OUTRAGE: OLD KIMCHIS KILL YOUNG VIET MAIL-ORDER BRIDES!!!!

Two more young Vietnamese, mail-order brides were murdered by their Korean husbands in South Korea over the last three weeks, according to Vietnam's English-language newspaper, Thanh Nien (the Daily Youth).

South Korea, along with Taiwan, Singapore, and China, has been importing Vietnamese brides for its loser bachelor population since the Southeast Asian country embarked on doi moi (economic reform) in 1986. Driven by extreme poverty, a number of rural Vietnamese families have effectively sold off their young daughters to old, undesirable men from these countries.  Often, these mail-order brides are subject to physical, sexual, and psychological torment at the hands of their husbands and/or in-laws. Tragically, quite a few have been murdered or driven to suicide.

Here's the link to the story:  http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/second-vietnamese-bride-murdered-in-south-korea-within-3-weeks-35461.html

Kercuffle at the Korean DMZ

The South Korean man, a Mr. Roh, was feted as a rock star in North Korea for his work to promote Korean unification.  Inches later, he was arrested by South Korean authorities as he crossed the DMZ line into South Korea.  He was arrested for illegally entering North Korea.  He will probably do several years' time in a South Korean prison.

Kimchis Lick American Boots

I think the Kimchis are going out of their way to be offended. When does a critique of the USA become a critique againt Kimchiland??!! Talk about an indignation industry brewing in South Kimchiland.  -- Eds.


From South Korea's Joongang Daily.

China’s lack of decorum

July 16, 2011
A senior Chinese military official lambasted the United States during a diplomatic meeting with visiting South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin. During the meeting, Chen Bingde, the Chinese chief of general staff, spent some 10 minutes censoring Washington. He more or less invited a guest and criticized his friend to his face, showing a complete lack of diplomatic decorum.

Chen said that the U.S. orders other countries around, yet doesn’t listen to other countries. In the presence of reporters, he accused the U.S. of acting as a hegemonic power in every way. If he had any respect for the South Korean minister, he would not have made such am outburst in public. Moreover, he is below the defense minister in military rank.

Chen said he felt frustrated when talking with U.S. officials and added that Kim would have felt the same despite Korea’s close ties to the country. He comments implied that South Korea is a subordinate of the U.S. By criticizing our ally, Chen in fact made future talks difficult. He should have taken his comments directly to U.S. officials. But he did no such thing when he met with Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had visited Beijing a day earlier. We cannot but suspect his disrespect for South Korean officials.

Kim responded coolly to Chen’s tirade and the meeting went smoothly overall, South Korean defense ministry officials said. Beijing’s role and support is imperative to contain North Korea’s provocations and resolve the nuclear problem. Sino-North Korean ties have never been closer and the two countries recently celebrated 50 years of their security alliance.

We inevitably have to be discreet in addressing China. Nevertheless, we should not tolerate actions and comments that go beyond common sense. We also should not appear feeble.

In his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie, Kim agreed to hold regular senior-level strategy meetings. The first Seoul-Beijing defense meeting since North Korea’s two deadly attacks against a South Korean naval ship and inhabited island was successful in that it renewed cooperation in the area of security. But if China does not respect South Korea as an equal security partner, the exchange of words in meetings will be in vain. The incident has again underscored that China has a long way to go before it becomes a respected leader in the global community. If it really wants the same respect and influence as the U.S., it should learn basic diplomatic manners first.

Ungrateful Kimchis

Ingratitude, thy Name is South Korea

By Dennis Prager

South Korea has joined with only two other countries in the world in dropping the name of the forthcoming film “Captain America” and using the subtitle, “The First Avenger.” The other two countries are Russia and Ukraine. According to the New York Times report, “Although that country (South Korea) is one of Hollywood’s top-performing territories, resentment about the continued presence of the United States military runs deep.”

For years now, I have intended to write a column about the most glaring case of international ingratitude of which I am aware. The “Captain America” story has finally pushed me over the edge.

For decades, there have been anti-U.S. demonstrations in South Korea. And each time I wonder the same thing: Do these people have any idea what the living hell known as North Korea is like? Do these people understand that the United States is the reason they are so free and prosperous, completely unlike their fellow North Koreans who had the horrible luck not to be liberated by America? Do these people know how many Americans died to enable them to be free?

