you may or may not know I recently moved to North Korea
 

or south korea, one of those. here are my thoughts on the venn diagram of the two thus far


http://finitelifethenovel.wordpress....e-south-of-it/


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this was cool man, I was hoping there was more honestly lol I haven't read much about Korea in general let alone the differences between the two

good, very poetic

thanks - I kept it short because my previous post was on the longer side, so I try to switch it up. There's a great Vice documentary on North Korea you should check out (just google "Vice North Korea"), lots to learn about it. Def a trippy place, and there's a longstanding tenuous relationship between the north and south.

dope thanks man i'm bout ta a shit so I can get a few mins alone to read lol

i'm annoying to tag. lol.

I think it could use an anecdote. Otherwise I liked it.

Cool, like to teach for several years? You ever watch these guys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs44zgDFds

Lol this is somewhat of an understatement.

I can relate to North and South divides/tension....gonna read in about 20 mins and I will report back, looking forward to it.

Ok slightly longer than 20 minutes lol This was an enjoyable read, insightful and poetic, it brought up a lot of familiar feelings for me. It was very short but I didn't think it needed to be much longer tbh Your writing, I'd imagine, would be very accessible to most people which is something not everyone can say, there are some people you can only really appreciate fully if you're also a writer but you have a more universal feel to your writing, you let everyone in and word your thoughts very well, which is something I always try to do...I don't want anyone to feel left out, to me the mark of a great writer is someone who can effectively communicate with any sort of person, any race, any age, any gender, etc...and you do this very well. Thanks for the read.

Also I died a bit @ North Korea is not Voldemort.

How can you be sure tho?

ARE YOU SURE OATS???

I'll read in a little while, like always.

lol it was definitely said with tongue in cheek, not sure if that translated well via type. That's interesting, I never really thought about the parallels with Ireland (in fact, I know very little about Ireland's situation). I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.

@Split yeah to teach, pretty lucrative. I'll watch that video shortly.


thanks for reading, everyone

I honestly don't know enough about Korea to draw very deep parallels but on the surface it is a familiar situation...being cut off and taught to hate your own people, being forced into segregation due to political issues, having two warring countries on one little island....you're right, it's like being made to have 0 contact with a brother who lives in the next house, you know he's there and you know you are the same people underneath it all and that if you speak the love WILL be there because you have the same culture, the same experiences and the same upbringing, but you can't speak to him out of fear of being ostracized. I had never spoken to a Catholic person until I was 17, I couldn't because there weren't any around, one family was Catholic in one town I lived in and they had their house burned down while they were inside. Shortly after that I began to realize how evil and twisted all of it was.

This explains better than I ever could tbh, it's kinda long but worth the watch when/if you can find the time. Just so you know, if you do watch it look for when they mention the Shankill Road, that was where a young fox spent many of his formative years, being a little hood on the streets, long before the peace loving and chilled out Witty came to be, and it's also where pretty much all of my relatives still live, my uncles house and grandmothers old house are in the video lol We used to drink cider against the peace wall in the video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_wHMcv9p8

@Witty that's interesting, I'll watch that when I get home from work. Sounds really similar - South Koreans hate the North Korean government but have love for the people.

your country engages in religious terrorism against itself. don't you morons realize that that's for the muslims


Ireland people r dumb

Yep.

The problem here is too many of the people don't have love for each other but would if they weren't so stubborn and stuck in the past.

Edit: It is getting better tho, slowly.