Tag: South Korea

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It is not easy to end a war. The frustration, hatreds, and objectives only half-achieved at the expense of so many lives make the negotiations very difficult. One war, which was ended despite the objectives of the belligerents only being half-achieved, was in Korea. (more…)

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On December 3, 2024, the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, declared martial law. The Korean Army ruled the land until opposition parliamentarians organized a riot in Seoul and the whole thing fell apart after two hours or so. (more…)

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In what may be the dumbest sex strike in history, American feminists who are aghast that Donald Trump won the election are throwing another collective vaginal tantrum.

Eight years ago, these types showed up en masse in D.C. the day after Trump’s inauguration wearing “pink pussyhats” to “reclaim” the word “pussy.” They’d somehow fallen under the impression that Trump had “grabbed” the word from them. (more…)

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Už tak velice nízká porodnost v Jižní Koreji se v roce 2023 dále propadla na pouhých 0,72 dítěte na ženu, což je přibližně jen třetina hodnoty nutné pro zachování velikosti populace (2,1). Na webu BBC se dokonce objevil článek, jehož autorka si klade otázky, proč se tolik Korejek rozhodlo zůstat bezdětných. (more…)

LTC Gordon “Jack” Mohr. This photo was taken in Japan, when Mohr was a Captain. The patch indicates that he was in the 9th Corps of the US Army. Notice the serious expression on his face.

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War shapes societies. The so-called “forgotten war,” the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, shaped America in many ways. It was the first genuinely hot conflict between the free world, led by the United States, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union. Events in Korea led to a multi-decade Cold War which either blew hot or threatened to blow hot in many parts of the globe. The Korean War also came as a surprise. A bigger surprise was the fact that the American military, which had so overwhelmingly triumphed in the Second World War, had atrophied in just five years. The first year of the conflict was filled with humiliating retreats and setbacks.

The war also shaped America in that the conflict caused the national security state to come into being. (more…)

A hikikomori.

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Japan is considered something of a utopia on the world stage today, standing among the lauded Nordic countries and wealthy microstates in terms of its civilizational level. Japan has virtually eliminated violent crime, has a high standard of living, is technologically advanced, stays out of wars, and remains a top world economy despite having seen better days. Japan even has a homogeneous population. Many on the Right therefore point to Japan as an example of the success of positive nationalism. (more…)

South Korean teens in Jongno, Seoul. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)

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South Korea’s birth rate per woman, which was already low, fell even lower in 2023 to 0.72, which is roughly a mere third of the country’s replacement level of 2.1. The BBC even published an article exploring why women in South Korea are choosing not to have children. (more…)

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Our latest livestream was the third meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where author F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, Travis LeBlanc, and Counter-Currents Program Director Cyan Quinn discussed F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power. The stream is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:03:57 Summary of Sexual Utopia in Power
00:14:04 On the superiority of monogamy
00:18:43 On racial differences in breeding patterns
00:27:22 What is “hypergamy”? (more…)

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The 2023 nationalist activist MVP of the year, Keith Woods, recently wrote an article on society and its ideal size and scale. It’s a very good article. Drawing from thinkers such as Aristotle, Rousseau, and Leopold Kohr, Woods — in a studious and methodical manner — showcases the argument in favor of societies and systems of government which maintain a small population. He is primarily, almost exclusively, concerned with the governance of society. (more…)

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South Korea has taken the classical music world by storm over the past few decades. Koreans are increasingly overrepresented among high-level classical musicians. Hundreds of Koreans have been finalists and prizewinners in prestigious international music competitions. The Korean Musical Mystery (2012) is a documentary by Belgian filmmaker Thierry Loreau that seeks to understand this fascinating phenomenon. (more…)

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He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Takes one to know one,” as the old saw goes. FDR’s “our son of a bitch” reference, which some say is apocryphal, was to Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua from 1937 to 1956. (more…)

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Well, friends, we dun goof’d. We predicted, as a movement, as thinkers, that Russia would not invade Ukraine. We are, of course, at the time of writing, into the third week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so it behooves us to look into what happened and where we went wrong so that our analytical apparatus can meet the next crisis better prepared.

For a slice of the wrong predictions in that long-forlorn time of February 2022, you’d do well to read John Morgan’s article about why Russia won’t invade Ukraine (but is still winning) right here on Counter-Currents. (more…)