Why is this country devoid of any literature value?

You're being too shortsighted in your analysis.

because the language lacks intricacy

it's not

You're right. All those books that you mentioned are really good, user!

Is porn really banned?
They can ban places like porhub or xhamster but what happens if they enter on Veeky Forums's /b/ they can't ban a whole website just for the degeneracy of some boards ¿?

Who needs literature when you have starcraft

Do you think any authoritarian country would ever look at Veeky Forums and think "yeah this is worth sorting through rather than banning outright"

what about han "she waz" kang?

Korean here to answer some things.

Porn is "banned" but its just as accessible through Veeky Forums or tumblr.

The culture is not very conducive to creative things. You will never see Korean parents encouraging children to read literature beyond middle school b/c at that point kids are encouraged study until they die.

Korea(based of what I've seen) is also probably the nation with highest % of adolescents with smartphones or access to internet. They are basically just as fucked, if not more fucked than western kids in terms of technology and dopamine level whatever.

I think the Korean language is amazing. There are basically no dumb rules that go against what you learn before and is very simple to read and write. Each character has a vowel and 1-3 consonants and there are words that are sometimes sentences in English.

is pretty accurate. Extremely materialistic.

Koreans pride themselves on being different/better than jap/chinese and the culture really is different. But I would say the 3 nations all have similar quirks and they all borrow from eachother. People do not seem to realize some of the history behind Korea's independence and that before all of this materialism and competition came in, Koreans were immensely proud and patriotic.

>korea culture
Like what?
No really, whathever i can think is just an offshot from china or japan, or worse america.

chinks and gooks always dropping bantz

>The culture is not very conducive to creative things.
you've got some good filmmakers though

The food, events, and ceremonies are very different. But I understand why people think its just shitty copies of other countries since kids are too lazy to look at or practice Korean culture

For some reason I got Kafka's metamorphosis vibes from it

t. Park Li Cok

>Koreans pride themselves on being different/better than jap/chinese and the culture really is different
Provide some examples then. And I mean works of art, because that's the expression of a people's culture. I'm tired of Asians telling me "oh we're so different, this robe we use has a different sleeve than Japanese robes!". That's variations that occur naturally in different regions, that's not the same thing as having your own culture. Being immensely proud and patriotic doesn't magically create culture.

Off the top of my head:
Jesa is a thing, ribbon dance is pretty big, the tiger has large prevalence in korean art/culture, I think its fair to count the alcohol and smoking culture as well, and begrudgingly, k-pop.

And I agree with you. Koreans do really say they are different but can never back it up because they are 'westernized' and don't know shit(I'm an example). Also a lot of big traditions come from back when the Japan, Korea, and China were basically the same thing. I think that Koreans like to hold on to the fact that they are different but Korea is moving away from all of its traditions, and as I mentioned before, becoming extremely materialistic/individualistic. Korea has changed so much in the past few decades and the suicide rates and the huge appeal to K-pop bullshit shows it.

Because they make cool movies instead

Has your country ever been so materialistic they make their flag look like a fucking fizzy drink logo?

Any Korean lit you'd recommend, preferably in Korean? Are there anything considered classics in novel format or is it mostly poetry?

Yeah that guy is a fucking idiot. Hong Sang Soo is another wicked filmmaker.

superduper capitalism and concomitant solipsism. The entire nation is depressed and on the brink of suicide. 16 hour days are the norm. Even if you get a place at a 'prestigious' art college the entire curriculum is based around how to get a minimum wage job as an illustrator. Everybody with any aesthetic or artistic instincts emigrates.

I'd add theres a unique cultural mix of extreme individualism and obedience to the hivemind, its about as stifling a place emotionally as there is

As a korean I'm honored somebody in this chinese cartoon board devoted his time for this shitpost

Nanjung Ilgi
That's really it.

Koreans fuck, porn doesn't help anybody.

The big one is the language, I think. Everything else flows from that. Yes, Korean culture is pretty similar to China/Japan, but German culture is similar to Polish culture without them being identical.

>I think the Korean language is amazing. There are basically no dumb rules that go against what you learn before and is very simple to read and write. Each character has a vowel and 1-3 consonants and there are words that are sometimes sentences in English.

