Dogs, horses and Queen Min
By Jason Lim Recently, Na Hyang-wook, a high-ranking Ministry of Education official told reporters of the progressive Kyunghyang Daily Newspaper that the general public could be regarded as “dogs and pigs,” and that the government’s job was to ensure that they only be “fed and kept alive.” He defined the general public as the 99 percent. He also called for a stricter caste system in Korea that people should accept since equality is nothing but an unattainable illusion. To support his position, he pointed to the U.S. where the blacks and Hispanics have no political ambitions and no interest in climbing the socioeconomic ladder. “All (U.S.) senators and representatives have to do is to provide a means for survival for such people in the U.S.,” he was quoted as saying. Not sure which U.S. he’s talking about since the last time I checked, the U.S. had a sitting African American president, and two Hispanics were leading candidates for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination only a few months ago. As if that w
