Comments on: Michael Jordan say “no” to Korean Beef

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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:43:10 +0000

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By: Alejandro Marivosa

Alejandro Marivosa — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:44:15 +0000

should say: moderate quantities

By: Alejandro Marivosa

Alejandro Marivosa — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:42:11 +0000

The greater issue, which isn’t discussed here enough, is that no domestic criticism of a major domestic food industry is tolerated. (The TV documentaries about the evils of fast food show American chains and not Korean ones.) So whenever a food is criticized, it’s invariably an import kind of food. This is the first time the Korean media have dwelled at any length on the issue of factory farming. I’ve already talked to several Koreans who think that factory farms are an exclusively American thing.
No one in the medical field thinks red meat is good for you any more. (As positive as they get is: not harmful in moderate qualities.) So when I hear Koreans acting self-righteously as if beef is their new staple food that has to go into every thing they eat - there’s a deadly diet right there. So now it’s like they’re demonstrating against the import of dangerous cigarettes. Plain old red meat minus mad cow disease kills a hell of a lot more people every year than mad cow disease ever did. But that’s another thing the media can’t/won’t say here. It has to act as if Korean beef is a health food.

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:26:44 +0000

Jews, Masons, Gyopo… it’s hard to keep up with my conspiracies nowadays.

There is a Kyopo conspiracy? The things you learn in the Hole….

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:19:27 +0000

Jews, Masons, Gyopo… it’s hard to keep up with my conspiracies nowadays.

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:51:30 +0000

“Kyopo unity at work? Or Kyopo hypocrisy?”

It’s neither. I just thought it would be kinda funny considering that everyone’s been rubbed raw over the whole beef thing.

Why you gotta pop a gasket over nothing?

By: andy

andy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:49:40 +0000

No one would have cared about that video had the kyopo not posted it here. This typifies the hypocrite kyopo who on one hand says that he hopes the Korean netizen not get hold of his video while on the other posts it here knowing full well that Korean netizens keep tabs on expat blogs.

The kyopo also wrongly misinterprets the video. Which reminds me, another kyopo called bumfromkorea savaged a guest blogger for misinterpreting a news article, now why is he letting this go? Kyopo unity at work? Or Kyopo hypocrisy?

By: mins0306

mins0306 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:00:41 +0000

Well, the “standard” Korean netizen is probably busy beating the crap out of LMB and his brother.

And I don’t know but for some reason it seems that videos like that rarely causes a wrinke in the fabric of Korean netizenship. Maybe they are getting smarter? A smart Korean netizen, now there’s a new concept.

By: Zonath

Zonath — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:57:25 +0000

It’s just that we are worried if the standard Korean netizen will know that…

Personally, I don’t think most people here would give a rat’s vagina what the standard Korean netijen knows or thinks. Other than to make fun of them, of course…

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:48:04 +0000

I think most of us know that actually.

It’s just that we are worried if the standard Korean netizen will know that… or at least that’s what I think.