@samuelszuchan: December 2014. A Korean Air vice president is seated in first class. A flight attendant brings her macadamia nuts in a bag instead of a porcelain bowl. That detail was the offense. Cho Hyun-ah, the airline chairman's eldest daughter, berated the chief flight attendant, struck him with a service manual, forced the plane back to the gate, and ordered him off. Hundreds of passengers waited while a career ended over the configuration of a snack. A South Korean court sentenced her to 10 months in prison for obstructing aviation safety. On appeal, the sentence was suspended. She served five months. In most countries, this would be a strange story about a rich woman on a plane. In Korea, it became a national reckoning. Because there's a word for what she did. Gapjil. In Korean contract law, the gap is the party with leverage. The eul is the party without it. The suffix jil describes behavior you'd rather not receive. Gapjil is what a person with structural power does to a person without it, because the structure allows it. Her mother was indicted for allegedly forcing construction workers to kneel and slapping them. Her sister threw water in an executive's face. The press called it water rage. A decade later, that word still drives news cycles, government legislation, and Korea's largest cultural export. The macadamia nut wasn't the disease. It was the symptom that finally got a name.

Quest.ion. :

Oh but it's not the capitalism's issue isn't it

Orthodox Warrior :

Is there anything that isn’t depressing about far east Asia ? Genuinely haven’t heard anything good about China, Korea and Japan, like ever. I feel like I’m being psy-oped

Roscosmo 🔻 :

how sam, how are you funded? your videos are so high quality and frequent I assume you have backers

Pablo :

Mikkel Quezada :

thats horrible

Harriet James :

that's horrible

Raa :

So sad

jimmy :

happy :

I mean not just Korea, we can say the same about the entertainment industry having the same role in the west

《林》 :

amandyq_1 :

"there is no rebellion. there is only me earning a paycheck."

sophie :

The director of The Glory was a bully as well back in 1996.

Whitemanrick :

Bong Joon Ho is among the most prolific class-conflict directors of all time. You’d think he’d see the irony in his participation here

SaintedStars :

I love the Glory, I didn’t know that it was based on a real story!

TheSubtleShift :

How ironic🥴

dakinislay3r :

Manhwas are real !?

lilac 87 :

😁😁😁

lemoniceee :

@im.zarah

♡PICCOLINO-HR♡ :

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nabs_1612 :

North Korea and South Korea really decided to show the worst of both Communism and Capitalism

Kamikawa897 :

South Korea is a dystopia. It will take massive population collapse and economic implosion for its opiated people to wake up

David Muhindo :

yeah korea is kinda mess up