By How does doing this help Korea’s claim to the Dokdo Islands?:
An anti-Japan protester, Yang Bong-ho, stabs himself in the stomach with a kinfe to commite suicide demanding Japan abandon a plan to conduct a maritime survey near disputed islets, at a park in Seoul, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Yang’s condition was unknown after being taken to hospital.
Actions like this only help Japan’s agenda of showing that Korea is an irrational society thus in turn aiding their claims to the Dokdo isles in regards to global public opinion, with the few people that actually give a crap about anything that has to do with Dokdo.
8:38 am on May 26th, 2007 1
[...] to fight off the evil Japs was announced. Though the casualties on the Korean side have been heavy at times, through it all the brave defenders of Dokdo have continued thwart the massive Japanese [...]
6:47 am on July 19th, 2008 2
[...] Korean ultra-nationalist protesters to make total asses of themselves. In past protests we saw knife in the gut man, flag eater man, finger ajumma, the Dokdo Riders, and my favorite of all bee [...]
6:25 am on July 21st, 2008 3
[...] it or not this protest is not as gory as either the finger chopping lady or knife in the gut man. This protest is also not as imaginative as the bee man or the flag eater but it does serve as a [...]