韓国では、外国人へのコロナ手当は韓国人の７０％

"The win was...for nationalist leftism. If the masses still don’t know what that movement’s main goal is...they have only themselves to blame." The left in power is pursuing socialism, ie, state ownership of land. So national socialism redux? https://t.co/jMBdHGqyVf

— Tara O (@DrTaraO) April 18, 2020

なっ！　文政権はナショナリストだろう？

A few days before the legislative elections on April 15 a banner went up near my house in Sasang District urging all local residents to claim their roughly $40 coronavirus benefit.

But a telephone call to the number on the banner confirmed what I had instantly assumed: foreign residents need not apply. No, the lady said, it makes no difference if the foreigner has lived and paid taxes in Sasang-gu for 13 years. No, not even if he has the right to vote in municipal elections. It turned out that the only Sasang residents qualified to get the money were those entitled to vote on April 15. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

The day after the election, the city of Ansan announced with some fanfare that its foreign residents would be getting 70% of what the Koreans get. The prevailing ideology that makes such discrimination possible, even respectable, is not progressivism or liberalism but nationalist leftism.

へええ、韓国では外国人へのコロナ手当は最初はなし、とされたが、結局、韓国人の７０％もらえるわけだーー言い換えると、七割分しかもらえない。

こんなことやれるのは、進歩主義でも、リベラルでもなく、左派民族主義者だからだ、と。

Not that the Western media will ever say so; the “counter-intuitive” combination of nationalist and left is already more than they think the reader can handle.


Let me be perfectly clear: The individual person is a walking ill or evil, the embodiment of all that is wrong with Korean society. It follows that his corruption, his abuse of power reflects his true self, whereas the nationalist leftist, being purely Korean and thus incapable of premeditated evil (see C. Fred Alford), errs only under duress or out of good intentions.

Example: The “accumulated ill” who games the university admissions system does so to perpetuate the pro-Japanese caste’s hold on power and privilege. The nationalist-left millionaire does so because he loves his children too much — and what could be more Korean? The same logic is applied to insider trading and real-estate speculation. It’s not a double standard when you think about it.



In this sense the ruling party is not wrong in interpreting its victory as a mandate for the “peace system,” even though it avoided that topic during the campaign just as Moon did in 2017. The win was certainly a mandate for nationalist leftism. If the masses still don’t know what that movement’s main goal is, after all it has said publicly on the subject since 2000, they have only themselves to blame.

左派ナショナリストは善良で悪を為さず、右派は根っからの親日悪魔

南北統一がんばってもらいたいね。