Comments on: Signs of the Times: So This Is Why I Spent Four Years in Korea http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/ Tue, 22 May 2012 09:51:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lacy http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-400158 lacy Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:41:10 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-400158 Unfortunately American soldiers have not always been the best ambassadors for the US .... a lot of bars and service businesses ban them because soldiers become unruly and scrappy while drinking there. I dont think its fair to tarnish all South Koreans as "ungrateful anti-americans" just like I dont think its fair to tarnish all american soldiers as brutish drunken thugs. Most south koreans that I know view the US as their ally and economic trading partner. Dont judge south koreans by a small percentage of their population who express otherwise. And the idea that south koreans are anti-american because of influence from the north is just ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!! <blockquote>[No argument about how some of the soldiers behave.  They should lose their pass privileges and, where appropriate, face nonjudicial punishment or prosecution.  I don't conflate a few merchants who engage in this behavior with the majority of South Koreans.  However, I don't think it unreasonable to hold South Korean society and the government it elects responsible for allowing open discrimination, something that would be prohibited and condemned in almost any other free society.  In other words, each society has a duty to act against the worst behavior of some of its elements.  - Joshua]</blockquote> Unfortunately American soldiers have not always been the best ambassadors for the US …. a lot of bars and service businesses ban them because soldiers become unruly and scrappy while drinking there. I dont think its fair to tarnish all South Koreans as “ungrateful anti-americans” just like I dont think its fair to tarnish all american soldiers as brutish drunken thugs. Most south koreans that I know view the US as their ally and economic trading partner. Dont judge south koreans by a small percentage of their population who express otherwise. And the idea that south koreans are anti-american because of influence from the north is just ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!

[No argument about how some of the soldiers behave.  They should lose their pass privileges and, where appropriate, face nonjudicial punishment or prosecution.  I don't conflate a few merchants who engage in this behavior with the majority of South Koreans.  However, I don't think it unreasonable to hold South Korean society and the government it elects responsible for allowing open discrimination, something that would be prohibited and condemned in almost any other free society.  In other words, each society has a duty to act against the worst behavior of some of its elements.  - Joshua]

]]> By: Clint http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-67466 Clint Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:38:19 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-67466 Bite....bite back....bite.....bite back. There is such a thing as counter-racism as John Le illustrated perfectly. Bite….bite back….bite…..bite back. There is such a thing as counter-racism as John Le illustrated perfectly.

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » What Should the Senate Ask Kathleen Stephens? http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-57213 OneFreeKorea » What Should the Senate Ask Kathleen Stephens? Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:37:23 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-57213 [...] Let me open the bidding by asking what Ms. Stephens, as Ambassador, would do to address outrages like this. I’d like to know how high a priority Ms. Stephens would make of dusting off OPLAN 5029 in light of the unfolding untergang in Pyongyang (pst - I know someone who would make a fine military attache). And I’d like to know what role she had in the State Department’s blocking of the North Korean Human Rights Act, most vividly illustrated by the disgraceful behavior of our Consul in Shenyang. [...] [...] Let me open the bidding by asking what Ms. Stephens, as Ambassador, would do to address outrages like this. I’d like to know how high a priority Ms. Stephens would make of dusting off OPLAN 5029 in light of the unfolding untergang in Pyongyang (pst – I know someone who would make a fine military attache). And I’d like to know what role she had in the State Department’s blocking of the North Korean Human Rights Act, most vividly illustrated by the disgraceful behavior of our Consul in Shenyang. [...]

]]> By: Rhesus http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-56296 Rhesus Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:32:36 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-56296 You have to get one of these every now and then. You have to get one of these every now and then.

]]> By: John Le http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-56294 John Le Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:13:03 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-56294 koreans are so racist it’s sickening. HAH! Now you know how minorities in the US feel you motherf'ing crackers, how does it feel to have a taste of your own medicine. Asian Americans have been oppressed since the 1850's, don't I haven't forgotten about the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese Concentration Camps you f'ing piece of sh*ts. koreans are so racist it’s sickening. HAH! Now you know how minorities in the US feel you motherf’ing crackers, how does it feel to have a taste of your own medicine. Asian Americans have been oppressed since the 1850′s, don’t I haven’t forgotten about the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese Concentration Camps you f’ing piece of sh*ts.

