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Excellent commentary
But 99.999 percent of those 100,000 Koreans somehow managed not to engage in mass killing sprees. My advice to the Korean blogosphere -- despite all the cultural hypothesizing that is about to swarm the mediasphere -- is to strive to stay calm. Jealous rage knows no borders.
Well put. Unfortunately, the cultural hypothesizing will take place on both sides of the Pacific---when the Korean Foreign Ministry issued its statement in the incident, for example, it made a point---none to subtly, I should add---to note that Cho had spent a lot of time in the United States, and it is something of a media meme in Korea to discuss how Koreans studying overseas (and in North America, in particular) become corrupted by foreign ways. And, even more unfortunately, the blogosphere mudslinging won't be confined to just Korea vs. US. For the real ugly stuff, wait until the Japanese and Korean netizens start to get into it.
Anyway, let's just hope cooler heads prevail.