Seoul Metro Police’s cybercrimes division has identified a 32-year-old Korean-American by the name of Jang as the one who recently uploaded a video that he claimed showed riot cops using water cannons and members of the infamous “White Skull Unit” cracking down on anti-US beef protesters in Gwanghwamun.
The video, accompanied by an exhortation for protesters to hit the streets, actually showed scenes from anti-KORUS FTA protests in March of last year.
Nevertheless, the video pissed off many netizens with its images of winter-clad police taking water cannons and clubs to protesters.
Police plan to book Jang for defamation, but that’s about it.
Jang moved to the United States in 1992 and has never returned to Korea. The video was uploaded in the United States.
Police aren’t sure whether he’s a US citizen of not, but considering his length of stay, they believe it likely that he’s a US citizen.
How he survived all those years eating US beef, however, has authorities baffled.
Police are currently investigating suspicions that there are string pullers behind the US beef protests who are using the Internet to encourage the protests and illegal actions.
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Well, what do you expect from a Kyopo?
Nevertheless, the video pissed off many netizens with its images of winter-clad police taking water cannons and clubs to protesters.
Because, Lord knows, when it comes to the whole anti-American-beef issue, Korean netizens are concerned with accuracy and truthfulness.
good luck trying to get him extradited for that.
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSGtRoEQYA
#3, unless the poor, benighted soul is an illegal who overstayed his visa–or just on a greencard (since being charged with a crime can get your immigration status hosed up quickly)…
#5, you would have to commit a crime in the US, right? A civil matter in another country would be another thing, no?
So the guy is saying the police are useless, corrupt and immoral. In Korea it’s defamation, in the West we call it, telling the truth.
No one noticed that the cops were in their winter clothes on the video? Or, am I reading “winter-clad” incorrectly?
Smoke and mirrors…simply posturing..like they can/will do anything about it. Lip service at best.
“Well, what do you expect from a Kyopo?”
Lol… well, as pawi returns, so has his flip side of the coin.
“Police are currently investigating suspicions that there are string pullers behind the US beef protests who are using the Internet to encourage the protests and illegal actions.”
Hmm.. is the Korean beef industry comprised of big-time agriculture corporations, individual farmers, or loose association of individual farmers? Or am I missing other possibilities as to who are the string pullers?
#8 do not apply any logic to these idiots. They are completely blinded by ignorant rage and silly, calculating lies that they wholeheartedly believe without any hint of skepticism or critical thought.
Any rumor about the big bad Americans plotting evil against innocent Koreans with the help of the new 2MB administration- they believe it without question.
Like my university students who totally believed that those 2 middle school girls in 2002 were killed by the US military vehicle on purpose and the soldiers “celebrated their kill”.
I asked them why US soldiers would want to kill 2 schoolgirls and what would the US military gain from it?
Their response was “Our senior told us what happened and we believe him. He is right!”
No logic ever works with the unthinking!
“Well, what do you expect from a Kyopo?”
I think Andy needs to place such comments in better context to what he means as such rehetorical (?)
remarks can easily be misunderstood, especially from someone who has a track record of mouthing off about other people. Kyopos are people just like any other , what if we were to make a comment like, “”well, what do you expect from a balding, overweight, prematurely middleaged white trash english teacher in Korea?”
Somepeople could take offense from the insinuation of insult.
And as a sub blogger, poor game indeed.
But then, what does one expect from an expat here?
#10 “Who are the string pullers?”
It’s not just the Korean agricultural industry- small as it may be- behind this.
It’s the:
- Pro Pyongyang, Anti-American groups aligned with the unions and teachers who wish destroy all aspects of a positive relationship between the US & Korea. These groups are actually working with confessed North Korean agents who seek to undermine the South.
- Leftwing parties (Uri) who are totally against Lee Myung Bak and will resort to anything to hurt him and his administration. The are pushing this anti-US beef issue hard to hurt Lee.
- General trade protectionist groups who wish to keep the door closed to imports as much as possible.
There are a whole host of “agents” behind this. The farmers are only a small part.
“These groups are actually working with confessed North Korean agents who seek to undermine the South.”
Really? As in active NK agents? Holy crap, how are they not arrested?
“Leftwing parties (Uri) who are totally against Lee Myung Bak and will resort to anything to hurt him and his administration. The are pushing this anti-US beef issue hard to hurt Lee.”
Sore loser complex… one of the uglier aspects of politics…
“General trade protectionist groups who wish to keep the door closed to imports as much as possible.”
Hmm… are there any prominent one in general?
