The Bee Guy on BeeBeeCee
The story of the bee guy’s defense of Dokdo has been discussed on a large number of people in the Korea blogosphere. Many of the bloggers and commentors wondered whether people knew how silly it looked to outsiders. My other people wondered what the rest of the world would say.
The story of the bee guy’s defense of Dokdo has been discussed on a large number of people in the Korea blogosphere. Many of the bloggers and commentors wondered whether people knew how silly it looked to outsiders. My other people wondered what the rest of the world would say. I was going to remain silent on this topic because I have discussed the bee guy and his negative effects on foreigner’s images previously in an audioblog. However, I see that the BBC picked up the bee guy’s story.
The story of the bee guy’s defense of Dokdo has been discussed on a large number of people in the Korea blogosphere. Many of the bloggers and commentors wondered whether people knew how silly it looked to outsiders. My other people wondered what the rest of the world would say. I was going to remain silent on this topic because However, I see that the . The BBC reports that the bee guy called upon the bees to protect Dokdo even at the cost of their own lives. Bee guy said:
“The honeybee dares to abandon its life when enemies are attempting to attack, to protect its own home. From now on, I hope these bees will contribute to protect our Dokdo”
I understand that this sounds very patriotic to many Koreans and stirs something deep within their souls, but from a westerner’s point of view, reading the quote on BBC, it sounds beyond ridiculous. Once again, just like knife in the stomach guy, the people that are concerned about Korea’s image are the very people that make Korea look and sound foolish to the rest of the world. On a positive sad note, he didn’t get out of it unscathed.
Ahn Sang-gyu, known for his bee performances, had tears running down his face as he was stung 200 times.
Lest you think he is totally out of his mind, I should point out that there is a method to his madness. Dokdo is 187,000 square meters, so it only makes sense that he used 187,000 bees.