Most younger Koreans don't see the peninsula as one nation. They feel that the North and South have diverged enough that they should just make peace and do their own things. The "mutual desire for unification" is not ubiquitous, and "unification" is better described as "conquest."

And acknowledging the current state doesn't invalidate history. We can acknowledge that the present is different from the past. We can acknowledge that there is a shared history and various collective struggles but that different people decided to go different ways.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That doesn't erase the colonization of the ROK by the US, and just because younger generations don't feel as attached to a shared identity doesn't mean that said identity does not exist.