Posts by Yseki

Quote from ThePhantomThief

They aren't rare, not as much as I experienced in Korea, especially on the beaches (local swimming pools were different).
But like I said, it is a thing though that almost depends on the type of crowd. The more conservative majority find the more western style bikinis that Shanon beach girls where a bit more shocking.

As a total aside, and kind of funny, until the more thong style bikinis became fashionable in the last few years, AUSTRALIAN beaches were somewhat more "conservative" with swimwear than what Europeans and Americans expected (as in fairly standard bikinis with full coverage at back were the standard), and they would complain and express shock online that they would be told to cover up by lifeguards if they had too much showing. Even now, Aussies debate online if thong style bikinis are appropriate at the beach...

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Yeah, we would assume Australians would be less conservative. That being said in the US it depends on where you are, it is fine in most places but once you get to places like Mississippi, South Carolina def check the local laws etc.

If you are somewhere like Miami beach, LA, or most of Hawaii it's very normal/common.

Quote from ThePhantomThief

Same on Enoshima beaches, but it's *ahem*... "those kind of girls" that do. The "give no shits" wild party girls that have tattoos, tans and bleached hair and hang around the tattoo'ed tough boys

This post says more about you than anything. Thats all I'm going to say on this. I would not have posted my other reply if I had saw this first, as it seems you clearly know that bikinis are not rare in Japan.

Quote from ThePhantomThief

Keep in mind though, even beaches at Korea (and Japan) tend to be more conservative. Bikinis with more coverage, shirts over the top, one piece swimsuits, shorts over the top etc

I was talking about the responses in English on here, the Korean responses on the actual video posted seemed to be a lot better than what people were posting on here, when I checked them the other day.

I don't think that's true for Japan, from what I understand bikinis are pretty common at beaches, especially the popular ones near Enoshima which are some of the closest sand beaches to Yokohama and Tokyo. I think the main reason for coving up at beaches in Korea has to do with beauty standards, they don't want to get tan.

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Please identify the idols that comprise the remaining 2 percent.

Quote from icyruios

Dem straight you know it

Trust and listen to Day6

No, listen to N.Flying and The Rose.

Just teasing listen to Day6 as well.

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

Very true. In this day and age when ANYONE can just go online and see literally a BILLION pairs of boobs of all shapes and sizes, covered, partially covered, or fully nude... like what are we even arguing about here? To me Eunbi's performance is a literal 2 out of 10 on the shock meter and the only reason it's getting so much attention is because she has a jjinnjjaa nice body with bigger boobs than 98 percent of idols.

We could have a real discussion about nudity/sexuality and Kpop but that could go on forever. I could touch on how insane Kpop fans are when it comes to the slightest hint of a bosom or a butt cheek. Like the immaturity on BOTH sides tbh. Incels going nuts on those reddit subforums over 2 centimeters of cleavage or a 0.8 second flash of a butt crease. Woke stans going nuts screaming about exploitative outfits when its literally just a miniskirt and crop top that you would find in billions of high schools and colleges and bars and beaches and restaurants and Disney parks around the entire world.

Just the overall environment where idols are treated like sexless "pure" virginal angels is creepy af. Idols are NO DIFFERENT than the rest of us, they've all gone through puberty, they've all watched the same online porn that we've watched, they've all had crushes and fantasies, most have had relationships and been intimate physically with someone...like CMON FOLKS lol.

The ONLY THING THAT MATTERS is whether an idol is coerced/forced into outfits and performances against their wishes. If a literal ajhumma like Eunbi wants to wear a bra and dance like a maniac, that's her choice. She is literally the only remaining idol left at Woolim, does anyone honestly think she was coerced into doing this?

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Yeah, I really don't get it. From a sex standpoint I have never understood people that sexualize virginity. From personal experience it's more enjoyable when your partner has a lot of experience.

Also, I don't even see the appeal of dating people more than a few years younger than me. I have trouble relating to them or having meaningful deep conversations. Immature people tend to just get on my nerves.

