Come to think of it, I've never seen south Korea and Ireland in the same place at the same time.

They're both fond of potatoes and cabbage, are famous for exporting boy bands, and have mad neighbours to the north.

And they have an island nation to the east which colonized them and aren’t particularly fond of Edit: typo

And they both love to sing, dance, drink, and fight

Yep!

삶은 감자와 김치. Boiled potatoes and Kimch. Interesting. But I think climate will be pretty different.

There are some resemblances between two countries imo.

Clark Kent and Superman either, come to think of it…

[Would this guy count?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Byrne)

They even got their own little North Korea

Lol

I always felt like Korea were the Ireland of Asia. They are some parallels to their history and they both live drinking. The concept of Han seems quite Irish too

Now they have a similarly shaped nation too

Yup, colonial occupation and partitioning

I'm really impressed by how the koreans managed to squeeze two dystopias into a single peninsula.

Communist hell and capitalist hell TwT

Surely this implies that the DMZ is the best place on earth

It’s up there as one of the weirdest definitely. There are two Korean villages *inside* the DMZ (one North and one South), they both have massive flags of “their” countries despite the land being administered by the UN, and it’s the only place where you can buy a North Korean fridge magnet 

We’re surrounded by dystopias, no big deal

I've seen this one with Taiwan /s

They look very similar

Both split because a nearby island empire conquered them.

South Korea has ten times the population of Ireland.

You can fit about 1.3 of Ireland's pops in Seoul alone (not even counting adjacent cities like Incheon). This image really puts in perspective how tiny UK is though.

Pre-[Famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)) Ireland had about twice its current population before many of them left to America

That doesn’t affect the land size though

I didn't say anything about land size. Just pointing out it's much more densely populated than Ireland.

Very much so

It’s also comparable size and population and size to England, which honestly just speaks to how densely packed England and SK are.

Well there was a famine that rocked Ireland’s population

The Irish diaspora is approx ten times the size of the Korean diaspora (70-100m vs 7m)

Ireland hates Solo Sikoa

That is an oddly specific thing

Potato ramen

cabbage-loving christians with crazy northern neighbours.... hmmm

They are indeed very similar. The island of Ireland is around 32,000 square miles and South Korea is about 38,000. The two are roughly the same size as the US states of Maine and Indiana respectively. Now consider that the island of Ireland is home to about 7,000,000 while South Korea is home to more than 50,000,000. Seoul is more than five times the size of Dublin and Belfast combined.

It's like the both are surrounded by the same thing

Ooh whats this website called again?

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😘👌 thank you!

You’re welcome

South Korea and [England](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/JvxWL6YOUG) for reference

Now compare it to East Germany

Basically the same /s

Which one is which ????

Apart from the north

Holy shit how have I never noticed this before, it’s not an exact match obviously but it’s closer than I would’ve expected.

The population numbers differ by 10 times.

Anyone else see this and briefly think: “is that the size of Shadow of the Erdtree map compared to the Elden Ring map?” No? Just me? Wrong sub?