By Just another example of the pro-North Korean education that many kids in South Korea are getting due to the stooges in the Korean Teachers and Education Worker’s Union (KTU):
A local court yesterday acquitted a former schoolteacher who was indicted for violating national security laws by taking his students to a memorial event remembering North and South Korean martyrs for unification and creating and distributing pro-North Korea materials banned by the South Korean government.
The memorial was organized by communists who had served prison terms in South Korea for espionage.
The schoolteacher involved, Kim Hyeong-cheol, took 180 students and their parents to meet the communists at a local youth training center in Sunchang, North Jeolla, in May 2005.
Jin Hyeon-min, the judge of the Jeonju District Court who presided over the trial, said though the court found that Kim, 51, participated in the event, the event did not cause harm. [Joong Ang Ilbo via the Marmot's Hole]
And these idiots in the KTU wonder why they have such a bad image? What makes this even more humorous is that the KTU has been complaining about the South Korean government handing out anti-North Korean literature in the schools and here is this guy not only handing out pro-North Korean material to his students, but he even took them on a field trip to hang out with the communists.
By the way the teacher in question graduated from Chonbuk University which has been linked to one of the leaders of the anti-US movement in Korea, Han Sang-ryeol who also helped organize the anti-US beef protests. This same university also sent the team to No Gun Ri to try and find remains of the civilians allegedly killed by US troops there during the Korean War. To this day they have yet to find one body.
1:58 pm on February 18th, 2010 1
The overriding issue seems to be "we are the world, we are all Korean", and to hell with any other outsiders. Very much KKK in idiology.
6:46 pm on February 18th, 2010 2
"Very much KKK in idiology."
Korean, Korean, Korean?
7:44 pm on February 18th, 2010 3
KTU, king of the chinboistas.
9:17 pm on February 18th, 2010 4
Are they still at war or not?
2:56 am on February 19th, 2010 5
Technically, yes. Which explains the need for fifth columnists (see link above).
6:14 am on February 19th, 2010 6
Obviously the North is still fighting the war. What about the South?
6:23 am on February 19th, 2010 7
It's a difficult balancing act between national security needed in wartime and protection of civil rights and personal liberties in times of peace. With a ceasefire going for decades — but punctuated by real, deadly events — South Korea has been somewhere in between.
The KTU used to be outlawed, but a progressive administration felt that the ROK couldn't live up to the title of democracy while continuing that situation. A similar battle rages with the National Security Law's restrictions on "speech" about North Korea.
But on other fronts, South Koreans spend over $1 in every $40 of GDP on national defense, take up huge swaths of valuable land for military bases while preventing development of others, and put most of the men in uniform for about two years of their lives, so it's not like the ROK is not fighting the war. They are hunkered down to enforce the ceasefire, with a lot of help from the US.
6:27 am on February 19th, 2010 8
Rhetorical question
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply (ex: "Why me?")[1] Rhetorical questions encourage the listener to think about what the (often obvious) answer to the question must be. When a speaker states, "How much longer must our people endure this injustice?", no formal answer is expected. Rather, it is a device used by the speaker to assert or deny something.
6:31 am on February 19th, 2010 9
Sorry, Archie. I meet people who really are ignorant enough to not know the stuff I pointed out, and I just assumed you were one of them.
6:40 am on February 19th, 2010 10
Why hurl backhanded insults at me over this issue? Jeez. You're the one who doesn't understand simple rhetorical questions.
6:50 am on February 19th, 2010 11
Looks like theruling is being discussed by prosecutors and politicians-
Outcry over acquittal of a teacher is spreading
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?a…
6:52 am on February 19th, 2010 12
So, there are commies everywhere
10:56 am on February 19th, 2010 13
Nah, most have become enviromentalists.
1:43 pm on February 19th, 2010 14
Gerry FTW!!!!
4:56 pm on February 19th, 2010 15
"It’s a difficult balancing act between national security needed in wartime and protection of civil rights and personal liberties in times of peace. With a ceasefire going for decades — but punctuated by real, deadly events — South Korea has been somewhere in between.
The KTU used to be outlawed, but a progressive administration felt that the ROK couldn’t live up to the title of democracy while continuing that situation. A similar battle rages with the National Security Law’s restrictions on “speech” about North Korea. "
Yes, good points. No agitprop can veil the fact that North Korea is still a shit-hole after years of throwing money at it in one form of aid or another. Clearly, the source of North Korea's problems is internal, not external.