artwork: plundered booty
There is a theme at work herein, from today’s media:
The Search for Hidden Money Expands
More Land to be Seized from Heirs of Collaborators
Should People Be Ashamed of Their Wealth?
There is nothing about parrots however.
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“If a law-abiding person is pressured to donate money simply because he or she is wealthy, it is the same as ordering a rich person to pay to become a minister.”
What is the reporter getting it? That ministries are sometimes given to the highest bidder?
Man I hope the police don’t find out that my grandparents or great-grandparents did anything unpatriotic and take MY farm.
Punishment/revenge for our family’s actions. Is this North Korea? Albania?
should have been:
Punishment/revenge for ONE’S family’s actions.
#2,
My guess is that this will happen a lot more frequently, particularly when someone refuses to sell land to a construction company.
The artwork is a nice touch, Elgin. Taking style points from the Gypsy Scholar?
@2, nobody’s putting you in jail. Should you profit from being a traitor? No. Cry me a fucking river but the same thing would happen in the states or Canada.
Arrg, matey, I took everything not nailed down too.
(I just love pirate talk.)
“Should People Be Ashamed of their Wealth?” ends with this spurious conclusion:
“The question that was made during the culture and tourism minister’s confirmation hearing symbolized not only the maturity of our politics, but just how distorted social perceptions are toward wealth.”
The Korean perception toward wealth is a reflection of the national disease of jealousy toward anyone who even appears to have it better than you. (Remember the Korean saying that “when your cousin acquires a piece of land, you feel nauseous.”)
Although Koreans fawn all over those with wealth and will only befriend those from whom they might have something material to gain, the jealousy eats them up inside, causing us to go notoriously ballistic at perceived social injustice. This is the driving force that propelled Roh and his cronies to power.
True story: Some Korean American friends of mine struggled to put their 2 sons through med school, and after they graduated and became physicians, the parents sent them to Korea to find good Korean wives. They were instructed to stay for a month. They ended up flying back within two weeks, in total disgust of Korean golddigger women.
The typial first date lines included “”Oppa…I want a brand name (insert item here)…Will you buy one for me now?”
This is the sort of materialism that prevails in Korean society today that has undermined whatever values might have existed back in the 60s.
Isn’t it funny how much comments like these are dismissed as evil, rabid anti-Koreanism when in fact they’re the most patriotic of statements? The “frog in the well” has become so accustomed to the slime he lives in that when someone well- intentioned (pardon the pun) points out that it’s a unhealthy and unnecessary to live this way, they are lashed at in anger and disbelief.
Mizar, your friends did not look in the right places, sorry to say.
Your observation is of interest though. I do remember the morality tale of Nolbu and the three gourds, thus that sort of mentality has been around Korea for more than the last few decades (it’s human nature).
Why did this KA family send their KA sons back to Korea for “good Korean wives”? KA women too uppity and independent for them? A KA scholar (can’t remember her name) wrote about how KA parents tended to have differing expectations for their own daughters and daughters-in-law. They wanted their own daughters to pursue prestigious and high-paying professions, yet didn’t want their sons to marry career women.
Your friends’ sons weren’t expecting those three keys, were they?
Interesting switch from third person voice to first person voice when discussing Koreans.
“Interesting switch from third person voice to first person voice when discussing Koreans.”
Yes, it is, and a very subtle distinction that is usually missed by the crasser minds who still think in terms of nationality, culture and other such arbitrary distinctions.
Life is all about choices - INDEPENDENT CHOICES and we must draw a sharp uncompromising distinction between US and NOT US when declaring our independence from such deplorable customs.
But in the final analysis, it’s all about US vs. the arbitrary nonsense we allow ourselves to fall under the influence of. In the final analysis, there IS only us.
Thank you.
“A KA scholar (can’t remember her name) wrote about how KA parents tended to have differing expectations for their own daughters and daughters-in-law. They wanted their own daughters to pursue prestigious and high-paying professions, yet didn’t want their sons to marry career women.”
The same is said of Jewish mothers, Sonagi. A very good observation.