The Korean political structure doesn't allow for a Trump-type politician

 Trump is a big fan of the “madman strategy” and the “flattery and fear strategy,” where he says one thing and does another.

For example, Trump used to say, “I'm in love with Kim Jong-un”. But when North Korea conducted a nuclear test in 2017, what did he do? He sent U.S. strategic bombers across the NLL to within 100 kilometers of the Punggye-ri test site, endangering Kim Jong-un. Meanwhile, Trump signed China's Uyghur Human Rights Act and then reversed it two days later. He also led the formation of QUAD, a U.S.-led anti-China network, in August 2020. It was Trump who pretended to favor North Korea's Kim Jong-un, but then closed the dialogue channel with North Korea in 2020 when North Korea refused to listen to him. And it was Trump who praised Putin as a smart leader, but then sanctioned a ship to build the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline a day before leaving office.

This is Trump's way of saying one thing and doing another. Of course, Korean politicians also have different words and actions, but it is hard to find a Trump-like type in Korean politics.

This is because the Korean political sphere is a deontological, morality-oriented society that tears apart each other's moral flaws, and it has become a practice to seize even the slightest hint of the opponent's words and turn them into a controversy, inheriting the long history of bandang politics from the Joseon Dynasty. Trump's habit of throwing off-the-cuff remarks gives him too many excuses to be attacked by the Korean political structure. Even in the U.S., Trump's tongue-in-cheek behavior is often criticized by his opponents, but in the Korean political sphere? It's too much to say. And just like PCism in Europe and Sharia law in the Middle East, Korea is a country ruled by the herd mentality of “people's will,” “national sentiment,” and so on, and even a right-wing populist figure like Trump is bound to be criticized if he doesn't appear to be beneficial to their immediate interests, i.e., if he doesn't appear to put money in their pockets right away. And because of the nature of Korean politics, where political cronies are satisfied with getting what they want, it is very difficult to get along with someone with high pride like Trump.

And if you don't know about the other side, at least the behavior of the same side should be predictable, but Trump enjoys hiding his true intentions even from his own side, which is very likely to be seen as a spoiled behavior that bounces around like a rugby ball without daring to act according to their own preferences by the Korean political cronies who value 'politeness'.

So, it's safe to assume that if Trump had been born in Korea, he would have either quit after being cross-examined by the media and politicians as soon as he declared his candidacy (of course, he was cross-examined in the U.S. as well), or he would have become more like the established politicians to survive in Korean politics.

And if you look at the way Korean politicians change their ideology back and forth by paying lip service to the opposing party's rhetoric to appeal to the voters, it is very likely that they will suffer from Ripley's syndrome, where they will be fooled by their own lies if they only pay lip service while their ideological philosophy is in a state of tension.

And even if Koreans seem to prefer strongman-type politicians, many people steeped in deontological values would prefer a virtuous and virtuous monarch-like figure like Yubi in the Three Kingdoms of China. Therefore, even if a Trump-type figure makes a splash in Korean politics, we should be skeptical that he will be popular in the long run. Moreover, the history of the Korean people is longer than the history of charismatic soldiers and aristocrats. Therefore, the rule of strong men is unlikely to last unless the nature of the Korean people changes. It is easier to have a leader who appears to be benevolent, but then sneakily bosses people around.

Koreans have a habit of imposing slave morals on others, so they are bound to hate politicians who reject slave morals.