the new alliance.
I am a South Korean. Many thanks for your appreciation. But I think APTO is unrealistic. Such big differnces between these Asian countries:
1) Japan cannot (by its constitution and politics) fight for others, which means it is not eligible for proper alliance relationship.
2) Everybody is scared and does not want to have a formal alliance with Taiwan, including the USA.
3) South East Asian countries are too relaxed and not desperate enough.
Thus the hub-and-spoke model with the US as the hub. And probably South Korea as a 'low-profile' facilitator, as Warographics is saying in this episode.
@@bangmo7The factors of an aging population and low birth rate make big treaties questionable, too. The post-World War II baby booms around the globe combined with technical advances allowing for force multiplication set an expectation that big militaries would always be able to expand their roles around the globe. And I think that assumption is already being challenged, backed up (at least here in the US) by cynicism about military service leading to increasing recruitment problems and attitude shifts in the political realm.
한국을 좋게 봐 주어 감사합니다. 다만, 한국이 북한은 압도하지만, 핵 전력이 없기 때문에 북한을 상대하기에도 조심스럽습니다.
그리고 아시아태평양조약기구를 만든다면, 사실상 목표는 중국 견제일 겁니다. 그런데 APTO의 가입 주요국가로는 솔직히 미국, 한국, 일본, 인도, 영국, 호주일 것 같습니다.
한미 연합군은 북한이라는 주적을 두고 있지만, 그 배후의 적인 중국을 함께 견제하고 있습니다. 솔직히 북한보다는 중국을 견제하고 있다고 봐야 합니다.
문제는 일본과 한국이 협력한다 하더라도 사실상 미국이 믿을 수 있는 아시아 전력은 한국, 일본 밖에 없습니다. 인도가 중국을 배후에서 지원할 수도 있지만, 미국의 요청을 거부할 확률도 큽니다. 즉, 미국이 아시아 전체에서 전적으로 믿을 수 있는 동맹국은 한국, 일본 2개 나라가 전부입니다. 물론 필리핀, 대만은 동맹이지만, 군사력이 약합니다. 기지를 대여할 수 있는 수준입니다.
동남아시아 국가들은 중국에 대항하기 힘들고 한국이 공들였던 인도네시아는 미국도 인지하다시피 중국과 밀착관계입니다.
그리고, 태국, 싱가폴, 말레이시아 등 동남아 주요 국가들도 그들의 경제가 중국에 종속되었어요. 동남아시아 국가들이 대만과는 거리를 둘 것입니다.
호주는 미국의 동맹이지만, 해군 지원 정도 가능하고 큰 기여를 하지는 못할 겁니다. 다만, 영국이 어느정도 지원을 해줄 수 있겠네요.
아이러니컬 하게도 베트남은 미국, 한국의 새로운 파트너가 될 수 있습니다. 인구도 1억명 정도가 되고요. 한국에게 경제의 많은 부분을 의존하고 있으며 중국과 사이가 좋지도 않습니다.
태국의 경우에도 일본, 한국이 유인할 수는 있지만, 솔직히 말씀드리면 동남아시아 국가에게는 기댈 것이 없습니다. 중국과 거래를 중단하지도 않을 것이고요.
한미 연합군은 독립적으로도 중국, 북한을 유사시에 육로를 통해 평양, 베이징까지 공격할 수 있어야 하며, 이 전제에는 미국과 러시아와의 관계 개선이 반드시 필요합니다.
지금 우크라이나 러시아 전쟁을 빠르게 매듭짓고, 나토가 스스로 무장할 수 있어야 할 것으로 보입니다. 우크라이나에 대공 방어 무기를 제공하는 것은 의미가 없습니다.
중국-대만 전쟁에 러시아가 무기 지원이라도 한다면 정말 힘들어 집니다. 중국의 주요 공장들이 해안가에 있고 군수공장들도 한 곳에 몰려있어 한미일 군대가 이들을 집요하게 공격할만한 용기도 필요해 보입니다. 다만, 이럴경우 한국과 일본 본토는 크게 공격받을 것입니다. 주한, 주일 기지도 대다수 공격받을 겁니다. 그러니깐, 패트리어트나 대공방어 무기를 우크라이나에 지원하면 안됩니다. 중국 미사일 전력이 러시아보다 물량이 훨씬 많기 때문에 방어가 힘듭니다.
중국 견제가 우선되어야 하고, 이를 위해서는 한미 연합군이 대만을 후방 지원해야 합니다. 주일미군은 일본 자위대와 함께 1선에서 해상, 공군 전력을 투사해야하고, 한미 연합군은 대만 본토를 방어해야 할 것으로 보입니다.
문제는 대만이 본토 방어를 할 의지가 있냐는 문제입니다.
최소한 우크라이나처럼 스스로 싸울 의지가 있어야 주한미군이나 한국군이 대만에 파병이 가능하다는 것을 베트남 전에서 깨달았어요.
Served one tour in Korea right out of basic 99-00 and I greatly respect the Korean people. Some of the best friends were ROK soldiers.
You served at the same time as me being a KATUSA. I served in TDC.
