Raw interview. Wonderful she felt this comfortable with you. What's the mental health service landscape generally re psychiatry, psychologists, and counselors? Access for children? For adults? What about for the treatment of severe mental illness. She touched on the lack of support for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders...
It would have been unusual to get therapy in the early 2000s I think. Yeong-eun mentioned off the record that she got it because her university needed patients for training therapists.
Korean culture doesn’t traditionally encourage owning up to personal failings. Anecdotally, there are cases of people with severe mental health issues not being in treatment and attacking people.
"I’ve thought about this because the Korean peninsula doesn’t have many resources, it’s densely populated, it’s been invaded a lot. It seems like the only way you could survive is to be very hardworking."
First of all the Congo has a lot of natural resources how's that working out for them? Are they all living the high life? Or better to be Saudi Arabia with basically one source of income of which they are now diversifying and investing but they're not building smartphones or semiconductors anytime soon
Second Korea has not been invaded a lot throughout its history that's just a misconception Koreans have of themselves. Lets see, sometimes a Chinese dynasty invaded but those weren't wars of national survival or anything. You had the Yuan/Mongol invasion which was pretty bad but not as bad as total extermination like the Mongols did to many cities/civilizations. You had the 1590 Imjin War aka Great East Asian War which was possibly the worst even worse then the Korean War, you then had the Qing Invasion which was sorta bad but not total war, then the Japanese occupation which wasn't even a war since Korea didn't even put up a fight but where most of the "history of invasion" narrative flows from. Then you had the Korean War which was bad. But hey compare it to the Incas, Aztecs and countless other civilizations simply wiped out. Israel which got annihilated by the Romans then later came back but not quite the same, Poland which had a rough rough century, the subsaharan African countries which haven't really gotten over colonization. The countrys still lucky to have a national identity that they can link to the ancient past (something most countrys dont have), still using its traditional non-romanized writing system and spoken language. Koreans are damn lucky. What does the average Mexican know about the Aztec spoken language or writing system or anything at all besides scraps assuming a Mexican even cares? The tally is basically two really really bad wars (Imjin War, Korean War) and a couple light invasions by non-Chinese dynasties (Yuna, Qing). Its just Koreans have a narrow perspective and thinking of themselves as victims.
"Yes, he was a piece of shit. His daughter is a piece of shit as well."
God what a vulgar woman.
Park Chung Hee is what you would call a Good Dictator. Did he do bad things? Did he torture people? Did he have people killed? Restrict freedoms? Yes. But a lot of other dictators do that Robert Mugabe did the same things then looted the Congo (Zaiire) for like 60 years! I don't know where I read this maybe Robert Kaplan, but there's good authoritarians. You judge them by what they setup and then what happens after they die. After he, and then a couple other dictators died, did the country fall apart? Did it get destabilized and then conquered by North Korea or just turned into even more of a vassal state for the U.S like South Vietnam after Diem died? No. Park Chung Hee's work laid the foundation for the prosperity Yeong-Eun and later generations enjoy today. Is she grateful? No. Only too willing to flaunt her countrys dirty laundry to some foreigner. That's such a common habit among South Koreans. Hell Joseon, exaggerate their experience in South Korea is some unlivable hellhole. They have no appreciation for the sacrifices their parents and others of the earlier generation made for them, dumb brats maxing out their credit cards to buy luxury bags then blaming it on chaebols and inequality. South Koreans have the highest or one of the highest personal debt amounts in the world. You think that's from basic necessities? Anyway Park Chung Hee wasn't perfect, wasn't a good guy. Its easy for someone like me to say it was worth it when I wasn't one of those students or democracy activists getting tortured. But hey at the same time there were waaaay worse dictators and who knows what if he would've done if he wasn't assassinated but at least he set up the table in a way for South Korea to have a solid foundation economically and later for democracy to flourish. How many other dictators can say that?
This was a very cool interview, thank you. I'm not sure I would want to get married or have kids if I was a Korean living in SK either..
