The "Jewish White Bastards" of Yong Yu Island
UPDATE: The Marmot has even more about these banners.
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These photos on EFL Geek just goes to show how bad xenophobia in Korea can be:
Apparently these racist banners have to do with farmers being pushed off their land due to a massive development happening on Yong-yu and Moo-eui islands. Yong-yu and Moo-eui islands are now connected to the new Incheon International Airport by a land bridge and are being quickly developed with hotels and businesses that cater to the airport. This development in question is being spearheaded by a German company called Kempinski.
I have to assume that “Jewish white bastard” in question Jack Rosen is probably the Kempinski man in charge of the development. The “May Anh” on the third banner is actually Mayor Ahn of Incheon who is one of the “traitors working for rich white bastards”. What I find interesting about this is that when the Korean government made farmers relocate to expand Camp Humphreys, massive protests and violent confrontations instigated by NGOs ensued. Big business comes and forcibly relocates farmers off of two whole islands and the NGOs could care less. Just imagine if it was a USFK base being put on these islands what the reaction would be? Where’s the priest when you need him?
Anyway if you are going to the airport any time soon and you are a “white bastard” especially a “Jewish white bastard” you might want to avoid the Yong-yu and Moo-eui areas.
HT: Gangwon Notes
I'm wondering where the protestors got the idea that Germans Rosen and Kempinski were Jewish. Koreans in general aren't aware of common Jewish surnames. North Americans and Europeans are. The English is also grammatically corect. I suspect one of their number was raised in the US or Canada.
Sonagi,
I think that is a good assumption and only makes the racism of the banners that much worse considering someone from Korea studying abroad would have assuredly learned that such speech is highly offensive.
Hey, it's not me. So don't look at me GI, I didn't do anything.
The leftists would use English-language signs in their various anti-American protests until they finally tumbled to the fact that some of the more rabidly race-baiting ones were proving to be somewhat 'counter-productive'. After that they they switched to Hangeul-only script to vent their venom.
These particular signs will stay up until Mr. and Mrs. Kim are advised as to just how really bad it makes Tae-Han Min-Guk look in the eyes of the world … and we can’t have that now, can we … it’s all about image don’tcha know?
Can't wait to see what Dr. Yu and his "foreign" friend jj have to say about this.
Well they will probably say that if all the foreigners in Korea would stop being "western bastards" especially the "Jewish white bastards" than the Koreans would like them and not hang up such banners.
Koreans are not usually Anti-Semitic and it is very alarming to see that they are using this to antogonized the developers. But the signs on the highway to the ICN and it will be looked at by almost all Westerners who is on the way to or from the ICN.
I wondered if these Korean protesters know about the fiscal and political power that Jewish people have in US and other Western countries. And how this anti-Semitic and anti-White banner will hurt the Korean economy in the future. Don't these people know there many Jewish-Americans who have invested a lot of their money in Korea?
I wondered if Israel and German Embassies might do "Demarche" onto ROK MOFAT to forcefully remove this sign on this main highway to ICN.
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"May Ahn"??? I've seen directions on chopsticks with better English.
Race baiting? This is grotesque.
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This is the most alarmist, wrought with assumption, judgemental blog about Korea I have yet to come across. How does the author know who wrote the words that went onto that sign? He doesn't. He just assumed. The author even says "Apparently these racist banners have to do with …" and then again "I have to assume that…" and then goes on to make indignantly confident conclusions based on something he admittedly doesn't really know anything about. What the hell? I mean he's like the angry monkey who has yet to discover that the banana can be opened from both ends. Try to open the banana from the other end (that means try to see the situation from the other party's perspective) and the veins might stop popping out of your head buddy.
"Koreans are not usually Anti-Semitic"
I dont' know about that, Captain Kim. Maybe not in the Neo Nazi fashion that "anti semitism" is usually understood in America. (not many koreans spraying swastika signs on walls or denying the holocaust)
I've heard a few OLD SCHOOL Korean pastors who insist that the holocaust was the divine punishment for killing Christ. Netizens often describe them as "greedy" or "loud and obnxious". From what I heard, university students commonly believe that the Jews are persecuting the muslims.
In comic books that depict life in the US Jews are sometimes introduced as insidious "behind the scense" power figures. There was a controvery about that a few months ago.
Raptorboy obviously hasn't lived in Korea very long if he doesn't think residents from the islands wrote those banners. I guess the "Jewish White Bastards" planted them there then?
I know who wrote the words because if you can read Korean the name of their citizens group is right below the banners. They have other rather unpleasant things to say on the yellow board as well. That is how I found out this group was against the development on the two islands.
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Yea, no detective work is necessary to figure out who wrote the banner, it says so right on the bottom. They want to be known for saying those things, because they at least think the general public agrees with them and doing so will get their group more support. Wither or not the general public does actually support their cause/motives/ideas is something those who live in the area will have to report about.
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