At the time I made some calls about it (I had written about it on my blog and I wanted to get to the bottom of the story) and was told that there were complaints from “neighborhood people.” I asked if any foreigners had complained and I was told some had come to see it, but the person I asked didn’t know if they were the source of any of the complaints.

To me that’s just symptomatic of the prevailing situation here. If you think there’s a substantial opposition to this sort of thing (including the soft-peddling on N.K.) I’d be curious to hear specifically what that is.

The gov’t downplays the North’s threat, “teachers” keep up the nonsense they are doing, the media is relatively silent about it, and movies keep depicting the “misunderstood brothers” up North. Where’s the evidence the pendulum is swinging back?

Sounds like it’s a little late for that. The “one race” myopia seems to keep trumping rational analysis.

You act as if Roh Moohyun and his brood invented teh “one race” notion? It’s been around and used as a reason for eventual unification for DECADES, going back to the days of the military regimes in the South. Both sides use it, sometimes in similar ways, sometimes in different ways.

And, no, it’s not too late to reverse this stuff. When the Chonkyojo (the far-left Korea National Teachers Union) was legalized recently, the floodgates were open. It has taken some time for the other side to get their bearings, but look at the opposition to the President’s plan to sneak Chonkyojo teachers into the private schools.

The opposition has raised awareness of the problem posed by these teachers. Even if they ultimately lose, it will be like Darth Vader striking down Obiwan Kenobi in the original “Star Wars”: it will make them even more powerful.

Parents are waking up to the realization that their children are being indoctrinated, and that is bad because it means they aren’t preparing for tests, tests, and then more tests.

Like I said, Chonkyojo is basking in the triumph of having recently been legitimized, but that power is wearing off. The pendulum is swinging back (but only if people keep up the heat, so keep criticizing the KNTU and their indoctrination any chance you get).