Korea might be an imaginary culture

[King Krávoka]

I'm not saying that Korea is a hoax, I am saying that Korea reads exactly like someone's nationstates account or similar alternate history project, like it is the only evidence for a simulated universe. Only. Anyone seriously advocating simulation hypothesis is either a scam artist or a psuedo-intellectual, and a stochastic murderer either way. But if this world is fake, it's not "some computer program or some god's mind", it's the Korea fictional universe.

1. The Korean peninsula is an unobtrusive bolt-on to the geography of Asia and history in general, it would be very easy to imagine either without it.
2. It replicates a Taiwan/China split but as a complete send-off of either ideology; the communist end is an idolatrous basket-case, and the capitalist end is a shallow corporate hellscape puppeted by misandrists; with religious insanity in the highest echelons either way, and I am underselling this for rustiness with the notorious and pervasive, Tropico-esque, insanity of it all.
3. Their alphabet is an easily-understood logographic system, much easier to pick up than the ideographic system that it imitates, saving time for both the readers and the (in-universe) author!
4. South Korea situates companies producing consumer electronics with very distinctive brands in its native language, similar to the authorial practice of evoking a real-world brand with a legally distinct name.

 

[Doomsought]

Well, to pile on the shitpost: Koreans do not have body odor.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Well, to pile on the shitpost: Koreans do not have body odor.

False.

 

[Doomsought]

Nope. This is actually true. Its due to a mutation in the ABCC11 gene. Its present in nearly the entire population in Korea, but can be found in the rest of Asia. The Imperial Japanese Navy used to select recruits for their submarine crews by doing a sniff test- anyone who didn't stink after exercise was put on a submarine. This allowed Japan to make safer and lighter submarines by not having to include bathing facilities.

 

[colorles]

Nope. This is actually true. Its due to a mutation in the ABCC11 gene. Its present in nearly the entire population in Korea, but can be found in the rest of Asia. The Imperial Japanese Navy used to select recruits for their submarine crews by doing a sniff test- anyone who didn't stink after exercise was put on a submarine. This allowed Japan to make safer and lighter submarines by not having to include bathing facilities.

Why do you think that trait evolved? On the other hand, black people tend to smell strongly and whites just as strongly but a different scent.

study linked below by the way

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15346832

as for sweat based body odor itself, it likely has to do with a mixture of showing dominance, mate selection, and in-group identification.