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[Gwangjuboy]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

3,000 dead in NYC, 9/11. Korean reaction: Slo-mo the planes crashing over and over before a studio audience while Korean comedians tell jokes.

200 dead in Daegu subway arson. Korean reaction: The arsonist was mentally ill.

Canadian 2 yr. old murdered. Korean reaction:That's nice. Are the Koreans ok?

I will never forget watching "The Pianist" at CGV; the Koreans laughed as the Nazis shot Jews in the head.

[seoulunitarian]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Sorry, no. I can only recall.

[Real Reality]

When Kim Dong-song was disqualified in the finals of the men's 1500 meter short track speedskating event at the Salt Lake Games, Koreans blamed Apollo Anton Ohno, who got the gold and all Ameicans. Koreans were quick to let Americans know how much fun they had on 9/11. This image was found on one of a dozen anti-U.S. sites that sprung up after the Olympics. Notice how eager the Koreans are to tell the Americans what they really felt about 9/11.

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/photos/WTCFoul.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/towersjoke1.html

Glee over the tragedy of 9/11 was barely below the surface in South Korea and all it took was a controversial call at the Olympics to bring it out with guns blazing.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/photos/911joke2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/more911fun.html

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/towersjoke1.html

http://www.areastudies.org/documents/anti-us003.html

http://www.comeng.pe.kr/bbs/view.html?code=board_jyoun&gory=&search_field=&search_key=&txtid=9&start=30

http://www.bongpyong.or.kr/cgi-bin/technote/read.cgi?board=5-28&nnew=2&y_number=37

http://bingoimage.naver.com/data3/bingo_38/imgbingo_35/kiacha/28623/kiacha_4.gif

Festival
http://times.ks.ac.kr/html/ytnews/fea-20020528.htm

Song
(original)
http://www.namusori.pe.kr/album/b_usa.php

(remake)
http://www.kamconojo.or.kr/free/view.php?idcount=72&tb_name=song

Discussion on the song and media
http://cast.jinbo.net/film/show.php?no=330

School kids singing bin Laden's praises
Elementary school students in Busan and other parts of South Gyeongsang province are reportedly singing the praises of Osama bin Laden. School authorities in the province said they are working to discourage children from singing what they called a "Bin Laden worship song."

The South Gyeongsang Office of Education reported Tuesday that 1,750 students had been punished at 15 schools for singing the song. The education office said a survey it conducted showed that in Gimhae about 1,700 of the city's 40,000 elementary school students have at least heard the song. In Busan about 10 percent of elementary school students said they have heard or sung the song.

The song, reportedly sung to the tune of the theme song of a popular cartoon, goes something like this: "Osama bin Laden, the person I admire most. I also want to be a terrorist when I grow up. President Bush, the person I detest most. I'm going to blow up the 63 building."
by Kim Sang-jin, JoongAng Daily (December 26, 2001)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200112/26/200112260143155789900090409041.html

[Bulsajo]

[jajdude]

[The Bobster]

This is from one of the sites RR gave us. It not only does not very much support what he wants us to think about Korean chauvinsm, it serves as a very good example of the kind of letter to write to an American corporation if you want it to be read and listened to.

By the way, I'm not sure why RR postred that particular link. but a lot of us have very clear ideas aboutr the kind of selectivity he employs while choosing his links.


Dear Mr. Leno,

Hello. My name is Jonathan Hilts-Park, and I am a public broadcasting news commentator at EBS (Educational Broadcasting System) in Seoul, South Korea.

I am writing to address a joke you made during your monologue that has offended many Koreans.

During the monologue of your Thursday, February 21 program, you made several jokes about Korean skater Kim Dongsung, who came in first in the 1500-meter race, but was disqualified for alleged cross-tracking.

Your monologue was aired twice in South Korea through AFN Korea (American Forces Network Korea).

A couple of the jokes you told were about you being cut off by a Korean driver, just as Kim was accused of cutting off US skater Apolo Ohno.

Your final joke, about Mr. Kim eating his dog, went completely over the line.

Specifically, you said that after Mr. Kim was disqualified, he got so mad that "he went home and kicked the dog, then ate him." (In your monologue, you didn't mention Mr. Kim's name; if you did not even know the name of the person whom you were insulting in such a way, that makes the situation even worse.)

With this offensive joke playing on a very unfortunate racist stereotype, you have added considerable insult to injury for a hard-working world-class athlete whom millions of people feel was robbed of his gold.

Not only that, but you have perpetuated that same stereotype in a way that would make it more socially acceptable to Americans in general.

Your comments were on the air twice throughout South Korea, and many people here were deeply offended. They were shocked that such a thing would now be broadcast throughout a country like the United States.

Not only are your comments offensive to Mr. Kim, and the rest of South Korea, but they are hurtful to millions of Korean-Americans and other Asian-Americans, who are affected by such nasty stereotypes.

We know you can do better than that. Your joke was nothing but a cheap shot based on an unfair racial stereotype, as bad as comments about Blacks eating watermelons.

I know from your on-air and off-air comments that you are a decent man who condemns racism -- particularly against Blacks.

You're the descendant of Irish and Italian immigrants, two groups that have experienced a great deal of discrimination in the United States, so it seems surprising that you would spread this kind of thing around.

You're the number one late-night host in America and we think your standards should be a little higher.

Your jokes, and the cultural connotations that go with them, are repeated throughout the country, becoming almost a model of what is appropriate and acceptable. We realize that these are meant to be jokes, but that doesn't justify perpetuating such nasty racial stereotypes.

Most Koreans would like an apology for those remarks, as well as some indication that you understand why they were so offensive and hurtful.

Thank you for your time.

[coolsage]

And the report is in that one of the hostage-takers was embittered from being beaten, abused, and fired by his employer. He took his revenge (misguided as it was) on the school that enrolled his employer's child. The former boss was, yes, Korean.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[On the other hand]

[gypsyfish]

[coolsage]

Koreans as a whole have not yet developed the capacity to laugh at themselves. So serious.

[On the other hand]

[jajdude]

God, that joke by Leno is so awful, way worse than Koreans laughing at 9/11 footage.

How many letters would Leno get if no one could take a joke?