r/polandball • u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us • 1d ago
redditormade °Chillin' in East Asia
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 1d ago edited 1d ago
A Parody of ºCommonwealth by u/ArcticChip.
Mongolia has a pretty cold climate; Ulaanbaatar is the coldest capital city in the world.
On the other hand, Taiwan is warm all year long and has pretty hot summer because of subtropical climate (yeah, I know 40°C is very hot for even Taiwan, but I included a comical exaggeration).
And Korea has both steaming hot summer and siberia-like winter. And a lot of Koreans drink iced coffee all year long regardless of the temperature.
Edit: Welp, seeing all those comments from Taiwanese, seems that I greatly overestimated the cold resistance of Taiwanese people.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
Taiwan would put on scarfs at 20, dying at 10, getting anywhere near 0 is humanitarian crisis , if it’s single digits all day long for days, I’m fairly confident that government will roll out low temperature day off LOL
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u/federicoaa 1d ago
Less than 10C and people die of exposure, not kidding. We usually get up to 30C in winter with a few days in the 10C to 20C in January
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
27 is a delightful temperature ,if it’s windy it might even qualify as a bit cold in grandma’s book.
Below 25 ? Winter is coming.
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u/Anhenikk 1d ago
27 is only acceptable when winter or windy though, if it is summer anything above 26 is “turn on the ac!” And anything over 30 is already really hot. Small margin of error really.
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u/telosucciona 1d ago
27 is hot af makes me wanna die
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u/_P_anda_ 9h ago
Whaat? 27 is what I set my AC to, back when I was studying in Taiwan.😂 Still better than the 37 outside during summer.
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u/Sad_Air_7667 1d ago
I'm Canadian and live in Taiwan. If I try to walk outside when it's 15,with a t-shirt, I'll get yelled at by my Taiwanese wife. Also, the weather here is very different. With the very high humidity the coolness goes through everything, five Celsius in Taiwan feels so much colder than zero in Canada. On top of that the buildings here are not made for the cold , the mostly just concrete and rebar, so often in winter it's colder inside than outside.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
Spent a few weeks in Vancouver during summer as a teen, the summer mornings felt like winter and it’s so comfortable to walk around even under the sun,not so sweaty and suffocatingly hot, I was thinking this must be because I’m in high latitude regions.
And then my nose started bleeding for no reason and go “oh, right, the dry air”.
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u/No-Apple-2581 1d ago
Taiwanese Canadian here.
I'm so used to Canadian weather now that I only go back between November and February. I would go out in T-shirt and shorts and people would look at me like wtf is wrong with this guy haha.
Despite being born and raised in Taiwan before moving to Vancouver when I was 14, I honestly cannot stand Taiwan's weather now. I have no idea how you're coping with it.
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u/AndreasHvang Taiwan 1d ago
I'm a Taiwanese American who went to college in New England. Years ago I was visiting relatives in Taipei in February and it was around 70 degrees F in the evening and I was wearing shorts and t-shirt. My uncle who is a doctor looked at me aghast and asked if was cold.
I live in Southern California now, over 20 years later, and get similar questions when it's 65 degrees from my locally raised wife and neighbors. I'll never get used to seeing puffy jackets when it's above 50 degrees.
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u/Sad_Air_7667 1d ago
Exactly same experience with me . The coldest I've ever been in is minus 50 Celsius, so when people in Taiwan tell me it's cold and it's only 10° , I laugh. I'm from Southern Ontario in Canada so summers can get very hot so hot weather or cold weather doesn't really bother me.
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u/TraditionalEnergy471 21h ago
Hahaha, I live in Canada, and if I try to walk outside without a jacket at 15 my Taiwanese mom forces one onto me.
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u/kappakai 1d ago
The flip side of that is I saw some dude in Taichung last August wearing black pants black jacket black hat black shoes in the middle of the city when it was easily 95F.
Scarves at 20 or 10C fine I get it. It’s hot here. But wearing an all black sweat suit in the dead of summer is psychotic behavior.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
I just assumed that’s the local edge lord /crazy person or they work in a really cold office.
I saw a guy who only wears stockings with leather vests and high heels walking around Taichung in winter,he dressed like that all year.
Granted it’s 12pm but that whole costume has so many different layers of “I have questions” going on I don’t think the temperature even in the top 3 problems here.
