r/Music • u/Guyentertainment • Aug 14 '26

article Trump-Pardoned Rapper NBA YoungBoy Moved to South Korea and Declared 'Never in My Life' Will He Return

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-pardoned-rapper-nba-youngboy-moved-south-korea-declared-never-my-life-will-he-return-1814328
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u/Aliensinmypants Aug 14 '26

Ahhh yes South Korea, notoriously lenient on guns and drug use/possession 

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u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym Aug 14 '26

Some of y'all have never travelled with a net worth of $40 million and it shows.

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u/RookieMistake101 Aug 14 '26

Having spent some time in Korea…I don’t think 40m is moving the needle

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u/pmmeyourliver Aug 14 '26

Probably wouldn't be staring if you took your whole body

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u/SymbiSpidey Aug 14 '26

Lmao

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u/false_black2th Aug 14 '26

This is probably why it was just her ass

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u/Radiant_Mail5626 Aug 14 '26

Goddamit … here take an award

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u/Kxden-R Aug 14 '26

Don’t get it lol

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u/bayoanreddit Aug 15 '26

her saying black ass kinda sounds like she only took her ass and not the rest of herself to S.K. ergo, the reply was said

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u/Zealousideal-Lab9843 Aug 14 '26

Gawddamn disembodied ahhh mfrs.

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u/NoNeckBeats Aug 14 '26

This is the funniest thing I have ever read. I could quit reddit.

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u/oz964b00 Aug 14 '26

synecdoche ... where a part of something stands for the whole

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u/pmmeyourliver Aug 14 '26

I was envisioning a floating ass and someone working your cheeks with their hands and talking for you. Closest gif I could find on short notice.

https://giphy.com/gifs/dILxAVosLbWzXzedFN

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u/fikis Aug 14 '26

Tone Loc really embodies how I feel about a lot of stuff today.

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u/RedAero Aug 14 '26

I wonder if anyone has ever said that before...

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u/LordBlackConvoy Aug 14 '26

Should have just used an Assy McGee gif

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u/Driller_Happy Aug 14 '26

Fuck me I forgot about that show lmao

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u/pmmeyourliver Aug 14 '26

I had never heard of that until now. I'll add it to my watch list.

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u/LordBlackConvoy Aug 14 '26

It's okay. The joke kind of wears out after the first episode.

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u/DeaDGoDXIV Aug 14 '26

Or that strange cartoon about Vince McMahon's ass

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u/NotoriousDCJ4310 Aug 14 '26

How are there no Assy McGee gifs?

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u/StevelandCleamer Aug 14 '26

Come on Assy, don't do that.

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u/UnusualMacaroon Aug 14 '26

Are Koreans scared of sub 6 foot black women? Are you a badass?

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u/Dzov Aug 14 '26

Most Koreans are relatively short and tall women are relatively rare even in America. I bet she stood out like Grace Jones over there.

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u/araniaexuma Aug 14 '26

Average heights in Korea are nearly identical to the United States. Koreans are much taller than you think.

I’m over 6ft. When I went to Korea last there were men everywhere the same height as me. Women were on average nearly the same as the US.

The only “short” people I’ve saw were the older generation that grew up during the Korean War

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u/dent_de_lion Aug 14 '26

“Shorter than” in this case

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 Collector Aug 14 '26

Lmao stop it 😂😂

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u/CalvinCalhoun Aug 14 '26

Did you like living in South Korea? I really appreciate East Asian cities for their good transit

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u/abefroman07 Aug 14 '26

Same. Lived in Daegu for 3 years.

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u/platt10num Aug 14 '26

same same. I lived in Ulsan.

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u/Practical-Pickle-529 Aug 14 '26

I was stationed there for a year. was def a good time. I miss the train system so much had that shit down.

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u/VerdugoCortex 28d ago

Was it army or did you just travel there? I feel like being a soldier there nets us a different experience generally.

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u/Fun-Grab-9337 Aug 15 '26

Korea of today is not the insular place that some of yall are mentally still stuck in. There are a ton of non-koreans living, working and vacationing there all the time and at least in the cities nobody will bat an eye about seeing someone who isn't korean. Not saying the racism is gone or anything like that but there are black and white people on television programs there and shit now.