Whenever I confront someone who claims that America’s wars abroad were fought for economic gain or to extend its alleged imperialist empire, I ask the person about the Korean War: What imperialist or economic reasons were there to fight in that country?

The answer I most often receive is, “Frankly I don’t know too much about the Korean War.” And it’s a good thing for the critics of America’s wars that they don’t know much about the Korean War. If they did, they would either experience cognitive dissonance or have to severely modify their position on America’s wars.


Just five years after a war-weary America celebrated the end of World War II, Americans were asked to fight the successor-evil to Nazism, communism, in Korea, a country most Americans could not identify on a map or did not know anything about. In an earlier version of what happened in Vietnam, the Soviet Union and China backed a communist attempt to take over the southern half of the Korean peninsula — the northern half had been communist since the end of World War II — and install a Stalinist tyranny over the non-communist southern half.

Over 36,000 Americans died in America’s successful attempt to keep South Korea from becoming communist. And another 92,000 were wounded.

So, forgive me for the contempt I feel for South Koreans who demonstrate against the United States and for the two-thirds of South Koreans who, according to a 2002 Gallup-Korea poll, view the United States unfavorably. Whenever I see those anti-American demonstrators or read such polls, all I can think about are the tens of thousands of Americans who died so that South Koreans would not live in the communist hell their fellow Koreans live in.

Younger South Koreans want American troops to leave their country? Do these young people not know that on planet Earth no other country suffers the mass enslavement, mass incarceration, mass death or the deadening of the mind and soul that North Koreans endure because of the psychopaths who run that country?

And if they do know all this about North Korea, how do they explain why South Korea is so different?

Here is a suggestion: The South Korean government should conduct a national plebiscite on whether America should withdraw its troops from that country. Before the South Korean people vote, the United States should make it clear that if it withdraws its troops and North Korea later invades the South, we will send no troops to die again for South Korea — but we will vote to condemn North Korea’s aggression at the United Nations.

If a majority of the South Korean people wants us to leave, we should.

The beauty of such a plebiscite is that if a majority of the South Korean people wants American troops out, we have no moral obligation to stay there. And if a majority wants us to stay, the South Korean left and other ingrates in that country should shut up.

I have been to South Korea, and I live in a community with many Koreans. I have always admired their industriousness, work ethic and strong families. But South Korea is surely the most ungrateful country in the world. Which is all the more remarkable since it is also the luckiest.

Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, most recently “Happiness Is a Serious Problem” (HarperCollins). His website is www.dennisprager.com.

Down with Kimchi Revisionism!!!

In an article on Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianren or Chaoxian minzu) in Korea, the so-called Chosun Ilbo newspaper of South Korea jingoistically proclaims that northeastern China during the 18th century was a part of Korea.  LMAO! And more LMAO!

Firstly, refer to the map of Qing China below.  Secondly, use some common sensical logic.  The ancestral homeland of the Qing was Manchuria, which has always comprised the northeastern (dongbei) territories of China. (Manchus lived in Manchuria, for the benighted writers of the Choson Ilbo.)

At its apex, the Qing empire stretched from Outer Mongolia to Vietnam.  An empire this large (and before 1842, quite powerful) surely could have afforded to protect and defend its own ancestral homeland from tiny Chosun (Chaoxian) Korea.  In fact, Chosun (Chaoxian) Korea was a vassal/tributary state to Qing China.  The Chosun (Chaoxian) king had to pay his respect to the Qing emperor every year or so by sending tributes to the Forbidden City.

Here is the offending paragraph from the Chosun Ilbo (July 6, 2011 online version): 

Korean Chinese can trace their roots back to the late 18th century, at around the end of the Chosun Dynasty. At this time, Koreans began migrating in search of food to northeastern China, which was then considered a part of Korean territory.

 
Map of Qing China (Source:  Wikipedia)

South Korea's Kimchi Crisis

By JAEYEON WOO And KANGA KONG (WSJ online)
SEOUL—South Korea faces a minicrisis in its staple condiment kimchi after an unusually long stretch of rain has sharply reduced harvests of napa cabbage and other produce.
A resulting surge in food prices helped push the inflation rate to a 17-month high in September, and the price of kimchi, which is most commonly made from seasoned, fermented napa cabbage, has soared to unprecedented heights amid shortages.


Kimchi, South Korea's traditional pungent vegetable dish

Hard-hit restaurants are thinking about charging for kimchi, a food that is usually as freely available as sugar, salt and pepper—even at restaurants that don't serve Korean cuisine—and more heavily consumed than those foods by many South Koreans.

