South Korea: Fast Track to Hell

I admire Josh Stanton for two reasons.  He has a noble purpose, which he is pursuing with vigor and intelligence, and he continues his advocacy for freedom, democracy, and human rights in the Koreas, when South Korea, our putative ally, is patently ungrateful, disdainful, spoiled, shortsighted, adolescent and becoming more anti-American with each passing day.

Today he sent me an email letting me know about his latest post.  Josh understands Korean so he was able to listen and understand all of the audio to the two videos he linked.  He warned me: watch this and then hose out your wastebasket.   The videos are APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) propaganda that are being distributed to South Korean school children via the Korean Teacher's Union.  You don't have to understand Korean to get the gist.  And "f*ck" isn't Korean anyway, but it may be the only word of English the children ever learn.  And one lengthy segment is entirely in English: Louis Armstrong sings "It's a Wonderful World" while planes crash into the Twin Towers and images of American military blowing Iraqi children to smithereens fill the screen.  I couldn't watch the whole thing.

It is very hard for me to wrap my head around the notion that you can live within shooting distance of the most horrific totalitarian society the world had ever known, and still want to embrace the cancer of its ideology.  And yet there are many South Koreans who are doing just that and using disgusting propaganda to shape the ideas of little kids in the same mold.

Comments

[Outlaw Mike]

Gee... I always thought we Euros had the patents for institutionalized stupidity...

I hope you will forgive me, but in a sense I'm glad we are not the only loons.