From: dskim@eng.umd.edu (Daeshik Kim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: Orange-jok
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:54:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: eng.1992Dec13.165406.27579
Organization: What Org?

In article <gf_pbyG00XsL8QN0RO@andrew.cmu.edu> wc1q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Woncheal Choi) writes:
>Firstly, they are not all the kids of extremely rich families. Many of
>them are kids of public officers or politicians, but still they can
>afford to spend as much as rich kids do. If their fathers are public
>officers, sometimes they have more expensive cars than their fathers. 
>You know what it implies.

	If they made their money legally, what's the problem?
	If they made their money illegally, the problem is on
	how they made their money and why that was possible.

>Secondly and more seriously, they are top frontiers in importing low
>grade dirty cultures to Korea like using drugs, money worship,
>promiscuous sexual behaviors.

	Let me see.  When they imported Chinese culture and when
	they use Chinese charaters, no one gives a damn about it.

	Check out any official documents especially related to law;
	you'll find more Chinese characters than Korean.

	BTW, their usage of drugs is their problem since they broke the
	law; and they have to be punished by the law.

>How far is the 'Rodeo street' in Ap-ku-jung-dong from Sa-dang-dong
>'Pan-ja chon' ?

	Not a walking distance.

	Hmm.. check out Manhattan and see if it's walking distance or not.

>..having  a diseased chicken in a chicken coop.

	I don't believe in all healthy chicken; w/o diseased chicken,
	there'll be no definition for healthy chicken.

>Rap music is very popular  in korea these days.  There is a popular rap
>singer in Korea who even wears clothes like black people in US.  Why is
>the rap music that popular in Korea (even it might be more popular than
>in US) which is nothing but a black people's music ?  Rap music could
>become so intimidated to korean mainly by the night clubs which are OJ's
>main play ground and young singers who are OJs.  

	So, when they played other imported music, that was O.K.?
	When they play Enka style music, that was O.K.?
	So if those Korean-American people listen to Korean music in U.S.,
	that's not O.K.?

>Many young people desire to go expensive and exclusive night clubs which
>are considered to have a nice 'Mool'. The 'Mool' itself represents the
>OJs.  You will be kicked out in front of those clubs if you don't look
>like a OJ.

	Well, I like to go nice fancy restaurants with nice food if
	I can afford.

	For those who like to go dance clubs, why wouldn't they want to
	go to nice fancy one if they can?

	And I don't see anything wrong with it.

>There was a guy who was outraged by those treatment in a night club and
>burned the club. 

	That guy should have known better to abide by law before doing
	any crime.

>Korean people's philosophy and ethic have been changing toward those of
>western culture and they are still changing. However, no guideline
>exists in accepting foreign cultures, so they are very susceptible to
>any class of culture.  

	There were none before for Chinese culture;
	and there'll be none;
	but they have been doing well to fit themselves into the
	new one except when someone forcifully tried to block/censor
	out the incoming cultural wave.

>I think OJ is a serious society problem because they are contributing in
>deteriorating korean people's mind by their low cultural tendency.   

	I seriously don't think it's problem; rather, it will always exist
	in any culture in any sub. form.
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