South Korea’s Betrayal of American Companies
South Korea is using “fairness” laws as economic weapons—targeting U.S. firms with raids and threats—turning a key alliance into a test of whether free trade still means fair play.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/22/south-koreas-betrayal-of-american-companies/
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Americans know what economic warfare looks like. Americans were made to believe that only major adversaries like China weaponized regulations to cripple U.S. companies.
But today, U.S. companies are on the receiving end of economic hostility from one of America’s closest allies: South Korea.
Less than a year on the job, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, along with Korean lawmakers in the National Assembly, has launched a coordinated regulatory assault on American companies. A campaign that looks far less like legitimate antitrust enforcement and far more like economic nationalism aimed squarely at the United States.
The list of targets is unmistakable. Google, Apple, Meta, Netflix, Uber, and Coupang—the American-founded e-commerce powerhouse that has become one of the most successful logistics and retail platforms in the world.
South Korean lawmakers and regulators are enacting so-called “digital platform” rules—the latest iteration is ironically called the “Fairness Act”—designed to harm U.S. firms and protect Korean companies from foreign competition, giving them an upper hand in the market. That’s not free trade. That’s protectionism dressed up in bureaucratic language.
These actions are also part of an increasing anti-American sentiment from Korean leaders. The top regulator behind these policies, Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) Chair Joo Byung-ki, recently described “white Midwestern American workers” as “angry” and having a “sense of deprivation” due to Trump’s policies, calling them a “failure.” Joo also vowed to continue to target U.S. companies.
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Another supposed ‘friend’ that likes taking advantage of the US under the guise of ‘free trade’ but doesn’t like it when the playing field is reversed. South Korea is the Asian version of Europe as it relates to the US providing defense in the form of pickpocketing American citizen’s checkbook.
I still suspect that China is behind it... 🤔
If you live in Oklahoma:
Okla. lawmaker urges constituents to pray after massive Islamic development gets preliminary OK
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......City officials in Broken Arrow, the largest suburb of Tulsa, voted Dec. 18 to approve rezoning 15 acres of land for a proposed retail center and mosque, following hours of public comment from residents, according to local news outlet KJRH -TV.
The Broken Arrow Planning Commission gave preliminary approval to the construction proposal at the commission’s regular meeting, where more than 60 people signed up to speak over the course of the four-hour meeting — the majority of whom said they opposed the project.
Robert Goransson, chair of the Planning Commission, clarified the vote was strictly on the feasibility of the construction plans and “not the cultural ramifications,” he said.
Explaining his vote in favor, Planning Commission member Jason Coan said he considered property rights when casting his vote. “With a lot of comments that have been made, if it was your religious organization trying to build a temple, how would you feel about having your rights denied?” he said. “You all have the right to do what you want with your land as long as [it] meets the criteria set by [the] city and government.”
But most attendees were concerned about the impact on their community.
“I have a daughter who is 15 years old,” one resident said. “I don’t want this ideology imposed on her.”
A supporter of the project told the commission, “Our Muslim neighbors are already part of the heartbeat of this community we call Green Country. They are teachers, doctors, business owners and parents.”
The land for the proposed development was purchased in 2014 by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), according to city records. Founded in 1973 by the Muslim Students’ Association of the United States and Canada (MSA) and affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), NAIT holds title deeds to properties in more than 40 states, according to the NAIT website.
As many as 10,000 Muslims live in the greater Tulsa area, according to the Islamic Center of Tulsa.
......The final decision rests with the Broken Arrow City Council, which has scheduled a special meeting for Jan. 20, 2026, to consider the rezoning and conditional use permit applications.