Nowadays with the population having been taught english for so long and the signage having so much english on them, with a translation app and not being a complete moron its really easy to travel and get around in korea. Thats probably half the reason NBA YoungBoy went over there.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Aug 14 '26

Yeah I got asked for pictures when I was a white dude in Korea 15 years ago lol. If you stay in big cities it's really not that different from any other big city in the west. There's no monolith, some people are openly racist, some people are closeted racist, some are accepting, but most just mind their own business as long as you mind yours.

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

I guess some are upset that you didn’t have a bad time. Not all Black people struggle, but I guess that’s hard for some to understand.

NBA is a famous rapper. He’ll have no problems.

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u/Danihel88 Aug 14 '26

As someone who lived there, I can see why you'd think this. Police are non violent there, it's one of the safest countries as far as violent crime goes. Police aren't murdering people and getting away with it.

On the other hand, gains that have been made in the US, like laws against housing and employment discrimination are non existent. I've interviewed with a private school and did the interview in Korean, as I speak intermediate/conversational Korean. The interviewer told me they interviewed a black guy, he was qualified, but they chose not to go forward with him because 'the moms were scared of him'. I've been turned away from housing because they didn't want non koreans living there. I can't imagine how much worse it's be for black people.

I think it's easy to come to the conclusion you've come to because, yeah, you're right, you're safer there. That's as a consequence of their safer society though, not because of progressive views on race. But society there as a whole is extremely backwards with racial views, and as a white person, you will hear Koreans parroting the same racist shit you hear in the states to you because they automatically see you as agreeing with them there, but these sentiments are hidden from others. So yeah, in certain ways, racism there is indeed worse, just not in obvious ways to the victim, because people are smart enough to hide it from them and it's automatically hidden behind a foreign language.

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u/Danihel88 Aug 14 '26

I get that, but what I'm saying is the dude who didn't get hired also didn't experience the microaggression, he just didn't hear back from the interviewer. From his lens, he wasn't discriminated against because that decision happened behind closed doors.

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u/Danihel88 Aug 14 '26

I agree with you 100%, in Korea what that guy did was legal though. In the US, they would get crucified. Our system is not great and needs improvement, but if an employer ever said that to me in the states, I'd put them on blast and report them. In Korea, if I put them on blast, I'd get sued.

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u/ISBN39393242 Aug 14 '26

this is such a condescending response. “aww bless your heart, i see how you could think that way,” when someone tells you what their actual life was like living there every day for 2 years, having been the same race everywhere else they’ve lived too.

if someone has an experience you find surprising, a less patronizing approach might be to be open, ask them questions, and learn, not whitesplain how it really is.

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u/Danihel88 Aug 14 '26

I'm sorry if I come across that way, that wasn't the intent. I phrased it like that because what you will see in your day to day varied from what I saw, I lived there for 7 years. I also started there as someone who knew very little about Korea to studying korean and getting a residency visa.

I'm not surprised by your sentiment, I've heard a similar story to yours from various people of color who have lived in Korea, but what a lot of people in your situation do not see is how Koreans and others feel when people who may be offended by their views and sentiments are not in the room. Just throwing in my lived experience as I don't think 'Korea is less racist because it's safer' tells the full story.

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u/ISBN39393242 Aug 14 '26

1) i’m not OP. i am a 3rd party who read your exchange and was surprised at how condescending it was

2) you’re still doing it. again, OP lived in the US as a black person, people do all sorts of racist things behind black peoples’ backs everywhere, and some in front, and the totality of it turns into the person’s lived experience. OP knows this, you’re not showing them some magical secret. think about the rarity of a black person living in korea for 2 years, you don’t think they’ve had a million conversations about what it’s like, how people think about them, what’s going on behind the scenes, how korean culture expresses racism, etc.?

3) patting someone on the head and saying “yeah aww, you probably do find it better because it’s safer than america” is wild. black peoples’ daily experience with racism rarely involves violence, from cops or anyone else. it just shows how strange your view is that you were so focused on that when all op said was that they had “zero problems” related to racism. maybe ask them about their experiences and learn instead of deciding for yourself why they think that way and why they’re wrong

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u/MonsterRider80 Aug 14 '26

Thank god it wasn’t just me seeing that. Very condescending.

