Strong keep:
Those are "anti-Koreanism". They are parodies of the language ... often taken literally ... used on the Wikipedia by these 'wee-warriors' still fighting a war that end 64 years ago.I am not 'anti-Korea' ... I am 'pro-intelligence'. And if intelligence is treated with serial contempt and disrespect, and systemic bias, then I feel empowered to take the piss out of the offenders liberally.
South Korea is not part of 'The Axis of Evil', but many of its men (mainly) are definitely part of 'The Axis of Idiocy' ... and have an appalling attitude towards women.
QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 16th June 2009, 12:22am)
The actual user page has been deleted, as of 2 May 2009, but an interesting comment remains on the refusal to do a checkuser ... "strong POV on certain issues ... a case of blatant Sockpuppetry in an effort to push a certain POV and create false consensus, in a deliberate disregard to Wikipedia rules" and that was back in 2006. Rien ne change plus ...
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Sockpuppetry is not, in itself, a violation. Mackensen (talk) 19:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
QUOTE(One @ Mon 15th June 2009, 9:07pm)
Forum member 'One' said ... because Koreans apparently really like being prostitutes.
Not a point I have ever argued 'One'. Unless you mean the "upwards 1,000,000 women and girls" who were put into service for the Americans during their occupation of the peninsula Post-1945, under the encouragement and collusion of the US Military & Korean government officials, the 1 million said to be active today, or the 2,000 sex workers protesting in Seoul recently that were so keen to whore that they went on a public hunger strike wearing nothing but bikinis and ball masks (...
I suspect that just a marketing stunt).
What the records say of Korean women and girls prostituted for the US military is that many of them were tricked, coerced, kidnapped, abused as the victims of hunger, poverty, and war. And they were called comfort women in Korea at least up until the 1970s ... I doubt they "liked" it. Many were the same comfort women that serviced the Japanese. Most survived, a few made a lot of money, many die terrible deaths. They hawked them off to the Japanese, again, during the sex tourism period of the 1970s.
If you are interested in facts, you might also look at how the Korean army treated Vietnamese women (or Southern Korean troups Northern Korean women), whilst they were hired out as mercenaries to the US during the Vietnam War. Kidnapping, rape and murder, and a wake of unwanted orphans. Its all about context.
Whilst the Japanese stopped in 1945, the Americans and Koreans picked up where they left off and industrialized the industry. Today, UN estimates as many as 1.2 million women in South Korea are still engaged to varying degrees in 'sex work' now; many underage, thousands trafficked. It makes the usual accusations of the Japanese, 200,000 etc, look modest.
As one women said, "Our government was one big pimp for the US military" (... for the sake of all that foreign currency).
The Korean YMCA estimates current prostitution to account for 5% of the GDP. More than the industries of forestry, agriculture and fishing
COMBINED (4.4%). According to the Korean Institute of Criminology, 20 percent of South Korea adult males, aged between 20-64, purchase sex 4.5 times per month. Probably enough 'vested interest' to buy one a NPOV war on the Wikipedia. Add on top some manic Korean Christians, wiping everything clean, and you have a fine cocktail to deal with.
Seemingly intelligent discussion of these issues, from the point of view of a Korean-American feminist, is just apparently too much to expect on the Wikipedia. You have to appreciate, Korea is nation with huge issues over denial, appalling sexual politics, and government corruption surrounding all this. Now, design a editorial system to manage that ... Unless individuals understand the full context, as might be expected of an academic publication, what else are their edits but partisan propaganda in an information wargame? Try putting any of it past the likes of Caspian blue (... cousin is a nun).
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And, lastly, if you don't know how crazy Koreans get, just remember one, drunken Korean burnt down the country's number one 610-year-old landmark because he was mad at his government ... over something that was his own fault.)
Refs:
Moon, Katharine H. S. 'Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in US-Korea Relations'.
Lee, Na Young. 'The construction of military prostitution in South Korea during the U.S. military rule, 1945-1948'.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/as...&pagewanted=allAnd the trains in Japan run on time too ...