00:02Do I need some Korean plastic surgery? Your eyes are too small.
00:05Bi-Korea, Korean people are racist, Korean people are plastic.
00:11Simple concept rule violation turned into a regional race war.
00:16Okay, my name is Leo. I am a Korean American living in New York.
00:20The reason why I'm doing this streaming is because I've been getting a lot of hate comments
00:25from a lot of Southeast Asian people. I've been getting a lot of messages and comments
00:30that you guys hate Korean people because of what we did. I just want to learn about it.
00:36I'm here to learn, right? I think we are learning here.
00:39Thank you for being very, very patient with me.
00:42Let me ask Manus about this. I have been hearing a lot of boycott online quarrel
00:51between Southeast Asian and Koreans. Can you tell me from the very beginning that caused this?
01:01Did you know that the first quarrel between Southeast Asian and Koreans happened started in 2020?
01:07I didn't know this.
01:09Bella Port is a popular Filipino-American TikToker posted a video showing a tattoo of rising sun.
01:17Oh, if you're Chinese or Korean, you're not in a big favor of the symbol of Japanese imperialist.
01:25People don't want to see that flag that symbolizes the Japanese imperialist aggression.
01:29Because we see it as a war quarrel.
01:31A lot of Korean netizens launched a massive wave of harassment.
01:35The insults quickly shifted from the tattoo to Filipino people themselves.
01:40Apparently, Korean people were writing nasty comments. I'm not going to say it out loud.
01:45So it seems like Korean people started there.
01:47In response, Filipino responded with the hashtag, Cancel Korea, which trended globally.
01:54They highlighted Korea's own history, its reliance on international aid, including from the Philippines
02:01during the Korean War and its perceived hypocrisy regarding racism.
02:06I'm genuinely sorry if our Korean online users were hurting your feelings, hurting your cultural and religious beliefs.
02:17I am so sorry.
02:18Like, no one should cross that boundary.
02:20And I want to learn more about that so that I can tell you what I think,
02:26so that we can learn about each other to solve this issue, perhaps.
02:29Let's jump ahead a little bit.
02:32In 2023, there was a quarrel between Thailand this time.
02:36So the tension shifted from social media insults to institutional discrimination when Thailand,
02:42one of South Korea's biggest tourism markets, turned against the country.
02:47The implementation of the KETA led to a surge in Thai tourists being denied entry or deported upon a crime.
02:56Oh, that's, that isn't very, yeah.
02:59Thai travelers shared horror stories of being tracked, like being treated like criminals by Korean immigration.
03:07Tourism from Thailand to South Korea plummeted as Thai redirected their travel to Japan and China.
03:14I'll be, I'll be furious, right?
03:16I will get furious if I cannot get into the country for vacation.
03:20I have traveled to South Korea and I have experienced racism first time.
03:25I'm sorry about that.
03:25So we talked about the incidents from Philippines, incidents from Thailand.
03:31Okay, guys, let's get into the siblings and versus Korean netizens of regional unity.
03:36Let's get into 2066.
03:39Okay, I didn't know anything about this, but it seems like it literally happened not so long ago.
03:45This is actually my first time hearing about this word.
03:49Sibling means Southeast Asian peoples are brothers and sisters.
03:52That's really cool.
03:53The most recent and perhaps most significant phase began in early 2026, marking a shift toward regional solidarity.
04:04The incident started here.
04:06At a day six concert in Malaysia, several Korean fan sites were caught violating rules by using professional cameras and
04:16where they should not be.
04:17And when woeful fans told them out, K-netizens defended the fan sites with racist remarks.
04:24When K-netizens mocked an Indonesian music video for being filmed in a rice field, the entire...
04:31I mean, I'm sorry if I laugh about it.
04:34I think that is such a cultural perspective of when Korean people think about Vietnam or Indonesia.
04:41Yes, the first thing that they will think of is the rice field.
04:44Why is that?
04:46It's simply because most of the rice gets imported from Vietnam or Indonesia or Malaysia.
04:53So I'm not saying...
04:54So here's the thing, right?
04:55I'm not saying that Korean people are being racist with malicious intent.
05:02They may look like racist people because of lack of education.
05:06They don't know much about Southeast Asian people.
05:09For the first time, netizens from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam united under the banner of siblings.
05:19Which means Southeast Asian siblings.
05:22The digital war was started when siblings used humors, memes, economic data to counter Korean insults,
05:32targeting Korea's high suicide rate and declining birth rate.
05:37I also heard Thailand's birth rate is also going down.
05:41Living in America, if you're Asian people, we are all friends and family.
05:45Everyone is siblings.
05:47We try to stick together.
05:49It makes me feel very sad when I hear that there's this whole fight that's going on between Southeast Asia
05:55and Korea.
05:57I don't think Korean media has been writing any news article about this.
06:00Most Koreans I saw don't realize they have an issue going on in South Korea.
06:05This is an informational gap.
06:07I'm not even sure which Korean people that I can talk to about this.
06:10Indonesians don't accept if you bring up religion.
06:14Oh really?
06:15Is religion that important in Indonesia?
06:18What is it?
06:19Is it a Buddhism?
06:21Is Indonesians Buddhist?
06:23Muslim?
06:24Oh wait.
06:26Indonesians are Muslim?
06:28I didn't know that.
06:29Have you read Knet's Insulting Islam?
06:32I read a little bit about it.
06:34It was very cruel.
06:36It was very rude.
06:37It was not...
06:38It's not acceptable.
06:41What Korean online net user said is not acceptable.
06:46Taya Anjing?
06:48What's that?
06:48Taya Anjing?
06:49Taya Anjing means it's a dog.
06:51Yeah.
06:52Wait, isn't it an insult?
06:54Like, does it mean that I'm a cute puppy or...
06:56Racist or derogatory comments made by Knetizens are frequently viewed as a national disgrace, undermining the country's effort to promote
07:04a positive global perception through its cultural exports.
07:07Yes.
07:09Yes, I am embarrassed.
07:11I am so sorry that this happened.
07:13And I wish this didn't happen.
07:16Even though I'm not really involved.
07:17I'm Korean, but I'm Korean American living in New York.
07:19So I feel like my feedback or thoughts may not so validate what you think and what you feel.
07:26My face is a plastic video.
07:28Oh, that's...
07:29Oh, okay.
07:30So I look really stupid.
07:32Thanks.
07:32I'm getting tired after one hour of intense conversation.
07:37What's the diplomatic solution that we can do?
07:39What we need to do, what we need to do is institutional and media level correcting the information.
07:46That's it.
07:46Like, like, all this happened because of the miscommunication and not knowing, not knowing, basically.
07:54Most of the Korean people don't know about this.
07:56People should aware better.
07:58People should know better.
07:59Do you think live stream can carry effective communication?
08:02Probably not.
08:03I'm not sure.
08:04I don't think they will get satisfied.
08:06I don't think they will ever get satisfied.
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