Group Holds Gwanghwamun Pizza Party to Protest Hunger Strike
Via the Marmot’s Hole comes this news about a conservative group that decided to show their displeasure about the hunger strikes over the Sewol ferry accident by holding a pizza party:
On Saturday, a group of conservative extremists pulled off an eating binge at Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul, right next to the bereaved families of victims of the April 16 ferry sinking who are involved in a hunger strike demanding a thorough investigation of the disaster. The 100 people in attendance are members of the Ilgan Best (Ilbe), an online community of conservatives. They sang and ate pizza and fried chicken to mock the hunger strike the victims’ families have been staging since they lost their children in the ferry sinking. A special Sewol ferry law has not been approved yet due to their opposition to some aspects of it.
One blogger built a dog house and put dog food at the site where the group held their rude ceremony with a banner reading “This is where those who are worse than dogs have their food.” The partisan wrangling over the Sewol ferry law has spilled over into society, sending extremists to carry out insensitive acts.
Sponsors said their performance had the simple message of demanding that Gwanghwamum Plaza, which has turned into a stage for political protest, be returned to citizens. They claimed they were well-behaved and cleaned up the area afterwards. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
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At first I thought that pie looked pretty good, then I leaned in on the monitor more and noticed some yellow chunks that weren’t cheese and then I finally remembered that they have the audacity to put corn on pies here so f that pie cause I know there’s little bits of corn in it.
Shrimp pizza is a pretty good eat.
I didn’t even mind so much when Korean Pizza Hut put potatoes and broccoli on pizza.
I don’t typically feel sorry for “hunger strike” groups because they typically only go without food during working hours–or tend to be like IRA bombers; but I dispute that actual conservatives are quite that boorish. We enjoy pizza; but tend not to eat it in order to mock bereaved families of any religious or political background.
Maybe the “conservative” label was misapplied.