@@hyukjaes I was at Camp Humphrey’s in Anjeong-ri
18 seconds into the video and I’ll say this. I spent a year in Korea at USAG Camp Humphreys. In that year I met many MANY KATUSA’s (Korean Augment To United States Army, essentially Korean nationals that would serve their mandatory service in the U.S. Army inside Korea instead of the R.O.K. Army) and I met many R.O.K. Soldiers they are some of the most amazing people I have met, they all have an immense sense of duty to their country as they know just how under threat they are. Due to Asian culture toward the elderly there are many MANY people who were alive for and fought in the Korean War. They are not afraid to tell the younger generations just how dangerous their neighbors are. Hell one of my best friends had a Tattoo Artist, a 80 something year old man who was a kid during the Korean War and at the end of it became a Korean Marine. That man was so cool and his tattoos were works of art, I swear archeologists in the future will dig up bodies with his ink on them and will compare him to Michelangelo. He always talked about how serious a threat North Korea and China are and how he is extremely glad that the younger generation realizes it. He was also extremely thankful for the U.S. standing so firm with the R.O.K. He said that he has memories of when he was a kid being evacuated by U.S. soldiers, being cared for by army doctors and medics, and how the Army Corps of Engineers helped rebuild much of the nation.
As a former US Marine, I can tell you that the Korean rock marines as we call them are hard-core and I would fight with them any day
ROKMC = Republic of Korea Marine Corps = South Korean Marine Corps
I can't find who asked please help
oh so thats why he calls them rock marines
ROK Republic of Korea
Thats the good thing about an opinion, nobody has to ask! The choice to read/listen is yours ;)@@GM-xk1nw
As an American I have a huge respect for South Korea. Many of the United State’s European Allies only like us when they need us, but South Korea isn’t like them. South Korea is the best ally because they actually care about the America and doesn’t just use us like war dogs. South Korea gives Americans hope that we actually have a true friend that isn’t just using us. 🇺🇸❤️🇰🇷
As a combat veteran I have served with almost every ally but South Korea and we have many many more friends.
@@hunterrichardson9605 I know, it just feels like a lot of European countries don’t like america, and I feel like South Korea is a better ally. That’s not to say all Europeans hate Americans, but I definitely feel more welcomed by Koreans than I do Europeans.
@@Jinxx9081 Europe definitely looks down on us. We're their crude rude and uncouth bastard cousin. They only like us when they need us, and sneer at us when they are safe. I'm just saying this as an American - ya'll don't like us very much and maybe we shouldn't be so interwoven with your security, Europe.
A lot of Koreans hate America. Look up the tank incident or the American beef scare.
@@Jinxx9081 What's on the US wishlist for EU/NATO-China relations?
I had two tours in South Korea and got to know them a bit. They are smart enough to know the threats they face without any any illusions and so do what they must to protect themselves. They're a good, trustworthy and extremely honorable people who are 100% worth our (US) defending.
What is this smart enough? ... Koreans are very smart and hard working people!
@@alexisgreene8952 Wasn’t being disrespectful in that statement. Actually emphasizing S. Korea’s intelligence.
@dannywest9256 Average IQ of Koreans are highest in the world. From a war-torn country to 11th, the biggest economy in the world didn't just happen. However, We are very, very thankful to US soldiers and UN soldiers who fought for the Korean War. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!
@@alexisgreene8952 그 정도 알아먹을 머리는 된다가 아니라 정확히 인지하고 있을 정도로 똑똑하다고 칭찬한거임
@@HappB5 'Smart enough ... ' 가 그렇게 들림?
They have always put their troops into action since the Korea war to help the USA and others like in Vietnam, Iraq and other places. They have built some of the new ships for the RFA in the UK and could be building the new 155mm tracked guns in the future for for UK army. They also build an EXCELLENT shotgun called the USAS 12 there's only a handful of them in the UK and I got to shoot one in Dorset before and it was GREAT to use.
Thank you for the video. 👍
South Korea out here playing 4D chess
More like South Korea is actually sitting down to play chess, as most other states just walk away and ignore these problems. If every nation really tried to boost their defence industries, it’s very likely many countries would surpass Korea; problem is governments are willing to drain the budgets dry in order to divert that money to public services that get votes for them in the next election, rather than help keep their country actually capable in a potential war.
Korean Metal is amazing. They need a break they are OUR front line. Does the USA have a defense like NATO in Asia. Yes we do. Trump only heard about NATO last year. He wouldn't like to know we believe in a free world, but will give in to Russia who only attacks countries they "think" they can beat. Stop that steal. Trump would try to sell Ukraine to Putin, used car salesman Trump.
@@jamesbuck2378 And yet if they put too much money in the military, there's gonna be lots of wasteful stuff that the civilian population will then be saying could be better spent on civil services to improve our quality of life. It isn't a simple thing at all, and there really isn't just one right answer when it comes to economics.
@@jamesbuck2378 Western countries simply hadn't had to maintain super expensive armies for 70 years, I can't blame them for using that money elsewhere
@@illbeV. The ability to defend yourself doesn't seem all that important right up until the day you get punched in the face.
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South Korea has definitely played the long game here. Very smart.
small gochu
They are hopelessly losing the ONLY place it matters tho: fertility. A nation needs a birth rate of 2.1 live births per female to maintain its population. South Korea is 0.8-0.9 births per female. Half as many people having half as many babies = 75% population collapse in 2 generations. S.Korea is so screwed.
no a great game but s korea have but it self in problem i donot think n korea will take this easily it can attack s korea early then ppl think. and s will get nuke if usa get in.
