hyperbali:

anneemay:

Kinda meta how U.S. audiences have been heaping praise on South Korean film & TV critiquing SK hypercapitalism without any apparent awareness or reflection of how their country has helped build said hypercapitalism through war, occupation, militarization, structural adjustment

The US invaded to preserve capitalism in SK, then built its industries to supply US military interventions in SEA, prop up Japan as a regional bulwark against communism, and be a forever buyer of US weapons. This is not some essential “Asiatic capital” that exists out of context

[image: posters for Parasite and Squid Game projecting a red arrow with the caption “US imperialism directly contributed to an environment in which a downtrodden SK populace literally struggles to survive in a society where their value is placed solely on how much money they have”.

It goes over the head of someone looking at the posters and saying “Wow!! Cool foreign thrill horror!!!”]