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Remind me again who it was the North Koreans were fighting in WWII?
To be clear, at the time, it was just one Korea, colonized by Japan. The artificial splitting of the nation happened post-WWII. I know you know that, I just believe it's important to recognize that there wasn't such thing as a "North Korea" or a "South Korea," Koreans from the entire peninsula fought heavily against colonization. The splitting of the nation was done arbitrarily by the US and against the consent of Korea.
I was thinking more in terms of where the resistance leadership ended up and where the Japanese collaborators ended up.
Yes, but it's more complicated than that. Nobody actually thought the division would last. The proletariat in the ROK does have a heritage in fighting against colonialism and fascism. The comprador regime that regularly slaughtered them in Jeju, Gwang-ju, etc that has a direct line to the Japanese colonial compradors also has a heritage, of course, but the proletariat today in both the north and south can still claim rightful heritage to fighting off Japanese colonialism.
The reason the ROK is so dystopian is more because of revolutionary potential, rather than lack of it. The ROK's history with armed labor struggles post-division is long, bloody, and continuing. It isn't as simple as saying that all the good people went north and all the bad went south, which is what a straight reading of your comment implied (and why I addressed it). I understand that you don't mean to do so, though, which is why I clarified that as well.