South Korea is doomed by its birth rate, or lack thereof. An amazing run, but at what cost? 0.72 births per female, ONE THIRD of the 2.1 required just to maintain a population.
Short ride. Their demographics are in a terminal decline: 0.72 births per female is only ONE THIRD of the 2.1 required just to maintain a population. They will run out of workers in 30 years.
South Korea can teach the Europeans some lessons when it comes to defending their land & still being a developed country.
They ain't defending land anymore. They've given away their countries to the immigrunts.
Ooh good to see my home country on my fav channel. Keep up your good work mate. You're my favorite channel to listen to while taking shower lol😂. Big cheer from Korea!🇰🇷
Your way of typing reminds me of my aussie mates haha
I like to listen while I get stoned
Why your name is sushi then
Most Japanese restaurants in the USA are run by Koreans@@solarmaru49
Y'all doing great homies
The ROK Marines and soldiers were already no joke but now with the capability to receive potential resupply of their own equipment from abroad they're going to truly be a force to be reckoned with if push comes to shove. Korea has done a stellar job of ramping up its international ties and if they can maintain this momentum they will definitely be a lynch pin in the region regardless of what China does.
Thats funny we see ROK Marines as bunch of Gays in Korea lol.they got shitty gear then ROKA, less effective training and high rate of homosexual rape incident. When ever I got chance to joint training with ROKMC they always stole our stuff like uneducated would do( I still remember one marine who stole my underwear and socks, thanks to him I had to wear same underwear through 5days).
April's Fools Day, Simon needs to wear a toupee and pretend nothing has changed.
What an excellent idea
Bob Ross wig
@@notyouorme That's funny.
@@TheMelbournelad He should do it on all of his channels.
Just imagine how disturbing Simon's computer desktop must be.
More like his employees or script writers
@@nolongerblocked6210 Especially writers like Kevin who write for channels such as Brain Blaze, Into the Shadows, Decoding the Unknown, and Casual Criminalist
@ilajoie3 that's a very busy guy
@@ilajoie3 I could only imagine what's on those computers, lol. They probably had to write a letter or give someone a heads-up that they'd be looking up subjects that could get a visit from the authorities normally
Nah more like his writers 😂😂they shit filled up with nonesense
Awesome, from SK to Japan to Philippines to Australia and NZ, it's great to have solid allies in the Asian Pacific.
Gathering of us lapdogs
●Monocle- "Korea Is The World's Second-Largest Soft Power Country."-12/2020 🔥🔥🔥
1.Germany 2. Korea 3. France
● "The capital of Asia is Seoul"- UK Independent --2019
Along with the seven best tourist countries in Europe, "Seoul" was selected as the only Asian country to represent Asia.
How is Germany number one in soft power?😂😂😂 Lmao
There is a deep cultural belief in Korea that US despite its mutual defense treaty with Korea, the US might not meet its treaty obligation. The government in Korea asks itself why the US has a nuclear weapons sharing program with NATO allies, but not with the Republic of Korea.? Korea feels it must have insurance policy if the US abandons them at some point in the future so they have been building its own industrial defense capabilities.
"why the US has a nuclear weapons sharing program with NATO allies, but not with the Republic of Korea" -> they once had it, in the 90s, many tactical nukes were in the area of DMZ, but those were all removed when NK started developing the nuke of their own and US needed 2 suppress that; also in these days US has to consider hysteric china's reaction upon redeployment of US nukes
@@freewheeler1728 It was cold war period but it's now different. I believe we need to realize a vacuum of power in AP region and that's the reason why south Korea has strengthened military power rapidly. South Korea, Japan and the States are together facing off against North Korea, China and Russia ally in this region. But the nuclear weapons balance is broken and will the states be able to handle it alone from deterrent standpoint?
카터 대통령이 미국 군인의 철수를 시도하여 한국의 독자적인 군수 산업의 발전 속도가 빠르게 되었다.
If you know anything about their history, it is very remarkable that the South Korean and Japanese governments are getting chummy. Even before WW2, Korea had been a punching bag for the other powers in the region, including Japan. But China and North Korea's antics has created strange bedfellows.
The thing is, as much as the current government favours Japan, all this can change the moment the government is replaced. With the current government being called as a "Puppet of Japan" by the opposition party and with the president's approval rating fluctuates between 30~40%.
It's been 80 years since WWII. Considering their mutual self-interest and mutual enemies in China, Russia and North Korea, it's about time South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore started cooperating together, not only with the USA.
@@davidcwitkin6729 All that is true, but people hold grudges for a long time. A lot of modern political problems all over the world are rooted in things that happened decades, if not centuries, ago.
@@lebakir3332 I suppose it depends on what the Korean people think. An alliance with Japan is beneficial for both countries' defense interest. I would hope the Korean people don't get complacent over the big threats just north of them.
If Germany, France and England can become close allies, anyone can.
And 80 years later there is quite literally will soon be noone left, who actually did evil things or was directly victimised in WW2. All that's needed for that to happen is acknowledging and regretting the deeds of the past, and realizing that past generations might have though very different from current ones.
