I think it will happen again unless the US Police keeps a watchful eye. It almost happened again in LA with loony Korean named “Michael” Cho. Thank god the police killed him first.

http://www.mattthedemocrat.org

A year or so later, on a Korean Air flight from Tokyo to Seoul, I witnessed more psychos in action; one of them nearly killed a fellow passenger, a middle-aged American male. As the plane landed, the victim who was sitting next to me got up to join the exit line. A Korean passenger who had already left his seat across the isle yanked his heavy luggage out of the overhead compartment as violently as he could, knowing full well there was no place for it to land except on the American guy’s head. He hit the Yank on the side of his head and neck and nearly knocked him out. The two native attendants who were standing nearby just looked at each other, as if nothing out of routine had happened. The brutality of the incident and the Korean air attendants’ attitude appalled me. How could they just ignore what was a serious assault on a passenger in their care? I vowed never to fly Korean Air again.

After the passport inspection, passengers had to undergo a body search. Another martial art nutter (it was difficult to miss his oversize blackened knuckles,) holding a large metal detector in his hand, was literally assaulting all American/European passengers with his rugged gadget as he searched them. I vowed never to go back to Korea.

The next time I see a Korean ‘martial arts expert’ walking toward me, I will Shoo* first and ask questions later.

Caveat Lector!

My classroom is on the second floor, so asking my first graders to jump out the window probably wouldn’t be a good option.

@Tim,

I lived in Korea almost ten years and speak fluent Korean, but thanks for the cultural brief anyway. I know you meant well.

The Appalacian School of Law shootings are frequently cited by opponents of gun control, so apparently, some ‘media’ reported it or it wouldn’t be so well-known.

I know both pro and anti-gun control advocates are fond of using statistics, but I think this risk chart puts things in perspective much better than individual incidents:

The probability that any school age child will die this year from*

Any cause 1 in 3,000
A traffic accident 1 in 8,000
Homicide, away from school 1 in 21,000
Suicide, away from school 1 in 28,000
A firearm accident 1 in 200,000
An act of nature, including lightning 1 in 780,000
Any adverse effect of medical care 1 in 1,300,000
Homicide at school 1 in 1,700,000

Yes, that’s right. A K-12 school child is more likely to be struck by lightning that to be murdered at school by any weapon. A child is far more likely to die in a firearm accident than to be murdered at school. Maybe the real problem isn’t violent rampages on school campuses but fear of a horrible headline-grabbing event that is actually extremely rare.

source: http://www.svrc.net/Files/ProbabilityFactSheet.doc

Here is what happens when students are armed… although the “media” will never report it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

J!

While there is compelling evidence that Cho developed a mental illness, and it was that illness that lead him to commit these dastardly deeds, my point that Korean society trains people to “play the victim” stands. Put it whatever way you want, “Root for the underdog”, “Champion a cause”, etc. Korean society teaches that it is not only honorable but expected to put yourself in an inadventagious position so as to be able to fight out of that position and prove that you are the better person for doing it. This stems from Korea’s longstanding history of being conquered by China, Japan, and yes, the United States for a time, although most of my fellow Americans would say that we were only there to help Korea, and with that they were always able to battle back and win the day as a people.

Bottom line, if Koreans find themselves in an inadvantagious position, it is ingrained in their collective psyche to battle back against whatever they feel is oppressing them.