Comments on: Pure intentions, my ass

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:03:56 +0000

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.

By: dunner

dunner — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:38:26 +0000

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.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:01:09 +0000

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….

By: The Marmot

The Marmot — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:29:55 +0000

Anyone happen to save it?
No, and I’ve been kicking myself all day because of it.

By: oranckay

oranckay — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:23:19 +0000

Dang, they seem to have taken down the original version of the video at the teachers’ union site. Anyone happen to save it?

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:30:35 +0000

national security law…

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:27:23 +0000

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…..

By: R.elgin

R.elgin — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:19:48 +0000

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.

By: kimbob

kimbob — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:06:33 +0000

That should be “Roh government” as in Roh Tae Woo.

By: kimbob

kimbob — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:01:30 +0000

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.