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Virginia Tech shooter was KOREAN!
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SeoulMan6



Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Location: Gangwon-do

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:43 am    Post subject: Virginia Tech shooter was KOREAN! Reply with quote

"The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va."

http://www.vt.edu/
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Finishy!



Joined: 24 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:15 am    Post subject: not surprising Reply with quote

He was probably rebelling from a life of hagwons and couldn't take it anymore.
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el_magico



Joined: 14 May 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well actually he was as much as American as Korean... It turns out most of his life he lived in the States.


As reported by BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6564653.stm


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One report out of South Korea said Cho had moved to the US when he was eight, but had retained his South Korean citizenship.

According to the Washington Post, his parents live in Fairfax County, an affluent suburb of Washington DC, just outside Arlington and Alexandria.
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LexLibra



Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Location: in the library

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:24 am    Post subject: Re: not surprising Reply with quote

Finishy! wrote:
He was probably rebelling from a life of hagwons and couldn't take it anymore.


Yeah, I was just thinking, "which one of my ex-students is this?"
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Svetlana



Joined: 22 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The awful americans are using his immigrant background to label him BAD, even though he had been living in america since he was 8 years old. The 15 years he had lived in america certainly could not have been a cause or created such an person... it had to be the Korean in him....

america is a horrible racist country....
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ChuckECheese



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Svetlana wrote:
The awful americans are using his immigrant background to label him BAD, even though he had been living in america since he was 8 years old. The 15 years he had lived in america certainly could not have been a cause or created such an person... it had to be the Korean in him....

america is a horrible racist country....


Yeah, and you're the biggest racist for saying America is racist country.

And you suck!

You probably feel good about 32 Americans being murdered, huh?
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Beej



Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Svetlana wrote:
The awful americans are using his immigrant background to label him BAD, even though he had been living in america since he was 8 years old. The 15 years he had lived in america certainly could not have been a cause or created such an person... it had to be the Korean in him....

america is a horrible racist country....


Where is this happening?
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Svetlana



Joined: 22 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ChuckECheese wrote:
Svetlana wrote:
The awful americans are using his immigrant background to label him BAD, even though he had been living in america since he was 8 years old. The 15 years he had lived in america certainly could not have been a cause or created such an person... it had to be the Korean in him....

america is a horrible racist country....


Yeah, and you're the biggest racist for saying America is racist country.

And you suck!

You probably feel good about 32 Americans being murdered, huh?



First, "american" is not a race, you moron.

Second, not all the casualties were americans. Several were foreign students and foreign professors.
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Cerebroden



Joined: 27 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, that's it...he's bad because he's an immigrant. it has nothing to do with the fact that he went ballistic and killed 32 INNOCENT people.
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Dev



Joined: 18 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Svetlana wrote:
The awful americans are using his immigrant background to label him BAD, even though he had been living in america since he was 8 years old. The 15 years he had lived in america certainly could not have been a cause or created such an person... it had to be the Korean in him....

america is a horrible racist country....


That's right, dude. It's genetic. Very Happy
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting headline on Naver...

"조승희 "너 때문에 이 일을..." 메모남겨"

Think they will play up the "he was a victim" card here? Seems to underscore the real victims.

Koreans can make a claim on the blood of Heinz Ward - Half Korean, never lived in Korea; yet I can see them trying to put some distance between this character and themselves. I wonder how this will play out in the Korean media.
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JeJuJitsu



Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Svetlana wrote:
The awful americans are using his ..


yesssss...awful awful americans...
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the eye



Joined: 29 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Demophobe wrote:
Interesting headline on Naver...

"??? "? ??? ? ??..." ????"

Think they will play up the "he was a victim" card here? Seems to underscore the real victims.

Koreans can make a claim on the blood of Heinz Ward - Half Korean, never lived in Korea; yet I can see them trying to put some distance between this character and themselves. I wonder how this will play out in the Korean media.


That's exactly what i was thinking. You know this guy will be drawn up as a creative, but troubled young man, who was trodden by his classmates and failed by the US social system, only to be given easy acces to handguns.

Or, then there's the.. 'why did it take the police so long to stop him' angle.
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JeJuJitsu



Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the eye wrote:
Demophobe wrote:
Interesting headline on Naver...

"??? "? ??? ? ??..." ????"

Think they will play up the "he was a victim" card here? Seems to underscore the real victims.

Koreans can make a claim on the blood of Heinz Ward - Half Korean, never lived in Korea; yet I can see them trying to put some distance between this character and themselves. I wonder how this will play out in the Korean media.


That's exactly what i was thinking. You know this guy will be drawn up as a creative, but troubled young man, who was trodden by his classmates and failed by the US social system, only to be given easy acces to handguns.

Or, then there's the.. 'why did it take the police so long to stop him' angle.


Or we could mention the 300 million -1 people that have access to guns, and may be downtrodden, that don't take 58 casualties in one attack.

You must be Canadian.
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Junior



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The average korean male has no ability to adapt to another culture.
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