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Ooh, good one...

X3! You really burned her.

How long did it take for you to come up with this major putdown?

You're lying if you say that there isn't anti-Chinese sentiment on South Korean social media.

Of course, they're not talking about this on social media, they're not the offended party here.

But when they perceive real or imagined slights from China such as the alleged appropriation of Korean culture (hanfu is a copy of hanbok LOL), you better believe they rant & rave on social media. Heck, go to any random YouTube channel re: hanfu, & you should find South Korean trolls saying there's no such thing as hanfu, that hanfu is nothing but Chinese communist propaganda, that hanfu is a copy of hanbok, and so on and so on.

"Hanfu" literally means the clothing of the Han Chinese people. There's plenty of archeological evidence to prove hanfu existed & that different dynasties had their own different versions of hanfu. Not to mention, in ancient times, most of Asia (including Korea & Japan) were under Chinese influence.

Heck, the written Korean language was entirely Chinese characters until some Korean king decided to dumb things down by getting rid of the majority of Chinese characters to improve the literacy rates of the Korean masses.

But China copied Korean clothing? And South Koreans didn't whine about it? They weren't overly sensitive & too easily sensitive over this fake news?

Here's the thing, you said goodbye in your last post, so why are you still arguing with me anyway? And accusing me of racism, no less.

Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If the koreaboos here are going to toss insults around, I'm going to return the favor tenfold. Don't start what you can't finish because I'll finish it for you.

Just because we defend China against you koreaboos, that makes us not only Chinese citizens, but also communists? @aska is a UK citizen & I am a US citizen.

Just because you got completely owned, you resort to calling us dumb commies. If we're so dumb & we still owned you, what does that make you exactly, koreaboo?

I said I have equal disdain for the both the far left & far right in the US. Nowhere did I say you were part of the radical, extremist left, let alone call you "woke."

I don't even know your political inclinations or affiliations, nor do I even care.

You called me "obtuse," "jingoistic," "hypocritical," etc. , but I'm the one being insulting? Seriously?!

Leaving aside that this is hardly a consistent & persistent pattern, but even if it is. my point is that South Korea is always quick to accuse China (& other countries) of being overly sensitive & too easily offended by K-ent content, but China (& other countries) don't say the same about South Korea.

I don't particularly care who your husband is or isn't, whether he's Chinese or not. Nor did I even ask.

And for the record, my point isn't that China doesn't have their own problems, but unlike the US & their puppets like South Korea, they don't go around pointing out problems in other people's countries & butting in where they don't belong, just like you're doing right now.

For crying out loud in one of my above comments, I said the following (verbatim): "Communism, as an ideology, promotes equality, but that doesn't mean communist countries (including China) live up to that ideology."

I'm not even a Chinese citizen, just a C-drama fan who's sick & tired of this anti-China nonsense by these koreaboos.

If you check my posting history, I've never even commented in a Kdrama-related MDL discussion section before this one. And I only came across this article because I was searching for articles by this author (who had written a C-drama article that I read).

So I'm no jingoist. As a matter of fact, I'm an equal opportunity hater of the woke left & MAGA right in my country.

But feel free to keep making unwarranted assumptions about me & insult me because I don't post to seek validation. And if I did, it wouldn't be from a random busybody like you.

Thanks for fulfilling my prediction. I knew you would respond, despite your feigned indifference.

Given that you're a grown a$$ adult watching cartoons in your mommy's basement, you probably shouldn't go around calling other persons "unwell."

Come at me again & prove me right yet another time, but whatever, as you like to say.

For the record, I don't believe in Cartesian dualism, so I don't believe in the concept of "souls."

C'mon now, I was just having a little fun with your comment.

Have you read some of the back & forth going on here? You'd have to say something very profane or racist to get kicked out of MDL.

But I took such a huge risk for you...

Probably the same reason you're commenting about people commenting.

If other people commenting about something bothers you, why are you even bothering to comment on their commenting, let alone read their comments.

I'm not Scottish by the way, before you all start about what country I'm not from.

Oh, I see. I'm more xianxia than wuxia, so haven't seen MLC yet. I'm guessing those who have would've recognized that pouch (?) he's wearing on his right shoulder.

Nice chatting with you. I'm sure we'll run into each other soon enough, given our similar interests.

Gai gherk (regular term)

Fung jow (fancy term)


(Not sure if there's any official spelling, but this is as close as I can get using English phonetics.)


Yes, har gow. One of my 3 favorites, along with fung jow and law bok go.

Yeah, my amateurish Bayesian analysis.

As for Cantonese, I learn partly via osmosis due to my proximity to NYC Chinatown.

Incidentally, I pronounce "foot" in Cantonese very well. Because I frequently order chicken feet for dim sum, although in my mind, I'm chewing "Phoenix Claws."

My goodness, how could I leave out Toronto?

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to my cousin from Toronto.

Oh, I forgot to ask.

Who is the silver-haired person in your avatar?

I'm not enough of a C-drama expert to tell without seeing the face.

As much fun as we're having at its expense, let's not spend any more time dealing with this character. It's not worth it.

Both Columbia & Northwestern offer journalism at the masters level, but Columbia doesn't offer it at the undergraduate level, so it's possible that he went to either one of them.

Who knows?

Just curious if you speak Mandarin in addition to Cantonese.

Based on the "bubble tea" in your username, are you by any chance from HK, SF, NYC or, maybe, Vancouver?