I think what a lot of it has to do with is the power dynamics and the control they can have in the relationship. They know older more knowledgeable women won't put up with their behavior. Thats why they go after unexperienced naive people.

Quote from crystalblues

Well... that one is yarn. Crocheted Yarn

I think some of these people would explode and turn to dust if they went to the beach.

I was at the beach the other week and lots of people were legit just wearing thongs, and im not just talking about the women.

Quote from CaraFIMIE

i didn't ask you to change it, i was just asking.

I agree with you but it's also a matter of simply not viewing public figures in a sexual way. There's often a string of parasocial thoughts that accompanies that view, and its a nobrainer how thats just weird.

I also believe in letting people wear whatever they want if they are comfortable with it but in kpop, its also a case of the fans being civil in how they view a public figure. Especially idols who are generally very often sexualized.

And saying this might seem hypocritical of me seeing as ive openly thirsted on idols but there's also a boundary that I never have and never will cross while doing that. And the same should go for the fans that need to remember that no matter how attractive an idol might be, they did not become idols to be viewed that way. As a matter of fact no one wants to be viewed that way even if they intentionally wear clothes with minimal coverage, they did not do that to become objectified or sexualized.

An example of this is that there's a line and very clear difference between stating that Eunbi is body goals, has a fit, ideal, or attractive body and just straight up constantly highlighting a specific part of her body and intentionally drawing attention to it while putting up a front that "she dressed that way so she must not care how people view her."

Thats just what I think, though so nobody has to agree.

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You are able to put similar thoughts to mine in better words.

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I am a bit torned in this, because while i do think wearing sexy clothes doesn't give anyone the right to sexually harras you or even do more, so i would definitely not victim blame someone for example in a bar or club getting harrased by some guy trying to get laid or stuff like that just because she is wearing sexy clothes i also would find it a bit hypocrital for example if someone is performing a song wearing sexy clothes doing sexy dance moves and then be bothered if comments are like "god she is so freaking sexy" or other thirst comments as long as they don't cross a line

Your comment seems reasonable to me.

Quote from HwaGoose

Well... my mom does believe that it is the fault of the sexual harasser, but she still doesn't like it when women are wearing clothes that she finds too revealing and she most likely also wouldn't approve of Kwon Eunbi's outfit.

I disagree with your mom, but it isn't a surprising opinion. I just hope you or your mom recognize that this type of logic taken to its natural conclusion could be used to say women need to be completely covered head from toe or not allowed outside of the house.

It used to be seen in my culture in the Middle Ages up until the early modern period that Christian women especially upper-class noble women should at all times wear a head covering or veil, and it was generally not allowed for women of good standing or from noble households to be in the presence of a man outside of their family alone. Until about 50 years ago women could not get loans, bank accounts, credit etc under their own name without a male guardian.

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I'm getting reminded of when a woman from my country performed in an outfit a bit similar to this at an award show.

My mom was saying stuff like "They complain about sexual harassments, but wear outfits like this?"

Meanwhile I was only thinking "Oh boy, I hope there won't be any wardrobe malfunctioning happening"

Don't you find it weird that a lot of people think it's the fault of the person dressing a specific way and never the fault of the person doing the sexual harassing.

She did a good job with the performance, I wish I could dance as well as her or the dancers.

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If you go by car or by bus first EU country is Hungary (my neighboring country). They are notorious, they can bother you a lot ( lidora do you have same experience?). I was there in February (?) and we waited for 2 hours. Boarder control was really into being detailed that day, but when we were going back home we didn't wait at all, i guess they were lazy lol. They don't ask you to show them the money tho but they ask you how long you'll be staying and where.

When you enter EU there's no more passport check. We have something that's called Open Balkan, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania are part of it. When i entered both NM and albania we had to show them IDs (we don't need passports here). We like to go on vacation to Greece; Greece is in the EU and waiting on greek border can take a long time but sometimes it takes you a few minutes, again, it depends if they are bored or not lol.

We are used to it.

This is really annoying but I'm actually fine with this, countries should know who entered their countries.

