Comments on: S. African embassy criticizes scholar’s comments

By: mook

mook — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:37:59 +0000

JYC: “by what passes for the “left” in Korea to protect the rights of these people.”

Thank you for pointing that out. As a person of the left I fully remove myself from the wacked out, self-only-promoting Korean (not to mention North Korean) version of. Internationalist it aint.

By: mook

mook — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:28:51 +0000

No African I’ve met, particularly those from SA or Kenya, would EVER make compare KJI to Gandhi favorably. The good doctor is clearly not fit to teach in…hell, anywhere.

Rowan, you said it. This is just another glaring example of the inescapable truth: the typical ‘lowly’ English teacher with a foreign BA is better educated than your typical Korean PhD. Sad.

By: MrChips

MrChips — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:07:46 +0000

The more I study the more I know,
the more I know the more I forget,
the more I forget the less I know,
so why study?

a silly but appropriate quip for Mr.(I can’t call him Dr.)Jang.

By: Apla

Apla — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:08:40 +0000

I’d like to add a slightly different perspective. I was military attache for the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) to the North Korean Embassy in Harare in 1980-1. APLA was the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa). In 1976 the PAC’s main external backers, Chairman Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, both died, and PAC was then given assistance by Libya. In 1977-78 the US Carter administration paid thousands of dolalrs to selected PAC personnel to abandon the revolutionary line and support dialogue and detente. The restricted and external leaders Mangaliso Sobukwe and Potlako Leballo refused but David Sibeko, Vus Make and others, feeling challenged by the influx of young radical recruits from the 1976 Soweto and Cape risings, launched a partially successful coup against Leballo after Sobukwe’s death. Sibeko was shot by APLA troops but when the APLA army at Chunya, Tanzania, refused to recognise Make, the Tanzanian TPDF opened fire, killing 11 , woudning 40, and imprisoning the rest. A new puppet leader, Nyati Pokela, was placed on the PAC. Leballo, myself and other APLA from Libya relocated to Zimbabwe. At taht time North Korea was not the nightmare it now is - South Korea was under military dictatorship - haven’t you heard of the 1980 Kwangju massacre? Since Nyerere effectively controlled the OAU liberation committee in Dar es Salaam, he was able to dictate to all African states not to support our PAC faction and deport or arrest us if we entered Africa. The North Korean ambassador was extremely kind to us and paid for necessities out of his own pocket. As pressure increased from Tanzania to expel us so their eunuch pupprt PAC would be recognised, I argued unsuccessfully that we should temporarily relocate to North Korea because we could no longer trust African governments. In the event we were arrested, imprisoned in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and deported. The puppet PAC got 1.2% of the vote in 1994 election and 0.7% since.

I agree that North Korea has become a ghastly place but it 1980-1 we really appreciated what they were trying to do for African liberation.

By: Antti

Antti — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:06:19 +0000

Jang Shi-ki’s (how come think of ?��?��?�� when prononuncing his name) Ph.D. is from Dongguk.

“Your mum” asked about interviews. Since Mr Jang is in South Africa at the moment, he apparently hasn’t been able to grant interviews like Mr Kang, but he’s been sending contributions to Korean websites to clarify his positions.

Here’s one to his own National Association of Professors for Democratic Society:
“Stop being puppets of US imperialism” .
And to Ohmynews:
“Here’s to Chosun Ilbo and Grand National Party”

In his contributions he states that the Nobel peace price should have been given to both Kims instead of only to Kim Dae-jung, like it was given to both Mandela and de Klerk. In the first text he suggests it was because of US that only the southern Kim was awarded, in the latter he only asks the rhetorical question “why?”.

He already made a fool of himself by inviting a correction from the embassy of the country of his sabbatical leave. Now he suggests that the Norwegian Nobel Committee was subservient to the US in not remembering the leader of DPRK, whom Mr Jang hopes would prove a “great postmodern leader” along with his ROK colleague.

By: rowan

rowan — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:01:47 +0000

he may have a phd, but its prob only a korean phd which doesn’t mean much when its takes 2 years and you can’t fail.

By: Curious (a.k.a. Sewing)

Curious (a.k.a. Sewing) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:48:31 +0000

Sorry, English Literature. The other guy is the one with the doctorate in Sociology. I must try to keep my Gongguk (?��?�?sorry, Dongguk/�?�?�?) PhDs straight….

By: Curious (a.k.a. Sewing)

Curious (a.k.a. Sewing) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:41:40 +0000

I’d say not exactly low so much as muddled, especially if one has a Ph.D. in sociology, evidently….

By: judge judy

judge judy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:33:18 +0000

ah, usinkorea, through decades of farting around and avoiding edumacation at all costs, i have learned that it’s actually an inverse relationship. the more one studies, the higher the probability that their intelligence is low.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:11:11 +0000

One of the longest delusions I cherished and only recently gave up was that the more education a person had, the smarter he or she proved to be……