Just curious, do you live in a capitalist country?
In your country, how easy is it for someone to professionally work on their _art_ - i.e. have a career not just art-adjacent, like doing creative work as a graphic designer or animator or tattoo artist, but actually their own art, such as original paintings, poetry, or novels - which pays the entirety of their bills (presuming their bills actually include rent, food, transportation)?
In your country, is their any pressure on an individual working in the arts to work another job?
Can they sustain a family?
Do artists typically live with their parents or receive familial support until they hit it big?
Do they live out the starving artist stereotype or are they given a less meager existence?
Of the people that grew up poor that you know, do you know how many of them wanted to be artists, but had to take care of family or their own survival ahead of pursuing their art?
Of people you don't consider wealthy growing up, how many of them could afford a year at a prestigious private school for a year ahead of high school? (Relevant to the author here)
If you can answer these, it may give you some insight on SK. I can give you more if that's not enough.
In my country, which is capitalist, artists of all kinds are basically very poor, yes.
I don't see how this relates to South Korea, maybe it's the same maybe it's not. What familiarity with South Korea do you have to be able to present an informed judgement on this issue and call someone else disingenuous for not sharing your view?
You didn't answer all of my questions, which were not rhetorical and isn't really answered by your single sentence, so I'm not even sure you're familiar enough with your own country or the lives of artists within to really make a meaningful comparison for you.
I don't have any answers to give, I'm not very well informed on this topic. I'm asking you what makes you familiar with South Korea that you can make such a strong judgement about someone else's character or motivations on this topic.
The answer to that question has nothing to do with my own ignorance on this topic, and the fact that you keep dodging this tells me a lot more about who in this conversation is the actual asshole.
>tells me a lot more about who in this conversation is the actual asshole.
So I lived in Korea for some years, friends with 3 artists there trying to make it in capital A art in Seoul. The answer is (obviously) there is no significantly different familial support system between artists living in Korea and other developed capitalist countries that would somehow change the lifestyle of the average artist, and the suggestion is some strange orientalism or severe ignorance of lives of artists in capitalist countries. Ask on the Korean subreddit if you want variations on this answer.
Anyways, this exchange gave me a chuckle at least, a hostile+willfully ignorant or orientalist person wanted to call someone an asshole but did so in questions rather than a statement, and got upset when they were called ignorant in questions rather than a statement.
