By You can always count on the Korean ultra-nationalist protesters to make total asses of themselves. In past protests we saw knife in the gut man, flag eater man, finger chopping ajumma, the Dokdo Riders, and my favorite of all bee man.
Now via Japan Probe comes news of a new standard bearers of Dokdo protesting, the pheasant smashers:
About 40 military veterans wearing army uniforms staged a gory protest outside Japan’s embassy yesterday.
They cut the heads off live pheasants, Japan’s national bird, and dripped the blood on Japanese flags and on pictures of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and former Japanese leaders. Some battered birds to death with hammers. Others cut open bellies and ate the livers, shouting: “Dokdo is our territory!” [The Standard]
Lovely. If this doesn’t convince the world Dokdo is Korean territory then nothing will. 
10:02 am on July 19th, 2008 1
Protest Grading Rubric
Sadistic creativity: B+
Ability to convey one’s point: A-
Ability to convince others of the justness of one’s cause: F
Ability to communicate rationally: F-
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11:41 am on July 19th, 2008 2
Han Personality Disorder.
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11:44 am on July 19th, 2008 3
[...] This is messed up. [...]
11:59 am on July 19th, 2008 4
This is exactly what this issue is. The Dokdo issue is a bunch of pheasants being pounded to death by retarded Korean veterans.
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12:20 pm on July 19th, 2008 5
As noted by a poster at JapanProbe, those are Korean pheasants not the green Pheasants that are unique to Japan and it’s national bird. So basically They killed the common Korean pheasant thinking it was the National bird of Japan.
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12:29 pm on July 19th, 2008 6
How barbaric. Then again, what else do you expect from Koreans, people with a culture that is backward, underdeveloped and primitive despite all their LGs, Samsungs, and Hyundais.
No surprise coming from the culture that brought the world Cho Seung-Hui.
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12:36 pm on July 19th, 2008 7
The only thing that is saving Korea from a reciprocal protest against its embassy in Japan and desecration of its flag (and other symbols of Korea) is that the majority of the Japanese people don’t give a damn about the Dokdo/Takeshima issue. To them it deals with only the Shimane folks who are complaining of their fishing rights.
However, this latest episode of pheasant bashing — pun intended — is that it was photographed and plastered across the front pages of the Japanese papers. The people doing the animal brutality were the Agent Orange vets wearing military uniforms — giving the image of militaristic Koreans as brutal, savage, uncultured, low-class, dirty, bloody (remember the Japanese eta were descended from butchers who did the “unclean” work) and a whole group of other negative images.
The pictures in the Japanese media that I have seen appear to be more bloody and violent than the ones seen in Korea — perhaps because they were cropped and enhanced to give that effect.
The combined image is enough to make the blood boil in the nationalist organizations in Japan. The visual image of a military group splattering blood over the Japanese flag — a sacred symbol to the nationalists –is a thing worth fighting over. Thus you have the initial onslaught of the Japanese nationalists in an attack on the Korean Embassy in Japan — and the resultant increased security.
One can only hope for the Koreans’ sake that the outrage does not catch on with the rest of Japan.
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3:15 pm on July 19th, 2008 8
At least the pheasant on Yong-San are safe.
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3:50 pm on July 19th, 2008 9
“How barbaric. Then again, what else do you expect from Koreans, people with a culture that is backward, underdeveloped and primitive despite all their LGs, Samsungs, and Hyundais. ”
Owch, but SOOOO true.
“the image of militaristic Koreans as brutal, savage, uncultured, low-class, dirty, bloody ”
Yowh, but SOOOOO true.
“So basically They killed the common Korean pheasant thinking it was the National bird of Japan.”
LOL, the irony. LOL!!! The Koreans tried to be creative and step in dog poo.
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4:27 pm on July 19th, 2008 10
“Some battered birds to death with hammers. Others cut open bellies and ate the livers”
This coming from a nation of dog eaters. Is anybody suprised? Funny how Koerans still talk about “right winger” japanese. It seems that every Korean is a right winger. SOOOOOOOOOOO barbaric… killing animals for pleasure!
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9:04 pm on July 19th, 2008 11
thats sick ._.
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10:53 am on July 21st, 2008 12
i know it’s a bit angry and mad actions that they took.
but compare to what JAPan has done to korean in past.
this is nothing.
they even trying to remake the history..
and instead of undo the wrongs..they keep on making
up the stories..
just don’t read only part of this story and prejudge
koreans.
you are not even near knowing the history of korea.
and you never been to that suffer that korea had to
face.
and regardless of dukdo issue there is moer things
that needs to be corrected..
they are not just doing this for this issue..
but including all the wrong things japan has done to korea.
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2:13 pm on July 21st, 2008 13
Wow, what a bunch of lunatics. The more I read about Korea (both halves), the more I believe that peninsula has some kind of bizzare, unique mental disorder.
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11:12 pm on July 21st, 2008 14
xjapan:
You sound just like the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks when they decided to kill each other in the former Yugoslaiva. If you think revenge to folks for acts of their ancestors couple of generations back is somehow justified, I think you’re nuts.