Raw interview. Wonderful she felt this comfortable with you. What's the mental health service landscape generally re psychiatry, psychologists, and counselors? Access for children? For adults? What about for the treatment of severe mental illness. She touched on the lack of support for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders...
I think it’s getting better, but it doesn’t seem like the focus is on kids so much (maybe this is not all bad given contagion effects?). https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1119337
It would have been unusual to get therapy in the early 2000s I think. Yeong-eun mentioned off the record that she got it because her university needed patients for training therapists.
Korean culture doesn’t traditionally encourage owning up to personal failings. Anecdotally, there are cases of people with severe mental health issues not being in treatment and attacking people.
What a sad interview, maybe the government of North and South Korea are not so different from each other. They both seem to hate fun and freedom
"I’ve thought about this because the Korean peninsula doesn’t have many resources, it’s densely populated, it’s been invaded a lot. It seems like the only way you could survive is to be very hardworking."
First of all the Congo has a lot of natural resources how's that working out for them? Are they all living the high life? Or better to be Saudi Arabia with basically one source of income of which they are now diversifying and investing but they're not building smartphones or semiconductors anytime soon
Second Korea has not been invaded a lot throughout its history that's just a misconception Koreans have of themselves. Lets see, sometimes a Chinese dynasty invaded but those weren't wars of national survival or anything. You had the Yuan/Mongol invasion which was pretty bad but not as bad as total extermination like the Mongols did to many cities/civilizations. You had the 1590 Imjin War aka Great East Asian War which was possibly the worst even worse then the Korean War, you then had the Qing Invasion which was sorta bad but not total war, then the Japanese occupation which wasn't even a war since Korea didn't even put up a fight but where most of the "history of invasion" narrative flows from. Then you had the Korean War which was bad. But hey compare it to the Incas, Aztecs and countless other civilizations simply wiped out. Israel which got annihilated by the Romans then later came back but not quite the same, Poland which had a rough rough century, the subsaharan African countries which haven't really gotten over colonization. The countrys still lucky to have a national identity that they can link to the ancient past (something most countrys dont have), still using its traditional non-romanized writing system and spoken language. Koreans are damn lucky. What does the average Mexican know about the Aztec spoken language or writing system or anything at all besides scraps assuming a Mexican even cares? The tally is basically two really really bad wars (Imjin War, Korean War) and a couple light invasions by non-Chinese dynasties (Yuna, Qing). Its just Koreans have a narrow perspective and thinking of themselves as victims.
"Yes, he was a piece of shit. His daughter is a piece of shit as well."
God what a vulgar woman.
Park Chung Hee is what you would call a Good Dictator. Did he do bad things? Did he torture people? Did he have people killed? Restrict freedoms? Yes. But a lot of other dictators do that Robert Mugabe did the same things then looted the Congo (Zaiire) for like 60 years! I don't know where I read this maybe Robert Kaplan, but there's good authoritarians. You judge them by what they setup and then what happens after they die. After he, and then a couple other dictators died, did the country fall apart? Did it get destabilized and then conquered by North Korea or just turned into even more of a vassal state for the U.S like South Vietnam after Diem died? No. Park Chung Hee's work laid the foundation for the prosperity Yeong-Eun and later generations enjoy today. Is she grateful? No. Only too willing to flaunt her countrys dirty laundry to some foreigner. That's such a common habit among South Koreans. Hell Joseon, exaggerate their experience in South Korea is some unlivable hellhole. They have no appreciation for the sacrifices their parents and others of the earlier generation made for them, dumb brats maxing out their credit cards to buy luxury bags then blaming it on chaebols and inequality. South Koreans have the highest or one of the highest personal debt amounts in the world. You think that's from basic necessities? Anyway Park Chung Hee wasn't perfect, wasn't a good guy. Its easy for someone like me to say it was worth it when I wasn't one of those students or democracy activists getting tortured. But hey at the same time there were waaaay worse dictators and who knows what if he would've done if he wasn't assassinated but at least he set up the table in a way for South Korea to have a solid foundation economically and later for democracy to flourish. How many other dictators can say that?