Obviously, but when you’re in either one of them, as far as you’re concerned the one you’re in is Real Korea and the other one is Fake Korea. Westerners, espec

Obviously, but when you’re in either one of them, as far as you’re concerned the one you’re in is Real Korea and the other one is Fake Korea. Westerners, especially the ones invested in ensuring the security of the south against the north, like to think otherwise, but even the south is pretty authoritarian. On the same site there’s a piece about the foreign ministry wanting to spend police resources going after some prankster who swapped satellite image of Seoul with Pyongyang[1]. Of course it needs to be said that it’s several orders of magnitude less authoritarian and abusive compared to the north, and perhaps it’s even warranted as a bulwark against pro-north sentiment in the south. But it is what it is. 1. http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210618000668 http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210618000668