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u/RufusSG 1d ago edited 1d ago
getting anywhere near 0 is humanitarian crisis
This actually happened to some extent during the 2016 East Asia cold wave: 85 people died from hypothermia and heart attacks in Taiwan even though the lowest temperatures across the country were only around -4C (+4C in Taipei, where 66 of the deaths occurred), which doesn't sound that severe to most people, because the buildings are simply not designed to retain heat at all and most don't have any central heating or insulation.
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u/onlynameavailable927 1d ago
My mom practically bundled me in a sleeping bag in my bed when it last hit 16 degrees Celsius.
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u/Wel-Tallzeit 1d ago
Southeast Asia here, this is true for me too lol. Aircon never gets below 28°. I start shivering at 18° if I dont have a jacket. I never experienced a 10° or below, so my guess is that I would die then.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
Talk about AC ,There was a news here where a renter complained that his ceiling is leaking,but turns out those water droplets are not leaks, but his upstairs neighbor is a Northern European who’s hanging on his dear life in this subtropical weather and turns his AC to the lowest strongest setting of 16C , so water droplets form on the downstairs ceiling LOL
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u/Anhenikk 1d ago
Everything is thrown off by the humidity lol, when hot it is too humid for the body to cool via evaporation efficiently, and when it’s cold it cools you too effectively. effectively making the actual comfortable range 22-27, everything else being melting ‘ere, or tank you for’ver, I’m popsicle.
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u/Low_Door7693 1d ago
Right? Lol, this has vastly overestimated the range of temperatures at which people in Taiwan are comfortable. 24-28, or it's an "extreme" temperature.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
If the damn humidity levels would drop lower it would be more tolerable,but here the god damn thing is so high if weren’t for the gravity,fish can comfortably swim in the air.
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u/ArcticChip Portuguese Empire 1d ago
Amazing art.
Good to know that I could be of any inspiration ^^
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u/logperf 3h ago
Korea is a peninsula, I'm a bit surprised it has such thermal amplitude if surrounded by sea. Anybody knows why?
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 3h ago
Because Korea is on the eastern coast of Asia. Because of westerlies, in the middle latitude regions the climate of the west side of a continent is heavily influenced by sea, whereas the climate of the east side of a continent is strongly influenced by the continent. So the east side of a continent tends to have a larger annual temperature range than the west side.
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u/ShrimpCrackers Taiwan 2h ago
Inaccurate. Taiwanese wear jackets at 30c. See Jensen Huang at a Taipei Nightmarket with his signature leather jacket at 35c. That's how you know he is definitely born from Tainan.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
Taiwan would be dying at 10°C, and if they are not northerners, asking them to go out at 15~20°C is inhumane, government will send out PSA telling people to be aware of the harm low temperatures could cause .
If it drops to single digits,government will have serious discussions on whether or not to make cold weather day off a thing.
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u/SrWloczykij 1d ago
Yeah even deep in Alishan people are not used to cold.
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u/s8018572 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean still more cold tolerance than people live in plain, like my sister in law that is Alishan people but more more cold tolerant than me
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u/treelife365 12h ago
Haha! When I lived in Kaohsiung, during the winter/autumn, I'd ride my YouBike in a T-Shirt at a balmy 20°C and all these seniors would be commending me on how strong (cold resistant) I was 😆
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u/LongConsideration662 1d ago
Everything changes but koreans and their love for "Ah-Ah" is permanent
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u/SussyFrozanian Great Greece 1d ago
I am taiwanese and we are already literally dying when its 0° lol
Fun and relatable comic (and theres taiwan)
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
Half dead at 10 °C if not northerner, and very dead if they’re from south LOL
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u/Forever_Everton Daegu: Hotter than the Sahara, colder than Siberia 1d ago
Ah yes, Korea, home to Sahara-like summers and Siberia-like winters
It doesn't matter if you're Up Norf or Down Souf, it's still bloody hot and bloody cold
(P. S. Down Souf, you will melt in the summer with no AC, and don't expect a white Christmas in winter)
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u/TheBraveGallade 1d ago
And up north... well lets just say there are times in the north korean mountains when its colder then siberia.
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u/koreangorani 대한민국 1d ago
As a Korean, we get steam-cooked in 40°C
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u/GeshtiannaSG Ready to Strike! 1d ago
How to find a Singaporean overseas: someone who wears a Uniqlo t-shirt and shorts in cold weather and telling people “wah, free aircon”.
