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'''No non-offensive joke possible''':
It's a truism that dog meat is a popular delicacy in South Korea. A quick way to get an "Oooohhh!" from the audience in a [[Panel Show]] is to joke about it. Animal welfare groups scream "animal cruelty". The Koreans scream "cultural imperialism" back. Any argument goes nowhere fast. The Western aversion to eating dogs is so ingrained that it's ripe for [[Stealth Parody]], as [
Koreans have been called the "Irish of the Far East" for enduring a lot from the Imperial China, Japan, and the Mongols. The Japanese occupation of Korea actually made Korean nationalism stronger, and the tension from the two groups could be considered the equivalent of Polish-Russian relations, due to the fact the Japanese population has a nasty habit of denying anything their country ever did to Korea (and pretty much everyone else).
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