Preventing Divide and Conquer: India is on a dumb campaign to villainize South Korea.

I noticed this started a few years ago, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.

To summarize shortly: India likes Japan more than South Korea. India thinks Japan will go psycho on South Korea in one way or another. India is preparing justification to support Japan. So don't listen to reports about racism in South Korea against Indians because its most likely trivial nonsense.

In Detail:

There are a lot of highly publicized, and sometimes maybe faked, incidents of racism against Indians in South Korea. The coverage this gets FAR outweighs what happens in Japan. Japan specifically tries to bring in workers from Northeast India, hoping the physical similarities would help dampen racist incidents. This is never mentioned in Indian media and online spaces.

India's foreign policy is to fully support whichever major regional power it has no conflict with: Japan, UK, France, Russia, Poland if Russia doesn't work out, Brazil.

According to Peter Zeihan, who everyone was paying attention to at the time, Japan has nasty things in store for South Korea. I don't believe they're physically capable of that, but the paranoia is there. India believes it and is preparing the population to simply accept this.

I've seen this multiple times, villainizing Ukraine as a country out of nowhere, making up fake conspiracies about the US (and bribing America to go along with it), etc.

Don't be affected by this and remember to call it out.