What happened to all the people who said Anti-Americanism would all but vanish under the new administration? Seems to me it’s worsened.
I’ll forgo kyopo bashing and just wonder what would possess this individual to do what he did. Was it some grudge against (non-Korean)-Americans? Was it the “born again Korean” complex some Korean-Americans get? Was he a radical vegan?
Stupid question. Was water cannons used on 25 May but images from March were used to illustrate the action (OR) was there NO water cannons used and the whole thing is a complete hoax to incite the masses?
You’re right I should have placed it in “better context”. So here goes;
What do you expect from a loser jobless whining Kyopo bum who has nothing but sorry excuses for his do nothing but complain and whine attitude?
More pawi bashing, bumfromkorea? What happened to the Kyopo united front thingy?
bumfromkorea,
“Really? As in active NK agents? Holy crap, how are they not arrested?”
Actually, some of them have:
http://rokdrop.com/2006/10/28/.....-movement/
This case has become quite well known: Anti-US activist groups working in conjunction with active Nork agents and members of the URI and DLP parties.
“Hmm… are there any prominent one in general?”
Anti-FTA and protectionist: the trade unions that are aligned with the Korean Teacher’s Union who are very far left/Anti-US. They wish to keep Korea’s doors closed to imports and continue filling school children’s heads full of the ‘hate America & love Kim Jong-Il’ crap!
Why are school kids running through the streets at night, protesting American beef?
Because their teachers told them to do it!
Teachers who have told their students to do this should be held responsible for the result!
http://rokdrop.com/2006/10/28/…..-movement/
“Authorities are holding a U.S. citizen, Michael Chang (44), who they say was trained as a spy in North Korea between 1989 and 1993, became a member of the ruling Korean Workers Party, pledged allegiance to the party, and spied for the North for 10 years.”
Is it possible that said kyopo has connections to this guy?
That’s some fancy dancy police work there.
One wonders how all the intellectual property piracy goes unidentified.
“What happened to the Kyopo united front thingy?”
Considering this would be like the fifth time I’m accusing you of fabricating such mentality in the first place, I guess it just goes to show how delusional you really are. But seriously, you really gotta quit the strawman habit before you run out of any level of legitimac- damn, too late.
“Teachers who have told their students to do this should be held responsible for the result!”
As my AP U.S. history teacher once put it (after I graduated and I met her at a conference), “The worst thing teachers can do to their students short of molestation is letting their politics seep into the education process.” Because of the inherent nature of the teacher-student relationship, expressing politics in classroom should automatically be considered as brainwashing. Especially true in the Korean education system, where very little deviation occurs from the format ‘Teacher’s lectures = fact’.
Why are you claiming that I am “delusional” when I see it happening here in the Hole? Occasionally you guys attack an original poster or commentator if he/she says something that doesn’t agree with your unique sensibilities, using similar logic and arguments.
Didn’t you, and a couple of other kyopos attack a certain guest blogger, because he claimed that a certain TV drama has a nationalistic theme? I don’t know if there was a nationalistic theme in that show or not, but it was interesting to see you guys hound him in a way that makes one wonder if you guys are reading the same sheet of music.
“Occasionally you guys attack an original poster or commentator if he/she says something that doesn’t agree with your unique sensibilities, using similar logic and arguments.”
Wait, there’s an ‘our sensibilities’? And I love you attached “Occasionally” there, turning the qualifier into a simple ‘multiple occurrences’ without regards to context. Then, I guess as a Gyopo, I can never ever disagree with any argument that’s critical of Korea ever without turning unreasonable.
“Didn’t you, and a couple of other kyopos attack a certain guest blogger, because he claimed that a certain TV drama has a nationalistic theme?”
Lol, yes, noticing that villains in Korean TV shows are always single-minded and only capable of doing evil deeds is such a ridiculous ‘argument’. How dare we point out any facts that provide context? Next thing you know, you’re going to tell me that the argument about how Korean newspapers turn quotes into informal version is ‘hounding’ the original poster. Then again, I guess ‘logical argument based on facts that reveal contexts’ can be the ’sheet of music’ we’re reading from. Man, the audacity of us to make arguments based on facts!
Fact is, you marginalize Gyopos as much as Pawi marginalize Expats. Any criticism against pawi concerning his mode of thought goes the same for you.
Thank you bumfromkorea for proving my point that Kyopos have a very narrow point of view.
And also that they do read from the same sheet of music.
Yay! Let’s make dumb generalizations!
People who make generalizations are dickstains.
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