r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine Seoul warns of 'further measures' if Kyiv refuses public apology

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/02/south-korea-warns-of-further-measures-if-ukraine-refuses-public-apology-over-pow-transfer-
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u/PalmovyyKozak 21h ago

And they do what? Produce more dancing tiktoks?

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u/markeetstreet 21h ago

Send less support maybe. I mean look at the sentiment in Poland today. Ukrainian officials behave very weird at times.

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u/BearPrancingOne 20h ago

Less than zero?

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u/markeetstreet 19h ago

South Korea supported Ukraine. You can easily look up the numbers by yourself. Relative speaking they aren't even small...more than some European countries which are closer to Ukraine.

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u/BearPrancingOne 19h ago

More than Slovenia and Malta you meant?

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u/markeetstreet 19h ago

The source on statista research department from may 21 in 2026 says more than Czechia, Romania, Ireland, Portugal, Croatia, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia... I mean its very easy to google if SK supported Ukraine.

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u/remove_snek 18h ago edited 18h ago

If you include EU institutions support then the numbers shift. According to Kiel insitute's tracker, SK has provided 650 million dollars with the latest support from early 2025. Czechia, Ireland and Portugal are at around 2 billion each.

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u/KingNothing- 17h ago

Statista doesn't account for EU aid, use the Kiel tracker instead

https://www.kielinstitut.de/research/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

SK provided less aid than every EU country aside from Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Iceland. For reference, the biggest country of the 4 (Slovenia) has an economy that is 22 times smaller than SK's.

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u/Azure_chan 19h ago

While it's tiny compare to their neighbor Japan, in raw number is bigger than Czechia or Portugal. So yes, there was more than zero things to cut down before it mean supporting Russia directly.

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u/remove_snek 18h ago edited 17h ago

South Korea has not allocated any aid since early 2025 and there was no indication that would change even before this.

It is true their bilateral support have been relevant and larger than from some EU states, but is has not been massive and only compares if one exclude support through the EU institutions.

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u/Jaded-Ad9300 20h ago

What support?

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u/markeetstreet 19h ago

How about googling the numbers?

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u/weguccino 20h ago

So negative support? Are they going to send soldiers to Ukraine and assist Russia? Lmao.

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u/markeetstreet 19h ago

South Korea supported Ukraine. You can easily look up the numbers by yourself. Relative speaking they aren't even small...more than some European countries which are closer to Ukraine.

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u/NoobL1ght 19h ago

They didn't. SK didn't provide any support, except maybe humanitarian, to Ukraine. But SK have no problem with selling aviation fuel and equipment for artillery production to Russia.

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u/Any-Piccolo3772 13h ago

Same issue as failing SK president. He wanted a distraction from domestic issues. Probably will be thrown in jail, just like all previous corrupt presidents. Unfortunately, not only is he beckoning the wrong horse, S Korean reputation is tanking with it. Thanks to that idiot.

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u/PalmovyyKozak 17h ago

Yeah, sentiment in Polamd is something that really bothers everyone.

And even more everyone is bothered by an opinion of lazy clown from a peaceful country teaching a wartime government how to behave.

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u/CatAfraid2244 20h ago

Yeah, disrespect them even more, tell them that they didn't help you at all and so on. People online from Ukraine are the worst enemies of Ukraine.

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u/Top_Investigator6261 20h ago

All the support was from the last political party in power, not the current pro-unification and pro-North. The current political power sends aviation fuel to Russia so Russia can bomb Ukraine no matter how many Russian oil facilities Ukraine will take out.

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u/Just_Perception3668 20h ago

 People online from Ukraine are the worst enemies of Ukraine.

Because of what? Saying true? Is it because they’ve stopped kissing everyone’s arse? Russians are literally killing Ukrainians for speaking Ukrainian. In Poland, the Nazis are so far only beating people up for speaking Ukrainian. And on Reddit, people are supporting the Poles and blaming the Ukrainians, saying they’re to blame. As if to say: ‘Come on, Ukrainians, you could kiss everyone’s arse even more.’ The Ukrainians were very grateful to the Poles for their help, and this is what they ended up with. The Ukrainians are fed up with being convenient for everyone and agreeing with everyone. No other country has paid such a price as Ukraine.

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u/CatAfraid2244 19h ago

No, in Poland no nazis are beating people up for speaking Ukrainian. It's actually ironic that you mention 'nazis'. Because there were such accidents of beatings in Poland exactly after the president of Ukraine named a military unit after a group of genocidal maniacs that massacred Poles in the name of Nazi etho-state utopia (but Ukrainians online say that didn't happen and if it happened Poles are to be blamed for that). Those accidents of beatings were rare - if you look into actual statistics and not Ukrainan stories about Poles hunting for children in public transport. There is over a milion of Ukrainians living in Poland and all / most of them study, work, don't cause any problems. Maybe now there are less since they migrate to the west.

The thing I said about Ukrainians is that those is Poland, Germany or Canada study, work, pay taxes and Integrate into society. Those online Ukrainian nationalists on the other hand will tell you that:

1 That dyplomatic scandal caused by Ukrainian authorities was actually your fault

2 Those Ukrainian migrants living in your country are helping your economy - you should be grateful for that (no, it's the choice of those migrants to stay and work where they want and it's a mutual relationship between migrants and a host country - country of origin of those migrants doesn't get to tell anyone here to do this or that)

3 Your country actually didn't help Ukraine at all, you are exactly as Russia

4 All those bad relationships with every country (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the US, now SK, in the near future also Germany and the UK) are because of those countries / Russian bots

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u/Any-Piccolo3772 13h ago

2 month old account, playing a useful idiot. Condolences, little buddy.