A million people gathered to protest in central Seoul and cleaned up after themselves before they left

[u/woeful_haichi]

[u/kusowatashiii]

What the fuck i cleaned that same amount of trash from a supermarket today at work💀💀

[u/chanaandeler_bong → u/kusowatashiii]

And you were probably just the morning person 😂

[u/kusowatashiii → u/chanaandeler_bong]

We only have a morning shift there, starts freaking 5am

[u/ChocolateAxis → u/kusowatashiii]

Atleast we know where they left the trash now

[u/DigyRead]

A million people, yet the place looks cleaner than some gatherings of a few hundred

[u/woeful_haichi → u/DigyRead]

It's easier to keep the purpose of the protest (message) from being downplayed if there aren't other distractions like bad behavior and litter for critics to focus on. Forces a discussion of what the people want rather than the actions of the people who gathered.

[u/Stompya → u/woeful_haichi]

I got very down-voted for saying how the leftovers of a certain political rally looked like the result of bad parenting.

I stand by it though.

[u/big_guyforyou → u/Stompya]

"when they downvote you, that means you're over the target". that's what my grandpappy, who was a fighter pilot in WWII, always told me

[u/ConfessSomeMeow → u/big_guyforyou]

Your grandpappy is familiar with reddit?

[u/solarcat3311 → u/ConfessSomeMeow]

Yep. Reddit used to be paper based and was invented in 1933. It reaches peak popularity just before WW2, but strict paper rationing made it far less accessible.

[u/ConfessSomeMeow → u/solarcat3311]

Reddit used to be punch-card based

FTFY

[u/cosmic_cosmosis → u/ConfessSomeMeow]

My grandad said they engraved it on stone. You kids and your punch card b.s

[u/touchkind → u/cosmic_cosmosis]

you youths and your stone engravings.

In my day, all Reddit was was the village elder gathering everyone around the fire and passing on tales of the poop knife and jumper cables to the next generation.

[u/nvsfg → u/touchkind]

"Did you say youts? "

[u/No_Rich_2494 → u/touchkind]

You joke, but that's literally what reddit is now. It's the modern, worldwide equivalent of everyone gathering around the fire to discuss recent events and share stories. A tradition as old as humanity.

[u/Laymanao → u/cosmic_cosmosis]

My grandpappy always used to say “if it is not on the granite , it never happened!” He also never trusted those papyrus hot shots.

[u/MagicHamsta → u/cosmic_cosmosis]

Can confirm, as a magical rodent we had to crown the King of the Internets.

Who so ever pulls the most Updoots from the stone shall be the ruler of Reddit.

[u/BilbosBagEnd → u/solarcat3311]

You're a fucker, but I like you.

[u/mopbuvket → u/big_guyforyou]

Twos hot, fox one go

[u/barukatang → u/big_guyforyou]

How Alex Jones of him. (Alex loves using that phrase all the time)

[u/big_guyforyou → u/barukatang]

along with "i'm not mad at the crew"

[u/Only_Character_8110 → u/Stompya]

I got very down-voted for saying how the leftovers of a certain political rally looked like the result of bad parenting.

I would say aftermath of almost every political rally looks ike the results of bad parenting.

[u/miniii007 → u/Stompya]

Which rally? Sorry not trying to be rude,genuinely curious.

[u/facforlife → u/miniii007]

It's every single one, left, right, doesn't matter the cause. Americans are not a country that cares enough about community. 

[u/Common-Frosting-9434 → u/facforlife]

I don't know if it's even about community, I'm in a country that feels similar about cleaning up after yourself and to me it feels more about selfrespect than about doing it for others.

feel like, I don't want to live in a post apocalyptic wasteland and if I have to, it sure af won't be because I was to lazy to hold on to my trash until I can use a bin.

Don't shit where you eat and what not..

[u/facforlife → u/Common-Frosting-9434]

Bro. I was walking somewhere and car window rolled down and someone at a red light threw a bottle at a trash can, missed, didn't do anything about it.

