I can’t wait for Trump to call this guy Cho Hyundai.
And it sounds like Korea is looking for something like an apology from Trump. lol not sure what they are expecting.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
342 points (99.4% liked)
World News
49646 readers
2442 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't think they're after an apology. I think they're signaling that it is a good idea to repatriate. South Korea has a huge and growing lack of young people so it is not a lot of effort to be showy about protecting their people
Well let’s hope they don’t expect the apology. But the article mentions how they feel betrayed after promising to invest so much in the US. And that this is not how an ally should act.
Exactly. South Korea doesn't realize that this is Trump's way of signaling that he needs a kick-back.
He needs money in his pocket in order for the workers to be released. Once they have them back, South Korea should pull out their investments in the US.
All countries should pull out their investments in the US. Hell, I wish I knew how to pull mine out
I actually did this a few months ago. I switched out my 401k domestic mutual funds for international funds. I did a check on my investments and they are doing great.
I also divested from any federal bonds and only invested in local/state bonds.
It's not much but it's the right thing to do.
I did a partial switch shortly after Trump was elected and also cashed out at fairly high points and left a chunk in money market.
They would rather have those people back in Korea than in Uganda or wherever the Trump regime wants to send them.
South Korea’s quality of life is way better than the US.
I really hope they are able to do something meaningful that helps build trust with there poeple.
Cho Hy-Un-Dai or Cho Hundo?
There is a nearing 0% chance Trump could actually pronounce Hyundai.
e-honda.
Very, very few westerners can. They almost always pronounce it with three syllables.
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it with more than two.
Hay-un-dee
One of their latest advertising campaigns on british television is about pronouncing it as 2 syllables. In North America it's already pronounced like "hun day" which is pretty damn close, I think.
Yeah "hun day" isn't too bad. I'm not Korean myself, but I think I prefer that pronunciation to "hi-oon-day" which is what I usually hear.
"Hun day" kind reminds me of "win" as a pronunciation of Vietnamese "Nguyen". It's obviously wrong, but it works pretty well as a pronunciation that uses phonemes and phonotactics common to English.
I pronounce it "high n' die."
Because I like saying high n' die lol.
Sort of, or "hun die". The actual name in Korean is 현대, which is romanized as Hyundai and pronounced almost like it's spelled. I think "hyon dey" is closer, but Korean pronunciation is a bit nuanced.
it drives me nuts that it rhymes with Day but the Americans just randomly pick a new vowel
It's definitely not unique to Americans.
And tbh I don't really blame them too much. It's spelt with an older form of romanisation which is, in my opinion, really, really awful. I don't really love more modern romanisation schemes, but at least "dae" would be unlikely to be pronounced as "die" in the way "dai" is.
Yeah, this. I'm probably more aware of and familiar with world languages than the average American, but I have flipflopped between die and day pronunciations of Hyundai. I tried to figure out why that might be and I think it's probably related to the romanization differences among several east Asian languages. This seems most problematic with older romanization methods. Newer ones feel more intuitive.
For example I'm meant to pronounce the 'ai' in Taipei, Saipan and zaibatsu as rhyming with "die", but the 'ai' in Hyundai and waifu as "rhyming with "day". So it's memorization and context. Which feels very appropriate as an English speaker when all of our shit is irregularities and exceptions!
Yeah Modern Revised Romanisation transcribes ㅐ as "ae", which works a lot better.
Though it introduces its own problems. For example, it transcribes ㅓ as "eo", which causes English speakers to pronounce it as "ee-oh". Take Jecheon (제천). Most English speakers would pronounce that as "jeh-chee-on". A better pronunciation would be jae-chun (with "u" being the vowel in "gut", or maybe jae-chon" (the vowel in "chop").
Happens with Japanese companies too, like Nikon. Also words that end in eh sound become ee, like karate and karaoke and sake.
I pronounce it like they do in Kim's Convenience. No idea if that is accurate, but I was hopeful that a show whose main characters are Korean would pronounce it accurately.
"We thought you were only going to deport the Mexicans, when we contributed to your campaign!"
Hyundai has donated 25% to republicans according to goods unite us.
25% of what?
Of their political contributions.
And 75% to other countries or to democrats?
I will scratch Hyundai and KIA of my list when purchasing my next automobile.
I don't know if it's possible to find a megacorp that doesn't give to Republicans
They’ll probably get snatched by ICE
I would love to see them try to snatch a foreign government official.
It could unite the north with the south again.
The Trump administration shouldn't be changing the rules, detaining people that previously had valid status
"Mein Fuhrer can't do that! It's illegal!"
Who's gonna stop him, with what army?
I was thinking about this a bit and I think this specific sort of thing could be a positive. The law needs to apply to everyone, when you make a stupid law you shouldn't be able to say "actually this doesn't apply to our political allies or white people". The federal government should have to experience the consequences of their choices. If we get local governments etc to take the new policy literally and be deporting people from Britain and Isreal and whatever allies we still have that we actually care about, then something's going to have to change - we'll either have to say the quiet part out loud, that these laws actually only apply people we're racist against, or we'll have to stop randomly deporting people without warning. Or that's my random thought at least.
Watch them get tortured by ICE.
Careful or they'll round you up too. Unless your net worth is at least 7 digits.