00:02:42.320But it was a Protestant revival of tens of thousands of North Koreans, and that trickled out to hundreds of thousands of Koreans giving their lives to Christ.
00:02:50.820And so actually, Christianity boomed in North Korea first.
00:02:54.220And so people don't know this, but in the early 1900s, and especially during Japanese colonialism, the colonial era, if you were from the north, or if you were a Christian, people knew that you were from the north.
00:03:05.700And there was tons of people who ventured from the north to the south during the time of Japanese colonialism to evangelize.
00:03:13.660So a lot of Koreans actually, the first Christians and a lot of the Christians were North Korean.
00:03:18.900And so actually my great-grandfather was a big part of that revival actually.
00:03:23.800And so I'm a fourth generation Christian thanks to him.
00:03:26.180And so part of my mom's side of the family actually is from North Korea.
00:03:30.060And so I'm actually technically kind of half North Korean in that case.
00:03:34.420And then my grandfather fled during the Korean War when the United States, South Korea, and most of the Allied forces took over most of the Korean Peninsula.
00:03:43.600And then he fled to the South during that time.
00:03:49.120Real quick with North Korea, because we're constantly told that it's the most totalitarian regime of all time, more communistic than even the CCP.
00:03:58.960and that the people there aren't allowed to be Christian
00:29:10.540future, posterity, marriage, you're looking for it. No crime, criminal record, net positive tax
00:29:17.520paying, male, so it's representative government. It's not a raw democracy. It is a republic of
00:29:23.240sorts. Each father standing in for his children, husband standing in for his wife. The head of
00:29:29.720household is representative of the family. Well, do women get a voice? Yeah. They have a powerful1.00
00:29:34.260voice through the head of household, the male leader of the family. Still have a voice, but
00:29:39.060don't have a vote. There's one vote that is representing many voices, right? So all those
00:29:44.120kinds of things are, I think, perfectly common sense. But apart from that, here's my prediction
00:29:48.880as it goes back to AI. I think AI will fix, I think it might just ruin the world, but let's just
00:29:55.840hypothetically say the positive outcomes actually transpire. Then assuming that, and that's a huge
00:30:02.080assumption um ai would fix some of the um some of the issues on the economic side of the equation
00:30:08.980right like answering the question once and for all uh the final solution if you will economically for0.90
00:30:14.500who will pick the cotton right we don't need the slaves we don't need the immigrants we've got the0.98
00:30:18.980robots um this is what won't happen though with ai because then it's like okay we don't have to0.99
00:30:24.300transport the third world anymore uh yes you will you still will and here's why uh votes
00:30:31.260votes you may be able to uh tie up a nice little bow the economic problems with ai um especially
00:30:40.780physical ai but you will not be able to solve the insatiable appetite of career politicians
00:30:48.380who still want the immigrants they'll no longer have the rhetoric of we need them to do jobs and
00:30:53.940americans aren't willing to do and blah blah but they'll still come up with some kind of reason for0.99
00:30:57.660why we need to let all these people into our country, guised underneath the thin veil of0.92
00:31:02.840compassion and these kinds of things, so that what? So that they can win elections. I don't
00:31:09.460think you ever fix immigration until you get rid of universal suffrage. So you have to get rid of1.00
00:31:15.920raw democracy, universal suffrage. And then you also do have to fix the financial side of the
00:31:22.060equation. AI solves for one of those, but some kind of political revolution is required to solve
00:31:28.160for the other. Now, if you can solve for both, no longer having universal suffrage with a raw
00:31:32.300democracy and you have robots to pick the cotton, then all of a sudden you would see on both sides
00:31:37.360of the aisle in our context here in America, both Democrats and Republicans for once, they would
00:31:41.180agree and they'd be like, millions must go back. They would finally agree on that because the only
00:31:46.900two incentives have been satiated you know and so there's there's no longer a motive um but all
00:31:52.300that being said i'm with you on the technology side of the equation i think a lot of these things
00:31:56.680uh will be answered but but it brings up the question for me because i'm i'm a novice i don't
00:32:00.840you know i don't study south korean politics um what i i mean you guys have a democracy right
00:32:07.160yeah sorry for that that's probably our influence i apologize um is that universal suffrage anybody
00:32:13.140everybody can vote yeah they actually started to allow for foreigners to vote in their elections0.96