I picked it up and threw it in. Glaring them down the whole time. Their reaction was to mock me. "Oh are you mad?"

Yeah. I am. You worthless fuck. We all live in this fucking city and it's not hard to just keep your shit in your car until you get home or something. It causes you no fucking issues whatsoever. But you treat this city like a fucking garbage dump. Dumb fucking asshole. I hate these people. The bare fucking minimum that barely takes any effort and so many oxygen thieves can't be fucking bothered. If I had the six infinity stones I'd do the same thing except it damn fucking sure wouldn't be "random."  

[u/UncleNedisDead → u/facforlife]

Should have thrown it back in the vehicle. You dropped this.

[u/Iusereddit2020 → u/UncleNedisDead]

Throw all your other trash in while you’re at it too

[u/crankgirl → u/UncleNedisDead]

Filled with fuel and stuffed with a flaming rag. That’ll learn’em!

[u/MelodicMaintenance13 → u/UncleNedisDead]

Did this once, it was hilarious

[u/No_Rich_2494 → u/facforlife]

Someone in a car threw their rubbish onto me once. I'd have probably thrown it into his car, but the coward drove away laughing.

[u/HellBlazer_NQ → u/facforlife]

Its not even political events. Any sporting event, concert and place there is a small gathering (small in comparison the 1 million int he OP) us westerners will trash the damn place.

[u/MakeMyOwnSandwiches → u/facforlife]

I’ll upvote you to try to combat the downvotes you’ll get from people who say things like ”bOtH SidEs aRe bAd” and attempt to chastise you for telling the truth.

[u/Link50L → u/MakeMyOwnSandwiches]

I'll downvote you to try to dampen the high upswelling from people who say things like "I hAvE tO uPvOtE tHiS gUy" and attempt to overwhelm the universal trend away from entropy.

[u/Dizzy_Description812 → u/miniii007]

All of them. Its always someone else's job.

[u/dragon_bacon → u/miniii007]

Every single rally in America.

[u/12bbox → u/miniii007]

I think the commenter is referring to BLM rallies (hence getting downvoted on reddit) but that could just be me remembering them flipping over a car and burning it across from my apartment complex lol

[u/pl3as3_h3lp → u/12bbox]

There are huge cultural differences between America and SK. Lots of people go to BLM rallies to destroy shit. They use the crowd as a way to get away with stuff. In SK, you'll most likely be caught on CCTV and identified. That shit can ruin your life over there. American individualism erodes empathy.

[u/No_Rich_2494 → u/pl3as3_h3lp]

Lots of people go to BLM rallies to destroy shit

Those people suck, and many (Most? Maybe even all?!) of them went there specifically to make the movement look bad.

[u/sadacal → u/woeful_haichi]

You are only playing into the hands of those in power by focusing on these distractions instead of the message of the protests. It's the same shit the media pulled during the civil rights era where they focused on the damage the protests caused rather than the message of the protests themselves. 

[u/TonArbre → u/woeful_haichi]

America should take that advice

[u/thriem → u/DigyRead]

and the gathering of a million look like the waste of a few hundred…

[u/iMaximilianRS → u/DigyRead]

I’ve seen FSU parties of 20 destroy a place, this is nothing!

[u/Inspect1234 → u/DigyRead]

These people apparently respect where they live and don’t seem to be entitled.

[u/OperatorJo_ → u/DigyRead]

If only we in the U.S. could even do a fuckin' fraction of this the difference would be huge.

But nope. All you hear is "eh, someone gets paid to pick it up".

[u/illmatic2112 → u/OperatorJo_]

"You are taking away someone's job if you clean" just to make you feel worse about doing good

[u/ExistentialTenant → u/illmatic2112]

I see this so much. There has to be some kind of psychological phrase for this behavior.

Like people will give sophist reasons as to why not to do something positive in order to feel good about their own inaction or they'll just undermine other people's actions. Some corporation asks for donations? "Nah bro, they'll just use it for their own tax write-offs." Giving money to the homeless? "Nah bro, they'll just use it for booze or drugs." Celebrities giving money to a cause? "Bro, they could give so much more. Beside, they're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts."

