Yoon Administration Tries to Relocate Busts of Independence Fighters With Communist Ties
I don’t know if this is really a fight worth having for the Yoon administration:
The government is considering relocating a bust of revered independence fighter Hong Beom-do from outside the defense ministry headquarters due to his past record of collaborating with Soviet communist forces, officials said Monday.
Earlier, the defense ministry said it is considering relocating the busts of five Korean independence fighters, including Hong’s, from the Korea Military Academy in northern Seoul, sparking protest from opposition parties and the Heritage of Korean Independence, an association representing the independence fighters and their descendants.
The move is seen as being in line with the Yoon administration’s push to align closer with the United States and Japan in the face of growing cooperation among North Korea, China and Russia.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but of course the opposition party is backing keeping the busts of communist supporters in place.
If you have communist ties, you are not an independence fighter.
Maybe just add a Soviet Flag to the base?
Fair enough. Then let’s flag those Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese during the colonial occupation. Let’s start with Yoon’s ancestors, including his father who was well-known for taking Japanese money.
Fair is fair, right?
“Then let’s flag those Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese during the colonial occupation.”
Let’s compare those apples and oranges.
Japanese Occupation
– nobody asked for Japanese occupation
– people collaborated with what they could not fight
– Japanese occupation gave a LARGE positive influence on the development of Korea (arguing results, not methods here)
Communism
– asking for communism is a deal-breaker on every level
– these were not people making the best with a forced occupation, they were people begging for (communist) occupation of Korea
– communism doesn’t have much of a positive influence on anything (until the actual communism is quietly dropped)
Soooo…
Are there bustd of Yoon’s family there? Or is chinabot just going off the reservation again?