South Korea’s One-Term Trap

Comments posted below are preposterous. They are obssessed with the ghost of ideology-separating leftists from rightists. There is nothing wrong with those who want to eat healthy food, rejecting something that might be contaminated or posing a potential threat. It's a common sense, thus there is no underlying "political speculation" in demanding government to take measures to ensure the safety of food. People like below are the ones who try to exploit the situation for political purposes, and make the situation worse. Below two seem to have high level of education, but lack the ability to see the situation without bias, or try to deliver false messages on purpose. Shame on you guys!

One commentator says that

-quote- "The judgement on politics comes from 2 sources: (1) they elected a new president (overwhelmingly) and yet as he took office it was impossible to find someone in support of him" -Unquote-

He is right. But I'd like to add one important thing.

We elected new president, and we support him, but power intended young lefts are tenacious, and do not lose any occasion to make propaganda to outside world while older people remain silent.
But it is worthwhile to think that our people remained 'silent majority' for ten years, and erupted to speak up in two important occasions: Presidential election last year and the election for the National Assenbly this april. The young lefts were not honest enough to admit that people gave verdicts to them.

They shouted more after that they lost elections especially to foreign journals with their powerful English which the old generation did not hesitate to impoverish themselves to educate them.

Korea is an interesting country with charming people -- but they seem clueless when it comes to politics and science.

The judgement on politics comes from 2 sources: (1) they elected a new president (overwhelmingly) and yet as he took office it was impossible to find someone in support of him, (2) they seem totally oblivious of the ulterior political and economic motives people might have in spreading false rumors about American beef.

The judgement on their science faculties is due to their allowing emotion to control them, versus reason, when it came to the mad cow furor. Meanwhile, they're perenially the worst or 2nd worst country in the world for traffic accident fatalities, so many of which are easily preventable, and yet they do virtually nothing to improve safety. No, we have to make up lies about American farmers and politicians who are trying to kill us (their customers)! If that made any sense to you, I feel sorry for you.

The mad cow furor is an easy target when the true enemy is Ee Myung Bak.