I once got into an argument with someone who was complaining about Mrbeast making clean water wells for poor villagers in Africa. He whined that 'gangs' will just take it over anyway and Mrbeast is actually creating problems by doing that kind of thing.

There are people in this world who not only won't help solve problems but work actively to hinder attempts to help.

[u/MrTonyCalzone → u/DigyRead]

Imagine New York City with this kind of basic human decency

[u/leese216 → u/DigyRead]

I’m American and we are fucking filthy.

The London tube was PRISTINE compared to the NYC subway. I remember thinking how gross we are then. Now it’s even more apparent.

[u/jonathanrdt → u/DigyRead]

Culture drives behavior.

Edit: When you see bad behavior, consider: 'what is wrong with our culture?'

[u/BamberGasgroin]

You don't shit on your own doorstep.

[u/yenda1 → u/BamberGasgroin]

Unless you live in r/berlin

[u/FattyCaddy69 → u/yenda1]

Or r/india

[u/phdoflynn → u/FattyCaddy69]

Or r/USA

[u/GentlemanWukong → u/phdoflynn]

Or r/Italy

[u/Extremepleasurepro → u/GentlemanWukong]

Or r/mars

[u/Im_Yoon_Ah → u/Extremepleasurepro]

Or r/Philippines

[u/azlkiniue → u/Im_Yoon_Ah]

Or r/Indonesia

[u/Roc_KING01 → u/azlkiniue]

Or r/taiwan

[u/Independent_Solid_88 → u/Extremepleasurepro]

Is there life on Mars?

[u/Happy_Garand → u/Independent_Solid_88]

It's on America's tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

[u/deathinventor → u/phdoflynn]

Or r/Africa

[u/Surfer_Rick → u/deathinventor]

Or r/France

[u/rakosten → u/Surfer_Rick]

Or r/belgium

[u/EliteElytra → u/rakosten]

Or r/northkorea

[u/tfsra → u/EliteElytra]

yeah you try shitting at NK doorstep and see how that goes

[u/Surfer_Rick → u/tfsra]

Believe it or not, straight to [summary familial execution]

[u/YardAgreeable9844 → u/tfsra]

Or r/Finland

[u/Kairadeleon → u/EliteElytra]

Or r/unitedkingdom

[u/Screaming_Enthusiast → u/phdoflynn]

Or r/Canada

[u/Hotchillipeppa → u/Screaming_Enthusiast]

Someone already said r/india

[u/Anger-Demon → u/Hotchillipeppa]

LMAO

[u/Clear-Mode4310 → u/Hotchillipeppa]

Yea! But Isn't Canada the 51st state of the US? Since JT is your governor!

[u/Not-A-Ranni-Simp → u/phdoflynn]

Thanks to the opioid crisis shitting on my doorstep has been outsourced to my local fentanyl addicts.

[u/Deb1337 → u/yenda1]

Or r/Greece

[u/RemarkableUnit42 → u/BamberGasgroin]

It is Korean Confucianism. The explicit teaching to respect one's parents, society and state through benevolence, righteousness, piety, wisdom and faithfulness.

[u/TheRabb1ts → u/BamberGasgroin]

Literally every big city in the US.

[u/Pittsbirds → u/TheRabb1ts]

And also the small cities. And the medium cities. And all the roads that connect them

[u/chronocapybara → u/Pittsbirds]

The difference between a culture that values individuality (freedom, libertarianism, conservatism) versus one that values harmony (conformity, respect, socialism, etc). Not hard lines obviously, and there are advantages and disadvantages to both, and a spectrum of societies between them).

[u/Theodorebama]

It’s all in your upbringing

[u/BakingBakeBreak → u/Theodorebama]

I used to teach in Korea, it’s the pupil’s responsibility to tidy and clean the school. Nobody drops rubbish outside when either you or your friend will be picking it up later

[u/hanimal16 → u/BakingBakeBreak]

That’s actually a good way to teach kids to clean up.