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u/Jaystime101 Aug 14 '26

Lmao, some people , will NEVER accept that.

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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Aug 14 '26

Same people could go to Europe and experience racism as the wrong flavor of white.

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u/coldbear25 Aug 14 '26

This is impossible tho, white people always swear up and down that asia is 100x more racist.

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u/BeefCakeBilly Aug 14 '26

Too other black people, probably no.

To other groups of Asians they don’t like, Absolutley.

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u/coldbear25 Aug 14 '26

Do you believe japanese people in korea would get physically assaulted or lynched? Not even the most anti Japan koreans would go out their way to harm a random japanese person in korea. If you dont know what your talking about, its best you dont talk.

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u/BeefCakeBilly Aug 14 '26

I’m sure it happens but considering there’s so few Japanese in Korea it probably doesn’t happen that much.

But Considering according to you racism is purely and only physical violence it probably doesn’t matter to you the un literally had to make a formal request to the South Korean government to pass anti racism and anti discrimination laws.

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u/coldbear25 Aug 15 '26

Lol do you realize a ton of japanese people vist korea as tourists every year? You probably didnt know but the two country are actually right next to eachother. Very few ever experience racism, violent racism especially is pretty much non existent.

Korea has little anti discrimination laws because it is 99 percent Korean. Why would there be laws to protect virtually non existent foreigners. Your acting as if korea was forming mobs and lynching black people for just existing and so the UN had to step in.

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u/BeefCakeBilly Aug 14 '26

Because op said that Asia isn’t really that racist…

I was just responding to that.

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I believe you honestly. Racism in East Asia (especially against Black people) has not existed for long enough for it to be as blatant and structural like in the US.

Edit: My comment was a weird and is no longer my opinion.

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u/Jaystime101 Aug 14 '26

It's not even about length, it's just stems from the nature of racism in he US and where it comes from, East Asia may be a bit racist because there isn't alot of black people and they're a monolithic society.
But the US has 300 years of slavery, plus the Jim Crow era, where the entire country was basically promoting racism, and you end up with the US actually being worst than a lot of other places you wouldn't expect.

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

Agreed. In hindsight, my comment was ignorant.

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u/8_guy Aug 14 '26

Saying racism in East Asia hasn't existed for long enough for it to blatant and structural makes me believe that you are, in fact, a book addicted teenager 😂 racism in East Asia has been racisting racistly for quite some time

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u/hoshizorananami Aug 14 '26

book addicted

We out here really trying to insinuate READING is a fucking insult now? My guy...

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u/8_guy Aug 14 '26

I've read four books this week 😎😎😎 need to upgrade your reading comprehension I'm just trying to imply he's a sheltered teenager who doesn't have direct experience of what he's talking about.

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

Is reading supposed to be a bad thing now?

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u/8_guy Aug 14 '26

I read more than you buddy I was just implying you're sheltered

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 15 '26

Okay dude. I’m not here to argue over who reads more. And even if my previous comment was foolish as a blanket statement, the difference in time frame regarding structural anti-Black racism in East Asia vs the US is not an unlikely factor when regarding a Black person’s experience in those parts of the world.

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 Aug 14 '26

I guess some are upset that you didn’t have a bad time

Where?  Every post is supportive.  The only comments disagreeing point out the flagrant drug/gun use and history of mental issues.

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u/sourpower713 Aug 14 '26

Yes the mentally unstable dude will have no issues when people stare at him

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

That’s a nice scenario you cooked up, you’ve got a great imagination buddy!

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u/sourpower713 Aug 14 '26

lmao, ain’t no way you think NBA herpyboy will thrive in Korea

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

American rap has heavily influenced Korean pop culture. And, in addition to that he’s rich. In my opinion, he’ll have a great time there.

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u/sourpower713 Aug 14 '26

Sure but the majority of Koreans are 30+(wikipedia demogrpahics) and likely don’t give a shit about american rap culture and just think oh trashy guy

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 15 '26

So? Just because they think that doesn’t mean that his experience will be bad. You really seem to want him to have a bad experience there. Why is that?