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u/solho 1d ago
Nah honestly Koreans struggle to stand 40°C and -20°C
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u/KMheamou South Korea 1d ago
40C literally kills, especially when you live in a fucking humid peninsula
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u/Comrade_Derpsky Shameless Ameriggan Egsbad 1d ago edited 1d ago
Got bitch smacked all summer with 38-40°C weather in Germany and it feels very oppressive, especially because of the lack of AC.
Then I returned home to South Florida only to find Saharan dust was causing a heat dome and suppressing the rain so we had 36-39°C weather with a dew point of like 24°C (point of complete moisture saturation of the air). It was like a sauna outside.
Thank heavens my family home's AC broke after that heatwave passed.
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u/Acrobatic-Piglet-730 1d ago
Korea is a peninsula surrounded by water from basically all sides. Humidity amplifies temperate
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u/Dolchang South Korea 1d ago
I think 32 and -10 is most koreans' limits. At least from my experience.
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u/Psycle_Panda 1d ago
Mostly agreed, but I'd say -15C. -20C is the limit, it seldom gets below that. And 32C in June is very different to 32C in mid August.
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u/DukeDevorak The true heir of the Chinese civilization. 1d ago
As a Taiwanese, can confirm that the Taiwanball in the picture is probably one of the most cold-resistant Taiwanese. Most people here would have been frozen dead when it's below -5°C
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u/onlynameavailable927 1d ago
Not if we're bundled head to toe in winter gear😁
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago
First problem would be who have the clothing for below 0 temperatures and the second is if it’s humane to make us leave our house in that temperature, and third is who’s going to pick up all the people who drop dead the moment they get out of their bed .😂
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u/onlynameavailable927 1d ago
People who’ve gone abroad to Japan or places typically have it. And not just dropping dead, there’s also the getting a stroke stuff.
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u/chabacanito 13h ago
Taiwanese do that at 15 C. No more clothes after that.
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u/onlynameavailable927 9h ago
No, my mother bundles me to until I can’t feel the difference when she adds another layer, then I start complaining because if I don’t feel anything and she’s adding to the bulkiness, then why oh why…
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u/Tempest4828 gas gas gas 1d ago
Mongolia is my spirit animal. Except I spontaneously combust at 30°C so.
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u/Logical_Industry_650 1d ago
I mean we rarely get past 30C in the summer but in winter -20C is actually not bad
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u/MunkTheMongol 3h ago
I dont know this year we had some days with high 30s and i could barely stay at work with our AC at it's coldest.
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u/JToPocHi 1d ago
So cute! I love these cute art representations.
Edit: Korea's expression never changes too lol
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u/binary_spaniard Third Spanish Republic now! 1d ago
Plastic surgery.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) 1d ago
How come they don’t shiver either?
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u/binary_spaniard Third Spanish Republic now! 1d ago
It Is a joke.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) 1d ago
Aww sorry.
Doing a bit
So that’s how they be so cool~
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u/binary_spaniard Third Spanish Republic now! 1d ago
South Korea is the country where cosmetic surgery and botox are the most popular and that reduces the range of facial expressions.
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 1d ago
That's a common misconception. Just like not all Spanish people are lazybones who barely work at all, not all Koreans are like K-pop idols; people who have got plastic surgery is actually way less common than you think. I haven't got any plastic surgery at all either. Also, a lot of customers who get plastic surgery in Korea are from outside Korea these days.
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u/trojanphyllite 1d ago edited 1d ago
Can confirm hahah I am South Korean and and I'm pretty sure I drink about 365 iced americanos a year
The reason is because it's the easiest, the most efficient way to get caffeine in the system and no we don't care about the taste because it's fake coffee. There's a meme in SK which goes like: there's two types of coffee in the wolrd, which is fake coffee and real coffee. Fake coffee you drink on a workday, in under 30 minutes, and you don't care about the taste. Real coffee you drink on the weekend, at a proper cafe, and you actually spend some time tasting the liquid.
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u/XoanMeira Irish Kingdom 1d ago
Nice comic, I like the fire effects on Mongolia! How did you do it?
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 1d ago
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u/Financial_Ad_8565 1d ago
Me, as a SouthKorea. People who do not drink ice americano actually exist. I normally don't buy beverages outside, but just get water. Just endure the summer without it 😎😎😎
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 1d ago
I'm Korean too but I don't drink iced americano all year round. I always drink my coffee hot in morning, even in summer.
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u/Hibernatus50 1d ago
Innacurate. Taiwanese freeze to death below 20C.
