There’s a place for both in a free society, but the lines need to be drawn more brightly — or drawn to begin with — in the Korean media.

Pretty much says it all.

Follow these 2 rules alone and you’ll be fine in Korea.

I believe the drug laws across East Asia stem from bad feelings dating back to the Opium Wars.

Be a nice guy with the girls, not a drunken sailor.”

I wholeheartedly agree with these statement’s of WJK’s.

As I said before, he is one of the moderate Gyopo commenters, not a fanatic at all. Nor should he be villified as one such…

1) That KBS’s fear-mongering, sensational expose’ on the idiotic foreigners smoking pot in public and having forged credentials is xenophobic, juvenile. and, er, idiotic?

2) That any other Korean network’s hysterical and, er, fear-mongering documentaries on foreigners’ “Fornicating Korean Women” or “Stealing the Wages of Honest, Hard-working Koreans” or “Creating a Race of Unpure, Half-breed People because of Their Copulative Liasions with Koreans” or any other similar shitclap is even more juvenile, race-baiting, and ludicrous?

3) That Fox, CNN, Scarborough County, Lou Dobbs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Bill O’Reilly, among many other media in the U.S., are guilty of routinely putting out xenophobic, juvenile, race-baiting, ludicrous, and, yes, idiotic documentaries and/or written trash such as “Latinos Bring Leprosy across Our Borders” or “Be Wary of All Muslims and Those Who Resemble Them” or “Seung-hee Cho Represents the Rage and Absence of Sense of Humour That All Orientals Share” or any other like-minded shitshtick?

4) That people who defend/subscribe to/believe in/really care about/put much credence in such articles or shows (in either country) are shitshtick shitclappers who aren’t worth the energy it takes to criticise them (even though it admittedly feels to good to do so)?

5) That if your race, religion, skin colour, shit consistency, smoking habits, fornicating proclivities, surgically-repaired imperfections and/or other such insecurities/hobbies are exposed in these productions, it is a natural inclination to overreact (even if you yourself are not the target)?

6) That a tolerance to the these natural inclinations by others to overreact is suggested?

7) That we’ve had enough rain here on the peninsula in the last two months?

That Korean footballer Chun-soo Lee is not as good as he and most local media think he is?

9) That Michigan is now going to be even MORE the butt of every joke conceived in Ohio for the rest of ‘07 (if not beyond)?

10) That not everyone reading this list is going to agree with all ten of them?

You liberals make me sick to my gut.

Let’s not forget “Mexicans bring leprosy”, “Blacks are hopeless criminals”, “Arabs are all Islamic fascists, and deserves to be killed”, etc. antics. Rather than 1-hour documentary, it’s quite literally a daily dose of Vitamin Bullsh!t. Not that this somehow validates Korean media’s xenophobia, but vice versa doesn’t work either.

P.S. - I really like that phrase… ‘daily dose of Vitamin Bullsh!t’. Maybe I’ll use it to label my “National Security, Intelligence, and Terrorism” professor’s assertion in class discussion next time he tries to use Ann Coulter as a reliable source of information.

What is so wrong about sorting bad apples among qualified foreign English teachers out of this country? It is against the law in Korea to smoke Marijuana and hashish. Period. Poor Korean guys, whining online about foreigners humping Korean girls. It is time to take action!!!!

“We should behave with the same kind of poise as Korea:

http://freekorea.us/2007/04/17…..rom-korea/”

What point are you trying to make here, Robert?

BumfromKorea pretty much stole my thunder.

I don’t like O’reilly or Fox, but to even compare what I suppose on those shows is an occassional veiled racial comment with a full-frontal hour long slam is disingenous on your part.

Entire network departments would be fired for the smear-umentaries KBS and MBC proudly strut two or three times a year. They would never even make it on the air, or past an amazed silence in the meeting room when it was pitched.