South Korea is also planning to offer its new AIP subs to Canada, Poland, and several other countries.
The power of Friendship
Even here in America Korean arms are common. Most of my AR steel and aluminum mags are Korean and very good quality, the ammo is also good quality. Their body armor is also some of the best for the price.
You know I have to say I think Simon has become my favorite "Talking Head". I have come to expect and have always recieved credible and concise information from him and the team behind him. Thanks for all this content!!
This is exactly the type of attitude Nato nations should be having but nobody outside of Poland seems to care. Korea is has also become a major culture exporter further helping to bind East Asia
I sincerely hope that South Korea does not let itself be drawn into European wars.
Korea is a country with lots of potential in the next 50-100 years. The doomsayers of Korea's decline may point to its aging and declining population, but I am sure Korean Reunification, along with policy changes for the youth's economic prospects, will truly catapult the peninsula into the top 5 great powers and even reverse its demographic trend. I cannot even imagine how overpowered Korea will be by combining the brains and agriculture in the South with the manpower and mineral resources in the North.
As for' birth rate- everyone is overlooking the fact that Korea is still a ''divided country''.
The world-renowned financial analyst--Goldman Sachs and international policy analysts predict that if South and North Korea are unified, the population will reach 75 to 80 million, making the world's second to fifth largest power.
朝鲜怎么可能统一啊，中国不同意，美国不同意，俄罗斯也不同意，何况北朝鲜还有核弹呢
@@lilili-kefu Why is that so? This is because it is inconvenient for China to have a direct border with a country called S. Korea.
@@lilili-kefu 통일되기전에 종공이 먼저 분열되어야 가능합니다
@@lilili-kefu 니네가 동의 안한다고 못함? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 당장 북한이 ㅇㅋ만 한다면 하나로 합쳐질텐데 중국인들 진짜
There is no one in history that have risen to world economic power just in few decades like South Korea. Not to mention this country was annexed and colonized by Japan from 1910 to 1945, a war that divided the nation killing more than 3 million lives and 90% of infrastructure being torn down. It really is amazing how Koreans have done it. The work ethic of Korean people bar none is one of the top in the world. FYI, All able Korean men are conscripted to mandatory military service of 22-24 months. Korean men have exceptional knowledge of weapons. We had the rooftop Koreans here in America back in 1991 with Rodney King riots.
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South Korea is a truly incredible place. Landing in Seoul is like travelling 25 years into the future.
A good future. Not a dystopian Hollywood garbage future.
Are you mr.putin? Or mr.pooh? Or mr.kim? 😂😂
Much more than just K-pop and spicy food, Simon. Another excellent video!
And K-Beauty and K-Skincare quality is the world's top-notch that they sent SEPORA home.
*Sephora, squeezed by Olive Young, pulls out of Korea
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Go go South Korea!! Punching way above their weight class in economics AND military power!
And the people pay a horrifying price for it. The highest alcoholism rate in the world and one of the highest suicide rates due to a horrendous corporate culture, and demographic collapse due to a plummeting birth rate are already taking its toll on the south korean, japanese and chinese markets. You cant fix a demographic crisis quickly, things are only going to get worse, much worse.
Sounds good, but their work-life balance is terrible.
Even my Korean friend whose parents moved away still feels that way just bc his parents did. It sucks man, his personality based itself around alcoholism and depression, made him very cynical but is also one of the most hard working dudes I know
they also punch above their weight culturally. Korean music, movies, and TV are becoming more popular worldwide and are far more popular than other countries their size.
Technologically, they’re in 2024. Culturally, they’re barely in 1924
The thing I always found weird about male pattern baldness, especially for people like Simon, you lose your hair completely but can grow a.thick majestic beard better than most people can.
Gravity pushes it to grow downards😅
Duuh
You don`t lose your hair, gravity pulls it down
@@asmo1313😂😂😂 so I am discovering!
Different varieties of Testosterone produce hair growth in different parts of the body.
Fun fact! The hormone that causes male pattern baldness, DHT, actually stimulates beard growth.
같이 갑시다!
기쁨으로
America stands with South Korea, you guys are the best 🇺🇸❤️🇰🇷
We go together
'같이 갑시다... We go together' is the slogan/chant of the US-ROK alliance forces ... The alliance, if we count it from the defeat of the Imperial Japan in 1945, has been 78 years... From the ratification of the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty in 1954, it has been 70 years...But if we consider the role of the best Amereican missionaries, it has been alomost 140 years...
( I am NOT a church-goer. But I know....) People like Homer Hulbert did a great job here from 1885 to 1935.... Many Koreans call him "the blue eyed founding father", which is a little bit amusing because no body is sure whether his were blue or brown... Anyway, the title 'blue-eyed founding father' shows how much we thank ..
함께 갑시다!