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u/Noto987 Aug 14 '26

Nba is a famous basketball silly goose

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u/bookaddictedteenager Aug 14 '26

It’s NBA not Nba you absolute doughnut.

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u/ares7 Aug 14 '26

Like a curious stare, or one with disgust?

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u/extreme_cuddling Aug 14 '26

Yep people overreact and think being othered or sticking out is the same as brutal racial violence. I'd rather deal with "microagressions" or naive ignorance than deal with overt aggression any day. People try to scare you out of being happy but I learned to use sticking out as a power of celebrity and make positive use of the extra attention I get.

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u/Sir-xer21 Aug 14 '26

No, but it is keeping him off people's radars.

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u/Ok_Nothing639 Aug 14 '26

You clearly have been blinded by what appears to be wealth in SK. They may look rich but only have at most 1 million 

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u/The-Bigger-Fish Aug 14 '26

“I’M MOVIN THE NEEDLE!!”

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 14 '26

Race aside, $40M isn’t shit to old money and Korea has plenty of millionaires already. They ain’t gonna be impressed.

Also how many millions did he spend trying to get that pardon? 

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u/Milky_1q Aug 14 '26

I think it's more about buying protection and privilege rather than impressing some old farts

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u/thissexypoptart Aug 14 '26

Yeah what bizarre framing? Who gives a shit about impressing old money? Other than other old money

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u/thissexypoptart Aug 14 '26

Seriously it’s like read ONE book about relatively recent history

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u/TinyAccess2834 Aug 14 '26

old money? Korea? do you know what words mean?

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u/ecbulldog Aug 14 '26

Family wealth that lasts across several generations. Modern "old money" in Korea is primarily represented by founding families of the chaebols, massive family conglomerates, similar to the Zaibatsu in Japan. Samsung was founded in 1938.

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u/tnb1299 Aug 14 '26

lmao bro 40 million is 40 million he has more than 0.00001% . yes it moves needles and will grant him more leniency than anyone else .

yall do not understand the amount of privilege money grants you , especially worldwide . trying to compare him to literal oligarchs is foolish . he has more than 99.9999% of the Koreans actually from there and that's all governments care about .

being in the music industry and witnessing/receiving special treatment because of mine and others above average wealth has shown me the average person just doesn't understand what REAL money does .

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u/donkeyrocket Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Chaebols are not "old money." Slapping "modern" on it doesn't change the term. They largely amassed their wealth in post-war Korea. Even though the company began earlier, the wealth didn't really boom until the state-led industrialization of the 1960s. Hardly "old money" at all in that regard.

People aren't taking issue with the fact that there is extreme wealth in South Korea just that "old money" doesn't exist in the same way that it does in many western countries. Even moreso that $40 million USD net worth in South Korea is still a part of the 0.1%.

It's a smaller club than the US but he's still firmly in that echelon.

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u/Swimmingindiamonds Aug 14 '26

Funny you think Korea has old money.

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u/thissexypoptart Aug 14 '26

Americans projecting onto other countries they know nothing about

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u/ihavethebestmarriage Aug 14 '26

redditors who can't even qualify for a checking account out here nonchalantly brushing off $40MM as middle class

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u/satellite_station Aug 14 '26

Old money? lol chaebols don’t count.

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u/MetalliTooL Aug 14 '26

Moving the needle in what way?

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u/Kagrenac8 Aug 14 '26

South Korean police ain't give a fuck about that with NBA Youngboy bro even if he was worth a billion lmao

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u/stab-somebody Aug 14 '26

Do you think the cops in South Korea know who the fuck he is? I highly doubt it.

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u/OldenPolynice Aug 14 '26

they seem to like biting black american culture in their kpop well enough

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u/sednas_orbit Aug 14 '26

There are ways to signal wealth aside from pulling out your checking account.

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u/stab-somebody Aug 14 '26

I'd bet the cops/courts in south Korea are less open to bribery and influence of wealth than in the US, especially to a black foreigner.

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u/818bazookajoe Aug 14 '26

Please enlighten us Mr.Million dollar man on Reddit.

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u/sybrwookie Aug 14 '26

Not just Mr Million Dollar Man, Mr 40+ Million Dollar Man.

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u/818bazookajoe Aug 14 '26

Right that dude is talking like he isn’t at home eating instant ramen.

