they simply gave them slightly better benefits than they had before and still expected to be able to treat them like crap.

Or as the movie puts it: “Eventually you’ll have the same rights women do in the real world”

Did you actually watch the movie? Returning to oppressing the Kens was literally the point to mirror the equal rights movement irl.

That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to learn whilst still technically at war with a tyrannical socialist neighbour.

South Korea is capitalist, North Korea is socialist. People often refer to SK as just Korea either as a statement on the legitimacy of the DPRK or simply because South Korea is far more globally relevant.