And for some reason Lyndon Johnson come to mind: “Would you rather have them inside the tent urinating out, or outside the tent urinating in?”

How about a ‘Wall of Booze’?

My sources tell me that, inspired by recent experiences, Rhie is working on another info-comic book, in which he will focus on the general expat population residing in Korea.

If he can create a phrase equal to Wall of Jews to describe us I’d be flattered. Have at it, Prof Rhie.

Netizen Kim,

That could be easily taken care of by floading our respective embassies with phone calls

이원복 교수는 15일(한국시간) 연합뉴스와 가진 전화 인터뷰에서 “무책임하게 책을 쓰지 않았으며 독일에서 10년간 지내며 유대인들이 겪은 고통을 너무나 잘 알고 있고 결코 반유대적이지 않다”며 “중도적 입장에서 독자들에게 정보를 주려했을 뿐이다”고 말했다.
Rhie Won-bok, in a Mar. 15 (Korean time) telephone interview with Yonhap News, said, “I did not write the book irresponsibly. While living in Germany for ten years, I knew all about the sufferings of the Jews, and (the book) is absolutely not anti-Jewish. I was only trying to give information from a moderate standpoint.”

From: http://news.chosun.com/site/da.....00317.html

There’s free speech in Korea? Since when? Self censorship is the norm here. It’s so internalized in the media that Korean reporters often don’t realize it’s going on. And then there’s the editorial content of the English language press in Korea. You’d think the only crimes committed here are white collar crimes and that Korea is a safe haven from the violent outside world.

In any case, freedom does not exist in a vacuum. It comes with responsibility. Publishing hate literature is never acceptable, nor should it be protected. That’s something that most of the western world understands.