If some countries didn’t see the rise of South Korea as a major arms exporter it was because they were not seeing with their eyes open. South Korea has had a very long industrial development, Danish industry has over decades had to adapt to the South Korean competition in global export markets, it has been painful for many industries sectors in Denmark but just as South Korea is highly adaptable so is Denmark, every time they out compete a sector we have found new opportunities which we could replace it with, the loss of especially the ship building industry was a hard because of Denmark being a maritime giant traditionally and even once a great naval power until Britain thought it would be best to rule the waves alone 😮 but we held on to our great merchant fleet, and even if it is now South Korea that is building most ships that is registered in Denmark and there are more and more ships registered in other countries for various reasons they are still owned by the great maritime companies who has their headquarters in Denmark, but most workers are not danish and many ships never sail to Denmark, few young danish men want to sail from Istanbul as there Mediterranean home harbor with good’s around the Mediterranean Sea exclusively while they are distributing goods from a giant container ship from South Asia, so local crew man most ships. South Korea as a major arms exporter should have come as no surprise they were already being in civilian and military ship production.
Thank you, Simon. Very enlightening.
Three cheers for ROK showing initiative and stepping up in this crazy world
Japan too
Glad we're on their side❤❤❤
One of the most, the best insiteful analysis on the subject.
I as a red blooded American I say we stand behind our Korean brothers.
Cringe.
@sonofthebrownmanbond7315 I've said some pretty controversial things in the comments already and I'm fine, you're probably running into RUclips's automatic censor that will delete comments if it detects certain words.
한국도 미국과는 혈맹이라고 말하죠. 영어로 번역하면 "Blood Alliance" 정도일텐데, 한국어 어감의 혈맹은 의형제 간의 맹세를 의미합니다. 실제 피를 나눈 가족이 아니지만, 그와 같은 수준의 관계를 의형제라고 표현하죠.
미국은 경제적 관점에서만 주로 이야기하지만, 한국이 돈 때문에 미국에 첨단 반도체, 자동차, 양극재 공장을 설립하는 것이 아닙니다. 솔직히 미국에 공장을 설립하면 한국으로서는 기회 비용이 매우 큽니다. 다만, 한국이 미국을 신뢰하는 수준이 반영되어 미국으로 이양하는 것이죠.
@@유니-k7z그게 상호간의 신뢰관계가 유지될 것이라는 믿음이 있기때문에 투자와 유치에 흔쾌히 승낙했겠죠. 그리고 잊지말아야할것은 한국전쟁 이후 정말 힘든 시기가 있었지만 어떤 이유에서든 한국을 지원하고 원조했던 국가또한 미국이라는걸 기억해야합니다. 그게 미국의 미래를 위해 했어야 할 자주국방을 위한거였든 자선적 지원이었든 우리에게 도움이 된건 분명하고 그 도움을 바탕으로 지금의 성장을 이룰 수 있었고 동맹관계가 유지되며 성장하고있는것도 사실이죠. 서로 도움이 필요할 때 지원은 해야한다고 봅니다. 이번에 투자한 사례는 분명 미래에 또다른 어떤 형태의 도움으로 이어질 것이라고 생각합니다
@@zenster1097nah this cringe shite is overplayed just a bunch of sour haters ahahaha your the one that’s cringe who can’t even comprehend what united brotherhood can accomplish.
The more i see videos like this, the more i realize that everyone, everywhere, is gearing up for a fight. The real question is: How big of a fight is actually coming, and who's going to be fighting in it?
A terrifying thought
thats what everyone is asking right now
Russia in Europe, China and North Korea in Asia, Iran in Middle East, And their proxy everywhere else
I see it as the West vs East. NK, China, Russia, etc against the US and it's allies. If you zoom out to the big picture you see they are using the "divide and conquer" tactic to have us on multiple fronts and therefore weaker. Only 2 fronts was what the Axis Powers did and it failed. Now the modern Axis Powers are most likely going to use more than two to cripple the US military. The fronts: Taiwan, Israel/Gaza, and Russia invading Europe to rebuild the USSR. It's smart, and I hope I see the US see the big picture rather than the small individual ones.
Every continent
The RoK is a critical ally of the US. We HAVE been there since 1953 so please turn down the rhetoric of our military not coming to their aid. And the same thing with Poland as a critical ally. I'm glad that they can have military autonomy to a large degree.
They have played enough StarCraft and know how the fight will go!
I'm glad that SK is on our side, because the Americans have gone insane.
WADC. American patriots are at war here at home.
How have we gone insane?
@@Scriabin_fanAsk the Ukrainians about the security assurances the US provided in return for Ukraine giving up its nukes and the paid agent of its enemy currently vetoing that support.
One thing is for sure, the west inability to supply ukraine with equipment and ammunition without creating a shortage of its own plays right into the hands of south korea. As it stands russia or china alone is pretty much kicking the wests ass in the manufacturing of military equipment and shells. We simply cant keep up right now. The United States is opening two more factories in Texas to produce artillery shells that should help some but wont be operational for a couple if years. The west needs a country like south korea thats capable of producing a sufficient amount of reliable equipment quickly. Its a good thing for us and a great thing for them.
I guess Germany can learn something from South Korea.
The video did mention the obvious reason South Korea (SK) has built its military industry. But more important question was : When. Initially, SK never intended to become an economic powerhouse it is today. It simply had no choice WHEN Nixon Administration decided to pull U.S troops out to appease communist China. Being on its own, SK badly needed weapons to defend itself. In other worlds, SK built heavy industries to make weapons. That decision by President Park almost brought the country to an economic collapse, before the wind changed in 1980 exactly in favor of those heavy industries. Park was assasinated in 1979 (big smile by Jimmy Carter). But his legacy lived on, making SK a country of heavy industry and weapon-manufacturing capability.
