South Korea, Best Korea?

I went back packing all over Asia for 8 months in 2014 and of the 11 or 12 countries I saw each one was fascinating in its own way.

I went to South Korea in 2018 and all I felt about the place was inertia. I flew direct from Korea to Japan before back to Dublin as I hadn't managed to make it to the Land of the Rising Sun in the 2014 trip. I only saw Kyoto and Tokyo as my times was limited but it was an absolutely fascinating view of the old versus new empire to modern economic super power.

South Korea nothing of the sort.

South Korea is a right place I’d imagine. They have a very interesting culture, food and whatnot also very intriguing and/or really nice. I wouldn’t exactly avoid the place over this particular thing.

The weirdest part of your OP is the part where you say it’s hardly a bastion of civilisation & rather it’s a cesspool, but, like why? Okay yeah rather unpopular decision but I’m not sure it warrants the label cesspool over it.

Like— you’ve never even visited the country. You’re pretty much deciding that Korea is a kip, because of a decision you don’t like, but are ignoring any other aspect of the country or it’s aforementioned culture and etc. you know nothing but a thing you read and have decided what the place is like? Very odd.

Hardly like the west is a shining example of equality either. Florida springs to mind & Ron DeSantis’s issues with LGBT people. The “Don’t say gay” law being a major issue, but I don’t consider the entire state of Florida, let alone country of North America to be a cesspool.

Granted this may be a “more the fool me” situation if it turns out your initial comments were hyperbole, but if not, it’s rather worrying to say the least how fixed on the things you consider acceptable or unacceptable to the point where something you find distasteful is enough to literally declare an entire country a cesspool..

Yeah a mate of mine opened an aroma therapy centre in n Korea and he said it’s grand