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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Life controled by handful of rich familles

Does S Korea also have the problem of a rigid and corrupt 2 party system?

[–] emergencyfood 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are two big parties and four smaller parties represented in the (current) National Assembly, but the Democratic Party has a majority by itself. The current President belongs to the other big party (People's Power).

[–] Jinn 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People's Power? If that isn't one of the most commie names I've ever heard for a political party.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except that they’re conservative lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was like “wow so futuristic” when I first learned that the monopoly on Japanese government is through the Liberal Democratic Party. Lmao when I found out the rest of the story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“Liberal Democratic Party”, rules for decades uninterrupted, representing the largest capitalist families and the USA and cracks down and any leftists sentiment, sometimes extremely violently. Cool! Cyberpunk!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeahhh… shit makes it really difficult to follow global national politics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

. . . national politics

And in the case of the LDP, national𝑖𝑠𝑡 politics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not sure. What I do know is that Korean parliament occasionally gets into actual mob-on-mob brawls. So there's that.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/asia/south-korea-lawmakers-indicted-intl-hnk/index.html