The Busan chapter of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union has deleted parts of its controversial anti-APEC video, but blasted conservative groups for slander. Sit down for this:
The chapter said the conservative Grand National Party had been “taking advantage of simple class materials for political ends, and the conservative media are siding with the party and condemning the teachers’ union from an ideologically biased perspective.”
Actually, the statement read:
“The Grand National Party has been misusing the joint-classroom materials that were prepared with pure intentions.”
UPDATE: USinKorea had the presence of mind to save the original version of the video, which you can download here.
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As I predicted, the Korean Commie movement is coming to a quick close. In next few years, or in the next year, Korea will do 180 degree turn-around and the whole country will be totally pro-America and anti-North.
And, we will remember this as the height of Korean Commie movement, “They even made “F***king USA” song and a video about Bush..Ha,Ha, unbelievable”.
The change is coming soon.
I doubt that very much.
i agree with dogbert. even if the change occurs, which is what i mostly doubt, there certainly won’t be any looking back laughing. it’ll all be swept under the carpet.
If the “baduk 180″ comes on that fast, my guess is such a display would rapidly alienate Congress and accelerate the withdrawal of American forces and possibly lead to the abrogation of the mutual defense treaty. So as for me, I say “Spin me right round baby!”
From the Chosun Ilbo article:
The chapter said its accusers were within their rights to say the materials are unsuitable as teaching materials since the video tape contains slang and abusive language. ?But they are just a parody, and teachers can consider the level of students when they decide whether to use the material.
Again, this parody is something of their own creation, not something that they discovered and are commenting on or helping students to interpret. In that respect, they?re simply teaching kids how to knock down straw-men.
I’ve been a teacher and administrator for years now, and when I taught at schools in Pusan, it wasn’t allowable for either teachers or students to use ‘f**k’ as part of a lesson. Even at a university level, such usage is debatable at best, but I?m aware of very few educators who would extend that debate to the middle- or high-school level.
I guess the curricula have changed (or at least I suppose they fuckin’ have) at the districts in Kyeongsangnsnam-do.
Careful, Marmot. As soon as they find out you’re white and not protected by SOFA, they might try and sue this blog for slander.
?The Grand National Party has been misusing the joint-classroom materials that were prepared with pure intentions.??
It’s possible the GNP misused the materials with pure intentions, right?
Anybody have any ideals on how to deal with these frankenstein monsters? Obviously you can’t shut them up by force, yet to do nothing while the future of Korea gets brain washed and politicized for the love of Kim Jong Il by these so called ‘teachers’. Back in the late 1980’s they were fighting the Roh government to have the right to organize themselves, and I acutally were symapthetic to them. But now they’ve grown up to be a real pain in the arse, if not stooges of the comrade Kim.
That should be “Roh government” as in Roh Tae Woo.
I believe the Ministry of Education was going to once again advocate a rating system for teachers, which the KTU was *really* against in the past. Perhaps in light of this debacle and the recently televised reports surrounding the sexual abuse of elementary grade students by their teachers will give the ministry the needed justification to scrutinize teachers.
I have yet t0 see a Korean English language paper with an article mentioning the use of images of 9/11 and passenger planes flying into skyscrapers as a big objectionaly part of the video. I don’t care much about f- wording, but that is the main part that has received attention.
I have also not found any of the papers running an editorial about this.
How about in the Korean language versions?
Take note : if the backlash against this video gets fairly muted or muddled by claims of freedom of thought and speech; if the groups are successful in limited the backlash by parading out neo-cons, and what the Uni. minister calls those with “totalitarian mindset” and president Roh calls Koreans more pro-American than Americans and which the KTU would call pseuo-Koreans on the outside but American on the inside….
…..you can expect to see an increase in this type of thing.
These groups are pretty good at reading the tea leaves.
If Korean society does not come down hard on them about the US of 9/11 images for things like this and in this manner, and doesn’t come down hard on such vile propaganda exposure to kids, the groups will take note of possible reasons why and exploit them more fully.
They seemed to have had in mind using free speech and thought when they put on the Inchon 9/11 show then paraded out the Nutty Professor. And I think they should have come out of that feeling it was a sucessful tactic. They took much initial heat, especially since the US media and government was paying attention, but they sucessfully turned the discussion, at least inside Korea, to one on the National Security and free speech and academic freedom.
If the Korean press decides that what it has done so far on the KTU is enough, and if a high level of uproar among Korean people does not convince them to do more, I would wager a little money that the groups and people like the KTU will take it as a greenlight to do more of this stuff.
It will show them they can push buttons, gain significant press coverage, and ride out any potential backlash.
Leaders like The Priest do watch for things like this and utilizes what he learns…..
national security law…
Dang, they seem to have taken down the original version of the video at the teachers’ union site. Anyone happen to save it?
Anyone happen to save it?
No, and I’ve been kicking myself all day because of it.
Of course…
I’ll upload it as was today. The computer I’m on at home is 56k dial up, so it might take some time. I’ll come back here and let you know when it’s up and I’ll drop a note at Oranckay’s now that he’s paid his bills.
I’ll have my review of it like I do with the new videos at http://www.usinkorea.org/videos/new later on….
Korea shoots itself in the foot once again. For trying to be the ‘International hub’ of Asia, they sure do a funny way of showing it over and over again.
Here is the video link. I haven’t checked it, but it should be working.
http://usinkorea.org/videos/new/WANTED-700K.wmv
I haven’t done anything with it yet. Maybe this weekend. This is just what I grabbed off their site the day it was mentioned and the day before they edited it.