Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

It's not just students btw... we're dealing it this too. My wife is a Korean university professor teaching at an American university, and her visa needs to be renewed by next month. I'm Canadian and she has residency in Canada but the Korean embassy in Canada advised her to travel back to Korea to renew it. She got back to Korea end of May to find that the US embassy in Korea had paused appointments. Monday last week she was able to make an appointment for it, and indeed she was advised her social media will be screened.

This is a blatantly false comment. For the sake of other viewers on HN that is not familiar with Korean politics, this is totally fake (and is probably pushing the views of the Korean alt-right).

United States sharply criticized Yoon after his unconstitutional martial law declaration, publishing pretty strong remarks that it was illegimate[0]. They have consistently spoke (in diplomatic language) that they do not support Yoon until he was impeached.

Impeaching Yoon was supported by 75% of the country [1] and anti-Yoon protests were not seen as anti-US nor pro-China at all.

The newly elected president, Lee Jae Myung, is not seen as anti-US nor pro-China in Korea (he does have a less anti-China stance than his predecessor), and any claims of election fraud claim is baseless[2] and without evidence.

The few paragraphs on telegram groups are groups that are run by the alt-right that send reports of anti-Yoon social influencers to the CIA, arguing that they were anti-US and communists[3] (yes, the red fear and the cold war is still a thing in South Korea, thanks to the North Korean regime, no, we do not recognize North Korea as a sovereign state)

Yes people are affected due to the new visa process, PhD students big among the affected, but no, big businesses are not being blocked sending their workers to the US. Samsung is not struggling getting visas.

This is a totally baseless fake news. Please don’t let this information spread. Thanks.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-south-koreas-yoon-badl...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Yoon_Suk_Yeol#O...

[2]: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36RG6PF

[3]: https://koreaherald.com/article/10019148

———— Not trying to shoot the messenger, but the user has a history of getting flagged with far-right racial comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405917, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203934, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203849

They also got flagged previously by arguing the sentiment of the Korean alt-right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43431867

And also say that they submit AI-generated comments as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pkkkzip

I would not trust this person’s comments.

Just for people who are reading this and leading to believe that this might be true, the link that this user is providing[0] is produced by a group called KCPAC[1], a blatantly Korean alt-right group.

Rebutting fake news takes so much more time than spreading them.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/live/p508Q66_zCU

[1]: https://www.cpackorea.com/

For future HN readers, I did not engage with that comment because I also believed it to be either fake/astroturfing or otherwise, the messages weaved throughout it are...not cogent.

WTF, Yoonies? In my HN?

For anyone who wants a quick recap: South Korea's previous president Yoon had a brain fart and declared martial law last December, citing (among other things) a baseless conspiracy theory that said Chinese agents infiltrated Korean voting system to make the liberal Democratic Party win the previous legislative election.

Thankfully, the lawmakers literally jumped the wall to gather and declare the martial law void, so it was overthrown in hours, and long story short, the constitutional court universally agreed that Yoon committed treason, he was kicked out, we had an election, and (to no one's surprise) we got a new president from the Democratic Party, president Lee Jae-Myung.

There are still a handful of idiots who believe in Yoon's baseless election conspiracy theories. Last time I heard, they were reporting politicians, actors, singers, or basically everyone who came out against the martial law to CIA, for the crime of aiding China.

For some inexplicable reason, CIA isn't launching an immediate intervention to restore Yoon in power. I wonder why.

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Also, you can't post generated comments to HN, as your profile claims you've been doing.)