So, how do you protest a planned base move to your town? Why, by pulling off the limbs of a live, 2-month old pig and beheading it in front of the Ministry of Defense, of course! [Chosun Ilbo, Korean] Needless to say, the pig wasn’t too happy about it, as his expression [Maeil Gyeongje, Korean] clearly revealed, nor were a great many citizens, who are now holding memorials for the pig in Yongsan [JoongAng Ilbo, English].
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Pulled pork sandwich? They got the idea right off of the menu at the Oasis!
That was totally cruel, disgusting, and unnecessary.
The only thing that the protest proved is that the average Korean farmer doesn’t have anything between their ears.
pork project?
I wish the guy had set himself on fire instead.
think they’re reading too many history books. What will they do next?
Put a pig inside boiling oil?
Can’t believe that Chinese and Korean kings used to punish people like that.
That pig must have sufferred with immense pain.
They should have beheaded it first, if they really wanted to do it, for whatever extreme shock value they wanted.
Then, again you are in territory where people set themselves on fire to protest something.
Vietnamese people do that, too, I think. Setting yourself on fire.
I’m much more impressed by the 9-year-old kid who blew away a half-ton boar with a pistol.
Next time, tough Korean dudes, pick on a hog your own size.
@wjk: drawing and quartering has some history in Europe, as well.
BTW shouldn’t this guy get charged with something? I havevn’t heard any mention of legal action. I know in Australia if you did something like this in public you’d probably end up in jail for a while, and you’d definately cop a big, big fine. Are there no animal protection laws in Korea yet?
That pig must have sufferred with immense pain
With no way to Wee Wee Wee all the way home!
UNACCEPTABLE!
Tasteless and cruel always win sympathy points, right ?
I have to believe the average Icheon resident protesting a base being built in their town is none too happy about this incident. It does much more to harm their cause than help it.
If anything, the ROK will move faster now to build a base in Icheon to keep the crazy farmers under control.
Isn’t it illegal to do that? I mean, under the law, can you actually purchase animals and slaughter them under conditions like that?
I hope not. That’s just some sick weirdness, by folks who really deserve to be arrested.
Tasteless and cruel always win sympathy points, right ?
I bet the left-overs made the grill and the ears, silk purses.
lol. Those protesters basically turned the national sentiment against their cause. Douchebags.
The protestors are expressing their anger at American troops. The pig is a substitute for Americans.
I’m not sure about that. The base being relocated to their town is ROKA Special Forces base.
There are few things left in this world that would make drop my jaw in amazement. This was one of them.
The Maeil article says some animal rights groups have lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor’s office for violating the Animal Protection Act. Article 7 of the Act prohibits cruel acts of slaughter(such as hanging) and public killings etc.
Too bad the punishment for this is only a fine of 5 million won or less - these psychos deserve to be locked up, if not treated to the same misery they inflicted on that animal.
Holy lack of a clue, Batman!
Another example of stellar promotion on the domestic and, I would imagine unintentionally, international stage. I bet you more people abroad hear of this than “Korea Sparkling”.
I’m sick of hearing protesters apologizing for this kind of crap after the fact. Don’t invite the nutters to the party in the first place.
5000 years of culture and a mature democratic polity.
Wanna buy a bridge?
“The group issued an apology on Thursday, saying that the killing of the pig was not planned.”
Yeah, it wasn’t premeditated. There’s a logical explanation to it. One guy just happened to have a pig in the trunk of his car. The pig escaped the trunk, got itself tangled in the rope that was in an other man’s car and then ended up being hind and quartered and decapitated as the men were trying to prevent it from causing any more mayhem.
Protesting in this sweet old country takes on all aspects of camp and cheap theatrics but this time they have gone beyond my expectations. This group of idiots gives Koreans a bad name. People outside of the country will see this and paint all Koreans with a broad brush. This I regret.
“The group issued an apology on Thursday, saying that the killing of the pig was not planned.”
Like many protests here, this one was probably soju-fueled. A couple of drunken sickos, made drunker by the mass-mind and collective han of the crowd, thought this would be a good way to illustrate their plight.
This does not excuse them, but it might explain them.
“Protesting in this sweet old country takes on all aspects of camp and cheap theatrics but this time they have gone beyond my expectations. This group of idiots gives Koreans a bad name. People outside of the country will see this and paint all Koreans with a broad brush. This I regret.”
One of the reasons I find nationalism so ironic.
@The Western Confucian: the whole process was overseen by the mayor of Icheon. (who is unfortunately from the GNP, lol)
What the hell is wrong with people? If i saw someone doing this you can bet teeth would start flying. Sure, it would probably end up being my own teeth, but at least i’d try to do something about it! Disgusting.
Yes, let’s empathize with pigs over breakfast. I love everthing (trademark) and its capacity to make a dead pig some kind of blight on people who kill pigs in cold blood. Also, pigs are delicious.
27 - Yes, pigs are delicious. But is the pork tastier when they’re subjected to a horrifying, painful death? Or does that only hold true for 개고기?
