I love the country where I was born. If I didn't love it, then I wouldn't bother learning the language and I certainly wouldn't go back there for a full year.
But.. GOSH! There's one side that I hate about it. Hate with all my guts.
The whole internet-network-spam. Let's say, one person does something wrong in public, the next thing you know that person's picture and voice has been posted on the internet, their address, personal information and everything is disclosed and in the end, they are humiliated, abused by the entire nation on those blogs and they somber into depression and either leave the place they are at or disappear.
I used to think it's somewhat funny when I first heard about it. The first famous victim of the internet slander-spam was probably that girl who had a dog in the metro. The dog shat on the floor, she refused to clean it up. The next day, her picture, her personal info and everything about her was posted under the name of "Dog poo girl". She had to change her address, most likely her job and her name too.
At that time, I thought "wow, the nation is so united against improper behaviour they can even ostracize one person all together!"
But then, other cases arose, that of a girl who said publicly men under 180 cms are losers (she got ostracized too) and then more recently when I was in Seoul, the girl who insulted a cleaning lady in a cafeteria...And after more research, not only very shocking events, but also every single time someone does something in public that makes the population somewhat react, then the whole country writes, spams, researches that one person and then ostracizes them...
Looking at that and after deep thoughts... there's really nothing funny about it. Why do people have to suffer, lose jobs and lose their reputation because of a million cybernauts who have absolutely no idea of the consequences of their actions????
One shocking recent example. Korea lost at the World Cup. BIG DEAL. *sarcasm*
The whole nation blames the coach, destroys him on the cyber cafes and what not, finds his address, who knows people might have even egged his house and prank call him to tell him he sucks. I don't know how far they went (and I don't want to know) but here is the result.
The poor guys quits his job and says publicly that his family suffered a lot from all this and so that from now he will keep a low profile.
His part of blame apparently started when they lost 4-1 to Argentina.
As if Korea could have beaten Argentina (which is only one of the top5 best teams in the world while Korea is where? oh yeah not even in the top 30.)!!!!!! You guys can keep dreaming and imagining your team is the best, but get real and stop blaming him!!
You guys are just as stupid as the Montreal Canadiens fans. (I am one of them so I know what I am talking about.)
Being united is great, having national spirit too, awesome.
But why should individuals have to suffer so much just for the pleasure of the masses?
Today I am feeling quite ashamed to call myself Korean.
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