Jimmy Carter was such a piece of crap just like Obama and Biden.
Great video, great pace, great info. Thanks!
excellent topic and analysis
As Indonesian, we also realising that China is potential enemies that could threaten Indonesia border, on 2018-2020 show Indonesia that China can be egoistic and unreasonable, Chines coast guard and Chinese fishin vessels has been multiple times entering illegally into Indonesia exclusive economic zone and claim it as part of China Territory. Since that, Indonesia government try to play carefully and will respond strongly if China still decided to claim Indonesia EEZ border. Indonesia were having strategic ambiguity relationship with China, because we were trying to be neutral as much as possible, but if China disrespect Indonesia both our people and Territory, we will fight back.
안타깝게도 한국인으로서 인도네시아는 믿을만한 파트너라는 것에 의구심을 품기 시작했습니다. 미국이 한국에게 건네 준 정보는 인도네시아를 너무 믿지 말라였지만, 한국은 인도네시아를 믿었고, 놀랍게도 인도네시아는 중국을 경제 파트너로 끌어 안으면서 한국을 배제했어요. KF21도 사실상 인도네시아와 군사협력을 공고히 하려고 했던 것이고 중국을 견제할 수 있었던 사업인데, 이미 물건너 간 것으로 압니다. 한국과 미국은 인도네시아를 한발짝 뒤에서 관찰하기로 했어요. 인도네시아는 솔직히 독립적으로 중국을 견제할 수 있는 군사력을 확보하지 못했습니다. 각종 무기체계가 혼재되어 있고, 탄약 보급도 어려울 것 같고, 운영 면에서 정비인력도 없어요. 육해공 모두 기종도 혼재되어 있어 난잡하고요. 아마도 무기 도입 시 군비 관련한 어떤 모종의 비리가 있을 것으로 짐작됩니다.
That is very good to hear. China is so belligerent they feel that all of their neighbors should bow down before their might. They're acting like they used to act before the century of humiliation and their goal is to restore that old world order once again and make everyone pay for the hardships that they've had to bear since those days.
China is looking at Natuna Is. and it's sea. Oil & Gas rich fields.
Thank you for making this video about SK, Simon ! 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 😊
Historically, Korea people fought many great wars in which hundreds of thousands or millions of troops invaded, but the targets were northern people groups such as the Sui, Tang, Khitan, Qing, and Mongols, and were generally friendly to the Chinese dynasties of Song and Ming etc... Japan's a bit more complicated, although there have been hundreds of small raids along the eastern seaboard by Japanese pirates called Waku. Afterwards, there was a great invasion by Yamato's toyotomi unified shogunate with hundreds of thousands of regular troops, and the background to the Seven Years' War, which was called the Yamato rebellion, was that the carelessness and arrogance of Joseon (Korea), which enjoyed only peace and culture for 200 years, treated Yamato (Japan) as a barbaric pirate group rather than a country. However, Yamato had a high level of tactics through clan battles for 100 years, and the 170,000 troops of Toyotomi, who unified the whole country, armed with Portuguese matchlocks and attacked Joseon. Historically, Japan has waged a surprise war without a declaration of war.The 16,000 Elite heavy cavalry that Joseon was proud of, which had suppressed the cruel northern peoples, was defeated by the Yamato Matchlock unit, and 70, 000 Joseon Army was pushed back all the way to Pyongyang. Yamato, which was a medieval feudal lord era, gained land and people if it won a war, but in Joseon, which was a centralized country, the king fled to the north, but the people and monks formed a militia and fought to the end , the Japanese army was embarrassed by the existence of the Militia.Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Joseon defeated the Japanese navy by winning all 33 naval battles despite overwhelming odds.
The basic weapons of the Joseon army were bows, spears, and swords, as well as gunpowder bombs and various cannons of different sizes..The Ming Dynasty (China) sent reinforcements to help Joseon, but instead harassed Joseon by plundering and engaging in internal communication with Japan, but helped Yi Sun sin in the final naval battle.Yamato, who did not have the technology to make pottery, Taken in hundreds of Joseon pottery craftsmen to make pottery and exported the pottery to Europe, where it received favorable reviews. Joseon was unable to recover from the aftereffects of this war for 400 years and suffered the humiliation of being annexed by Japan, which it regarded as an uncivilized island, and being ruled for 35 years. This Great War was a symbolic event in which the international status of the Korean Peninsula with 4,800 years of history was reversed by the Japanese archipelago with 1,800 years of history. 300 years later, Joseon became a reclusive country with a policy of isolation, and Japan defeated the Russian fleet through the strategy of Yi Sun-sin, the great naval admiral of the country it invaded 400 years ago, and later joined the ranks of the great powers. Yi Sun sin's the world's top 3 naval admiral and the turtle ship is an invincible Korean Item in the Age of Empires PC Games.
