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Re: Where is Our Social Conscience?
by Domkitten (domkittenish@spanking.com)
on Jan 01, 2003 - 11:03 PM
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The larger problem here for many of the Koreans was the way in which the President addressed his sympathy.
First, the President said nothing about the incident and essentially let it pass unremarked in his administration.
Second, when the verdict was announced in November 6 months after the incident sympathy was sent to Kim De Jong, through an advisor, and not sent personally, which really cheesed allot of Koreans off. It only takes a few minutes to make a phone call and say. "It's a tragic loss, let's not let this happen again."
Third, it was not until half a million koreans protested in Seoul that the President finally called and spoke with Kim De Jong directly about the incident and expressed sympathy. That's an awful lot of work to get someone's condolences.
Politically it was a bad decision not to make a personal comment to the Koreans in June.
Again, regardless of who is to blame for being hit by a very large tank and crushed (two foolhardy girls, or two negligent core men) an apology, or at least some sort of admission that this incident had taken place would have helped allot to ease tensions in South Korea.
Saying "I'm sorry for you loss" Is not an admission of guilt. If it were I'd know an awfully lot of people guilty of murder.
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