This meme has been popular on Korean right-wing websites lately: "Moonos" (문노스).
This is obviously a play on current Korean president Moon Jae-in and Thanos from the Avengers movies, which is now the most popular foreign film in Korea ever.
Here's just a quick introduction of Moonos.
Here's the basic meme template. One of the most popular pastimes of Korean right-wing netizens is photoshopping former (or current) left-wing presidents into the widest variety of shapes and characters you can imagine. I'll let you go down the rabbit hole for yourself.
Anyway we've got Moonos here with his own brand of the Infinity Gauntlet, which is made up of these Korean Left Wing versions of the Infinity Stones which Moon has managed to acquire the support of. From top to bottom:
[Note that these depictions are from a right-wing point of view and may not reflect objective reality.]
I presume he can use the support of these left-leaning organizations and ideals to snap his fingers and destroy Korean society, at least in the view of those on the right.
There are many variations of this meme, some of which get really detailed and advanced, where the Infinity Stones are the proposed 고위공직자범죄수사처 (a kind of special presidential investigative service that depending on your political leanings is either necessary to clean up corruption or itself is a massive power grab), the 연동형 비레재 style of elections, threats of withdrawal of USFK, and half a dozen other highly charged political issues that frankly I'm not qualified to comment on.
In fact I intended to post a few more of this meme but while trying to write about their content (which requires lengthy trips over to NamuWiki because I myself don't know well about them) I realized that many of them are very controversial and borderline illegal in their content. So honestly I'm not that comfortable re-posting them here. Sorry folks. You can troll the online communities on your own to find more examples. There are plenty. God, so many. You can Google Image search for some but so many get taken down so quickly that Google seems to have caught a tiny percentage.
--- UPDATE 2019/05/29:
A few days after I posted this, a similar post looking at another of the Moonos memes with more info went up at East Asia Research Center, where they include this background info:
See that post for more. This is why I'm usually skeptical to bother making posts like this. Sometimes I'm faster on the draw but if a more professional outfit is going to do it anyway I might as well just get more sleep. Anyway good supplementary info.
--- original post continues below
Instead I'll just go with this more light-hearted one:
Here, Tony Stark (played by conservative opposition leader 홍준표) looks in horror as Thanos (President Moon) relates the lines from the Avengers movie:
This one at least has a potentially positive message of Moon bringing a balance between the two hotheads. A few other funny variations can be browsed too including the "perfectly balanced" 탕짜장.
I think it would be neat if somebody more "in the know" than me would do a weekly round-up type blog on netizen humor, because there truly is just so much great content out there that never makes the jump over to English. Korean for Internauts does a good job but the rabbit hole is way too deep for one person.
This is obviously a play on current Korean president Moon Jae-in and Thanos from the Avengers movies, which is now the most popular foreign film in Korea ever.
Here's just a quick introduction of Moonos.
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| 문노스 |
Here's the basic meme template. One of the most popular pastimes of Korean right-wing netizens is photoshopping former (or current) left-wing presidents into the widest variety of shapes and characters you can imagine. I'll let you go down the rabbit hole for yourself.
Anyway we've got Moonos here with his own brand of the Infinity Gauntlet, which is made up of these Korean Left Wing versions of the Infinity Stones which Moon has managed to acquire the support of. From top to bottom:
[Note that these depictions are from a right-wing point of view and may not reflect objective reality.]
- 종북 & 전라도 - Supporters of North Korea, and the Jeolla Province. People from Jeollado are widely believed, among certain segments of society, to have been and still are closet or open NK sympathizers. Jeolla-do is after all the home of the Gwangju Uprising still viewed by many on the right as a communist-instigated rebellion.
- 여성부 - Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. Given their push for equality and feminist-supported causes, this has got to be the most despised ministry.
- 전교조 - National Teacher's Union. Technically illegal in Korea for teachers, categorized as public officials, to form a union. But this group exists anyway and is thought of as a bastion for left wing educators and instigators.
- 민주노총 - Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, or the National Democratic Confederation of Trade Unions. They are probably the #2 biggest labor union in Korea behind 한국노총 but are considered an extreme-left organization.
- 세월호 - Sewolho. The ferry that sank back in 2014 killing many high school students, seen by many on the left as emblematic of the corruption and incompetence of the then conservative president Park Gyen-Hye.
I presume he can use the support of these left-leaning organizations and ideals to snap his fingers and destroy Korean society, at least in the view of those on the right.
There are many variations of this meme, some of which get really detailed and advanced, where the Infinity Stones are the proposed 고위공직자범죄수사처 (a kind of special presidential investigative service that depending on your political leanings is either necessary to clean up corruption or itself is a massive power grab), the 연동형 비레재 style of elections, threats of withdrawal of USFK, and half a dozen other highly charged political issues that frankly I'm not qualified to comment on.
In fact I intended to post a few more of this meme but while trying to write about their content (which requires lengthy trips over to NamuWiki because I myself don't know well about them) I realized that many of them are very controversial and borderline illegal in their content. So honestly I'm not that comfortable re-posting them here. Sorry folks. You can troll the online communities on your own to find more examples. There are plenty. God, so many. You can Google Image search for some but so many get taken down so quickly that Google seems to have caught a tiny percentage.
--- UPDATE 2019/05/29:
A few days after I posted this, a similar post looking at another of the Moonos memes with more info went up at East Asia Research Center, where they include this background info:
The MoonNos character was initially created by a cartoonist Goopshinist (굽시니스트) on April 27, 2018 and the cartoon was carried in a left leaning journal Sisain on May 9, 2018. The cartoon showed MoonNos stating “jeokpae cheongsan (elimination/cleansing of political enemies) is not as fun as it appears, ha ha.” The six infinity stones of MoonNos’ gauntlet then were: Geunne (Park Geun-hye), MB (Lee Myung-bak), Gunni (Lee Kun-hee, Samsung Chairman), Ahncheol (Ahn Cheol-soo), Journality (the media), and Eunni (Kim Jong-un). The collection of these infinity stones completed the “Inni PT” gauntlet (“Inni” is a term created by Moon Jae-in supporters, but his critics also use it derogatorily; PT means political tactics.)
South Korean Student Organization Disburses Satire Leaflets of MoonNos, Avenger’s Thanos Parody, in Seoul and other Major Cities, Holds Candlelight Vigil Calling for the Resignation of Moon Jae-in - East Asia Research Center
See that post for more. This is why I'm usually skeptical to bother making posts like this. Sometimes I'm faster on the draw but if a more professional outfit is going to do it anyway I might as well just get more sleep. Anyway good supplementary info.
--- original post continues below
Instead I'll just go with this more light-hearted one:
Here, Tony Stark (played by conservative opposition leader 홍준표) looks in horror as Thanos (President Moon) relates the lines from the Avengers movie:
우주의 균형을 맞춘다는게 썩 재밌는 일은 아니지
Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe
그런데 이건
But this...
(Moon drops an Infinity Stone made up of Kim Jong-un's head into a gauntlet that already holds Donald Trump's head)
날 미소 짓게 하는군
This does put a smile on my face.
This one at least has a potentially positive message of Moon bringing a balance between the two hotheads. A few other funny variations can be browsed too including the "perfectly balanced" 탕짜장.
I think it would be neat if somebody more "in the know" than me would do a weekly round-up type blog on netizen humor, because there truly is just so much great content out there that never makes the jump over to English. Korean for Internauts does a good job but the rabbit hole is way too deep for one person.
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