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Apr 17, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

SHAMEFUL! The audacity to say *anything* when we can't even keep our children from fearing being shot in schools. They've clearly never seen the continued mourning. They've never been in Korea to witness it, not even once. There's no way they'd have said such crap if they could see it since they obviously refuse human compassion.

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

One of the most heartbreaking things I saw in my one visit to Seoul were loved ones of a student missing in the tragedy, asking for help to find her. It was a year and a half since the sinking.

Of course, Western media would like to point at tragedies like this and say "not us!" I felt the same way when watching how American media covered the so-called "war on drugs" in my home country, the Philippines, 'waged' by former president Duterte and resulting in the deaths of thousands of users, but none of those involved in the selling.

The coverage was a lot of "see, at least our country hasn't devolved into this" -- I guess they needed to feel good since Trump was doing his horror on the US, but constantly pointing out (not inaccurately) that this was a policy of a president a plurality of the country voted for, and suggesting the whole country wanted it (not really, no)...

...sigh.

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