Chairman Mao's Long Arm Strikes Korean Pet Shop

Chosun ^ | 08.03.07

[Dr. Marten]

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抯 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.

[Dr. Marten]

The Horse's Mouth

[Dr. Marten]

Dogging Mao Ping!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Another capitalist running dog...

[Red Badger]

Don’t play with your food..........

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Mao was a jackal, not a dog

[xcamel]

It should have been

"Mao Tse Dung"

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[Dr. Marten]

Thanks Eric, I was trying to remember that slogan.

[magslinger]

Thanks to you for posting and to the pet shop owner for the idea. I can have a lot of fun with this one.

[Nathan Zachary]

PC ness has hit korea. Oh well, they’ve had enough freedom. Back to commie slavery with them! It seems freedom only lasts as long as the people who fought for it are still alive to remember NOT having it.

[monday]

“It seems freedom only lasts as long as the people who fought for it are still alive to remember NOT having it.”

Thats what I used to think also, but the truth is not quite so simple. There also has to be a cultural longing for freedom. Many people grow up in cultures where freedom simply isn’t an option. For these people, personal freedom isn’t a concept they are familiar with.

Muslim women for instance, if shielded from western culture, never consider themselves as anything other than their father or husband’s absolute property. Some Muslim women continue to think of themselves in such a way even after exposure to western culture.

Cultural differences must not be discounted when considering freedoms around the world. Generally speaking, a country is as free as it’s prevailing culture will allow, and no more.

Many cultures also, are ruined by years of communism and repression. It often takes more than one or two generations to recover. If in the mean time a despot gains control, he can set the country back even further. This is what is happening in Russia now.

[monday]

Mao Zedong should be mocked. He is the worlds greatest mass murderer.

[Constantine XIII]

I don’t think it’s that bad, yet. :)

The folks at Korean embassy in china probably just got tired of all the whining from the local “More Communist Than YOU” crowd and asked him to take it down to to save some hassle, and the guy did so since he’s a decent sort who didn’t want to cause trouble for someone else.

[wideminded]

A man I knew who had recently emigrated from China told me of a story he had heard in China that utterly amazed him and illustrated for him the difference between China and the US. The story was merely that someone in the US had produced a picture of President Roosevelt with the head of a dog and had not been arrested.

[Dr. Marten]

It’s not quite that simple, but the point is taken. However, there are a growing number of offenses that one can be arrested for in the United States too.

Enjoy the freedom in this country while it lasts because even though our soldiers are fighting in other countries for so-called “freedom”, few seem willing to fight our politicians for it here at home.

[Chieftain]

Nice pic!

[RipSawyer]

Enjoy the freedom in this country while it lasts because even though our soldiers are fighting in other countries for so-called “freedom”, few seem willing to fight our politicians for it here at home.

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Ain’t that the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magslinger]

Thanks. With that nifty new photo, Beechnut Bait won the competition for first.