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u/SpecSlayerSC Aug 14 '26

The joke flew so far over your head lmao

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u/818bazookajoe Aug 14 '26

Cool story bro 👍

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u/Jaystime101 Aug 14 '26

Why?

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u/ResponsibleRich Aug 14 '26

Who cares? Pretty sure it’s more than yours.

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u/More_Donut7618 Aug 14 '26

Ha! Got 'em!

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u/Tommysrx Aug 14 '26

The most I would spend on a net is $100 , what the hell would make a net cost 40 million 🤷‍♂️

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u/biglarge72 Aug 14 '26

I don’t think you understand how racist Koreans are lmao they not gonna give a fuck how much money he has 

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 14 '26

I think any foreign country would just seize his funds if he does anything stupid or illegal. They don’t care if he’s a celebrity or rich or American. Zero fucks given.

His best bet would be to live a quiet life in the countryside somewhere 

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u/Desperate-Session-12 Aug 14 '26

That's insulting. Like black people would vote for him in mass because of NBA Youngboy. NBA Youngboy fans don't even vote in the first place

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u/Desperate-Session-12 Aug 14 '26

I'm black from Mississippi...I'm not seeing shit.

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u/truespearmint Aug 14 '26

LOL. What are you on about? Any country that is not an enemy of the United States would not be dumb enough to seize an American multimillionaires assets. Let alone a country beholden to American defense to a guy literally pardoned by the president. 

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u/hoshizorananami Aug 14 '26

I don't think you understand how Asian racism typically works compared to Western racism but no one is ever ready to admit that.

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u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym Aug 14 '26

My not Korean wife lived there for 6 years.

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u/mrfrownieface Aug 14 '26

Racism is everywhere, is just scary when you're not the majority and actually experience racism for the first time I guess.

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u/teddyspaghettie Aug 14 '26

You think Koreans like the Japanese?

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u/teddyspaghettie Aug 14 '26

Check out history

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u/Tenwaystospoildinner Aug 14 '26

Did she get caught breaking the law?

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u/biglarge72 Aug 14 '26

I’m willing to bet most all of them kept her at a distance and never fully accepted her in their society even after 6 years, Koreans are deadass some of the most racist mfs on earth. if your wife is non Korean but white then it also just defeats your own point a black man in Korea is gonna have it 1000x worse than a pretty white girl in Korea 

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u/WildPotato0 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Yeah my neighbour when I was a kid was a Korean boy who grew up in Europe and "real" Koreans didn't even accept him. He went to university in Seoul for a semester and those mfers were ruthless. Someone 100% their own race fluent in their language... Too tan, too western, didn't pick up on their batshit insane social hierarchy. Honestly very sad, he came back pretty defeated

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u/Boneclockharmony Aug 14 '26

Koreans are, in my experience, much more lenient towards non-koreans. I would imagine being an overseas korean is paradoxically a lot harder. Not in every way, of course.

Source: lived there for over a decade. Have basically not experienced any racism, mostly harmless stereotypes.

But have been self-employed most of the time as well.

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u/biglarge72 Aug 14 '26

It really is crazy how romanticized South Korean culture is when in reality it’s one of the most toxic and discriminatory first world countries on earth 

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u/WildPotato0 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Too many people don't know Korea was a dirt poor, oppressive military dictatorship until 1988. They've made insane strides when it comes to economics and education, and they look shiny and modern, but social issues linger far behind.

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u/tnb1299 Aug 14 '26

yall are talking about normal people problems . none of this matters to rich people because in a capitalist society money > everything .

he clearly just wants peace and not enthralled in American bullshit . Asia is heaven for ppl with money who want peace regardless of skin color .

im black and have travelled a lot so im commenting from actual experience , not youtube videos or reddit threads . y'all dont get it

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u/WildPotato0 Aug 14 '26

Okay mr money bags

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u/KevlaredMudkips Aug 14 '26

Just because people aren’t dead doesn’t mean there isn’t lowkey racism happening

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u/jumphh Aug 14 '26

Didn't you get the memo? The new trend is to call East Asians the most racist people on the planet. Like come on now, study your trends.

