From: ywh@asterix.merit.edu (Woody Huang)
Subject: Re: Korean Bashing (Re: All you d*ckhead friend-betraying Koreans!!!)
Organization: Merit Network, Inc.  Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:42:16 GMT

My previous posting of Article 27567 is corrupted.  Here is the same
article again.  Sorry for the trouble.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! This korean bashing thread, often time irrational and
ridiculous, only shows how narrow-minded and ignorant some oversea taiwanese
are.  I, also from taiwan, happen to think korean government did what they
have to do and the fact that they delayed this for so long already cost
them economic advantage in china.  Now, let's talk about some issues.

1. The brotherhood/best friend bullsh*t

	This cheap heart-warming remark first served as a political
mutual-support between two dictators, Park & Chiang, during the heat of
cold war.  It was later much emphasized by Taiwanese goverment as a
way to disguise the fact Taiwan has almost no support elsewhere in
the world.  Two important factors should have long ago dismissed
the myth:
	a. the ending of the cold war between china and the US, which 
	   happened long before the crash of USSR, had made possible 
	   for south korean to take interest in china.  Some netters
	   emotionally cried out that there's nothing taiwan needs from
	   korea works the same way around.  South korea does not need 
	   taiwan but they desperately want to be part of the economic 
	   boom (~10% growth per year) in china and take advantage of 
	   the incredible future market should the growth sustain.
	b. UNLIKE taiwan, south korean government is an ELECTED goverment.
	   Democratic or not, they need to represent some groups of 
	   people not themselves to get re-elected.  As for what groups'
	   interest (people vs interest groups) they are representing
           is a debatable matter but my view is they are more sensitive
           to big corporations' needs as demostrated by their growth- 
	   oriented economy.  Guess which one the corporations would 
	   choose, china or taiwan?
	   

2. The embassy incident
	
	Taiwan government did not pay a dime to possess the embassy
property.  The property was inherited from the old china (Ching Dynasty)
therefore belongs to the government who korean goverment think
represents the old china.  And it certainly isn't taiwan anymore.
Just like the seat of UN Security Council that should be occupied by
the government who correctly represents china, what belongs to china
goes to china.  Tainwan couldn't win a law sue, if she should try, for
any heritage of china's because china is the heir to china and taiwan
is not( Get it? china == china, taiwan != china).  Just because there's
a huge amout of money involved, the logic cannot be reversed and 
china gladly will make sure it isn't happening.

3. Why so angry at korean?

	I still remember when the US first decided to break the
relaion with taiwan, taiwanese government organized a protest show
aiming at the representative from the US.  The government also started
a propaganda campaign to accuse the US of betrayal and injustice.  At
the height of the campaign, the whole nation is like an angry mob which 
led to the surrounding of US embassy. By doing the above, this government 
achieved something probably nobody ever did under the same circumstance:

	* Direct all blame to this other nation, none to themselves
	* Arouse patriotism in a level that no criticism can survive
	* Disguise the fact that the legitimacy of the regime is  
	  real source of the problem, not the rest of the world

	Now the whole thing is happening again ( probably in a smaller
scale) and this time the target is korean.  I can imagine some 
brain-washed idiots waving the flags under government support to 
try to do it again.  What I didn't expect is here in the netland
where taiwanese government is supposed to have minimum influence and
netters are supposed to think and act more independently that no
racist/irrational/franatic remark should exist.  After all, when
the whole world turns away from you, the problem is you, not the
world.  South korean, as a nation, has every right to pursue a
better chance to survive as a future economic power and their
decision is a legitimate one.  The problem in with taiwan, not koreans.
It's taiwanese job to stop burying their heads in the ground and
start to see the world as it is, not some kind of mythological
cartoon painted by the government.  It is taiwanese' job to start
thinking why we are what we are and how we can do better instead of
crying why everybody else keep doing injustice to us and how we can
treat them back with irrational remarks.

All flames welcome, personal attacks use email please.

- woody

BTW, south korea, as perceived by the rest of the world, has a much
better chance in becoming a world leading economic power in the
future than taiwan.  Just thought some taiwanese egoists might want to
know.



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