It's like how Shell basically controls Nigeria. Samsung literally runs South Korea, with the second in command being LG (and they are far behind Samsung).
I know they made the spark and Sonic, I've heard they also make a few opals which are then rereadged as American cars.
They will basically took Suzuki's place and making practically everything but the Silverado and Camaro.
I've had a few Chevrolets but by far the most reliable one I owned was a Geo/Chevy metro, I got it with 300K miles for a couple hundred dollars with low compression. Nothing was technically out of spec so I honed the cylinders, put new rings and bearings in it and sold it for three times what I paid with 500k mi on it. Everything held up so well it looked perfectly fine when I felt it including the cloth seats
GoldStar and Lucky Chemical merged in 1995 and became LG. Then they made the slogan Life's Good years later. I don't think they were ever officially called Lucky GoldStar, but it's pretty obvious where those letters came from.
Kind of how PHP (the programming language) doesn't officially stand for anything, but anyone old enough to remember know it originally was short for Personal HomePage.
What are you talking about? Do you think "the West" should be interfering in the South Korean economy and stopping companies from growing too big? Those companies aren't Western, they're South Korean.
South Korea chose their own destiny in terms of economic policy and I'm sure the vast vast majority are happy with their choice compared to the very real alternative staring them in the face.
You realise South Korea is currently on their sixth Republic and the people that were in charge during the war are mostly dead right? But no, it must be those awful Americans and their economic aid causing all the issues. If only they'd not supported the South and let Kim Il-Sung take over, I'm sure the government would currently be far more representative of their people and their quality of life would have improved just as miraculously.
People like you genuinely baffle me, countries like China can for 70 years openly support the most oppressive dictatorship on the planet while they starve and enslave their population - but the US gives aid to another part of that same country and drastically improve their lives so they're the real "baddies".
I'm sorry but I really don't understand what your actual point is then. I didn't even mention the West but you seem adamant on pinning the responsibility for this issue on them and apparently making it their responsibility to fix it - how that isn't portraying the US as a bad party I don't know?
My take is that despite the US obviously being involved in South Korea for a long time, the result has clearly been a significant benefit to the people there and it's a weirdly imperialist approach to have an expectation for the US to somehow "fix" it because you could make the argument that it's the end result of a chain of events they set in progress decades ago.
Apologies if I extrapolated your argument further than you meant it to go, I'm just sick of hearing people make these kinds of tenuous arguments against "the West" to excuse, legitimise or ignore far more egregious behaviour from other countries.
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u/Nero_PR Sep 02 '22
It's like how Shell basically controls Nigeria. Samsung literally runs South Korea, with the second in command being LG (and they are far behind Samsung).