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Henry Hyde, R.I.P. http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-55680 OneFreeKorea » Henry Hyde, R.I.P. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:53:23 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-55680 [...] Hyde was also privately furious about the disgraceful treatment of American soldiers by too many South Koreans, and I will personally never forget that it was Henry Hyde who invited me to address his committee on their behalf.  [...] [...] Hyde was also privately furious about the disgraceful treatment of American soldiers by too many South Koreans, and I will personally never forget that it was Henry Hyde who invited me to address his committee on their behalf.  [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Links for 12 Oct 07 http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-54920 OneFreeKorea » Links for 12 Oct 07 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:28:05 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-54920 [...] *  China-Refugees Update.  Yesterday I reported that Chinese police has hauled away four North Korean refugees and roughed up several South Korean diplomats at a South Korean school in Beijing.  Today, reader Sonagi sends a link to a Korean-language link to the Hanky(!) with a picture of a man trying to shred a Chinese flag in front of the ChiCom Embassy in Seoul.  Nice to see China get at least some guff over its treatment of North Koreans, an absolute atrocity.  You have to wonder if anyone would try to stop him if it was an American flag.  On further thought, strike that. [...] [...] *  China-Refugees Update.  Yesterday I reported that Chinese police has hauled away four North Korean refugees and roughed up several South Korean diplomats at a South Korean school in Beijing.  Today, reader Sonagi sends a link to a Korean-language link to the Hanky(!) with a picture of a man trying to shred a Chinese flag in front of the ChiCom Embassy in Seoul.  Nice to see China get at least some guff over its treatment of North Koreans, an absolute atrocity.  You have to wonder if anyone would try to stop him if it was an American flag.  On further thought, strike that. [...]

]]> By: More on Talibans and SK Missionaries, NK nuclear plant, war against Iran?, Solutions, Global Warming and FGM « Spanish Pundit http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-53055 More on Talibans and SK Missionaries, NK nuclear plant, war against Iran?, Solutions, Global Warming and FGM « Spanish Pundit Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:32:45 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-53055 [...] Are they going to do it? I doubt it. Both South Korea and Saudi Arabia are allies… […]our alliance with South Korea today is one of the world’s most lopsided in terms of the mutual flow of benefits. South Korea has been useless or worse as an ally against the terrorists, extraordinarily unhelpful with North Korea, an irritant in our regional security framework (since Japan is a part of that), and a self-declared neutral in checking China’s regional ambitions. South Korea is actually cutting its own military, leaving American taxpayers to take up the slack. There doesn’t seem to be much South Korean gratitude for this expensive commitment, either, judging by displays like these, or polls that consistently show South Korea to be one of the most anti-American countries in Asia. [...] [...] Are they going to do it? I doubt it. Both South Korea and Saudi Arabia are allies… […]our alliance with South Korea today is one of the world’s most lopsided in terms of the mutual flow of benefits. South Korea has been useless or worse as an ally against the terrorists, extraordinarily unhelpful with North Korea, an irritant in our regional security framework (since Japan is a part of that), and a self-declared neutral in checking China’s regional ambitions. South Korea is actually cutting its own military, leaving American taxpayers to take up the slack. There doesn’t seem to be much South Korean gratitude for this expensive commitment, either, judging by displays like these, or polls that consistently show South Korea to be one of the most anti-American countries in Asia. [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » The Shenyang Six Are Freed http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-52012 OneFreeKorea » The Shenyang Six Are Freed Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:51:16 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-52012 [...] *  I’m Shocked, Shocked, to See Discrimination Going On Here!  “In the recommendations, UNCERD expressed discomfort about a prevalent notion in Korean culture of ‘pure-bloodedness,’ saying, ‘The whole concept came very close to ideas of racial superiority.’”  Gee, ya think?  Needless to say, I’m always deeply divided whenever I’m in substantial agreement with the Global Nanny State.  [...] [...] *  I’m Shocked, Shocked, to See Discrimination Going On Here!  “In the recommendations, UNCERD expressed discomfort about a prevalent notion in Korean culture of ‘pure-bloodedness,’ saying, ‘The whole concept came very close to ideas of racial superiority.’”  Gee, ya think?  Needless to say, I’m always deeply divided whenever I’m in substantial agreement with the Global Nanny State.  [...]

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » Pew: Anti-Americanism Declined in South Korea (But Read the Fine Print) http://freekorea.us/2005/08/07/signs-of-the-times-so-this-is-why-i-spent-four-years-in-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-51231 OneFreeKorea » Pew: Anti-Americanism Declined in South Korea (But Read the Fine Print) Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:52:22 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=1235#comment-51231 [...] The statistical fine print doesn’t inspire much confidence, either.  The sample size was just 718 people, and the margin of error was 4%.  If I’m right about my “bounce” theory, any improvement in America’s image that could be measured today would likely be at or near the statistical margin of error.  If our favorables have barely budged since the ugly days of 2003, that’s depressing.  It also suggests that we could be one traffic accident away from going back to that. [...] [...] The statistical fine print doesn’t inspire much confidence, either.  The sample size was just 718 people, and the margin of error was 4%.  If I’m right about my “bounce” theory, any improvement in America’s image that could be measured today would likely be at or near the statistical margin of error.  If our favorables have barely budged since the ugly days of 2003, that’s depressing.  It also suggests that we could be one traffic accident away from going back to that. [...]

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