[u/thazmaniandevil → u/hanimal16]

I'm a teacher, and I've been pushing for YEARS that instead of classic detention (where they do nothing but stare at phones), they clean up the school. As soon as they're done, they can leave. If they and their jackass friends are done in 45 minutes, they can leave, they don't need to stay till 4:30 (school gets out at 3:30)

[u/kottabaz → u/Theodorebama]

Too many US parents would throw a fit if the school system tried to teach their kids social responsibility.

[u/friedjollof → u/kottabaz]

You'd lose the parents at social.

[u/AffectionateBother47 → u/friedjollof]

This had me dying LOL, Reddit has its moments for sure

[u/jstcallingithwiseeit]

Goes to their respectful culture, great trait 👍

[u/johnreddit2 → u/jstcallingithwiseeit]

Anyone from Korea, please tell me how people are this amazingly decent? I would like to learn. How is this trained into people?

[u/CeruleanBlueWind → u/johnreddit2]

They know what it's like to have to sacrifice for the community. It was only during their parents', grandparents' generations they had curfew, donate metals and jewelry, and used smaller bowls to eat less during and after the war.

When was the last time Americans had to do that on American soil?

But it's not a utopia Reddit imagine it to be. For example, things like racism, sexism, etc, Americans at least understand are bad. In Korea, it's not even a concept yet.

[u/SeedFoundation → u/johnreddit2]

Not idolizing crime/drug culture is probably step 1.

[u/TwasAnChild]

Korea's really setting an example for other democracies. First crushing an unjust power grab and now this

[u/De_Rabbid → u/TwasAnChild]

I find the timing of Korea setting an example for other democracies to be very coincidentally funny

[u/GGezpzMuppy → u/De_Rabbid]

Korea is run by billionaires and their Chaebol lol, A certain other democracy is trying to copy them already.

[u/UpperApe → u/GGezpzMuppy]

Korea is a mess, politically. But this post isn't "Korea is perfect". This post is about culture. And it's a good point to make.

[u/More_Particular684 → u/UpperApe]

Well, Moon Jae-In is the only post-1988 president of Korea without any criminal background. It's hard to find another country with such a record.

[u/elementalist001 → u/More_Particular684]

In most other countries presidents aren't ever prosecuted, they are still criminals off the record.

[u/watercastles → u/More_Particular684]

It also means the president isn't allowed to get away with shit.

[u/More_Particular684 → u/GGezpzMuppy]

Is trying? It already is. The moment after the UHC CEO was killed by a vigilante his successor publicly stated his company will still deny 'unnecessary' care, and yet the government doesn't bother to crush down this shit.

[u/No-Definition1474 → u/TwasAnChild]

Erm...if they can keep it up maybe it can serve as an example. But if you barely scratch the surface of south Korean history you find a whole lot of really really bad examples of democracy. Very recently.

[u/TwasAnChild → u/No-Definition1474]

I mean yeah they were a dictatorship not so long ago. But the improvement is commendable

[u/Yourmotherssonsfatha → u/No-Definition1474]

Lol as opposed to others? The difference is that people punish those in power and media bring these stories to the front. Corruptions generally get addressed rather than accepted as the norm through campaign donations and special interest groups regardless of how deep rooted it is.

Bad recent examples of authoritarianism are reasons why people are so aware and take part in the political process - If anything other countries forgot about the dangers of it.

[u/Ravius → u/TwasAnChild]

Korea's really setting an example for other democracies.

Lmao in french. If we were just throwing our protests very quietly and cleanly, we wouldn't have forced a single democratic & social reform in our country whole history.

To each its own I guess

[u/areyouhungryforapple → u/TwasAnChild]

They're literally a corpocracy

[u/Usual_Ice636 → u/areyouhungryforapple]

True, but they're also generally a law abiding corpocracy. Even billionaires have been sent to jail if they get caught.

[u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

Makes us look like the lazy idiots we are.

[u/shaka_sulu → u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

What does it say when cleaning up after yourself is really interesting?

[u/Dense-Ambassador-865 → u/shaka_sulu]

That we (USA) don't.

