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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: Blasting Teacher for Support of U.S. Beef Imports |
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Online Accusation Targets Middle School Teacher
Donga.com (June 11, 2008)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2008061162548
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A Web posting on an Internet community yesterday targeted a middle school history teacher who allegedly praised the resumption of U.S. beef imports.
The person who posted the allegation also gave out the teacher's name, school and cell phone number, urging others to gag the teacher by making protest calls to the teacher and the school.
Once the post was put on the community's forum, the school and teacher were inundated with angry calls and cursing text messages. The teacher canceled his cell phone service yesterday afternoon.
Comments blasting the teacher continued to be posted, but one anonymous individual urged that no harm come to the teacher, calling the accusation undemocratic cyber-terrorism....
"Regardless of punishment for the accuser, the accused has received a type of death sentence. We have to do something fundamental enough to root out the harm caused by the anonymous majority." |
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Matman
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Denouncing "unpatriotic" teachers all sounds a bit Maoist to me - very un-South Korean. Aren't older Koreans starting to worry about this breakdown in respect for authority? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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What the gov't needs to do is take advantage of this situation by rooting out a few individuals by their IPs and handing down some HEAVY monetary fines for cyberterrorism.
Hit Koreans where it hurts most -- their pocketbooks.
Once parents start figuring out how much their family's entire future can be put in jeopardy by their child being a cyber-stalker, they'll nip that shi# in the butt pretty fast. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Matman wrote: |
| Denouncing "unpatriotic" teachers all sounds a bit Maoist to me - very un-South Korean. Aren't older Koreans starting to worry about this breakdown in respect for authority? |
This action is very Korean. All Koreans are supposed to agree with each other, especially if it seems korea is a victim,and if some people disagree they are bullied into submission. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| They should all be forced to dig through military dumpsters and dig out old hot dogs and spam for Bouday Chigea isn't this still the famous dish of Uijeombu |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| ulsanchris wrote: |
| Matman wrote: |
| Denouncing "unpatriotic" teachers all sounds a bit Maoist to me - very un-South Korean. Aren't older Koreans starting to worry about this breakdown in respect for authority? |
This action is very Korean. All Koreans are supposed to agree with each other, especially if it seems korea is a victim,and if some people disagree they are bullied into submission. |
Yeah, this is pretty classic Korean. You don't agree with the "majority" and you'll get forcibly silenced. Something tells me, even if there ARE any laws on the books about this sort of thing, it won't be enforced. |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
| ulsanchris wrote: |
| Matman wrote: |
| Denouncing "unpatriotic" teachers all sounds a bit Maoist to me - very un-South Korean. Aren't older Koreans starting to worry about this breakdown in respect for authority? |
This action is very Korean. All Koreans are supposed to agree with each other, especially if it seems korea is a victim,and if some people disagree they are bullied into submission. |
Yeah, this is pretty classic Korean. You don't agree with the "majority" and you'll get forcibly silenced. Something tells me, even if there ARE any laws on the books about this sort of thing, it won't be enforced. |
Indeed. Hell when the high school I worked at last year had plain boiled rice with gotchu sauce and mountain root veg in a bowl for lunch (pibimbap) anyone who didn't join the chorus of 'oooh MASHITA' and make a show of smacking their lips and inhaling greedilly as they put the food in their mouth was literally - and I'm not kidding - looked at with disdain and ANGER. So imagine the fury firected at any Korean not backing Korea on the US beef issue.... This man could well become a social outcast and I feel very sorry for the guy. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
| Yeah, this is pretty classic Korean. You don't agree with the "majority" and you'll get forcibly silenced. Something tells me, even if there ARE any laws on the books about this sort of thing, it won't be enforced. |
No kidding! Heck, back in 2005 their own supreme court said that public schools cannot regulate students' hair styles. Guess how many schools are ignoring that decree. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn, I could be next. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
This action is very Korean. All Koreans are supposed to agree with each other, especially if it seems korea is a victim,and if some people disagree they are bullied into submission. |
There is no culture of discussion here. The same applies to China. Look at the Japanese occupation of Korea; there is only one view and if a Korean happens to deviate from it they are ostracized irrespective of how credible their position was. There is no pluralistic view of historical events. In this case even the science behind BSE has been thrown out of the window. The scientific evidence supporting the anti-US beef position is given prominence but other scientific evidence which highlights the low risk is discarded and you'll be damned if you refer to it. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Matman wrote: |
| Aren't older Koreans starting to worry about this breakdown in respect for authority? |
Actually, I saw a video on cnn.com showing a couple thousand adjoshi and adjumma protesting the protests. They are tired of it all. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Ah.
I smell Jung. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| It's such a shame that thinking happens in such a way that teachers can't even hold reasoned debates about current events in their classrooms. Well, I guess you can debate things like what colour the school uniform should be, but on anything that really matters to people it seems there's only one authorised view of everything. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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The media and netizens have a really scary power in Korea.
Some lives have been ruined by unfounded rumours going around the Korean chatrooms. Remember dog-poo girl? |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
The media and netizens have a really scary power in Korea.
Some lives have been ruined by unfounded rumours going around the Korean chatrooms. Remember dog-poo girl? |
I do not remember her. But please do tell.... |
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