Friday, March 2, 2012

Kim Jong Un Looking at Things-- Ji Wu




  •  The meme “Kim Jong Un Looking at Things” became popular after North Korean state-run media released a series of images of the "Great Successor," Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and military facilities. After his father, Kim Jong Il died in December 2011, Kim Jong Un took his father’s position as the supreme leader of North Korea. He went “field guidance” trips just like his father Kim Jong Il and his grandfather Kim Il Sung did. “For decades, the North Korean myth-making machine endowed Kim Jong Il with amazing wisdom, prowess, and intelligence, and it continues that tradition now with his son, touting him as a marksman, poet, economic genius, and wise military strategist.”http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/kim-jong-un-looking-at-things/100237/
  • The meme basically consists of Kim Jong Un looking at various objects, for example, guitar, airplane, food, etc.
  • It became really popular since late 2011 till now.

  • This meme is influenced by Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jung Il's meme "Kim Jung Il looking at things"
  • It became really popular because North Korea has been really strict about what pictures they spread out of their great leader. They always tried to spread out pictures of their great leader seemingly to be working on things. However, the pictures they released of Kim Jong Un are exactly like what they released of Kim Jong Il.

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