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>How do we not know what's going on in South Korea?
According to this anon in the screencaps, some anecdotal reports, and the fact that the term 'Hell-Joseon (korea in Korean I think)' exists. South Korea is pretty much a lab for U.S. to do political experiments in and is currently a Huxley-esque dystopia. Lots of dangerous cults there as well, the strange things being that they are twisted and perverted forms of Christianity as if it is intended.
On top of my memory alone, Korea is in bad shape ever since the dawn of 20th century. Presidents assassinated, presidents committing suicides, major shift in political system from presidency to prime minister being at the top and back to presidency again. To top that, few years back in 2016 there was this Korean Rasputin thing where the female president got caught in a scandal involving some feminist cult (not cult as in tumblr-tier cult, but actual 'cult') which the cult leader had her hands in every cookie jar in the country including top corporations like Samsung and such. Fun fact, about a decades back. Some Korean posted about this everywhere he went, Asia's halfchan equivalent, even halfchan when it was still new; he warned everyone that this cult exists and pulling strings. He was mocked as a conspiracy theory nutjob and gone silent, some anon saved the screencap just in case (I think I also may have it tucked somewhere in my HDD).
Huge protests happened, media try to downplay it HARD. There is this term 'nation-saving celebrity scandals' where every time the Korean government got caught in scandal, a celebrity scandal has to happen all the time as if a well-placed distraction. Knowing that Korean government has absolute control on the countrys media (on the side note, Hangul, the Korean alphabet is also copyrighted by the government). If you think U.S. is bad, then Korea is far worse. The term I mention earlier was something of a joke, note the past-tense; it is proven real after its reveal after the scandal.
So in short, anything coming out of Korea came past the government eyes who heavily-censored and moderate the contents that leaked out of the country. Not just entertainment. Every. Single. Tidbits of news are scrutinised by its government. The fact that the aforementioned scandal came to the worlds attention alone is a miracle.