I’m sorry to say that you don’t know the history of the world. Extreme nationalism/ethno-hate is poison, no matter how you victimize yourselves.
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11:13 pm on July 22nd, 2008 15
Japan Vs Korea and Japan comes out on top again.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-34619320080722
“We are not here to conduct barbaric acts such as killing live pheasants,” one said as the group called on embassy staff to accept flowers and a protest letter. There was no response from the embassy.”
Japan offers flowers to embassy. Korea tortures animals.
You can count on Korea doing the wrong thing and provoking war. Japan should make them suffer
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6:44 pm on July 31st, 2008 16
let me ask you this…How would you feel if your country was losing a part of it’s territory?
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7:39 pm on July 31st, 2008 17
First of all, Korea isn’\t losing any territory. Korea has physical possession of the Liancourt Rocks, and everybody knows that japan isn’t going to fight to get them. Koreans are overreacting because there’s no way that Korea is going to lose those rocks. Second, how is killing a bunch of pheasants going to help? All it does is make Koreans look bad. If Koreans want to get people to believe them, they should simply state the facts. Acting like those veterans or the finger chopping ajumma did just makes ALL Koreans look bad.
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2:52 am on August 1st, 2008 18
#16
I suspect Japan felt bad when your government raided and occupied “Dokdo” in 1954. Don’t tell me they didn’t use hostile force when they did.
May I suggest lack of imagination on your side as well?
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2:55 am on August 1st, 2008 19
And I suspect Koreans felt bad when the Japanese took over Dokdo and Korea by force in 1905 and 1910 respectfully.
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3:05 am on August 1st, 2008 20
And on and on it goes!
But frankly, I think “Dokdo” is a myth created by post-colonial Korea, and so do many.
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4:40 am on August 1st, 2008 21
Lee should settle this once and for all & either sell it to the Japanese for outrageous money or allow the North Koreans to put a gulag on the island. Apparently, their security guards are pretty good shots.
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5:44 am on August 1st, 2008 22
Squatch explain the myth, I must have missed it.
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11:03 am on August 1st, 2008 23
Apparently Kyu doesn’t respond to anything that’s tough to answer (i.e. my last post).
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11:26 am on August 1st, 2008 24
R.W.
I didn’t know your response needed a response. I do agree that killing pheasants is weird and I can’t understand it order than to make a really bad analogy of monks setting themselves on fire.
Hopefully, you have some knowledge of Korean history and know how war torn that country is due to the geographic location of the country. From surrounding countries trying to conquer Korea to internal meltdowns due to corruption. But please don’t judge all of Korea for the misguided behaviors of a few lunatic individuals.
For you to say Korea has a unique mental disorder doesn’t help any situation and although it is your opinion, I would recommend you take some interest to study the Korean people and the history and hopefully, you will see that there are beautiful and wonderful aspects of Korea.
I really have no stake in what happens since I am a citizen of the US and I have my own everyday things to worry about (work, planning a wedding, buying a house, etc.) I found this topic to be very interesting to me that’s all.
Some have a misconception of Korea because of idiotic behavior like killing pheasants and what not but I would like to say that every country has embarrassing moments.
Maybe I asked the wrong question when I said Korea was losing its territory, but I find it surprising in this day and age where countries are still fighting for territory. Aren’t the maps made yet?
Does this response adequate?
P.S. if I made some remarks that were not grammatically correct, please note that I’m too lazy to read what I wrote.
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8:56 pm on August 1st, 2008 25
First, I’d like to apologize for the mental disorder comment. It was inappropriate. What I should have said was that the widespread ultra-nationalism in Korea is a major problem.
I know that Japan committed terrible crimes, and I know that Korea has been taken advantage of numerous times throghout history (I’m sure this is the reason for the rise of nationalism in the last 60 years), but holding a grudge after Japan has apologized numerous times– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan –and already paid reparations after the war isn’t going to help anything. Japan and South Korea should be joining forces against the totalitarian threats all around them. Unfortunately, polls show that South Koreans hate the USA and Japan more that the countries that are actually a threat to them (DPRK, PRC, Russia…) It’s this extreme nationalism that worries and upsets me. I’m honestly concerned that South Korea might join up with the Kim dynasty and the PRC against the USA and Japan one of these days.
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8:59 pm on August 1st, 2008 26
Oh, also, about the territorial dispute thing: there are many territorial disputes in the world today. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, I believe we still have some territorial disputes with Canada, but the fact that a dispute over two miniscule rocks overshadows every other territorial dispute in the world simply highlights the fact that something is terribly wrong in East Asia.
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5:24 am on September 5th, 2008 29
This is by far one of the most offensive actions I have ever seen performed by Koreans. While I do support my ethnic country and its struggle to maintain a strong history and establish conclusion to conflicts, killing birds on the flag of Japan means absolutely nothing. Not to mention, TOTALLY ineffective way of solving an issue. All it does is place Korea in a bad spotlight as an ultra-nationalistic country. Good job in angering all the animal rights organizations and doing absolutely nothing to resolve the issue in peace with Japan. Next time, use words instead of physical protest.
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