Category: Korea-General Topics

What Generation Z wants doesn’t matter because the Korean left currently in power in South Korea is pushing the country towards a confederation with North Korea:

South Koreans born after 1995 are less supportive of unification and feel less affinity for North Koreans despite a common ethnic identity, according to a recent survey.

The poll from newspaper Hankook Ilbo and Hankook Research taken in early December interviewed a pool of 500 Generation Z respondents and compared their answers to those of 500 South Korean members of Generation X, or people born after 1968 and before 1980.

The Hankook Ilbo reported Friday Gen Z respondents were relatively apathetic about the notion of a unitary Korean people that binds Koreans of North and South.

When asked about their sense of “belonging” to transnational Koreans as an ethnic group, fewer Gen Z respondents responded positively than their Gen X counterparts, or about 13 percentage points lower, according to the report. Lack of identification with North Koreans was also greater among Gen Z respondents; only about 12 percent of them said they view North Korea in a positive light.

Korea Times

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I do not support aggression against South Korea’s riot police, especially since many of them are mandatory service conscripts. With that said the protests against the Moon administration are nothing like the violent protests we have seen Korean leftists commit in the past with little to no consequences:

State prosecutors on Friday sought a court warrant to arrest a conservative pastor for his alleged role in a violent anti-government protest.

Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon, chief of the Christian Council of Korea, led a mass rally in central Seoul on Oct. 3 calling for the resignations of a scandal-ridden justice minister and President Moon Jae-in.

Police have investigated the pastor, also chief of a coalition of conservative groups which organized the rally, on suspicions that he instigated protesters to use violence against police when they marched toward the adjacent presidential office.

Prosecutors requested a Seoul court issue arrest warrants for Jun and two other protest leaders on charges including obstruction of justice and breaching assembly and demonstration laws, according to legal sources with knowledge of the matter.

Hundreds of thousands participated in the rally in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul. Speakers on stage shouted radical phrases such as “Seize the Blue House” and “Arrest the president.”

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link, but when the Korean government did arrest a violent left wing KCTU protester last year they ended up letting him go. It will be interesting to see if the Korean courts do the same thing with this pastor.

All this means is that Korea’s domestically developed AI is not as smart as Google’s yet:

Korea’s all-time Go master Lee Se-dol beat won a game against an opponent powered by a locally developed artificial intelligence program in Seoul, Wednesday, three years after his historic match with Google’s AlphaGo in 2016.

Lee won the first round of the match against HanDol, a program developed by NHN Entertainment Corp. Two more games are scheduled for today and Friday. 

Go, known as baduk in Korean, is a strategy game originated in China 3,000 years ago. 

In the 2016 match, Lee beat Google AlphaGo’s DeepMind in one out of five matches. In November, the 36-year-old announced his resignation, saying the life of a Go master would be meaningless unless he can beat the AI. 

Korea Times

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