McGenghis,
It’s one thing killing a pig for its meat, it’s another making a public spectacle of torturing and killing it.
PS. I’d like to see them try doing that to a tiger.
#14. This, in-fact is a metaphor for ol’ Railway’s chapter on Korean Envy. You will find this chapter right after the one on the Cultural Denial of Danger. In ancient Korean days a man in his village released a Genie from its bottle. When the Adjashi was asked if he could have one wish, what would it be? Answer: “Kill my neighbors pig”. And there you have it, life imitating folklore.
I’m wondering who got the samgyeopssal in the end. Did the restauranteurs of Samgakji Rotary gather round to bid on the carcass afterward?
Koreans are masters of the WTF protest. Don’t let anybody say otherwise. Highting!
#31, my guess #12
Of course it’s illegal to torture a creature. No one can control that law. The world is one moment, it’s perfect, we can’t change the world. It’s a horrible thing what they did. We can’t get rid of what happens.
madne0 wrote”What the hell is wrong with people? If i saw someone doing this you can bet teeth would start flying….”
Forget it! Who cares what’s wrong with people? We can’t change it. If we go in and beat the shit out of some guy and put him in a coma the Korean law will just make our life hell and we’ll sit in a prison for five years and come to the conclusion that we did nothing but hurt ourselves.
Hey, wadduai care from Korea? Ya wanna do Korea a service? Go smack around one of those Mormon mission directors.
Not just a few scattered slices, but a full loaf of clueless Wonderbread on display in this thread.
Slicing off your finger shows commitment to the cause.
Shaving your head displays an unflinching, unyielding determination to vanquish your opponent.
Wearing a headband and pumping your fist while chanting inane and retarded slogans proves that repetition can sink even the most feared enemy.
And now, the next step in the evolution of a serious, mature, effective protest culture: The torture and slaughter of baby swine.
The sooner you haughty white bastards admit that Koreans protest methods are among the most advanced in the world, having earned the ROK the title of “Northeast Asian Hub of Finger-Cutting and Hair-Shaving,” the better off we’ll all be. So get off your goddamn whitey high horses and bow down to the bald, head-band wearing, fist-pumping, pig sticking adjoshi…or shut the fuck up.
As the group said, “Some protesters used the drastic measure to show their desperate emotions.” Now you fucking white devils may think that’s just an excuse for childish idiots to act like douchebags while using their inability to control their “emotions” as a convenient excuse. Well guess what whitebread? You would be fucking right. For once.
Sparkle on, Korea. Sparkle on.
Sparkle on, Korea. Sparkle on.
LOL
Very well put.
iheartblueballs. You complete and inspire me in oh so many ways and on so many levels. Never give up, never! Seriously, well written and spot on.
The KNTO is missing a golden opportunity: package tours of Korean “protest culture.” Then in the evening, “drinking culture” tours. In a city bus for extra excitement.
A bus full of foreigners probably shouldn’t be anywhere near the leftwing protest sites.
Where’s your sense of adventure zzoooo?
I left out the “political culture” tour where you go to the National Assembly to see shoe throwing and Kangnam room salons where politicos grope female reporters.
it’s been posted on youtube (admittedly by some anti-korean japanese nut).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6KXmRGW2o
A moment of silence for the pulled porker.
http://news.media.daum.net/soc.....85407.html
iheartblueballs,
You forgot to mention self-immolation.
‘Yes, let’s empathize with pigs over breakfast. I love everthing (trademark) and its capacity to make a dead pig some kind of blight on people who kill pigs in cold blood. Also, pigs are delicious.’
the smartest statement i’ve seen so far on this thread.
there are no laws in this country governing the treatment of livestock. you can do what you will with them. for instance, one day i saw a video in which a couple of guys took a pig out to be slaughtered. the pig was given to them by the company. one guy wacked the pig on it’s head with a metal pipe thus causing the pig to collapse and wither in agony. that’s when another guy started to cut the pigs throat, but too bad for the pig, the guy took his time cutting through all the fat before getting to salvation. the third guy started to cut off the pig’s leg even though miss piggy was still on stage.
we humans, we’re just cruel all around when it comes to the things we eat, aren’t we?
‘So get off your goddamn whitey high horses.’
the second smartest thing said on this thread.
pawikirogi, Look up the word irony.
If you are talking about the U.S., that’s not a true statement.
pawikirogi-there are no laws in this country governing the treatment of livestock.
Okay, but it’s illegal to torture an animal. We don’t need written law to understand that as law, right?
#43, now this is going a bit too far over the top. On hands and knees prostrate, praying for Porky. B’d B’d B’d, that’s all folks!
#47. Fact! It is against the law in Megook to light mule farts. Oh the humanity!
‘Okay, but it’s illegal to torture an animal. We don’t need written law to understand that as law, right?’
really? could you say something more about that?
lastly, i forgot to add that the pigs fate is certainly far worse than say, a person who is electrocuted by the state. wouldn’t you agree?
