• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Their presidential run has been a shitshow lately. One was essentially controlled by a fortune teller, and another tried to turn into a dictator overnight. What the hell is going on over there?

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      Also their birth rate is the lowest in the world, but like much of Asia, they’re fairly xenophobic, so without immigration or kids, they’re likely to stop having a working population while the government continues paying out a pension fund, resulting in a permanent recession and/or total collapse starting within the next 10 years. It’s WILD that South Korea, for all its successes, is going to collapse BEFORE North Korea, because of xenophobia and sexism.