If what you call schizophrenic are those people sharing each others' thoughts and feelings on this matter based on their religion/belief, then I'd have to strongly disagree with you. I'm not Christian myself, but I have no problem with that. You're basically doing the same thing now, sharing your thoughts on this matter based on your own understanding. Some people may find your comment offensive, some may not.
I'd be able take you more seriously if you didn't mention that thing about 'skinship' being a normal thing in Korea.
"Koreans are extremely touchy feely and that thing is very normal there."
Yeah, that touchy feely is called 'skinship' and it's part of pop/contemporary culture. You know, the thing about contemporary cultures is, they don't reflect the original values of a nation/a country. I'm not saying that skinship doesn't exist at all, it does, it's become a socially normal and accepted thing. But has it always been this way? Nah. I don't know if it would be of any use at all to explain the whole thing about the gay agenda being pushed into mass cause based on your 'understanding', it doesn't seem to matter/even exist at all. Am I correct?
Don't worry, I'm not trying to be rude, I mean this with love... but I'm sorry I just really have to say this, that skinship thing is also part of the gay agenda. At this point, I won't force you to believe me. Take it or leave it, that simple.
Your statement about 'skinship' being mistaken as gay acts is a sign that this thing has been normalized by the society. So how do you differentiate between 'mere skinship' and real gay acts in Korea? How do you know that the two people doing skinship to each other are just friends and not a gay couple? How do you differentiate the line between them? Well, the truth is, it's almost impossible to do.
Another 'unfair' truth about this is, being gay is a big no-no but doing skinship is always acceptable (can you see the ridiculous contradiction?). It's the hypocrisy of the Korean entertainment industry, and I must say the whole modern society. This isn't a racist remark, I'm saying this from my point of view as a Korean myself. Now that I've mentioned that, we can conclude that all those real gay couples can do in Korea is faking their real affection as 'mere skinship' in public so that the society won't roast them. "Not all people who do skinship are gay, but all gay couples do skinship" (it's the least they can do anyway).
For the fan service part, I just really have to quote this part from
an article I found, because why not?
Korea is not that open to homosexuality, right? Yet there is a phenomenom in the entertainment business that has pretty much demanded it, and has been often a key to success: fan service.
Fan service pretty much shows idols/artists/actors of the same sex implying romance/love between each other. That means that two guys act as if they’re in a romantic relationship. I say “guys” because it’s not often you see it between girls, and if you do, it’s often just assumed that they are just the best of friends. For some reason, it is more acceptable for two women to be more affectionate towards each other than two men.
Fan service is something the fans — mostly girls — expect from their idols. They do the job themselves when they pair up some of the idol members with each other, from there, fanfictions spring up and suddenly ships are born. Fangirls get excitement from imagining their favorite idols with each other. I have yet to understand why some girls like this, the homosexual relationship between two men.
The hypocrisy comes not only from the fangirls, but also, for example, variety shows. More often than not, males are asked to dress up as girls, act like girls or engage in some form of romantic play with each other.
Here the issue is that the idols/entertainers must do as the variety shows ask them to do. They need to be on these shows to be able to gain recognition. At the same time, the variety show must act out the things that will grant them high ratings, so the public wants to see these sorts of displays. However, the issue comes in the fact that if any of them were to come out as openly gay, they would, for a fact, lose their popularity, job and even life.
Has skinship always been part of the Korean culture/society? Again, nah. It's part of the agenda. How do you push a gay agenda into an ultra-conservative nation? You can't just start throwing out openly gay celebrities and influencers into the public. The answer is: Make homosexual acts seem normal and acceptable in the daily life without stating them as "homosexual". Now don't start laughing because I'm 100% aware that this skinship thing has been going on around for decades, but have you ever wondered about the origin of the word 'skinship' (which is exclusively being used in the East Asian culture)?
https://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/03/03/skinship/
Skinship
A discussion on an e-mail list made me aware of a new word: “skinship.”
n. Feelings of relatedness and affection between two people, particularly a mother and a child, caused by hugging, touching, and other forms of physical contact. (Yeah yeah, I know it was initially used to refer a mother-child relationship, but look where the society has stirred this term to)
The origin of the word is unclear. Debbie Treijs (in “Japanese skinship; healthy touching between parent and child,” Mothering, September 1, 1999), claims that it was introduced by the WTO during a meeting in Japan in 1940, but the WTO wasn’t founded until 1948, so it is unclear what she is referring to.
Google "WTO", you'll thank me later. Okay, so why would the World Trade Organization introduce such word into the public? (Skinship was later used to refer platonic physical contact within the same sex). It was still debated whether the WTO really did introduce the word, but it doesn't matter. The name-dropping of WTO itself is a red flag (Reference:
Unholy trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO)
To make it short, something or someone or some people were trying to break the root of the East Asian culture, or Korean conservative culture in particular. The root of the Korean culture is Confucianism. I don't know if throwing out some random lines (which are actually not random at all) from a journal of Cultural Studies also counts as a "schizophrenic act" in your perspective but I just really have to do this, because why not?
Gender is a profound determinant of power in Korean Confucian culture. Once a homosocial bond becomes homosexual, the borderline between them is transgressed and disrupted. Such a transgression is considered a disruption in the Confucian society because of the influence of the Confucian heterosexual gender inequality reflected on the continuum. Thus the transition from the homosocial to the homosexual in an intimate male relationship could be seen quite drastic and disruptive, given that male equal relationship becomes hierarchical in terms of Confucian sexual role differentiation. When a homosocial relationship becomes homosexual, a role is assigned to each participant, and the role assignment is typically arranged within the Confucian cultural framework: One takes a more active, penetrating, masculine role and the other a more dependent, feminine, penetrated role. In Confucian patriarchal society where femininity is regarded as inferior and not manly, such a feminine role for a man tends to be condemned as deviant from the social norm and thus perverted or byuntae (in Korean). Thus the continuum between homosocial, homoerotic, and homosexual should stay clearly discontinuous, and the Western binary model of sexuality further reinforces this separation by distinguishing between sexual and non-sexual relationships.
Look what they did after skinship has been around in the culture for decades, just a few days ago an openly gay singer made his debut in the Kpop industry and it's been fully supported by many people, both the Korean and the international fans of Kpop. This could only happen with the help of skinship being normalized in the Korean society.
Conclusion: Both skinship and fan service were introduced to destroy the root of the Korean culture (and the rest of the world, too).
