Comments on: South Koreans To Be Slaves Of the North http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/ Ruminations on Life, Korea, the Universe and Everything. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: China Law Blog http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2441 China Law Blog Wed, 17 May 2006 13:36:48 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2441 Guess Korea needs a bit more John Stuart Mill and a bit less Chun Doo Hwan. Guess Korea needs a bit more John Stuart Mill and a bit less Chun Doo Hwan.

]]> By: Jeff in Korea http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2331 Jeff in Korea Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:00:48 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2331 China Law / Dan, I completely and totaly agree. Up until a few years ago, any discussion of North Korea in favorable terms was illegal. Possessing North Korean flags was illegal. Reading, owning, selling communist literature or other writings was prohibited. As any parent knows, if you forbid a child to do something without explanation, children are inclined to experiment and find out for themselves what you are hiding from them. It's the old "don't stick beans up your nose" principle. I believe that the prohibition on all things North Korean led the youth of the current and the previous generations to wonder what the South Korean government is hiding. They searched out their own answers and were fed the "milk and honey, everythin is rosey" view of North Korea spewed out of the North itself. China Law / Dan,

I completely and totaly agree. Up until a few years ago, any discussion of North Korea in favorable terms was illegal. Possessing North Korean flags was illegal. Reading, owning, selling communist literature or other writings was prohibited.

As any parent knows, if you forbid a child to do something without explanation, children are inclined to experiment and find out for themselves what you are hiding from them. It’s the old “don’t stick beans up your nose” principle.

I believe that the prohibition on all things North Korean led the youth of the current and the previous generations to wonder what the South Korean government is hiding. They searched out their own answers and were fed the “milk and honey, everythin is rosey” view of North Korea spewed out of the North itself.

]]> By: chinalawblog http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2330 chinalawblog Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:52:58 +0000 http://www.jsharrison.com/korea/2006/04/25/south-koreans-to-be-slaves-of-the-north/#comment-2330 I always get the feeling the South Koreans prefer not to talk about North Korea at all and this is one of the reasons the young there have no real understanding of what the North is like. Do you agree? It never ceases to amaze me how many young South Koreans blame the United States for the continued North-South division, as though if we were to leave, everyone would just get along. <a href="http://chinalawblog.com/" rel="nofollow">China Law</a> I always get the feeling the South Koreans prefer not to talk about North Korea at all and this is one of the reasons the young there have no real understanding of what the North is like. Do you agree?

It never ceases to amaze me how many young South Koreans blame the United States for the continued North-South division, as though if we were to leave, everyone would just get along.

China Law

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