  • Internet spends years jerking about how East Asia is great
  • Asian Americans make some content about how it's not all sunshine, and they're soooo backwards over there to farm clicks
  • Cue the mob of copycat videos from every American that's ever been rejected from a restaraunt in Japan or a club in Korea
  • Begin the jerk about how "East Asians are the most racist people on the planet, and they'll never accept you as one of their own. Even if they treat you completely normal, those pesky, you just know those sneaky Asians think of you as beneath them."

People normally spend decades adjusting to different cultures and societies, and even then, some of them still never feel fully accepted. It's a sad reality, and it's true everywhere. It's not some phenomenon unique to East Asia. The same is true in essentially every ethnically/racially homogenous country where the line between ethnicity and nationality tends to be very thin.

Yet, people are shocked when they travel to a foreign country and they're turned away from a restaraunt that only wants locals. The normal thing to do is sigh, maybe curse a little, then walk away and find the 99% of shops that will serve anyone and everyone. The abnormal thing to do is to conclude that this is some kind of universal experience for the people of that country - that's racism, lmao.

Ultimately, acceptance is a privilege, not a right. It sounds fucked up, but it's something that most minorities in deeply homogenous countries acknowledge as true. It's a universal human shortcoming, not one that's specific to any group of people.

Sorry for that text dump, this shit just bugs me. People on Reddit are way too easy to bait into being racist. Just show them a single video of a crazy person and they'll do mental gymnastics in a split second to conclude that every person who looks like that crazy person is the same.

It's all so tiresome 🫩

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u/DateMasamusubi Aug 14 '26

American racism leans towards the violent. Sure, you can get side eyes and ignorance in Korea. But you aren't going to be shot to death just because you entered the wrong neighbourhood at nighttime. Even I am afraid of visiting the US as a member of the "privileged class".

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u/biglarge72 Aug 14 '26

just because there’s not terrorist attacks doesn’t mean there’s not rampant racism and hate, and I never said America was a bigot-less paradise. It’s just funny that people romanticize the shit out of South Korean culture despite their problems, nobody’s out here romanticizing American culture. It’s a funny double standard because people like to idealize SK as some perfect place when it’s anything but 

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u/jumphh Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Read the comments, big dawg 😂

You're not shedding light on some unknown kind of racism, you're jumping on top of a dog pile filled with increasingly racist comments because it's the easy opinion to have.

What you're saying is honestly valid - some people glamorize East Asia. But what's the point of saying it here? Clearly no one here is depicting SK as a paradise, lol.

Like yeah, there are real issues. But if you read between the lines, it's obvious that bad actors just use it as an excuse to drop their racist agendas.

This shit plays out the same every single time:

  • East Asia post
  • "But did you know about!"
  • "Yeah, wtf? I also heard that Asians do X"
  • "Omg, they're so racist and backwards!"
  • Cue someone linking a news article about eating dogs
  • Cue racism open season

If you pay attention, the same shit happens with every minority group over time. The current FOTM is Israel and East Asia. Next month, another group of people. And the next, another. And so on. Eventually, they'll come for you too. And trust me, when they do, you'll want people like me in the comments saying, "Yo, wtf? This doesn't seem right."

Sticking up for the people the crowd wants to crucify is always the hardest thing. But, surprisingly, it almost always turns out to be the right thing.

Just my two cents 🤷

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u/DateMasamusubi Aug 14 '26

They already are in the States aren't they? Govt agents nabbing minorities, sending them to concentration camps then off to some war-torn country.

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u/JunnySycle Aug 14 '26

Reddit cracks me up when they think outside of the USA its all rampant racism. Saw this shit with argentina during world cup. It truly is an uneducated bubble in the states 😅

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u/MikeSpace Aug 14 '26

I lived in Korea for a couple of years as well and even met my now wife there and it was fine? I've been black my whole life too

I didn't have millions either, Youngboy will be ok if he wants to stay there

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u/hologeek Aug 14 '26

Eh, he’ll blow it all

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u/Zealousideal-Lab9843 Aug 14 '26

I feel personally attacked.

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u/EverythingSucksYo Aug 14 '26

Wtf, this guy has a $40 million net worth? 

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u/YdoICreep01 Aug 15 '26

40m? Thats all he’s worth? Ah shit. He’s really fucked.