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If they made it easy to document people going between the US and Mexico, we could have records of everyone etc. The problem is in the US they make it hard on purpose to legally immigrate in the country. Even when you do go the legal route sometimes, people in masks without uniforms randomly arrest you at your immigration court hearing to get citizenship etc, within 24 hours without a trial they deport you to some random country a lot of times not even the one your originally from. They don't have any due process or trials which is illegal. They know it is illegal they just don't care.

They have also randomly revoked legal status for over 500,000 people. So, people that were living here legally are now not.

I don't think this leads to an environment where people are going to trust the legal process on immigration.

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I don't understand why is this always happening in USA. Burning and looting. We've had protests since November basically on a daily, the biggest one was on march 15 with more than 400k people gathered. Not a window was broken or anything burned, let alone stolen. In fact, streets were left spotless, people cleaned after themselves.

I don't get it.

Protests in the US are not uniquely violent or full of looting etc, US protests are quite pathetic and tame compared to countries like France.

Though I do think we have a violent and misguided culture here. There is a huge lack of community, shared humanity, true compassion and care for other people in our society. The vast majority of people only care about how much money they have, how many items they own, how respected they are due to their titles, position, job etc.

I'm going to get mine and damn anyone else I have to walk over in the process is not a rare sentiment here. I often see people not caring about the suffering of others or the issues they face until they or someone close to them in their family becomes affected by that issue.

Even our religion and morality or lack of it seems to be subservient to our personal beliefs, we have whole branches of Christianity here that were created and exist solely because the Mainline denomination that they split off from was opposed to slavery etc.

Quote from HwaGoose

When I was listening to Close Your Eyes' "All My Poetry" while drawing, I fell in love with it.

I liked their concept, so I looked up who the creative director of the group is and it's apparently a former member of the group I.B.I (the other group from the I.O.I produce season) who worked on the creative direction for Kiss of Life in the past.

Listened to most of the notable releases the last few years from all the newer groups I kind of ignored.

I think ETERNALT by Close Your Eyes was the release in totality that I liked the most (tho I like some title tracks by other groups more).

I'll share the mini album as it just fits the vibe I enjoy.

This is faux-naïf or just a false equivalence.

The market is completely different, and people buy these things for different reasons. All the multiple versions make sense if you realize the physical album is no longer a functional way to listen to music but an item for fans to collect etc.

Quote from ISaidISaid

Suddenly I can’t read

His post was too gnarly

I can't really choose, even though neither of these are my favorite composer. They both have some works that make my heart move. In my view a good piece of music is one that makes me feel something.

Quote from moonshi

Currently, North Korea is a one-party state.

South Korea has a multi-party system. Just that the largest two parties is the PPP (leans conservative) and DPK (leans liberal).

Idk what you mean by their left and right becoming communist and conservative... The split basically started because North Korea was backed by the Soviet Union while the South was backed by the US/UN. attempts for democratic elections by the UN failed to reach the North, so they were only held in the South. This is why the North was led by Kim Il-Sung and the South by Rhee Syngman. Later on, South Korea would become a democratic republic in the late 90s, after a period of autocracy. dk if I would say that it's entirely run by American conservatives...

(this explanation leaves out a lot of other things, obviously... im also not an expert on this either )

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South Korea wasn't any better than North Korea until recently. The souths military killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by firing squad during the war, and a lot of the mass graves weren't discovered until after the 90s. The US army photographers that were attached to some South Korean MP units and Infinity units took pictures of people being lined up and shot and pictures of bodies in mass graves but suppressed this information etc.

The Bodo League massacre is a good example of this. If you're interested in this topic I def recommend you look into the war crimes done by the ROK. The low estimate for just the Bodo League massacre is that they tortured and executed 60,000 civilians and the high estimate is 200,000. Syngman Rhee also directly ordered that this particular massacre be carried out.

When the south recaptured Seoul they executed 30,000 civilians in the city etc.

There are also things like the Jeju April 3 incident before the war where around 10% of the population of the Island of Jeju was killed. If you want to go deep there are lots of other things like the Yeo-Sun incident etc.