Cultural affects of no North Korea/Collapsed in the 90s

Basic idea is what would things look like if either...

A: The US and South Korea won the Korean War.

Or...

B: North Korea collapsed in the 1990s and we have a united Korea down the road.

(I know this would have major political affects too, but let's talk about culture first.)
 
Not very different for the rest of the world. But things in Korea would be dramatically different. First off, as Korea would be united, people in the North would not be brainwashed. Systematic propaganda would end, and people would see the truth that the world is not what the Kim wanted them to believe. We would see people's dreams shattered, their entire worlds falling apart. Suicides. Terrorism would flourish, not in the traditional sence, but as an act of defiance. These people would panic, they would be scared. Kim's death would simbolically kill the servant inside of them. A very depressed, extremely poor and defeatist people would live here.
Unlike Nazis, North Koreans have been ruling much longer, so levels of brainwashing are much higher. It would take probably decades just to make these people believe that their beloved leader and regime is gone. Dejucheization would begin.
Once that is over, we would see younger generations take the torch. They would be much more free and would move in millions to work on the South. North would essentially be in ruins, with youth gone, and old people aging, and dying. So we would see a dramatic shift in their demographics as well.
Contact of two completely opposite cultures always means the death for the less developed one. In this case it's North Korean.
I think in at least 20 years after the fall of Kim's regime North Korea could start to catch on with their Southern counterpart.
 
The West lacks that bit of old-school communism as North Korea is. There is no madman like Kim Jong-il to focus on. No Team America World Police. No one to laugh at like "Fatboy Kim". Internet news would be less exciting without periodic news of some random North Korean edict ("cut your hair like Kim Jong-un or else") or North Korean factoid ("see Kim Jong-il's incredible score at the Pyongyang Golf Course!").

Although even if North Korea collapsed in the 90s, it would take until the 10s before serious talk of reunification began. North Korea in that interim would be an utter mess. Far worse than even the 90s in Russia and the former Soviet bloc. North Korea would be full of strange cults and random nonsense to fulfill of the spiritual needs of the true believers in Juche. It would be like a province of China, albeit with the ideal of unification with South Korea one day. There would be terrorist groups which are pro-Juche and are defending the Kim dynasty.
 
If we are talking about cultural effects first- maybe a surge in the south of traditional baby names, old words that had fallen into disuse in modern language, all thanks to increased communication between the south and north. Possibly more identification with previous Korean empires centered in the north such as the Goguryeo. Depending on what arrangements Russia, PRC, and the US made regarding what a unified Korea can field as far as a military we may see a "culture of peacemaking" and a "Switzerland-type" culture as far as being diplomats between various nations; maybe they reach out to be mediators between India and Pakistan, help dissidents in Myanmar, help communicate between the PRC and RoC. A lot has to do with what the three powers decide, and yes, in a reunification ultimately it comes down to what the PRC allows.
 
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