FYI - we get essentially no news about Korea filtering into Ohio. Surprisingly, the story of the altercation described in your post did get to Ohio. It was a 10 second video clip with sound broadcast on the local stations. If there are complaints that average Americans don’t have a clue about Korea, they should be directed to the idiot major media.

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TITLE: Hushoor’s Korea Briefing: 2003-09-16
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
KOREA TOPICS 9/16/03: NK gulags & SK complicity; 2 great Korea blogs; The Beijing talks in depth; Chinese getting impatient; Opinions on how to deal with North Korea; ROK army to Iraq (maybe); Various items on South Korean politics; Suicide in Cancun;…

The official webpage for the games seems to reinforce this Korean “superiority, as it only seems to cover Korea’s progress and forgets that there are other countries involved– except of course North Korea. Example– Video title is “Korea Adds Four Gold Medals.”

In the photo section there are 24 photos of the Norks, one of the two Koreas under the unification flag and exactly ZERO of other teams/delegations. And this is on the OFFICIAL webpage for the GAMES in which now 174 countries are participating.

As far as Korea “suddenly becoming an athletic powerhouse,” I think tht they should have bypassed the potential ramifications of questionable calls and they should have inscribed on all of the medals “Property of South Korea” and then distributed them to their team members before the games started.

For the video section, they need to put more balanced reporting. Personally, I don’t think a story about Korea’s progress is necessary when the other countries don’t get such coverage on the site.

For the photo section, well it is apparent what is wrong. Kissing Nork ass as always. The shits shouldn’t even be here, especially after Sunday’s little violent attack on South Koreans who were holding a peaceful demonstration.

Aside from the biased bits, it is a very well-constructed page.

http://www.universiade-daegu.org/