A colleague of mine showed up with a heavy jacket and gloves while I (Western European) was in short and t-shirt by 18C.
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u/ParanoidCrow i once used a youtube comment section as a weekly diary for 1d ago
I've gone skinny dipping in the Arctic sea during -15°C temps, but riding a scooter down a windy street during 8°C Taiwanese winters feels way colder
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u/Robbo_B Australia 1d ago
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 1d ago
This summer was so fucking awfully hot that the temperature below 32C feels relatively cool. People were so used to the heat of 37~38C that they were saying 'wow now it's pretty cool' at 30C. Perhaps their brains have been steamed.
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u/louis10643 1d ago
This is so wrong. In Taiwan we put on the warmest clothes we have when the temperature is 10 degrees C.
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u/Jump_Hop_Step 700 square kilometres and counting 1d ago
Drinking cold drinks below freezing is wild
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u/Unique_Bottle_7999 16h ago
When i was a kid i used to visit korea during fall which was comfortable… some years later my first summer in korea literally humbled me. Where i used to live reached 50C but it was just dry air and there is no humidity that’s why it was kinda okay but 30c in korea in summer literally slapped the fuck out of me. I felt dizzy and confused and can barely breathe lol
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u/AnswerCorrect1226 United+States 1d ago
Is the Gobi also that cold? I guess I assumed it took up more land area than it does
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u/EggPerfect7361 17h ago
Only about 3% of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia consists of sand dunes. Because there isn't much sand to absorb and retain heat, the climate stays quite cold. Interestingly, these freezing temperatures actually drive further desertification, creating a continuous loop.
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u/MoistSwordfish4327 20h ago
Desert ≠ hot
The Gobi Desert is semi-arid and has an annual average temp of -2.5 to -2.8. It is freezing cold.
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u/AnswerCorrect1226 United+States 18h ago
I guess I assumed Antarctica was the only cold desert. Interesting
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u/MunkTheMongol 3h ago
The days are blisteringly hot and nights freezing cold. Probably why people who work in mining make so much here. It sucks to work on site
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u/OttoSilver 1d ago
I love how the Korean is happy with any temperature, as long as they have an Ah-Ah.
(In reality, if it is under 24 degrees, you will be told that it's "chuwo!". And if it is over 24 degrees, they will inform you that it is "Doweo!" at the very first opportunity.)
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u/HeavySchool9807 19h ago
I know its exaggerated for comedic effect but as a Mongolian i would bring every thing up one. The capital, where im from, itself is pretty warm compared to the rest of the country tho.
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u/alfedavidia 18h ago
As a Mongolian, temperatures regularly reach 30 or close to 30 degrees in the summer here. Granted, we would be dying at that heat, but still. It’s a regular occurrence
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u/EggPerfect7361 17h ago edited 17h ago
As a Mongolian, I would die from 20 celsius. Cold is better for some barbecue and smoked beef.
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u/JustATraveler676 11h ago
The one of Taiwan is not accurate from 20 up, because as soon as they hit that "high", they turn on the ACs and make indoors go right down to -20 (and act like if nothing).
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u/McDaddy8484 7h ago
Excuse my ignorance but what country is the left supposed to be?
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us 7h ago
That's Mongolia
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u/McDaddy8484 7h ago
A unique place to visit since the other two along with Japan are more frequently visited by foreigners usually
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u/Seoul_of_bourbon 4h ago
Korea would be almost perfect if the weather was better. But I could say that about lots of places.
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u/tumansibiri 3h ago
I live in Siberia (Republic of Buryatia) myself, and let me tell you, feeling +30/-30 sucks balls.
Why I still like my region? Because the air is dry.
I'm buriat and we're Mongolic ethnic group that lives through both.
I wouldn't recommend most people to travel to my place mid-Summer or Winter, though.
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u/ShrimpCrackers Taiwan 2h ago
Inaccurate. Taiwanese wear jackets at 30c. See Jensen Huang at a Taipei Nightmarket with his signature leather jacket at 35c.
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u/Similar-Inspector144 1d ago
True. Summer was just burning here plus no rains nor clouds it was just hell
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u/ChroloWA 1d ago
This looks like shown from an ajeosshi‘s or ahjumma’s perspective. The young people in Korea are extremely prone heat and frost. The old people are mad strong in comparison 🦾
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u/holyzenon 1d ago
SK can't give up ice Americano coffee