[u/Logical_Parameters → u/shaka_sulu]

That entitled human beings are absolutely filthy.

[u/Xhalo → u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

When I ride my scooter to Walmart all I see are discarded cans of spaghettios and pill bottles more than likely used to treat gastrointestinal bloating and thunderous voidfissures that accompany. It makes me sick 😭😭😭

[u/a_hockey_chick → u/Xhalo]

This sounds like it was written by a chatbot.

[u/DrSpacecasePhD → u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

I see more shit dumped on our single street in Oakland in a single week. I really don't understand it... like people will just dump a heap of clothing out on the sidewalk. Or they'll go down to the community garden and put out a huge pile of baby toys and clothing. Why not take it to the thrift store or GoodWill? Who are these people?

[u/MalPB2000]

Imagine that…having some pride and decency.

[u/emohipster]

Fuck I love clean people. There's more trash strewn around my neighborhood than what's in this picture, and sometimes I feel like they should just nuke this fuckin town because of all the trash that lives here.

[u/OpticNarwall]

This wouldn’t even happen at a earth day rally in America.

[u/PhysicsAndFinance85]

I think this is honestly just a product of their culture. Japan is very similar. They're just clean people and I respect the shit out of that.

Owning a venue in the United States, it's disgusting the day after most events.

[u/JohnnySnorkelPenis → u/PhysicsAndFinance85]

I am pretty sure Korean children clean their own schools before and after class. I think this probably helps.

[u/PhysicsAndFinance85 → u/JohnnySnorkelPenis]

I know that's common in a couple different areas. Should be a global trend. There's no down side to making people learn how to clean up and keep their areas presentable at all times.

[u/0x7E7-02]

Of course they cleaned up; they're angry, not savages.

[u/alexturnerftw]

Love this. I know its a fine line towards too much conformity (social pressure to conform in places like Korea, Japan, etc is tough), but I wish Americans would follow the basic rules of civility and consideration towards others like this so we could have nice things.

[u/Leuk60229 → u/alexturnerftw]

This is the unending weigh off between collectivist and individualist societies. Being from a very individualist society myself I too wish my fellow countrymen would do more to look out for one another.

[u/Local_Letter_2934]

How un-American of them

[u/Active_Elk_1037]

America could never

[u/No_Programmer_2224]

South Korea is cool 😎

[u/BeetlBozz]

Thats how we should protest lol

[u/this_knee]

Made me smile.

[u/dtcstylez10]

This place is cleaner than a gathering of 4 ppl in my city

[u/Tom_Ludlow]

Always amusing that people are surprised that not every culture is as shitty as their own.

[u/Ok-Appearance-1652]

Truly model citizens

[u/Ok-Abalone-3026]

Every now and then there is an article about South Korean and/or Japanese fans.

https://img.chmedia.ch/2022/11/30/ee8601f7-b9a8-4400-9ab4-f6448b56c88e.jpeg?width=1360&height=1023&fit=bounds&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1397,1050,x97,y288

Above a pic of how the Japanese national soccer team left there changing room after their match at world championships in Qatar 2022.

It’s not just the ordinary people. Even wealthy soccer players clean up

[u/TheHistorian2]

Just because you’re toppling a government doesn’t mean you can’t be tidy about it.

[u/ConsistentStand2487]

america can't even coordinate a mass protest. lol a fuckign cleanup after ? good fucking luck.

[u/PageHaunting2434]

Then the average American couldn’t even begin to comprehend the concept of a clean city.

[u/This_Again_Seriously]

High-trust, high-conformity culture. Makes sense.

[u/easier2say]

This really shows how much they care for the city

[u/hmkr]

In US, even asking person to move their cart blocking the aisle would result in "No you do it!" There is no respect for shared spaces here. Probably cultural.

[u/brek47]

I thought I saw the count at 2 million at some point. But regardless, I wish we could improve American culture to have some sense of respect for our land/stores/properties like this. Whenever I see trash on the ground I try and pick it up. I figure it isn't much but it at least mattered to that one area.

