/korea/ - 한국

>>119
감사합니다 Ebola-Chan!

It pisses me off that people help prop up that disgusting regime by touring North Korea. They think it is some cool experience or whatever, but they are contributing directly to the fat cats' pockets in North Korea. I am glad that tourism there has been banned. I hope it never returns, although I am sure it will after this ordeal ends.

>>122

Imho going for a "vacation" in North Korea is amongst the most retarded things you can do, seeing how the government can decide to retain you for any given reason, including no reason at all.

Might as well make a vacation inside Guantanamo.

>>122
What about all the South Korean companies that are hiring North Korean factories to produce their goods? There's far more money involved there than in the tourism industry

>>131
Yes, and what about starving kids in Africa? Caring about one thing does not negate that you care about another. The topic is tourism, so you know, that is what I talked about in my post.

>>141
Oh, I see. For some reason I thought you might not know about the factories. No offense meant (*´・ｖ・)

>>141
>>143

You know guys, I wonder, is it really such a bad thing that the South Korean economy and North Korean economy have at least some ties? I mean the governments allow it, so it has to have some kind of benefit. I would say that that benefit is more cooperation between the two Koreas, but North Korea seems to like to close down the Kaesong Industrial Region whenever it gets mad and throws a fit like a child and North Korea still makes childish threats all the time. Heck, both sides shelled each other recently.

>>143
It's ok.:) None taken.

>>149

Honestly, it's a two-edged sword, I think.

On the other hand, both sides do profit from this, and regional integration projects have a history of weakening political tensions. The problem here is that regional integration projects usually have a neutral party that can chiefly represents the interests of the projects itself, something that, from my understanding, is missing in this case. As a result, the entire project comes crashing down whenever North Korea is throwing another temper tantrum.

Another problem is that the profits on the North Korean side do not actually help the North Koreans per se, but only the government and the military apparatus. In other words, projects like the Kaesong Industrial region might effectively prolong the time in which the current regime might stay in power until the country completely runs out of resources and China is fed up with the NK leadership. That they put up with it for so long actually surprises me.