I’m not sure where you got that article, but it seems someone is ripping expressions off the Marmot’s Hole. Could the Marmot’s be gaining global notoriety?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjo_k%C5%8Dsai

I had never heard this expression before, but now I’ve seen it twice in the last hour. You didn’t rip it from the article about the British Airways crash, now did you?

Also, what does 원조교제 mean? I know the two components, but can’t put them together to make an English equivalent…

though the reporter didn’t, to her credit, engage in any sort of race-baiting, the netizen comments have been on fire regarding the ethnicity of the two younger perpetrators, whose names (rodriguez and reyes) sound very hispanic. a lot of calls for all mexicans to go back where they came from and such retarded crap.

there doesn’t yet seem to be much anger levelled at the convenience store owner, whose name does sound very korean, only a lot of anti-mexican comments and no distinction made about his korean-sounding name.

the aburd racist and/or xenophobic comments toward the two younger (alleged) perpetrators does sound similar to how korean netizens would sound were this to have happened here, were a non-korean convenience store owner accused of such a crime against a young korean girl.

the difference, of course, between what the netizen comments are like there and what they would be like here is this: there are also a significant number of commentators calling out the xenophobes and racists for being exactly that. in fact, i’d say the number of comments by racists/xenophobes and the number of comments by critics of these racists/xenophobes are about even right now.

sadly, there would be no such evenness here. the whole lot would all be in a racist/xenophobic rant to have the foreigner castrated.

i might be wrong, but looking logically and evenhandedly at it all, this usual lack of evenness amongst korean netizens, whipped into a nationalistic fervour, toward any crime perpetrated by non-koreans is why there is always such a backlash here and other blogs toward korean netizens and their comments.

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making an assumption that the guy with korean-sounding name has received twice the amount of bail simply because he’s korean is exactly the type of thing i’m implying in my above comments about how netizen comments are here. it’s just jumping the gun with unfounded information.

i doubt there’s a backlash toward that cho guy at virginia tech last fall. in fact, i’d bet many americans don’t even remember his name or, even if they do, his ethnicity.