Police have applied for arrest warrants for all 11 crew members of the Chinese fishing boat suspected of having killed a Korean Coast Guard officer.
Of the 11, two are suspected of holding Sgt. Park Gyeong-jo over the side of the boat while another whacked him three or four times on the head with a shovel.
Despite having killed Park (and wounded six other officers), police will not charge them with murder, as they initially considered, since it was determined that the Chinese did not strangle him with the belt they found around the body’s neck. They instead will be charged with homicide while obstructing official duty and violating Korea’s EEZ.
The Chinese crew was initially uncooperative with the investigation, but reportedly changed their tune when shown video of the incident. The Chinese captain, meanwhile, has been placed under suicide watch.
This morning, Sgt. Park’s funeral was held in Mokpo — he leaves behind a wife and two sons.
Here’s video footage of the incident from a Coast Guard briefing — not that you can see much:
Here’s more footage of the high-speed chase to seize the Chinese fishing boats:
Allow me to second Dram_man’s post below.
Let’s see, we’ve got a full-on food scare due to tainted Chinese imports (not the first time, mind you), a Korean law enforcement agent killed by Chinese fishing thugs, Chinese louts booing the Korean team at the Olympics… all on top of Chinese punks rioting in downtown Seoul, producing among other things this endearing image (I like to call him “중화맨”):
so I’ve got to ask:
Where. The. Fuck. Are. The. Candle. Zombies?
And it’s not just me asking — perusing some of the netizen comments at Naver.com last night, I noticed a number of people of posing the very same question. The Hanguk Ilbo, too, points out that anti-Chinese sentiment is rising on the Internet, too. Still, should we expect more candlelit nights in the weeks ahead?
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Why would Koreans hold candlelight vigils against the benevolent big brother, China? It’s the whitey they hate.
Where. The. Fuck. Are. The. Candle. Zombies?
That answer is simple. The candlelight vigils are a tool of the pro-Pyongyang far left. They are used against the government and against the Americans, not against North Korea or China or ROK leftists.
The middle and right don’t have candlelight vigils. They have jobs and responsibilities. They also shop, and when they go to the store, they will look for 중국산 on the package and buy something else. That’s their protest.
중화맨 Has a pretty nice jacket.
I am not a violent man, but boy am I glad I was not there when this picture was taken… this guy 중화맨 needs to be “re-educated” in a back alley sort of way.
How the police officer ever refrained from slapping him sensible I will never know. I hope he was followed down the road for a bit until there were no cameras present, taught the error in his ways and sent back to China in an envelope.
Koreans are cowards. Is this supposed to be news ?
Hmmmm, could Chinese men be more “pompous asses” than the typical Korean male?
User-81′has nailed down a probability. Another is that China is big and powerful and does not play with one hand tied behind its back, as does the US and Japan. I doubt the Korean government would view a candlelight vigil directed against China in the same comfort zone that it would against itself or the other two.
The fishing boat incident was awful, and it will be revealing to see the resulting sentence of a homicide conviction in China. It could be, and should be, harsh, or could be a wrist slap. The latter would be an intended insult, as the justice system there is subject to wide interpretation by those who prosecute it.
Just noticed that these men are being held at a Korean marine police station, and so it is the Korean justice system that has imposed reduced charges, and not the Chinese system. It only serves to underscore the perceived need to tread lightly.
User 81 nails it–the Korean “left” are tools with no consistent ethics, while the majority of Koreans go about their jobs.
Look at this: “80% of Processed Korean Food Comes from China”
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....60004.html
I hope Koreans boycott these products and call the producers to complain.
The Korean public should kick up a ruckus because their government will say nothing on their behalf. I have already cut out processed foods anyhow so I should be safe enough.
God, I’d love to hit a Korean cop over the head with a hammer.
I’m sorry, did I say hammer? I meant shovel.
I still dont get this big brother/little brother BS. why do Koreans kiss the Chinese asses all the time? For 5000 goddam years, that’s all we’ve been doing….eating the left over beef & broccoli out of the Chinese asses.
Where’s the outrage for the 친중파? The government should do an investigation as to whose descendents benefitted from the 친중파, look at historical records and take away their property. Sound familiar, you fucking whining bitches complaining about Japan and US?
Given that the Korean public in general is as hostile towards China as it is towards the U.S., it should be evident to even the dim-witted that the candlelight vigils were, to the organizers at least, never really about showing outrage towards threats to health national sovereignty. If those were the concerns, we should have vigils 10 times the size of the mad cow-related ones. Even in the darkest, foulest dungeons of Korean cyberspace (read: Daum Agora), you can find numerous postings asking exactly the same question: where are the zombies? Of course, these never see the light of day as they are systematically (in my view) ignored by the zombies, lest it should make it onto not the list of postings with most votes for it — that would never happen — but the list of postings with most votes AGAINST it. Seems like they know that the logic of comparing the reactions towards the US and China is strong enough to gain traction, even if it gets out through the list of most opposed postings. After all, as mentioned above somewhere, there is no love loss towards China among the impressionable netizens the pro-north leftists try so hard to herd.
Now for a moment of zen. One of the most favored response to the question, “Where are the zombies?” is: “Why don’t you conservative old farts go out and protest, then?”
All I can say is, I rest my case.
@ #9. Do you recall the hand phone garlic war? Korea will not boycott shit!
Railwaycharm, Korea does not have to boycott anything. Korean trade ministry needs to tighten regulations. Put a duty on for increased inspections due to the dubious nature of the goods. It needs to be done at government level. Just like the Europeans are doing. I mean it was what they did with the beef (not that I am drawing a comparison, I am simply stating that this is the level it should be handled at). If enough countries start imposing trade restrictions on China as they are doing, safety standards will HAVE to be raised. Not to mention the growing discontent in China requiring improved food processing standards. These increased standards will mean more destroyed batches, which will mean higher prices. This will make our indigenous industries more competitive.
The only loser is the Chinese factory owner, and the consumer (but isn’t safety worth paying for?)
inkevitch, I don’t disagree with your logic. My contention is South Korea has a pathological fear of upsetting trade relations with China. I drew the garlic-Cell phone parallel into this debate as proof that SK will not upset the apple cart when it comes to China.
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