Critics Unhappy with President Yoon’s Use of English Words in Speeches

It is pretty clear that the Korean left has nothing to hammer current President Yoon Suk-yeol on so they have come up with this so called “English complex”:

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s “unnecessary” use and praise of English has some citizens alleging he has a “complex.” 

Yoon has been heard using English terms on several occasions, even when the events did not call for a mixing of languages.

In a meeting on June 10 with the leaders of the ruling People Power Party, Yoon brought up a name change for Yongsan Park, a newly opened former Korea base for the U.S. Forces. 

While suggesting a new name, the president said, “When you say ‘National Memorial Park’ in English, it sounds cool, but when you say ‘Gukrip Chumo Gongwon,’” referring to the Korean equivalent of the name, “it doesn’t, so I don’t know what to call it in our country’s language.”

In another incident on June 8, Yoon spoke about how “In advanced countries like the U.S., former ‘general attorneys’ are widely positioned in politics and government,” saying “general attorneys” in English.

Yoon’s seemingly unnecessary inclusion of English in his official statements have sparked debate in South Korea as to whether the new president is showing bias toward the U.S. and the West more broadly.

Yahoo News

You can read more at the link, but would these critics instead have Yoon showing bias towards China instead of the West? That is clearly what they are implying.

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Kevin Kim
Kevin Kim
2 years ago

Best response to stupidity is humor. Laugh it off. The American left has no sense of humor, so it hates laughter, satire, parody, etc. How about the Korean left?

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Pretty much all those mincing nancyboys are humorless scolds.

It’s just part of their pathology.

Korean Person
Korean Person
2 years ago

The article in question was written by a KorAm editor who works for an Asian American media outlet.

Local media outlets, even the left-wing Hankoryeh, aren’t making a big fuss out of all this.

It seems that GIKorea, the conspiracy loving setnaffa, and KorAms are the only ones making a big deal out of an non-issue.

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