00:32:19.200classic it's very very concerning because of the amount of chinese nationals southeast asian0.98
00:32:24.960nationals um arabs and indians that are coming into korea increasingly now and so you know korea
00:32:31.980touts i see a lot of well there's a lot of south korean hate on the internet i don't you're probably
00:32:37.660not part of that part of the internet but there's a lot of irrational and just very visceral hatred
00:32:44.800towards korea and i do believe a lot of it is motivated by envy and jealousy because they see
00:32:50.580this small little country uh the size maybe two new jerseys they're pretty small but they've they've
00:32:57.220gone from being one of the poorest countries in asia to now one of the richest and most influential
00:33:01.260where the after hollywood south korean entertainment is the most watched and after
00:33:08.020america and the uk south korean music is the most listened to worldwide wow yeah so the influence
00:33:13.580that south korea has not to even mention economically right with with the semiconductors
00:33:17.380and its smartphones and its technologies its cars um yeah it's it's truly enormous and it's
00:33:25.420actually quite impressive how influential south korea has gotten in three generations and three
00:33:31.180generations they went from being one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the richest and
00:33:34.380most influential uh you know a lot of people look at that and they obsess over it but then in their
00:33:39.500obsession they become jealous and they find ways to rationalize um their hatred towards korea and0.66
00:33:46.940to make sense of why their countries are still objective cesspools and then korea is so incredibly0.95
00:33:53.700amazing now uh that being said a lot of hatred towards korea but these foreigners then come into0.57
00:34:00.700korea because they're obsessed with korean culture they're obsessed with korean food and korean dramas0.80
00:34:05.380and korean music they love the boy bands oh bts i want to see bts right and so they come into korea0.84
00:34:11.180and they come into korean droves and so it's not only the migrants who are willing to work the
00:34:16.820low-skill hard labor jobs that a lot of koreans aren't willing to work which is a little different
00:34:22.500in korea and america where america are willing to americans are willing to work the blue collar
00:34:26.020jobs a lot of koreans aren't willing to in the next generation which is something that needs to
00:34:30.200be fixed but it's also people who are obsessed with korean culture right and korean people0.61
00:34:36.380and they come in and a lot of them now are totally replacing whole villages and communities in korea
00:34:44.040wow and it's a problem so they're starting to be able to vote of course women can vote men can vote0.66
00:34:48.980but this idea of korea being a stable democracy is actually a lie it's never a stable democracy
00:34:55.080there's never a normal presidency since the inception of south korea never so the first
00:35:01.960korean south korean president was isungman uh singman ri and he ruled as an authoritarian for
00:35:08.700around 12 years uh from 1948 to 1960 and then he was usurped uh through military coup by pak
00:35:17.860and Park Chung-hee he's uh credited as like the person who industrialized South Korea and he was
00:35:25.400an incredible man he really was I respect him a lot actually I like him a lot um maybe not for his
00:35:30.860torture and his crackdown on political dissonance but the way that he led South Korea and his his
00:35:37.400genius and his innovation and his charisma the way that he led the country was incredible uh but then
00:35:44.940he ruled for 20 years and he really industrialized korea and brought korea to the modern age and then
00:35:51.320he was assassinated by his intelligence chief right and there's another person who came in and
00:35:55.660he was ousted and then there's finally a democratically elected president for the first
00:35:59.220time in 1988 ish and then ever since then they're ousted they're impeached they were jailed for
00:36:05.760corruption and there was never never like a stable president that just stayed for the whole term and
00:36:11.500nothing happened to them even right now um right now the current administration under
00:36:15.160is trying to go after the previous conservative president for insurrection and so they just
00:36:22.600indicted him and they uh you know gave him life sentence in jail uh for staging a coup and
00:36:30.240insurrection against south korean government when he was the government it's just so such0.98
00:36:35.080stupidity but there was never a stable form of government really truly since the foundation of0.98
00:36:41.260south korea uh and so when you look at that even the national assembly that they have which is0.99
00:36:47.560their congress uh they didn't have power until the late 1980s so it's actually very recent that
