A lack of cultural nostalgia attached to the toy and wariness of the film’s feminist messaging may have kept the Korean audience away from the Hollywood mega-hit: "There is no real fan base for ‘Barbie’ in Korea.”

  • seejur@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that why men say that if they want to get the same privileges they should enroll as well?

    The caviat is that the mandatory service is two years long, which most Korean women don’t want to waste in the military

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        1 year ago

        That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to learn whilst still technically at war with a tyrannical socialist neighbour.