Yoon Supporters Boycotting Brand Endorsers that Supported Impeachment
President Yoon is so unpopular in South Korea I doubt these boycotts by his supporters will have any impact on sales:
Singer and actor IU promotes New Balance’s apparel in this undated photo. Courtesy of E-Land
Political disputes about President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment over his botched martial law declaration have had unexpected impacts on brands endorsed by IU and other celebrities, who supported protests against him, as well as on companies related to his allies.
On Friday, IU’s agency announced that the singer prepaid for food and hand warmers for her fans participating in a candlelight protest for Yoon’s impeachment near the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. After the announcement, Yoon’s supporters began to encourage the boycott of companies who hired her as a spokesmodel, sharing the list of brands.
On the list were New Balance, HiteJinro and Woori Bank.
Although her endorsement agreements with water brand Jeju Samdasoo and Domino’s Pizza have already ended, the names of the brands were also on the list shared by pro-Yoon consumers.
You can read more at the link.
Looks like I’m switching to ASICS, NB lost a 35 year customer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1hhh6sg/after_iu_newjeans_and_other_celebrities_bought/
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Self-fix. OP. 22h ago
For anyone wondering why “anti-american”, that’s how the alt-right brains work in Korea:
Left = “pro-China, pro-North Korea” = commie = must eradicate.
The scary thing is that Yoon himself was watching alt-right Youtube videos almost every day, and getting ideas from them. He inadvertently mentioned his conspiracy theories about China twice during his speech before the vote on Dec 14. A lunatic.
For anyone wondering why “anti-american”, that’s how the alt-right brains work in Korea:
Left = “pro-China, pro-North Korea” = commie = must eradicate.
Not only Korean alt-right brains, but this is also how American alt-right brains work.
One can see plenty of examples of the above here in the ROK Drop, courtesy of the Setnaffarians.
chinabots question why anyone except the “alt-right” would want to eradicate “commies”… Or why anyone would fail to extol the advanced human right promoted by communist governments in Beijing and Pyeongyang
Famous alt-right website Wikipedia lists a few, including this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes (with links to many related websites and sources).
Wikipedia do tend to use more conservative estimates, so only about 100 Million excess deaths are credited to communism in the 20th Century. Other sources would nearly double that.
I’m a bit sad now that the Yoon’s HID unit didn’t kill those US soldiers as they planned to do so before they were stopped. MAGA idiots have no idea how close we were to a full-blown war, started by a drunken psychotic lunatic with power egos as large as Trump’s egos.
This is a reoccurring theme with the left, most obviously demonstrated with 20th century communism.
There is disappointment when innocent people don’t die to promote the ideological position, and glee when they do.
“Progressives” derive their power from disruption and instability while conservatives derive their power from the stability of not changing what is working.
Conservative change is thoughtful and incremental instead of “burn it all down and it will be replaced with a better system.”
Plot Twist: History shows this doesn’t work very well.
Bonus: As long as the system works for the majority, the conservative method is best, especially when change is working towards improvements for everyone.
A flaw of the left is that so many of them have fundamental personality dysfunction.
And it shows.
That’s why they attempt to use the military to get rid of elections, free speech, and opposing views, then shut down the media, arrest all political opponents to put them in jail, and then point guns at its citizens. Some incremental change. Like I said, your own side should have killed you as bait. Good one, MAGA.
A fraudulent election is not an election. Free speech and opposing views must exist until they become conspiracy to promote crime. A free media is necessary until it is infiltrated by propagandists rather than journalists. Political opponents keep the balance of power until they are installed to promote interests against the nation and the people. Pointing guns at citizens is not ideal but necessary when they engage in criminal hehavior or supporting with intention or ignorance.
Every time I consider that Yoon did some evil selfish action, I keep coming back to the question, why does the left want to hide election details.
If this was released for public scrutiny, none of this would have happened.
I will ask again.
Do you support the release of election records for everyone to openly study?
If they are legitimate, this would be a sure way for Yoon to go to jail, so you should be openly and loudly in support.
Unless…
WTF? You guys are complete lunatics.
That all you got?
Morgan Freeman: “No question was answered and no point was addressed becasue, in fact, that was ‘all he got’. In the fashion of leftists, he yelled an insult and considered the lack of reply a final win. He failed to consider that the left always must use violence to push their ideological insanity and the best response has always been the right-wing death squad. At that moment, nobody could predict the future, but it was certain his identity had been added to a list for further consideration if societal norms every broke down.”
Now I’m convinced, the CIA is involved in the plot to place Yoon in a position to destroy South Korea, in preparation for Donald Trump to profit from his financial gains. I see the big picture now.
chinabot appears to be hitting the bathrub baijiu a bit heavily these days.
Koreans switching brands of soju because of this clown. That is how you know you’ve made a wrong move in Korea.
I was right. The CIA is behind it all.