‘So get off your goddamn whitey high horses.’
iheartblueballs gives such wonderful advice.
Railwaycharm, you’ve got over 20% of the posts on this thread, making you an honorary member of the Super Comment Tribe. I think only Kushibo managed a higher percentage (but even then, he was using a sock puppet).
newtown:Okay, but it’s illegal to torture an animal. We don’t need written law to understand that as law, right?’
Pawi:really? could you say something more about that?
What? It’s wrong to torture any creature. That’s basic human reason. Torturing another living thing is against the law. It’s simply wrong, it’s not right.
don’t forget the ‘bee man’
Compared with the cruelty caused by US/western bio-industry and other forms of US/western exploitation of animals, this beheading of a pig is close to nothing. At least this pig has served a purpose, namely that of a humane socialist society without the US-presence. This pig will be a symbol of resisting neo-colonialism, US-racism, Bush-fascism and Japanish/chinese expansionalism.
#55: I think you’ve been sipping from the Chomsky fountain a bit overmuch, or else my sarcasm detector is out of batteries.
This is a purely domestic protest. It’s about a Korean army base relocation. Uncle Sam and his neo-colonizers had nothing to do with it.
“Compared with the cruelty caused by US/western bio-industry and other forms of US/western exploitation of animals, this beheading of a pig is close to nothing.”
The pig was tortured and killed for no reason.
I like the “US/Western” touch. First time I’ve seen that.
Yeah, with the FTA with EU in sight, it is a matter of time, rest assured. EU or US, it is the same side of evil. Both are judaic/homosexual entities.
I know it’s about relocation of a Korean base. No matter what, we socialist will find a way to blame the Yankees. I even suspect that this pig was an US-import.
Mayeth the divine light of thy comrade Kim Jong Il shineth eternally.
Bad open……try airplane food or bar girls - never open with FTA and EU
Pawi, sorry, but I gotta say that’s one of the most pathetic attempts at Socratic questioning I’ve ever seen. I mean, really. Is that necessary when you’ve got such a tool as the search engine just at the tip of your fingers?
Look what took me 4 seconds flat to find with Google:
1991 South Korean Animal Protection Law:
Article 6
1. No one shall kill animals in a way which is cruel or which provokes
disgust without proper, rational reason.
2. Animals shall not be subject to the infliction of unnecessary pain or
injury without proper, rational reason.
(In case you know as little about biology as you do about computers, livestock = animals).
http://www.aapn.org/koreanlaw.html
Before you get your hopes up, let me shoot them down…It’s been revised in January of this year:
“Language regarding the slaughter of animals is much more specific. The old law specified that one “could not kill an animal without a rational reason,” while the new law specifies that animals cannot be killed by hanging, killed in an open area or on a street, nor killed in front of other animals.”
http://www.koreananimals.org/info/news/apl.htm
#52 gbnhj, Oh shit, should I take this as a badge of courage or sharpen my Rapier?
#55 Havik, you magnificent grey poupon bastard, it had nothing to do with anyone but internal Korean military/ provincial politics. But now we see which side of the bed you wet. Viva la France!
“Mayeth the divine light of thy comrade Kim Jong Il shineth eternally.”
Must be a troll. Nobody outside of North Korea (and most of them don’t believe it anymore) actually thinks KJI is anything other than a despotic tyrant. And if Havik really believes all this socialist shite, then he’s truly pathetic.
“Must be a troll…Havik really believes all this socialist shite, then he’s truly pathetic.”
Sure enough…I have a strong feeling that he is an English teacher masking his location and stiring up the pot…I doubt he really needs replied to as he rarely ever believes what he writes.
The only thing that garners real comment is the state of your heart. Pigs be damned, and may they eat every pearl you cast aside.
#62 Railwaycharm. Hey, I am from Holland. It’s the Dutch flag, you fucking imbecile!
And it was a typical Dutch display of sarcasm.
#63 Snow. You’d be surprised how many SOUTH Koreans believe in Kim Jong Il’s version of communism. In Europe, an ever-growing number of Korean adoptees feel attracted to North Korea. And the scary thing is that they are not joking. In fact, like all radicals, they don’t have any sense of humour.
#66, I had better get this shot in at the Frenchman before the Shadow cuts me off.
First of all, most of us thought you were a highjacker troll. Your stupid comment about the pig had to be from one or two sources. One: A troll stirring the pot. Two: A fucking French imbecile like yourself. I think it is the latter. Via la France, ya dick!
#67, “Via la France”?? if you want to make a (feeble) attempt to say something in French, be sure your French is correct, you idiot.
#68 You have to wonder why someone who claims to be Dutch would have a concern about the proper use of French. Go back into your hole you fucking troll.
Pawi, regardless of the legality, what makes you feel the need to argue for the right to torture animals? Why?
Did you start with insects and a magnifying glass and slowly graduate from there? I’m non-plussed.
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