To bad y'all are fucking it up by mumbling the language into the ground. In another 100 years it's going to be as bad as English.

Have you read The Cloud Dream of the Nine and The Vegetarian or are you a cultural cuckold?

I lived there for a while.
It's not really banned, any idiot just hops on a VPN.

Why is that country devoid of anything of value?

all asian countries are philistine as fuck.

There is great SK literature! Ever heard of Yi Mun-yol?

Asian people are so educated and regal in their veins, they are polite, well-mannered, and superior.

Meanwhile yee haw white people don't take their shoes off in the house, cuss at their grandma, don't give up subway seats for the elderly, disabled, and pregnant, and

you have weeaboo virgins who suck on 2d paper.

Asian people are elegant and refined. Patience is in their blood. See how Japanese and Korean and Chinese act with their families and everyone else.

white people don't care about children, families, their own parents. it's sad.

can't buy values with money or books!.

This exactly. The country has no Seoul, no creativity , the educational system rapes it from the kids at an early age. School systems produce human capital, not artists

A great literary nation you have there United States L MAO

watch out we gotta arts district starbucks barista here beta lanket who watches 1d cartoons

>It is not an exaggeration to say that Yi Mun-yol (born in 1948) is the most successful Korean writer of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Yi is one of those lucky authors who consistently win both critical acclaim and enthusiastic popular following. Since his debut at age 30, he has been a commanding presence in the Korean literary scene, and in recent years he has also received acclaim and critical attention in Europe and elsewhere, as his works have been translated into major European and Asian languages. Yi, however, has not always been so lucky. In fact, he was intensely unhappy in his early years. Much as was the case with the protagonist of this story, his father’s defection to the North forced his family to struggle not only against poverty but social stigma and police surveillance. So he repeatedly dropped out of school and experienced great turbulence of spirit. Throughout it all, however, he read omni-vorously, which served him well in his later career, as did his early tribulations.

>To date Yi has produced close to twenty novels (half of them multi-volume) and more than fifty novellas and short stories, besides two collections of political and social commentaries and two ten-volume translations of classical Chinese romances. Even more impressive than his productivity is the range and power of his stories. Some of them are serious explorations into man’s existential condition; many delve into the implications of the Oriental and Western heritages, drawing from numerous classical texts from the East and the West; some grapple with the meaning of history and ideology; and some are satirical portrayals of contemporary social mores. As Yi is only in his early fifties, he is certain to continue to enrich Korean literature and delight and enlighten his enthusiastic readers worldwide.

Asian people are insects 2bh. You're an overcrowded hive of interchangeable, expendable drones who care only about efficiency and production. Not human beings so much as standardized cogs in an assembly line. This is why you're so dependent on Western culture--you have no interesting ideas of your own. Why would you? An insect doesn't need to think or create, an insect only needs to pay tribute to the queen. Scuttle along now

zerg rush this, homos

Every single modernist would disagree with you.

Every recent cultural revolution stems from the interaction of east and west. If you can't see that it is a reciprocal relationship thus far you're just racist and dumb

Hmm, I would have to disagree that it's a reciprocal relationship. For centuries the Orient has taken far more than it has given, and what it has given is mostly of low quality. I would also disagree that modernism, a distinctly Western movement instigated by the first world war and industrialization, was seriously influenced by Eastern culture beyond imagism. A people too timid and slow to develop an understanding of psychology and technology can't be expected to comprehend the intricacies of Western thought, which is why they failed to make the stylistic leaps the moderns did.

have you heard of Japanisme, or like, all of the technologies first used in the east (from paper to firearms) or like perhaps the centuries of colonialism that forcefully took resources out of the region, or like if you actually read modernists, they were obssesed with eastern culture, but you won't do that. Picasso and Van goh actively copied eastern styles, all the modernists from Rimbaud to Pound... but this is pointless because if you're blinded enough to argue that one peoples is lesser than another you are actually stuck in an understanding of art that is pre-modern, stale and useless.

