South Korea’s ‘Hostile’ Class

Leaving no stone unturned in its quest to emulate North Korean concepts of social justice, South Korea has announced the first official list of 100  Japanese collaborators whose blood, we can suppose,  will hereby stain three generations of class enemies (from way back in 1904, in some cases!).  Just to make sure the new songbun designations become nice and official, the government sent notices to  said descendants.  Depending on whose report you believe, there are either about 400, about 800, or several thousand of them.  Next,  the government intends to seize their property, but not to worry, it  hasn’t announced any intention of publishing their names.  Yet.  So does anyone suppose that their identities will remain secret if they try to fight the confiscations in court?

No, I am not making this up.  I’m serious.  Really.