Ilbe members sending flowers deemed hypocritical
A group of online community Ilbe members have come under fire for having sent flowers to a crewmember and a victim of sunken Sewol ferry.
Ilbe, the website known for its members’ ultra right wing political views, sent flowers with the tag saying “From Ilbe” to the hospital where the memorial service was being held for Park Ji-young, who died saving students from the sinking ship Sewol last week.
Ilbe members claim that was a gesture of expressing their condolences, but the truthfulness is being questioned since some previous Ilbe posts have been more than enough to conclude that the community members have shown nothing more than a blatant disregard to the sufferings of the victims and their family.
“The dead students went to SKY. They must feel good,” read one post. Other than the literal meaning “going to sky,” which is a polite Korean way of saying that the people died, sky is the acronym for the top three universities in Korea, Seoul National, Korea and Yonsei Universities.
“They are reacting in a vulgar, psychotic way,” read another. “I can’t even feel sympathetic to the way they are screaming and wailing,” was another comment. “Just get your insurance money and be done with it,” read another comment.
Non-Ilbe members are responding that the Ilbe members are just hypocrites.
“This is all the more insulting to the victims’ family. They pretend to pay respects to your face and insult them behind their back,” wrote one non-Ilbe member.
“Calling the victims’ family ‘bugs’, and then send them flowers? Their action is just disgusting,” wrote another non-Ilbe member.