와 정확해 대박이야 외국인이 한국과 중국과 일본의 전쟁사를 정확히 아는 게 신기해
I'm an American and I stand with South Korea and Japan
There are reasons why Korea still stands after thousands of years being surrounded by superpowers😂
I'll admit, as a Canadian, I really wish we had a military program like South Korea does. Even if that military was used more for defense, used for manpower during emergencies and so on, may not even see actual heavy combat, I'd rather see us prepared than where we're at now.
Good on them!
Try and settle for basic human rights first maybe?
@@kellscorner1130 Yeah, Canada is completely lacking in basic human rights...I bet you learned that on 'Truth Social' or some other equally reliable source. Numpty.
Canada only needs a navy and air force. The army is kinda useless for defense. If someone wants to invade north america, they will land literally anywhere other than canada.
@@maplobats Starlight tours, FAS, reserves, mass graves, government pardoning themselves, G20 lockdown in downtown Toronto, filling immigration quotas through false pretenses, domestic racism, imported racism, the RCMP is still a thing and of course the residential schools. Middle class went up from 35k in 2019 to 120k in 2024. Waves of homelessness. Low income housing is waiting list housing and subsidized because it's still too expensive for those who get it, because we need the real estate taxes from property investors instead of actual affordable housing. Canada is becoming something other than what it was but it isn't better. So much Canadian sanctimony my whole life about how we're better than the US, as if it's an excuse to pat ourselves on the back.
Where are we lacking human rights and which ones @@kellscorner1130
One of our best allies BY FAR
One can also see that they are forming deeper cultural bonds across western societies. I've always said that if you want to know someone's origin story, first you eat their food. Here in Oregon my workmates go to Korean BBQ every Friday after work. The vets who've served talk about their time in Korea. Talk lovingly about the food and other aspects of life there. I'm starting to hear more references to K-pop and Korean arts more broadly. This is bigger than just the gear. If you live in an urban area and you haven't had bibimbap by now its just a matter of time. Hopefully it will spur more of us to find out "who" the South Koreans are. Do that 18 hour stop-over in Inchon. See a little bit and maybe go back and stay a while.
I've had 48 years of living probably the best years on this planet. I feel sorry for everyone else just being born now. It's going to be hell.
"I feel sorry for everyone else just being born now. It's going to be hell."
To be fair people have been saying that for decades... yet no WWIII nor nuclear winter
@@arofhoof economically though it is likely to be true, last few decades were possibly the best ever in human history.
I wish I could say the best is yet to come, but I simply can't say it out loud. Maybe you are right, old timer.
I feel bad for people born now, not because it's gonna be that bad, things will have ups and downs as they always do. I feel bad for them because there gonna die one day and that's a bummer.
Hard times create strong men.
Love this guy channel i watch every video
Thanks!
Correction. Australia is not a neutral partner with the US. We have been America's closest ally since the signing of the ANZUS treaty in 1951.
Maybe should have been “natural” but misread it
I enjoyed watching it thanks to the automatic subtitle translation. I often see photos with Chinese backgrounds rather than just Korean ones. South Korea has already gone through a war with North Korea backed by Russia and China, and after going through Japan's colonial era, it knows better than anyone the importance of independent national defense, and it also has great significance in wanting to repay the many Western countries including the US, that helped us win at least half of the Korean War. .
What makes Korea formidable is their combination of long history and dedication to social cohesion. A populace used to hardship for centuries have now embraced much of the Western values of innovation and tolerance. KPop is not an accident. Tanks or Pop music, Korea has shown a dedicated workforce can get things done. That being said, its a crucible of stress and competition.
Korean history is older than west. You didn't Invent anything .you just used what ancient civilizations created .you colonise.d
I never knew that Alexander Volkanovski was so well versed in geopolitics
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South Korea is family at this point just like Japan. They must be protected at all costs.
Some want to sow resentment against American boots “permanently” on Korean soil. If so, one could also ask how many Korean boots are just as permanently on American soil. The answer is that alliances are a good thing, not something to resent.
Thank you, but please only protect Japan. SK will protect ourself. It is better to die fighting alone than to become a family with Japan under the United States. Cuz we have our own Pear harbors by Japan countless during thousands years.
@@Gravitygrvity개소리야
If you want us to be with Japan as a family, just acknowledge the development of our nuclear weapons. We want to have that.😅
한국 정서에서 일본은 거부감이 있습니다. 일본도 마찬가지라고 생각합니다. 다만, 현재 시점에서 중국을 견제해야 하는 공통의 목표가 있으니 그 부분에서는 협조가 가능합니다.
미국과 한국은 혈맹입니다. 미국이 요청하면 한국은 대부분 수긍하고 따를 것입니다.
Korea never forgets its friends who helped in the Korean War.
Great work! ❤
Fantastic analysis as always, Simon.
I'm 90% sure South Korea is the supposed third-party nation in question with regard to the Czech Republic's 800000 artillery shell deal for Ukraine.
😂😂😂 Russians going to afraid!🤡🤡
I strongly suspect you are correct.
Putin ready with Kim!😈
@@asithalk He can go with kim...., but he don't think he can go with only kim. SK goes with Ukraine and the globe
Nope. Our massive stockpile is to fight the North, probably this year!
I'd give strong odds that South Korea could easily defeat North Korea in a conventional war by itself, without the US intervening.
Yes but just like North Vietnam, North Korea will never come alone but always with china and likely russia in tow.
