Korea: A Culture of Violence?

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Korea is yet another of those countries founded by ‘grandson of the god of heaven,’ or so the myth would have you believe. However linguistic evidence suggests possible Altaic origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian Steppe culture absorbed immigrants and invaders from northern Manchuria, Mongolia and China.

Evolution Stops Here:  Weapons, War, Murder

In 1945, United States and Soviet Union militaries invaded the southern and northern parts of the country respectively and established puppet regimes sympathetic to their own ideologies. On June 25, 1950, the North invaded the South at the instigation of Stalin, tacitly approved by Mao Zedong . In the bloody war that ensued, Koreans killed more than 4 million Koreans.

Today, South Korea is concerned not only with North Korea, but also with all of its neighbors namely China, Japan, and Russia, as well as its key ally, the United States.

Taekwondo is a form of martial art that allegedly originated in Korea [where else?] In 1961, the violent ’sport’ became standard military training in South Korea.
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Send your thugs to Okinawa for retaliatory action, Mr Ando!

Send your tiny tikes to Okinawa to do some good, Mr. Ando, they will have plenty to retaliate. Why not teach them to protect the chastity of the local damsels in distress, for starters, instead of condoning their antisocial behavior toward friendly foreigners (see previous post).

One recent survey by a school teacher on Okinawa found a third of his female high school students had been sexually molested by U.S. soldiers, a violation U.S. base officers have often dismissed as ‘flirting, because boys will be boys.’

Since the end of WWII, the livelihood and human rights of Okinawans have been violated by high-level noise pollution from military drills, aircraft accidents, environmental destruction, and crimes committed by U.S. military personnel.

One of the worst postwar crimes committed by US military in Okinawa was the 1955 rape and murder of six-year-old Yumiko. The accused, Isaac J. Hart, was not convicted. In 1995 three US servicemen abducted and gang-raped a 12-year-old girl; however, Japan could not try the accused servicemen at the time of the incident because the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement gave US soldiers immunity from local laws!

Ishiganto stone (Yomitan, Okinawa) is believed to ward off evil spirits! Public domain photo by Wikipedia User:Fg2
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Xenophobic juvenile delinquents

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Meet four of the xenophobic juvenile delinquents (from a gang of about 20 or so ninja turds) at our local junior high school.

Starting May 18 through May 23, 2007, a gang of juvenile delinquents from a nearby junior high school, on their way home, targeted my house. They chanted loud, presumably shouting obscenities at me, as they threw empty PET bottles in the front and backyard. On the second day, I chased the gang, yelled at them and made them remove their garbage. 

After two repeats, my spouse and I finally complained to the police. They advised us to talk to the school authorities. The deputy head teacher, Mr. Ando promised to investigate. While we were in Mr Ando’s office, my partner overheard two teachers, who had seen the photos, referring to the gang members as the ’same students who had just damaged a fire hydrant.’

The next day Mr. Ando came over to the house, not to apologize, but to ‘explain,’ even condone the thuggish behavior. He said his students didn’t target our house, but retaliated against me because they felt intimidated!

Come again? Intimidated? Retaliated because someone stood up to antisocial behavior? Is that the kind of reasoning you teach at your school, Mr. Ando? The perverted logic that starts wars you can’t win?

‘Boys will be boys,’ said Mr. Ando, or words to that effect [even if they commit antisocial or criminal behavior.] Where did I hear that one before, Mr. Ando? Surely, you must have heard the colleague in Okinawa who reported that a third of his female high school students had been sexually molested by U.S. soldiers, a violation U.S. base officers have often dismissed as ‘flirting, because boys will be boys.’

Send your tiny tikes to Okinawa to do some good, Mr. Ando, they will have plenty to retaliate. Why not teach them to protect the chastity of the local damsels in distress, for starters, instead of condoning their antisocial behavior toward friendly foreigners.