I knew a korean exchange student when I asked him he said he watches porn of japanese girls etc online, no korean girls

Sounded like in addition to it being banned it was a pride thing like he was adamant korean girls wouldnt do porn anyways thats for the poorer asians and the weird japanese

Just another anecdotal story

You're all over the place but I'm going to try to help you out. First of all, you're (I hope) unconsciously conflating very separate time periods. You're trying to talk about modernist interaction with the orient while discussing the introduction of firearms to Europe, which occurred in like the 13th century. At the same time you're trying to work in some sullen colored bitch resentment over being conquered by Westerners, which isn't really relevant to the argument at hand. It's making you seem flustered and incoherent

And then there's this crap about how ALL the modernists copied eastern styles.

>all the modernists
Really, James Joyce copied Eastern styles?
Which ones? be specific

Really, Virginia Woolf copied Eastern styles?
Which ones? Be specific

Really, Ernest Hemingway copied Eastern styles?
Which ones? Be specific

&co.

The fact is the orient was an interesting and cultured place oh maybe a millennium ago, but since has been outstripped by Westerners forty times over. In their decline, did they occasionally influence superior Western thinking? Of course. The West is in many ways a great filtering mechanism. It allows the world's most creative minds (Westerners) to absorb foreign ideas into their own structures when necessary, and trash those that aren't. Naturally lesser cultures are very excited when receiving recognition from superior Western minds, and are wont to exaggerate the influence they had on their course of thought. It's understandable, but inaccurate. Yeats writes a couple noh plays and then grows bored after immediately mastering the genre. Asians and their otaku sympathizers interpret this to mean his entire body of work came out of Japan--laughable stuff

well yeh, im britbong but Moby Dick, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James and a million 20th cenury novelists...I'd the US is a great literary nation, wouldn' you?

Not only this, but an African-American invented peanut butter! They don't teach that in colleges, do they. Wonder why.

What Asians adopted from the West:
>architecture
Asian cities are almost indistinguishable from Western ones, with soulless glass-covered office skyscrapers and concrete apartment blocks
>fashion
From T-shirts, jeans and sneakers to the suit and collared shirt
>music
Asians perhaps only put a little oriental twist on otherwise western-originating genres of pop, EDM, hip-hop, jazz etc.
>economic system
For Japan and Korea it's self-explanatory. The Chinese revolution, on the other hand, was inspired by Marx and Lenin - European communists

What the West adopted from Asia:
>the occasional sushi or thai food joint
>niche hippie things like meditation and chakras
>Karate and Judo (mostly as exercise for children)

>And I mean works of art, because that's the expression of a people's culture
You're insisting on your own, personal, completely stupid definition of culture here champ

sorry I wasn't extolling the broken education system of glorious soviet korea, allow me to take a step back so you can tell the people how the schools here promote free thinking?

Oh, that's right, ya dunno what the fuck you're on about mate, so shut the fuck up. Korea is a collectivist/hivemind society, nobody is an artist, and if someone was, then everyone would be an artist two days later. The bureaucratic control of the Kpop operation has officially killed all art in the country

Classic Korean superiority complex. One wonders if he believes the shit he was spewing or it's the classic inferiority/superiority complex.

See : Korean ethnic nationalism

Because Koreans have, on average, some of the shortest penis lengths in the world, this manifests itself in going full damage control about their place in the world. They believe the government propaganda that people in France give a fuck about glorious homegrown kpop and that Italians love kimchi. Koreans aren't like dirty dark skinned south-Asian laborers, nope, they're cleaner, whiter, better.

They believe every race of women are whores, except for Korean women, despite the fact that Korea has the highest per capita rate of prostitutes in the ENTIRE world and also is the world's biggest exporter and domestic buyers of whores.

If they just pretended like it wasn't happening I'd let it slide, but to act like the opposite is true... c'mon guys

Whoa

>They believe the government propaganda that people in France

you must have no korean friends.

Why would i be friends with an insect?

This. South Korea is a fucking hellhole if you're not a turbonormie. North Korea is more Veeky Forums (unironically)

>have to use a VPN to access content
>i-i-it's not banned!
何?

something about zipperheads lacking souls

>Throughout it all, however, he read omni-vorously
>omni-vorously
what did he mean by this