Chairman Mao's Long Arm Strikes Korean Pet Shop (Chinese Foreign Ministry is busy)

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 08/03/07

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chairman Mao's Long Arm Strikes Korean Pet Shop

The signboard of a pet shop in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province which provoked a diplomatic incident by substituting Mao Zedong's picture for a dog. This picture was posted on Web portal xiangshu (http://www.xiangshu.com).

A pet shop in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province has bowed to international pressure over a sign in its window that showed the head of a dog emblazoned on Tiananmen gate. The gate in fact bears the likeness of chairman Mao Zedong. According to China’s Global Times, the shop has now removed the offending composite picture after the Cheoin-gu district office of Yongin City, responding to complaints from Chinese netizens, dispatched staff to the shop.

The owner of the pet shop said, "I got a call from the Korean Embassy in China and the Foreign Ministry, asking me to remove the signboard. And Chinese students in Korea also called nonstop to protest saying that the signboard offends China's pride." The owner explained he had no intention of insulting China but simply thought the signboard, which also showed the Great Wall of China, would look cute.

The international protest appears to have been sparked by a picture of the signboard taken by a Chinese student in Korea and posted on a Web portal. Protests from Chinese Internet users at one stage threatened to erupt into a diplomatic incident when the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned an official from the Korean Embassy in Beijing to protest and request corrective measures.

[TigerLikesRooster]

For those who lost their dog due to tainted pet food from China, they may be still entitled to putting the picture of their deceased dog in place of Mao's portrait. If Chinese Foreign Ministry protest, just ask them to revive their dog.:-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Red in Blue PA]

That seems like an appropriate picture to me!

[Gay State Conservative]

Mao was nothing but a rabid mass-murdering dog so I think it’s fitting that he should be portrayed as such.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, to be fair, I think he is more like a pig.:-)

[Zhang Fei]

GSC: Mao was nothing but a rabid mass-murdering dog so I think it’s fitting that he should be portrayed as such.

Mao was nothing like a dog. The most rabid dog was superior to Mao. Mao was simply Mao - a sociopathic mass murderer and possibly the lowest life form this planet has ever known.

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,fair enough.Referring to Mao as a dog is unfair.Can we agree that Mao,along with Stalin and Hitler,were perhaps the most vicious and murderous psychopaths to have ever walked this earth?

So far,at least?