"Hating The Korean Wave"
Hey, Dirk, hope you're gonna link this one. This fascinating study of the online and print comic "Hating The Korean Wave" and it's Web-based marketing seems a bit tentative in its conclusions, but, at the least, it shows a side to webcomics-- and comics-- that boosters like me would prefer to deny.
Labels: Webcomics
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(nuked the previous entry to fix up some typos)
It's more complicated than this, but basically, like back home, "Them damned foreigners" is an easy hot-button topic for politicians to use to take attention away from the bad jobs they're doing.
Then it's a simple matter for extremists to use the false authority the web gives people to spread this idea around and make it seem like it's more widespread than it really is.
Considering that Abe and the ultra-nationalists in Japan got shooed out the door recently, and the Noh, and the Uri party here in Korea are unlikely to survive the upcoming elections ...Assuming the South Koreans don't buy into the summit hype as the elections come up. The North wants the Uri to stay in power so they can keep getting the food and money that a more hawkish South Korean government will refuse them...
Anyway, I'm only seeing a political shift away from extremists, not towards. What we got here is the typical case of a lot of people with internet access acting like assholes because it gives them the opportunity to do so without retaliation. And other people are picking up on it because your average web-user is a drama vulture.
Bah, Blogger really needs an "Edit Comment" function!
That should say "Noh and the Uri party.."
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