Brutal act by South Korea police occurred while tens of thousands demonstrators tried to block US beef import by South Korea government announcement a few days ago. A woman demonstrator got brutal blows by police on June 29, 2008 in Seoul as a attached video clip shows.
Most of Koreans are not sure that consultation on US beef import between Seoul and Washington is enough to secure the safety against Mad Cow Disease. Hundreds of Thousands of Koreans have been joined US beef import re-negotiation demonstration.
A conservative even stabbed a peaceful demonstrator; this shows how pathetic and desperate they are. They want US beef since they cannot pay for Korean beef which the young officeworkers who earn more than their Western counterparts can afford with ease.Now they conservatives want Chinese-style Internet control laws. A Japanese book I read even suggested that these "conservatives' are in fact another faction of former communists. That makes sense,I think.
xxwzaebd 1 month ago
Actually things are much worse than then. At least people had plenty of individual freedom sometimes even granted by the military regime itself(paradise for middle and high school students at that time-I know). The current oppressive policies are a reflection of the uneasiness felt by the conservative landowning minority(older,poorer and less educated than the young working class) since being cornered out by the IT revolution.
xxwzaebd 1 month ago
At least under military dictatorship, people had much more individual freedom which has been worsened recently. Neoconfucianism considers each individual by default as terrorist or treason suspects.
xxwzaebd 1 month ago
Korea IS the reality version of 1984 and THX.
xxwzaebd 1 month ago
a scene from 1984
SUPERSTUD6000 1 year ago
They should keep peace for the nation but yet the korean riot police are so violent. What the shit of their controller are doing??
boopl 2 years ago
Indeed. Most people don't know that South Korea was a military dictatorship until the late 80's.
Craigers22763 2 years ago
fuck of korea police
azn2211 3 years ago
Fuck the police.
This is a return to the methods of the dictatorship that ran the South just over 2 decades ago. The issue is not so much the threat of mad cow but what is driving it. That is the interests of the big Korean corporations who want a free trade deal with the US. The beef embargo is a barrier to negotiations and it's being taken away against the wishes of the vast majority of Koreans,
against a backdrop of price hikes, the decreasing value of the won and deepening social inequality.
urameshiyaaa 3 years ago
woot, we should let UN troops enter S.Korea and take over.
SmallShark 3 years ago