00:36:55.240assemblymen actually come together and make laws and that those laws be something that affects
00:37:00.740korean daily life yeah yeah so korea never had a stable democracy uh but i think this idea and
00:37:06.500spread of democracy and this is where um again i don't hate america but where american entanglement
00:37:13.020overseas and their foreign excursions in foreign countries in different countries um actually
00:37:20.060destabilizes and which is why i i understand it korea hasn't been destabilized to the point
00:37:26.880of the middle east for example right but when i see that there's a lot of people who hate america
00:37:31.980in the middle east because we've never done anything in the middle east nothing nothing
00:37:36.580uh but you know there's actually broadly speaking south korea is pro-america
00:37:41.200but uh there is still a good amount of i guess there's a conversation slowly happening i think
00:37:49.540in korea about american entanglement in the east and how yes if america didn't get involved
00:37:57.600then all of korea probably would have been communist because of chinese like influence
00:38:01.740because china was right there but at the same time um yeah and so there's a lot i mean yes
00:38:07.500i'm thankful for america i'm thankful for america to a certain extent but
00:38:10.640they spread democracy right and this idea of mass democracy is not fundamentally american
00:38:18.940it's a modern american invention that's right but the founding fathers and the founding americans
00:38:23.320didn't want mass democracy they hated it they hated nothing positive to say about a raw democracy
00:38:27.420Yes. And there was nothing democratic, truly, about America's founding. All the people who
00:38:33.640made the laws, who represented the people, yes, they were democratically elected by a very small
00:38:38.420subset of the American population that had not only ties to the past, but also a vested interest
00:38:44.120in the future. And yeah, like the president was not democratically elected. He was elected by a
00:38:51.140slate of electors from each state. And it wasn't the people who voted for the electors, the electors.
00:38:55.680And it's like all these things that, yes, there was the House of Representatives where, yes, people voted for their particular representatives to represent them in Congress, in the federal government.
00:39:08.500But for the most part, most people did not vote in America at the founding.
00:39:14.640And this is what people need to realize, that the foundations of America was not intrinsically pro-mass democracy.
00:39:21.060actually the reason why they set it up as a constitutional republic
00:39:24.820was because they saw the faults of mass democracy
00:39:27.940they read the greek philosophers they saw the faults of mass democracy
00:39:31.820and the failure of mass democracy in the past
00:39:33.880but then because and you come to the modern era
00:39:37.760and then there is this hubris among people that's like oh
00:39:41.480yes i know everything so i should be able to every single person should be
00:39:46.080able to excise and exercise political power
00:39:50.180in the government and it's like well no if you don't even know our three branches of government
00:39:54.540which a lot of people in america don't you have no business voting but people just can vote and
00:39:59.480it's so easy and so when i look at that influence in south korea i do think that it is uh kind of
00:40:07.220sad because it you know korea has not had a stable democracy it's a lie and yes korea is great
00:40:13.620it's clean it's orderly but its political system has always been you know back and forth back and
00:40:19.940forth very unstable for a very very long time um ever since its founding after the korean war even
00:40:24.700post you know pre-korean war too so um i do want to kind of debunk that lie where i'm not saying
00:40:31.560that people shouldn't have a voice i'm not saying that the political will of the people should not
00:40:36.420be represented or manifest in their government but what i am saying is that if we give everyone
00:40:43.760every single person who is living in your country political power to vote for the future of your
00:40:51.440country uh things are going to get really ugly and chaotic very quickly because now it's subject
00:40:57.440the future of your politics and your government your leaders are subject now to the whims of the
00:41:02.440people right and to and that's a very very unsustainable way to govern your country yes
00:41:10.760And it's a very, very unsustainable way to carry your heritage and your legacy into the future.
00:41:17.620And so in Korea, it's a constant state of flux politically.
00:41:22.920And I do think there needs to be more structure and stability.
00:41:26.760And I do believe that also comes with kind of like what you talk about, get away from universal suffrage and also not being pro-mass democracy.
00:41:37.000I'm not advocating for a totalitarian ruler and a tyrant.
