Via Mark, comes this seriously disturbing video:
I fail to understand how anybody could first of all make this video in the first place and then secondly put it on YouTube for every pedophile in the world to see? Even more disturbing is the number of commenters at YouTube thinking this was a "cute" thing to do.  Â
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5:04 am on February 4th, 2008 1
That’s kind of messed up, is this legal in Korea?
6:40 am on February 4th, 2008 2
Its just a kid bumbling through a half ass a dance routine. And yes, it is kinda cute, also rather pointless, brain dead and of no lasting value kind of way. The time spent by the child learning the routine should have been used learning something useful but this is hardly a “pedophile’s dream”.
But lets assume, for the sake of argument that your right.
Wouldn’t the best best course of action have been calling youtube attention to the material. The video could have been quietly pulled and if the material really does rise to the level where action is warranted then the authorities would have been able to act with minimum damage to the child. But thats not happening.
With out lots of hype and free publicity this video (or any other video on any subject) can’t rise above background noise created by all the other on-line videos. At best it would have been seen by a handful of people and dropped down the memory hole. But now that you and others have thrown your weight behind it the video shall be seen by thousands of people. Rather than forgotten it shall be discussed endlessly. What is probably nothing more than stupid innocence will morph with its impact on the child and her family magnified accordingly.
But on the bright side webtraffic should spike and thats good for the advertising rates, right?
6:59 am on February 4th, 2008 3
Or why someone would post this on ROK DROP
7:19 am on February 4th, 2008 4
I’m inclined to agree with Geo in that this video is rather innocuous and mildly mind-numbing but I do see GIKorea’s point about this kind of thing being out there for pedophiles to pleasure themselves with. I guess I’m just jaded. This should have been a cutesy family video retained on the cellphone or the digital video that it was recorded on and played only for the family and not posted on YouTube.
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7:49 am on February 4th, 2008 5
There is less awareness of pedophilia in Korea; nevertheless, the child is clearly being sexed up, stripping down to a tube top and shaking her bootie. Gross. The encroachment of teenage music, dress, and behaviors into childhood, a trend peddled by product marketers, is harmful to children. So sad to see parents dress up their young children and teach them to act like hormone-ridden teens. It’s not a girl thing, either. I have a first grader who swaggers down the hallway in his hoodie and baggy pants, snapping his fingers and humming an R&B tune. I am not impressed. Let kids be kids. They’ll grow up soon enough.
8:01 am on February 4th, 2008 6
As Koreans say Kingkitty, if you don’t like it just leave!
8:18 am on February 4th, 2008 7
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8:31 am on February 4th, 2008 8
This video had over 40,000 views before I even blogged about it with over 170 comments with plenty of people complaining about the video with others defending it. This video already had a ton of attention before I even seen it would have never come to my attention if it didn’t get such a response on YouTube.
It would be “stupid innocence” if the child was just dancing around. Nobody would have cared if the child was just dancing. The child was doing a stripe tease and was posted on YouTube for every pedophile so see is what got everyone’s attention. How you can defend posting a children doing a striptease on YouTube is beyond me.
Also what advertising rates are you talking about? I don’t auction any adds on this site. Hosting a website isn’t free. I have Google Ads that automatically pop up and I make enough from them to pay off my monthly website fees. My Amazon toolbar makes enough money to buy the prize for my Korea Finder contest.
I sure the hell picked the wrong the subject, USFK and Korea related issues if I think I’m going to get rich blogging about it. If this website was about making money I would be posting racing girl pics every day.
10:19 am on February 4th, 2008 9
If my baby was dancing around suggestively and dressed like that, I’d spank her good!
11:00 am on February 4th, 2008 10
I left a comment on this video on YouTube a while back, and was disturbed by the number of Korean folks who just thought it was “cute.” Sorry - I just think women and girls have just become so sexualized, women’s sexuality to commodified, that people have become inured to it – yes, it is indeed rendered truly “harmless” in a society that has scantily-clad women selling you toothbrushes in the grocery store.
11:44 am on February 4th, 2008 11
A quote from Gardens of Stone by James Earl Jones comes to mind:
“Never underestimate the value of early training and proper breaking in……………”
I don’t have a feeling either way about the video-except I sure as hell would not allow my daughter to do it. I still would not like the idea of my daughter doing it now-and she is 24.
1:20 pm on February 4th, 2008 12
Sorry about the ad rate remark, it was over the top. Your work at this blog is nothing short of excellent but I really do think you’ve jumped the shark on this one.
As noted earlier by posting a link you are helping promote the very thing despise. As for the constant accusations of criminality; I am not a lawyer, I don’t play one on television but I fail to see how even the most media hungry DA could get an arrest warrant issued much less a conviction based on just this video. I think the video is in questionable taste but the problem with saying that is that “good taste” is a relative thing. While it would be easy and fun to say that the nation that gave us us the “wonder girls” has set the bar pretty low, its not really an Asian or Korean phenomenon.
My father once dated a woman whose daughter was deep into the “dance competition” subculture. I’ve suffered through video tapes of several “events” in which young girls in adult makeup and outfits roboticly going through sometimes suggestive dance routines while the adoring mothers (and it was always the mother) clucked at one another while making plans on how to spend the millions of dollars that just had to roll in once the little sugar plumb broke into show business. Since every competition had enough ribbons and trophies for everyone to finish first in something I never did figure how how one would move up the ranks, but thats another story.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the parents of the girl in question are under the same delusion.
5:04 pm on February 4th, 2008 13
Well Beatinzone….I guess we now know who the Pedophile is. Thanks for being honest.
3:42 pm on February 5th, 2008 14
5:32 pm on February 5th, 2008 15
pretty disguting video
even my kids i took pictures of them taking a bubble bath together 3 and 18 months all in fun and just for memories but I wouldnt post them anywhere online for fear of the same topics expressed here
1:45 pm on February 6th, 2008 16
this is pretty funny. the whole ripping off her jacket thing was a little much. I was like o shit this is crazy!!
2:06 pm on February 15th, 2008 17