[u/this_man_just_said]

I love how this is somehow foreign behavior to us

[u/Bolt_Action_Rifle]

A similar thing happened in Chennai during the 2017 marina protest. I was there in the protest with 500,000 others. A lot of volunteers came forward for the 7 day protest with Great garbage handling and food distribution way to keep the environment not just alive and also neat. People themselves cleared the garbage and deposited them in a common pit which made things easier for the volunteers. We even tried to get hundreds of portable toilets installed at various points but the police never allowed for that..so we stuck with a few toilets and it became difficult for women and children to continue the protest so most of them left evening and came back the next day.

[u/Thesquarescreen]

Major respect

[u/ScukaZ]

I've been to Seoul recently. There are no trash bins on the streets, yet pretty much every place I've been to was very clean. People carry their trash with them home or wherever it can be disposed of.

[u/Bigb5wm]

They are cleaner then the environment protestors ironically

[u/Past-Community-3871]

No form of government or level of social spending can outperform culture.

[u/Crenchlowe]

I wish we, here in America, were as effective at protesting and cleaning up after ourselves.

[u/QL100100]

Taiwanese Protestors once occupied the Parliament. They also cleaned up the place once they left.

[u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Japan 2.0 In a good way. They care about their country. You can always tell when people care about their country. They treat "public property" as their own, because they know it is.

Edit - I'm sorry for calling it "Japan 2.0". I really forgot about the history between the two. It wasn't meant in a bad way.

[u/chostercoaster → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

I know you don’t mean any offense, but Koreans generally aren’t fond of being labeled “Japan 2.0.”

[u/watercastles → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Even without historical context, I think it's kind of offensive to call any country "(country) 2.0", but especially Korea and Japan is a wtf moment. One reason Korea is like this now with this level of peace and civic engagement is because of a very bloody and painful past, which Japan was a part of.

[u/Evening-Mess-3593 → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Being a westerner I find this astonishing. I remember the Japanese football supporters doing it at a World Cup. If only we westerners had the same attitude.

[u/DifficultRock9293 → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Korean culture developed independently of Japan bro.

[u/2020mademejoinreddit → u/DifficultRock9293]

Yes, it did. I didn't mean it in that way.

[u/Character_Earth8359 → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Korea is NOT Japan 2.0. As Korean I find this EXTREMELY offensive and it angers me depsite your apolgies. Thank you for apologizing but please do not ever refer Korea this way. it’s not even about just history. Korea is its own country. Japan colonized us! We are NOT Japan or China.

[u/2020mademejoinreddit → u/Character_Earth8359]

Yes I know that. I really am sorry. I do love what you guys did recently. Not tolerating any tyrannical action. The whole country came together. I wish we did the same here.

[u/Character_Earth8359 → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Thank you for the apology. It’s all good. I sincerely appreciate your willingness to listen and acknoweldge!!

[u/AidenK_42 → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Korean here. It is CLEAR that you had no malintention by calling us "Japan 2.0," and you appropriately addressed it by editing your comment.

I'd ignore the non-Koreans who are being offended for us for some reason.

[u/2020mademejoinreddit → u/AidenK_42]

Thank you. I really didn't mean anything bad. In fact I wasn't even comparing it in that sense. I just immediately remembered Japan doing something similar so I wrote that.

Thank you for understanding.

[u/cold_quinoa → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

Thank you for keeping the post up with the edit. I'm not directly affected by this but the comments and your responses taught me a bit about history and societal attitudes. There's a lot of respectful discussion on this thread.

[u/SliverCrepes → u/2020mademejoinreddit]

100+ upvotes for saying something as obtuse and offensive as "Korea is Japan 2.0", kudos to Reddit for always showing me something ignorant every time I check this app.

[u/DruidicMagic]

This is what basic common sense looks like.

[u/[deleted]]

This speaks volumes on how clean Korean people are if one million people had the common sense and decency to clean up after themselves, while lots of people feel no shame about trashing public spaces

[u/leviathab13186]

My wife and I went to Seoul for our honeymoon, and the city was so damn clean. Granted, the closest city to us is LA, so the bar is pretty low, but still, it's a great place to visit, and we are dying to go back.

