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By on May 10th, 2009 at 7:04 am

Anyone Willing to Be Dokdo Propaganda?

It looks like Korea has found itselfs a few more foreigners willing to be propaganda pieces:

Looks like EPIK has rounded up a group of native speaker teachers to be paraded around the Liancourt Rocks and, most importantly, to be photographed being paraded around the Liancourt Rocks. Not only that, they have to write a five-page essay on it. Why would anyone agree to participate in this? These foreigners will be used as evidence of the worldwide community’s support for Korea’s claim to the disputed Liancourt Rocks in the Sea of Japan. Do you really want to be a pawn in an issue so sensitive that Koreans want go to war with Japan over it?  [Brian in Jeollanam-do]

This would not be the first time that foreigners were used as propaganda pieces by the Korean government.  Everybody remember the alleged first foreigners ever to visit Dokdo posting which I quickly debunked:

foreigner-on-dokdo

Many other foreigners have visited Dokdo to be used as propaganda pieces.  For everyone  that wants to go to Dokdo on this trip that is your decision, but just make sure you have no illusions of what the real purpose of this trip is; you are nothing but a photo op for Koreans trying to make a political point against Japan.  Personally I would not go.

I made my way over to Dokdo before and I did it without being a propaganda piece.

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  • Mark
    2:17 am on May 10th, 2009 1

    I see only Korean and Mexican flags in the pic.

  • Mark
    2:55 am on May 10th, 2009 2

    Nevermind…now that I actually read the previous post about it….

 

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