The problem is the unholy amount of short range artillery that North Korea has. The short range doesn't matter because the area in question is so concentrated. South Korea could easily win the conventional war but North Korea would level half of the South's cities by the time they did.
If the war stsys conventional only and Russia and China don't intervene, absolutely. But no one really expects Xi to sit it out even though China has told North Korea it will not help if they start the war.
@@Capt.SteeleSo would the South. Seoul isn't the only city close to the border, Pyongyang is too. A war would literally burn both nations to the ground, I doubt Kim Jongun is willing to do that.
during the first Korean War, Seoul changed hands 7 times and was in ruins at war's end. But most of the South's other msjor cities, such as Pusan and Deagu are *well* beyond artillery range from the DMZ.
In East Asia, Korea and Japan are the two most powerful allies of the United States. The recent development of weapons and the speed of production in Korea are quite impressive. In particular, Korea has never had major problems such as war and other countries, and there is no country that is religiously problematic. This is a huge advantage for arms exports.
It still has participated in wars, one I heard famously is Vietnam and later help in Iraq a little late.
@@Mark3nd 중국인 친구야 베트남도 너네를 싫어해서 한국과 동맹을 맺을거야 이라크는 한국과 우호적인 국가가 됐어. 그리고 지금 두나라 모두 한국 무기를 수입하려고 검토중이야.
@@SKYq-c7p Bro I'm American....
I just love how excited you always are about your sponsor and how it could have prevented your facial hair inversion. Great show! Great channels! Thanks for being an alternative in depth News source.
Favorite RUclips channel.
was able to be a part of USACA-K south korean people are very passionate and proud of there country they really do thank the U.S.A a lot for keeping there freedom and the benefits of experiencing freedom.
without a doubt South Korea will do anything to protect that freedom that America was able to share them with.
>>>they really do thank the U.S.A a lot for keeping there freedom and the benefits of experiencing freedom????
Unexpected? I wouldn't say so! They've bounced back from troubles in the past (quite impressively) and they'll do it again.
Very intuitive! Simon said:
9:38~9:46 iSK has got to prepare for the possibility that China would expect South Korea to intervene (in Taiwan contingency) and try to preempt that by unleashing North Korea on the south at the same time
Not many people know this. And few among those who know want to talk about it, since they are geo-politics experts. These people are usually tight-lipped.
The nukes and missiles of NK are not for offense, since at the instant they move to use them they will be annihiliated. ( I am a South Korean. I believe I know how terrifying the US-ROK forces are, espcially with the back-up from US Forces in Japan , Guam, Hawaii and the Western coast, and with the cooperation of Japan;s SDF.)
They are not for defense either, since SK and the US do not have the intention to change the status quo by force, unilaterally.
They are for coercing the US forces in SK and Japan to be pinned down, in the Taiwan or South China Sea contingency. (military coercion)
They are for coercing SK people to look upon China as the sole and only countury who can save SK from the nuclear threat. (psychological coercion)
China is the main theme; NK is only an 'agent of China'.
Great video!
Thank you Simon!
Those IFV's we Aussies bought look like they should be the ducks guts.
The only problem I have with Simon having so many channels is that people are just going to make fake Simon channels with AI and everyone will assume they just forgot to sub to one
I don’t think so. I mean, sure they can make fakes. But this community of the Whistlerverse is pretty active and quick to point out things such as if a channel were truly Simon and his team’s doing or not. So this doesn’t worry me as a content consumer of his.
There's already been deep fakes of him popping up on porn sites
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@@davidvasquez08 Or so I've been told
He's quickly getting to the point that he should build his own independent platform and claim ALL the ad revenue for himself. He could call it "Simon Says".
Nice to hear something other than the whole population crisis thing.
Also nice is that I get to hear about a new sponsor i never heard of until now.
Unfortunately, defense against nuclear weapons mostly relies on the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) principle: use of additional nuclear weapons to retaliate against the aggressor. But, as indicated in several previous comments, messing with ROK troops is very hazardous to one's health.
wow a pro-korean comment. just wait a little and surely the asian-hating racists will tear it down somehow....
A lot of people foresee an encroaching war. I see a common enemy that motivates the disavowal of old grudges and in its place, fosters a brotherhood of unparalleled might and terrifying conviction.
We have more allies than enemies, it seems.
Just a quick add; S.Korea is willing to set up partnerships with local manufacturing, & transfer of IP in host countries. This is a two-fold benefit, Makes it very attractive to new clients/ nations, and provides a second (or 3rd) supply line for their defence force that is out of range of North Korean strike. For example; the small number of platforms (so far) ordered by the Australian defence force, would not seem to justify the expense of setting up a huge, new manufacturing plant. But it has, and is almost complete. I expect further follow on orders from Australia in the future, but also orders for foreign countries and South Korea it self, as a safe second production line. Australia & Poland are not the only new manufacturing partners, Indonesia is also.
What is really sad is that South Korea wanted to license production (and thus IP) to build US weapons. When they were denied, they started on the tracked 155mm system design that is selling like hotcakes. They have expanded since then.
@@john_in_phoenix South Korea did license production of US howitzers. We have more than 1000 units here. K-9 is a improved version from the experience.
Thank you!