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What was the name of the video depicting "graphic or gratuitous violence" and "violent or gory content"?
Teacher beats elementary school students in Icheon, Korea.
I wrote about the video in July 2008, after the teacher was forced to apologize. Korea Beat translated a Korean-language article in 2009; an excerpt from the post I can no longer find:
The video shows five scenes of the teacher, A, punishing a child for fighting with over 10 blows to the buttocks and shoulders, then calling three other children to administer four blows.
The video shows the teacher repeatedly hitting the children with a broomstick while they scream in terror, leading to accusations that it is impulsive violence and not corporal punishment.
Within 24 hours the video, recorded by a child in the same class on a cameraphone and first uploaded to Daum's "Agora" cafe on the 21st by the child's mother, spread to the homepage of the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education and the homepage of the school itself.
The school took administrative action the same day, relieving A of homeroom duties.
The video was pulled from YouTube, of course, but is still widely available on the Korean internet, and is still up on the Daum site where I got it from in the first place.
6 comments:
yep, I feel your frustration. I used to live (literally) on the second story apt of a dog-farm (located ON school property) and every time the groundskeeper/down-stairs neighbour had a bad day, he'd go wail the hell out of his livestock with a two-by-four (seriously). One time I got a really good(quality)/bad(morally) video of it and put it on Youtube as the own form of rebeillion I could do (you know how everything is excused as "Korean culture" when you try to complain). Well some Korean chic living in Texas (never even been to Korea) flagged it as innappropriate and it was taken off IMMEDIATELY. When I contacted her to tell her off, she actually tried to tell me that I had gone about this in the wrong manner and that it was offensive to her culture and blah blah blah and she'd help me go through the "proper" channels if I wanted. I just told her to suck a lemon; I was more Korean in a year being here than she was and knew more about the reality than her.
But it's so frustrating how one person's "offense" is enough to make youtube just take your video down -- and yours really DID have very valid documentary/human-rights-action value to it. *sigh*
Yeah, I'm not really sure how the opinion of one person can get a video pulled. It had thousands of views, and the issue of corporal punishment is a significant one in Korea. I'm also not naive: it's an embarrassing video for some---I've gotten messages from Korean users asking me to pull down my other Korean vids---and they usually invite nasty comments from Japanese and Chinese (just as Koreans flock to spew hate on videos from those countries).
Alex, your video is still online:
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2008/06/ugly-dog-abuse-video-from-mokpo.html
I doubt it takes one general complaint... but one complaint made in the right way (think DMCA in type / level) is enough.
And by the way, people - Youtube may be the biggest, but it sure as heck ain't the only video sharing site around. Put it up elsewhere, embed it on your site(s), and make the embed code available for others to copy...
liveleak.com seems to be a good place to host your "too violent and too nekkid for youtube" videos.
An interesting post and issue given the attention to Wickileaks etc.
Maybe we need a Korealeaks site? Half kidding.
But seriously, there are tons of clips of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq etc.. Executions of people in Iran and so on.
Strange hearing about what is basically censorship.
Regarding the post on the Korean teachers that went to Billings, Montana: I've taught in Korea with my Korean wife for 3 years, and Korean kids are only good at rote (memorization). They are not creative, and a B.A. here is worth about 2.5 years of college in the U.S. (my Korean wife told me this). After the Korean War, it was we who taught them how to build trains,autos, roads, schools. We paid for much of it, too. Koreans are good at being robots--and poor creatively. defiitely not superior.
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