“Korean Women Denigrated by Secret Sites”
Korea Beat has graciously translated the 매일경제 (Maeil Kyeongje) article that was originally introduced by Sonagi over at The Marmot’s Hole and talked about in the post previous to this one.
Interestingly enough, the link to the site that apparently is selling materials to “seduce Korean women” doesn’t work. (http://www.DateKoreanWomen.com) And even if it did, who cares? Are such activities illegal? Is this online book with a broken site even really popular? The Korean media certainly spends a lot of time worrying about what consenting adults do legally on their own free time. If I throw a wild party in my house, or a private establishment, is it worthy of national news? Is this still the era of the “family state,” with the authoritarian president at the head, who controls all aspects of life, both military and civilian?
Honestly, national newspapers — this kind of reporting, whether of Koreans getting a little frisky in a Kangnam nightclub or foreigners having private relations with Korean women — this sort of sensationalist and racist coverage is juvenile. One doesn’t see The New York Times doing such stories, which don’t even belong in a high school newspaper.
The Maeil Kyeongje is put to shame by any high school paper because of stories like this.