Korean Movie Inspired V.T. Killer?

It is obvious that he was inspired by "oil boy" and took that photo.

But it doesn’t mean the movie was the cause of the VT massacre.

There are plenty of violent movies in this world. This is his problem, not the problem of movies.

Honestly speaking, I like the movie "old boy" very much. But, so far, I don't have a plan to kill anybody.

As for the continuous report of Medias about the killer, they do so because people like to know about it.

We, bloggers and blog readers who are interested in this rampage must be equally guilty.

Yesterday, I read one or two articles on the case max. 1 from when they weren't sure who the shooter was and one after it was learned the guy was a Korean (and only 1 guy did it).

Then, I chose to avoid the TV news and newspapers on the internet.

I have kept up with it a little through the K-blogs, because that is what people are writing about, but I skim most of them fairly quickly.

Why?

Because all of these incidents just create hysteria in which nothing much happens beyond —— the media getting rich

Jon Benet Ramesy (sp?) was just 1 child killed near Christmas, but when the media saw the nation would bite at the bait, they exploited the poor girl's death and a lot of other people remotely connected to it (like that nut job in Thailand) for years and years.

95% of the talk that goes on after one of these events is a complete waste of time and geared to hype up the hysteria to make money.

There are rumors in the DC area among those in the schools and Korean community that his parents are in fact in hospital after both made suicide attempts. I have no other info that can confirm this, though. But if true it would be another tragic aspect that this sad situation has brought about.

Yes, sadly the media do tend to run a story like this into the ground for ratings sake. Like all the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith, a simple-minded girl from Texas whose only talent seemed to be using her "assets" to get ahead, getting fat, marrying a go-zillionaire, and then dying. I hope that my life will create a better story than that.

Getting back to this VA Tech story though, I found it interesting that the U.S.-hating Korean media put their collective feet squarely into their mouths by coming out with all those political cartoons right off the bat before they knew the identity of the killer. I will bet that the population of crows in Seoul just went down a bit from the feast that the media must be having now.

One last thing, what's up with this boy's voice? Was he trying to sound menacing with that low monotone voice he was using? Most Korean men I've met don't have that kind of voice. Using that tone of voice actually made him sound stupid rather than menacing to me.

Anyway, let's hope the story dies as quickly as he did. That's all for me…

Tim in Angeles sendzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yeah, I was wrong to say what I did about a person being evil. It was a mistake for me to judge another.

But in talking about illness: if a person with AIDS knowingly goes around sleeping with as many people as possible with the self-professed intent to further transmit the fatal disease, that person's behavior is criminal.

This person had sociopathic behavior. Sociopathy is not illness, it is, in its essence, hate. Hate, in turn, is no more than willful thoughts to destoy (in this case, thoughts to destroy other people).

An example of mental illness is when the brain is missing sections or is otherwise malformed.

If there is such a thing as a "chemical imbalance" in the brain (the supposed cause of so many mental illnesses), I would love to one day see a person with a "chemically balanced" brain.

Emotions (love, hate, etc.) produce chemicals in the brain; an example being the joy we feel when we're in love (releases of endorphins). Emotions make us chemically imbalanced.

If that person didn't control his emotions to the extent that he decided that he must kill, that is an example of human behavior that we should try to prevent from ever happening again, rather than "understanding the mind" of the murder as the media wants to do (and force down our throats).