China Confronting South Korea by Claudia Sonea

Has the world turned upside down? There are people who cannot afford to buy food for their children, for whom the bell can toll any time as the financial resources are insufficient or inexistent. There are countries in the world where people have to fight among each other for a slice of bread. On the other hand, the matters mentioned previously cannot even rise to the importance of the latest conflict between China and South Korea. Actually, the conflict is not at all at the level of an entire country, but rather at a smaller scale involving fans of the pop music band "Super Junior" and some outraged Chinese geeks. Because i! n China people need time to get angry and loose sound judgement, the incident caused by fans of the South Korean band on 30 May, had repercussions only now. Although the fans are from all over the world and the music band is not responsible for any of the deeds undertaken by its supporters, Chinese hackers focused their hate on South Korea. Let’s see what happened on May the 30th. "Super Junior" had a concert at the Shanghai Expo and because from the multitude of people coming to see them only 2000 were lucky enough to get in to the concert, the rest of them decided to protest and get into a fight with the police securing the area. Chinese pride boiled in the thin veins of some Internet hackers and thus they decided to punish the band and the fans for making a fool out of China. Indeed, the protests and the whole incident were absurd, but it could have happened anywhere in the world and there was no harm intended strictly in regards to the coun! try where it took place. More importa! nce shou ld be given to those with real problems and with real needs; just as Chinese should focus on more pressuring matters they have to deal with like the currency exchange policy.

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