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It's basically the 386 generation (just like Intel 386!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386_Generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386_Generation in Korea, now h
by notastartup 13y ago
It's basically the 386 generation (just like Intel 386!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386_Generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386_Generation in Korea, now holding the jobs as professors, teachers, politicians, lawyers and judges that arouse a lot of suspicion from the previous generation which were right wing unlike the 386 who are left wing. The 386 were largely responsible for electing a left wing government from 1998 to 2003, and 2003 to 2008. That's 10 years of anti-American, pro-sunshine policy (billions of slush funds sent to North Korea used to build their ICBM today) which has largely turned into a gun pointed at South Korea. Because of the naive blinding trust that South Korean left wings placed in Nouth Korea, it has resulted in an increasingly dangerous standoff with North Korea (supposedly has mini nukes now thanks to the 1998~2008 administration), much of South Korea understandably has growing animosity towards left-wing supporters. I admit, there is a blanket identification with left-wing being pro-North Korea which is simply not true, but this is unfortunately the case with South Korea, where herd mentality is still rampant.
The fear of North Korean support within South Korea from the left leaning group is well founded. Recently, a member of the national assembly was found to have been part of a group called RO (Revolutionary Organization, how original) and evidence of coordinated sabotage on sensitive infrasturcture in case a war breaks out with the North. RO was found to have been in contact with North Korean agents in the United States.
It's no wonder the 'red scare' is very real in Korea. The list of spies currently operating in South Korea is in the unknown figure but widely suspected to be hiding in plain sights (if a national assemblyman was actively promoting terrorism, imagine where else they could be).
Various professors and educational board in South Korea have been caught attempting to change the history of Korean War by putting North Korea in a favorable light.
The list goes on and on.
However, I would agree Chosun Ilbo is the most right wing out of all.
I think that there is even more chance of collapse in Korea because of the recent purge (Jang was China's go-to-guy, practical and a moderate), Kim Jong Un would be unbridled and trigger happy and that their revenue streams have taken a toll. All the more reasons to build
- dba7dba 13y agoAnd I should point out West Germany found out after the Germany reunification that East Germany had thousands of spies working for East Germany in West Germany. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/shocking-new-research-stasi-had-thousands-of-spies-in-west-germany-a-799335.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/shocking-new-res... I have NO DOUBT what so ever that there are thousands of spies in S Korea working for N Korea, because of money/ideology/stupidity. Come on people, the ex national assembly now being tried as a spy REFUSED to sing the S Korean national anthem in national assembly hall, claiming S Korean govt wasn't legit or something of that line. Of course when he was finally exposed and under threat of prison, he sang the S Korean national anthem just fine.
- notastartup 13y agoIt's pretty scary....what drives these people I wonder. Is it revenge against Korean society? Is it the honest belief that North Korea is a better place to live? If they believe in it so much, why don't they go over there? Why not experience what it's like to live under the glorious leader that they revere so much? It makes no sense! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_plot_of_UPP_against_South_Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_plot_of_UPP_against_S...
- yongjik 13y agoSouth Korea's Democratic Party and presidents Kim Dae Jung & Roh are/were about as "left wing" as Barack Obama is. In other words, there are a bunch of clueless South Koreans who sincerely believe that they are the pawn of North Koreans, the devil incarnate, the antithesis of freedom and all they are doing is to pave way for North Korean invasion. Or something like that. * For some inexplicable reason, those "leftist" presidents thought it was very important for South Korea to have modernized military. The result was "Military Reform Plan 2020" (국방개혁 2020), drafted in 2005, which planned to purchase and/or develop billion dollars worth of modern weapons, including submarines, helicopters, aegis destroyers, and what not. The conservative pro-American president Lee Myung Bak largely put a hold on this plan. Who need modern weapons when you have your "blood-ally" America who will always stand by you and think of you first? They even practically begged the Americans to keep wartime military command of the whole Korean military. (It's a little dirty secret of South Korea: when any war breaks out here, the US generals automatically assumes control of all our military power. What kind of "conservatives" advocate handing the whole military chain of command to another nation?) By the way, about those "Revolutionary Organization" (yeah, they are a bunch of clueless pro-NK idiots), so far the court decided to reject many of the evidences brought by prosecutors, saying they don't constitute legal evidence. It was clear from the onset that the whole scandal was politically motivated at a very convenient timing (or, rather, a very inconvenient timing, as South Korea's NIS has been under heavy fire for having generated 22 million(!!) tweets during the last presidential election, to sway public opinion and disparage "leftist" candidate Moon. The finest display of patriotism from our "conservatives".)