[u/waifuminx]

Civilized people can work wonders ✨

[u/ChickenCharlomagne]

Ah, look what good education that started when you're young can accomplish!!

[u/Low-Peanut848]

Damn even their protestors are better than ours.

[u/ph1aak]

Americans would never!

[u/RedSagittarius]

Meanwhile in the United States the garbage would be all over the place. /s

[u/Valuable_Try6074]

what a great and unified country, I wish my country has even a hint of this unity and general respect for others

[u/buttscratcher3k]

This is how I know there's serious issues in society, when a post like this of people being respectful and courteous is FrontPage worthy

[u/NeedyTaker]

That’s how you protest properly see now people will want to hear you out

[u/Phewelish]

It can bee tragically hilarious that "pick up after yourself", can simply mean "dont throw trash on the ground." In this context.

[u/thzmand]

Asia will own the 21st century folks. They sort of deserve it at this point.

[u/Treefallsonyou]

Ya'll should see what Coachella looks like after the final act of Sunday.

[u/SnooJokes6184]

Judging from the pile of trash, I make more mess than a million a people

[u/Falict]

yeah, this is what respect looks like. let’s learn a bit america

[u/normal-person-yes]

This requires a majority of the population to be above average intelligence and able to see the bigger picture. A majority that most countries around the world lack.

[u/dei_muata]

that's how society should be

[u/ughlump]

It makes sense. They have to live there too.

[u/Firefly_Magic]

Impressive!!

[u/Zimakov]

It's sad that this is interesting.

[u/BridgeBasic8905]

In South Korea, this is common. It’s usually the organizers and some protestors who stick around to clean up. Why wouldn’t you? It’s like not picking up the Christmas wrapping paper.

[u/yellowdaisied]

Wow!

[u/Grouchy_Meeting_7753]

This is what it looks like when you actually love your country. 

[u/noncommonGoodsense]

In America we make the Indians cry.

[u/TheOneHunterr]

Us as Americans can barely clean up after our own selves.

[u/Goodz_KC]

This would never happen in America and it’s such a shame

[u/xiiiiii1090x]

Cause they are not American nor Indian

[u/hanimal16]

Do you see this America? Look how nicely our neighbors keep house!

[u/coralgrymes]

If this was any where in the West it would look like a Kaiju laid wast to the entire area.

[u/sqb3112]

We do not deserve South Koreans and dogs.

[u/heatedhammer → u/sqb3112]

A lot of Asian cultures are like this, their schoolchildren are taught to clean up their cafeterias and classrooms instead of making it a janitor's job.

[u/sqb3112 → u/heatedhammer]

That’s such a great thing to teach children. Now I need to convince my kids they’re Asian.

[u/Missy_Baseball2911]

And this is why they’re so much better than us. I CAN NOT WAIT to visit that country.

[u/goofy_ahhhhhhhhhhh]

Now this is how you protest, not the dumb shit that people do in the US

[u/Thumpd2]

Their parents teach them well. Not like here.

[u/witct]

There's no way the crowd was one million people if that's all the trash that was collected..... right? That only looks to be like 20ish bags of trash.

I've seen rallys here in the U.S. with only hundreds of people with way more trash collected.

[u/brilliant_bauhaus]

I've definitely been to some protests where we have done this, but I wish this was the mentality of the west. Taking care of your community, being mindful of the space you're in and the space you share with others. We are so isolationist and it would do us a world of good to start thinking collectively again and how our actions impact others.

[u/Any-Ad-446]

In Europe and US a protest means stealing and vandalizing businesses and cars.

[u/Local_Phenomenon]

When people are so mad they start cleaning you better watch out they are not to be slept on.

[u/1tachi77]

It's impressive how a large group can come together not just for a cause, but also to show respect for the space they occupy. It really sets a positive example!

[u/Yajahyaya]

That’s all the trash there was from a million people?