The Illegitimate Occupation Of Southern Korea

What many people don’t know about Korea (For good reason, as the regime wants to hide this information from us) is that Korea was united under a socialist system before the US occupation of their country and created a state that they ruled as a puppet through Syngman Rhee, who was a far-right corporatist who believed in ethnonationalism and fascist ideas. To this day, South Korean people feel awkward with the idea of naturalization for foreigners or immigrant workers because they believe ethnicity to be the foundation of their country. This was after overt American occupation and a United State military government in Korea.

To this day, South Korea is the prime example of what happens in societies that become seduced by rightism or reactionary ideologies. Wealthy elites and their families control the entire economy with many people surviving off scraps and having next to zero labor rights. Their military is also known for severe abuses of human rights and their media is meddled with by their government to have propaganda inserted, which appears very strange to foreign audiences. South Korean capitalism is so egregiously heinous, it resembles feudalism or other reactionary systems that exist to enslave entire populations. South Korean citizens even flee to other places of the world known for exploitation such as America, which just goes to show how bad the situation is.

Knowing all of this, how can people ever believe that a country formed from American military occupation ever be considered legitimate? It’s because the Americans and the southern collaborators with loyalty to Washington and Tokyo are deliberately distorting the history of Korea to serve their ideology. I can already hear the liberals trying to defend the actions of the South Korean regime with the typical talking points or pointing to the Korean economy or apparent success of the south, but as usual only bourgeois parasites are benefiting from that wealth. If you truly wanted Korea to not be a colonial puppet of foreign imperialists, you would not recognize the state of South Korea as legitimate and you would not defend the actions of the Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans in their pursuit to maintain such a brutal occupation.