"This is like a rent increase," says Jang Won-chan, owner of a restaurant in central Seoul where the specialty is a stew made from kimchi and pork. "We are losing money but we can't quickly raise our prices."

Local press reported Friday that three men were arrested for stealing more than 400 heads of cabbage from a farm in the country's northeastern province.
The government responded Friday by suspending its tariffs on cabbage and radishes and announcing plans to buy 150 tons of fresh vegetables from China, with special emphasis on napa cabbage.

President Lee Myung-bak announced that, until the shortage eases, he would stop eating kimchi made from napa cabbage, which has an elongated head and is also known as celery cabbage or Chinese cabbage. Instead, the president said, he will eat kimchi made from the round cabbage that is more common in Europe and North America.

But the round cabbage is a poor substitute for the type from which kimchi is usually made—the long leaves of napa cabbage make it great for slathering on garlic, peppers and other seasonings for kimchi—and few South Koreans are likely to follow suit. After the presidential announcement, some commenters on South Korean media websites noted the price for the round cabbage, which as in other countries is often used for cole slaw here, has also risen, though not as much as napa cabbage.

A 2.5-kilogram head of napa cabbage cost 11,500 won ($10.09) in South Korean grocery stores this week, up from about 4,000 won two weeks ago and 2,500 won a month ago.
"This is the first time that cabbage prices have gone up so much," said Park Young-koo, researcher at the Korea Rural Economic Institute. "Since we have monitored the price, nothing like this has happened before."

Napa cabbage grows well in cool, dry conditions, but weather alternated between heavy rain spells and short stretches of hot, humid days in recent weeks. South Korea received 260.5 millimeters of rain in September, well above the average of 149.4 millimeters, the country's weather service said.

Food and energy prices pushed South Korea's consumer price index up 3.6% in September from a year earlier, up sharply from a gain of 2.6% in the preceding month and a 3% market forecast. From a month earlier, prices rose 1.1%, the fastest pace of growth since 2003.

The index measuring prices of fresh food surged 19.5% from the preceding month, and 45.5% from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea, the government data service. Vegetables have been driving the increase but prices of fruit and fish were also significantly higher than a year ago.

Government officials played down the possibility that food prices will remain high for a long time, saying that produce supplies will improve once weather conditions turn favorable. Even so, the spike in inflation has increased the possibility that the Bank of Korea will raise interest rates in October, economists said.

For consumers and restaurant owners, the sharp jump in cabbage prices is raising questions of etiquette as well as forcing changes in business strategy.

Shin Hyun-soo, who runs a noodle restaurant in Seoul, said she noticed that customers, well aware of the cabbage shortage, have stopped asking for kimchi. "Then I say, 'Please feel comfortable about asking,'" she said. "You can't tell your customer to eat just a little kimchi."
Yu Seong-hwa, manager at another Korean food restaurant in Seoul, said they stopped serving kimchi from Korean-grown cabbage several weeks ago and are now running short of access to Chinese-grown cabbage.

She said she asked her brother to call friends who may know farmers. "An acquaintance of my brother told him that there won't be any usable cabbage until late October," she said.

NO TO "KIMCHI" IMPERIALISM

Cambodia Bans Marriage to Korean Men

The Cambodian government has decided to temporarily forbid marriages between Cambodian women and Korean men to curb the mail-order bride business. Phnom Penh says Korean men often fail to observe the month-long consideration period for which they are required to stay in Cambodia to undergo an interview and a review of documents.

A Korean government source on Friday said the Cambodian government informed the Korean Embassy in Phnom Penh of the ban in an official letter on March 5.

The measure was taken after a woman was arrested for lining up no fewer than 25 Cambodian girls as potential brides for a Korean man to choose from, according to the source.

The Korean Embassy suspended receipt of applications for consular international marriage certificates on March 8, and will also temporarily suspend a settlement support program for immigrant spouses from Cambodia on April 1.

"International marriages should occur after free dating and the couples should decide on their own which country to live in after marriage. But Koreans, who account for 60 percent of international marriages in Cambodia, mostly meet Cambodian women through matchmakers," a government official said.

The arrest of the woman prompted the Cambodian government to enforce the ban amid deteriorating sentiment about Koreans among locals, he added.

Source: Chosun Ilbo (English edition).