April in 2007 was a tumultuous month for Korean people. The chairman of Hanwha Group, the sixth largest conglomerate in Korean economy, orchestrated his body guards to assault six gangs out of revenge for their violent activity to his younger son. While this may seem like a personal affair, the majority of media reported this incident using negative nuance, for example saying like ‘The Rich Attacks the Poor.’ This somewhat exaggerated reports raised tempestuous rage from people against the merciless rich CEO.
However, we are wrong, and we are even manipulated by the media. The target against whom we should show rage is not the chairman, but the six gangs. Most of all, the six gangs first started the violence. Also, if your lovely son is pulverized by gangs, what would you do? Of course, the public character like company CEO should have shown at least slight self-control before taking the action. However, even despite his public characteristic, he is still beloved someone’s father.
Wait a minute! This incident seems to have something in common with what I previously wrote - “Why Are We Mad at Jo-Pok Movies?” In other words, prevalent positive image about Jo-Pok (gangs) might have caused people to think that the six gangs are just the powerless and ordinary people like us. Even further, this incident gave me an impression that people seem to be hypnotized thinking like the six gangs are the heroes fighting against ‘the vicious rich Hanwha Group’s CEO.’ However, people are missing the main point that the six gangs are just bad people who first committed violence without reasons.
However, we are wrong, and we are even manipulated by the media. The target against whom we should show rage is not the chairman, but the six gangs. Most of all, the six gangs first started the violence. Also, if your lovely son is pulverized by gangs, what would you do? Of course, the public character like company CEO should have shown at least slight self-control before taking the action. However, even despite his public characteristic, he is still beloved someone’s father.
Wait a minute! This incident seems to have something in common with what I previously wrote - “Why Are We Mad at Jo-Pok Movies?” In other words, prevalent positive image about Jo-Pok (gangs) might have caused people to think that the six gangs are just the powerless and ordinary people like us. Even further, this incident gave me an impression that people seem to be hypnotized thinking like the six gangs are the heroes fighting against ‘the vicious rich Hanwha Group’s CEO.’ However, people are missing the main point that the six gangs are just bad people who first committed violence without reasons.
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