SharePost: The Press and North Korea

[dkwrkm]

avalonestel is doing an awesome Quest for Knowledge, and I've been doing something similar during my break. I thought I'd share a little bit of what I was learning since it's all super fascinating. To me anyway: My Q4K is very specific to international politics and economics, and mostly involves reading decades and decade of histories. I know international

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[avalonestel]

Thanks for those links; I need to read them in depth. You're the second of my friends who's mentioned global economy in so many days, and I'm realizing how ignorant I am about it. I need to spend some time educating myself on it. :| Also, I like that you're pulling DPRK into this, because it's a place that doesn't get a lot of news focus unless they're saying, "Oh, and North Korea's threatening to nuke everyone again..." Since I've gotten into K-pop, I've been reading a lot about the relations between North and South Korea, and realizing how much people don't realize is going on all over the world, not just there.

If you don't mind my asking, I know you're Asian-American, but what is your ethnic background exactly? My father is Palestinian, and my mother has European and Native American roots, but her family's lived in America for generations.

[dkwrkm]

Most people aren't very literate when it comes to global economy and economics, so I'm glad to hear that you're going to take a look at it! Feel free to ask me questions; I might be able to answer. Or at least help you find one. (I have an imperfect understanding myself, hence my own Q4K. X-])

North Korea and South Korea have a very interesting relationship. I always think of them as being conjoined twins.

I still haven't seen Iris...

I'm Filipino-American. :) Both my parents are Filipino, and although I was born in the United States, I spent my earliest years in the Philippines.

[avalonestel]

Do you have a starting place about economics? It's so big, and kind of daunting. I don't really know where to begin.

Conjoined twins that really don't like each other. XD

I've been hearing about Iris since I started Kdrama, but I don't know much about it. What do people say?

That's interesting. I was born in and have lived in the U.S. all my life. (Which makes me kind of sad, actually.)

[dkwrkm]

Do you have a starting place about economics? It's so big, and kind of daunting. I don't really know where to begin.

I will write a post about it! :D So hold on.

Conjoined twins that really don't like each other. XD

Yep yep. But I don't know. I did a diplomacy simulation as North Korea once, and the attitude I adopted was that South Korea was a younger sibling who had fallen badly by the wayside and into the US' capitalist arms. (Of course, I'm not actually North Korean and wouldn't know how a nation that would be willing to bomb its sister nation would actually feel. And we did end up being BFFs with Japan in that simulation so we probably did something wrong since Japan hates hates hates North Korea.) But anyway: it always struck me as a complicated love-hate relationship.

I don't know much about Iris other than that it involves spies, North Korea, and was a massive ratings hit.