The author definitely wrote this shit as a fantasy because this isn't social commentary based on reality they didn't want to depict s.koreans as the aggressors so he switched it up on some bs. Also these writers and artists will always put their biases into these kinds of political/ social commentary kind of stories even if they don't mean to so they end up exposing themselves
HE WAS SO RUDE WHEN HE REJECTED HIM LIKEE