00:41:39.720but you know and i think that's what people always lose they say if it's not mass democracy
00:41:45.460it's totalitarian tyranny it's like no no there is a bit of a middle where you can have a strong
00:41:51.600ruler who is there for a while who loves his people and who does good by the people without
00:41:58.160him being a tyrant and we've had good kings we've had good rulers we've had good presidents who've
00:42:02.980been in office for a very long time in america uh and that's what i'm that's what i'm saying that
00:42:07.220we can have right now yep i agree so what are the political issues that are pertinent like the most
00:42:12.940relevant political conversations that are going on amongst koreans especially young koreans so
00:42:19.040thanks to trump and charlie kirk people like charlie kirk uh conversations surrounding national
00:42:25.320identity and immigration nationhood is starting to happen not to the level which i wish but it
00:42:32.020is starting to happen but the main political divide right now at least it seems like in korea
00:42:36.660really truly becomes uh pro-america anti-ccp and then anti-america pro-ccp uh and i i find that to
00:42:46.820be interesting because there are so many domestic problems that are is crushing koreans right now
00:42:51.440but i feel like a lot of the fundamental divide right versus left in korea comes down to foreign
00:42:58.220policy which is interesting where i think for i think foreign policy is very important don't get0.99
00:43:03.420me wrong but the most pressing issue is the low birth rate right like koreans are literally
00:43:09.220disappearing yeah and not only that it's the separation and the nomadic culture of korea now0.79
00:43:16.940where they leave their homelands no hometowns they leave the town of their parents and their
00:43:23.360grandparents and their great-grandparents and they all want to just congregate into little
00:43:27.120cubicles and blocks in the city uh so rootless right they just they want to become rootless
00:43:33.080cosmopolitans within their own country right yes and it's it's horrifying it's a dystopia it's uh
00:43:39.920oh this is actually this is the point i was trying to make yeah like it's the worst forms of
00:43:42.880capitalism because the pursuit of capital and profit is the only thing that's that seems to
00:43:48.280motivate so many koreans i'm not saying all for sure there's incredible great koreans that i love
00:43:52.740and i cherish who love their country love god who are working as korean patriots to save their
00:43:56.920country but the huge amount of koreans are just trying to make it and make more money for what0.99
00:44:03.680purpose i don't know better apartment better job better car for it's very very very shallow0.98
00:44:09.120and so this is what's happening and then on top of that they are being replaced not at the rate
00:44:15.960of america but probably you know and this is what americans thought too oh it's not that bad let's
00:44:20.920just let them come in no problem but then within 40 years america went from like 90 white to now
00:44:26.640almost 50 percent white right right and then so korea is happening the same way where korea used
00:44:31.020to be 99 yeah it was like 19 1910 1920 uh was 90 percent white yeah um so it's it's been about
00:44:37.820100 years but even even as uh recent as before the heart seller act around 1958 to 1965 or so
00:44:47.620um i believe it was still about 80 yeah it was large percent and that's how it starts though
00:44:53.720It's slowly, it's slow introduction into not only importing mass amounts of immigrants, but also softening people to the idea, hey, we're all people.
00:45:10.740So it doesn't matter where they come from.
00:45:12.100As long as they come in here and they can assimilate, not understanding that a lot of people aren't compatible with Western and also Eastern civilization.
00:45:39.160And so why are we letting this in?0.99
00:45:41.160Oh, you know, religious freedom, tolerance, pluralism.
00:45:43.420No, like there is an extent to our tolerance
00:45:45.960for religious freedom where I believe that Christ is king.
00:45:49.020And I believe that Korea belongs to the Lord.
00:45:51.300But I am sympathetic towards the freely religious practices of Buddhists and Confucian people.
00:45:59.600Not many exist anymore, but there are a good amount of Buddhists, but not Confucian, you know, practicers.0.98
00:46:06.160But you're saying that, like, that's idolatrous and it's wrong, but you would have more compassion for that than Islam because one is foreign.0.99
00:59:56.200And so the problem with mass immigration in America
00:59:59.420has been that people form their own ethnic enclaves.
01:00:01.980yes and the the natural impulse for all people is to marry their own and and so yes there are
01:00:08.260interracial marriages that happen but typically people for the most part keep to their own right
01:00:13.000and so that's how you form ethnic enclaves and people always say oh but there's always different
01:00:16.680types of people in america sure any country you go to even within homogenous nations you're going
01:00:23.020to have different kinds of people with different dialects and different like local customs but
01:00:29.040But a person in Busan, a Korean in Busan and a Korean in Seoul, they're still Korean.
01:00:33.260Where if you travel all the way to Busan from Seoul, yes, you're going to have a different dialect, but you can still communicate and you can still understand, hey, you're my person, you're my people.
01:00:46.100And so in that regard, I've been really thinking a lot about that where, well, I want to marry a Korean woman and I want my children to be Korean.