Koreans Rage at “Racist” Highschool of the Dead

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The recent inclusion of Korean drama star Bae Yong-joon (or “Yon-sama” to Japanese) as a zombie in an episode of Highschool of the Dead has provoked indignant Korean accusations of racism against the show.

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A character bearing the likeness of Yon-sama was depicted in both the fifth episode and the manga upon which it was based, as a ravening zombie whose brains were quickly blown out by a headshot:

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He has been the subject of one of Japan’s vanishingly transient mass media booms, with a fan-base consisting largely of fickle housewives – it is this background which probably informs the mangaka’s original inclusion of the character.

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This was all soon picked up upon by nationalistic Koreans with nothing better to do – aggrieved Koreans were soon complaining that the show “went too far” and was an “example of hatred of Korea.”

Japanese politicians and mass media are notoriously unwilling to resist even the most unreasonable of Korean demands – their most notable recent victim being WWII anime Hetalia, whose TV broadcast was cancelled after a Korean uproar.

Those unwilling to fold have not infrequently found themselves the victim of Korean “cyber-terrorism” and defamation – for these reasons censorship of the TV broadcast or even a complete pulling of the show from the air are far from improbable, no matter how baseless the accusations.

As usual, just what business it is of Koreans to complain about an anime not even aired in their country is not clear.



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    Comment by Anonymous
    13:30 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    So basically the multitudes of Japanese guys and girls killed or zombified is fine, but one zombie resembling a Korean actor is racist? Huh? The manga has been out for a long time it's funny they notice now.

    Also isn't Yon-sama popular in Japan? Shouldn't this make it more of a tribute or homage than deliberate racism?

    Personally if I was a celebrity and I was asked to cameo in a zombie movie/anime, I would be honored. I could tell friends "I was the xth zombie on that scene who got his head blown off!" I'd find it enjoyable.

    Comment by Andrew
    14:03 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I don't think it's a "tribute" or "homage" when you blow a finger-sized hole through his head....

    Sounds more like a semi-hit to me....

    Some people don't realize how serious it is when someone or something is being "desecrated", for example: the American soldiers who used the Koran for target practice. That pissed A LOT of people off for good reason.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:37 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I suppose it all depends on how serious you take a death as a homage or insult. Some people can take it better and laugh at it.

    Also, the Koran was a book that is central to an entire religion. Of course people would get offended.

    Yon-sama is just a popular actor. Maybe if HotD showed Korea's national hero as a zombie, I'd probably understand. I still fail to see how one zombie actor can represent an entire countries racism to another.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:41 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Smiling, glasses adjusting zombie LOL

    Comment by Cashmoney9000
    11:40 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    They killed Bill Murray in Zomebieland. Bill is a far better actor than whoever that guy is. Bill Murray for the world!!! To hell and back again to be sent another time to that weird guy with the glasses!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:04 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    your not the first to mention that if you look for it here.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:58 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    As far as personal views are concern, I'd be damned happy to get featured by getting shot in the head, for I understand it's a goddamn zombie apocalypse!

    Anyways, I can't be help but recall about Crysis where we shoot N.K oreans, where a different son is appointed as the leader. Daaaaamn, we get to kill the leader of the KPA too!

    Oh wait, I forgot... It's about Japanese and Koreans. Silly history.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:48 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL!

    Koreans the Niggers of Asia.

    Comment by jamesownsall
    14:20 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Reminds me of 'Street Kings' movie when Keanu Reeves' character talked shit at the Koreans in the beginning.

    Ludlow: "It means you got eyes like apostrophes, you dress white, talk black, and drive Jew. So how am I supposed to know what kind of zipperhead dog-munching dink you are if you don't?

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:17 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL!

    Japanese the Crackers of Asia.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:37 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    anybody else thinks he looks like elton jhon?? the zombie i mean

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:44 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Is Elton John gay?

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:52 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    he's gay because u think so.

    Comment by Myballz
    10:55 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    South Korean nationalist need to worry about the North more then they need to worry about some parody of an Actor being shot in the head that would maybe happen in the future when North rolls over start shooting people in the head.

    Bae Yong-joon he does kind of looks like a Korean version John Lennon lets hope he doesn't get shot in the head.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:52 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Except that North Korea wouldn't do anything when China's bossing around North Korea's crucial resources. learn2politics yo.

    Comment by Myballz
    13:31 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yo, North Korea doesn't give a shit they already pissed off China in the "Dandong Incident" China is starting to question North Korea as a Ally.

    They may let this go as much as South Korea lets North Korea keep shooting at South Korean fishermen.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:37 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yo dawg. Myballz sounds like a "Corean". Let's ostracize him.

    Comment by destructorv2
    10:59 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, some people even dream to at least be killed in an anime or movie. Take that as a plus.

    Comment by starsplash
    11:08 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Koreans have always been touchy... Probably why this is so funny to me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:28 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Koreans are raging specifically for this series a lot, because writer for this anime / manga series is well-known far-right, anti-Korea.

    So... it cannot be helped.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:31 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Daisuke Satō's (age 46) other manga works:

    - 皇国の守護者 (Koukoku no Shugosha) - About Imperial Japanese Guards
    - 征途 (Seito) - Alternative history novel about Japan being divided into two counties like today's Korea
    - 日米決戦2025 (Nichi-Bei Kessen 2025) - About a world war between USA and Japan

    Yes, I can see why Koreans hate High School of the Dead.

    Comment by Master-Evil
    12:52 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I don't know whats more retared the fact that there upset and pointing it out or the fact that they NOW point it out after the scene passed in the manga. Sheesh talk about stick up the ass.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:58 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Same thing I was thinking: where were the pissed off Koreans a few years back when this was in the manga and actually RELEVANT?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:14 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    YON-SAMA ? WTF... ISN'T IT YON-ASS ... !!?? i fucking hate koreans... go to hell u all koreans... !

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:35 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'm Korean.
    Sue me.

    Comment by Stangace20
    13:10 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I was paying more attention to the sniper babe than I was to this, even if I'd known who he was I'd probably still have paid more attention to her,lol

    Comment by Bronxdragon
    12:45 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I also wanna see more celebrity zombies getting their heads popped off.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:58 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Heres a better picture = http://daejanggeum.blogsome.com/images/20051117yongjoon.jpg

    hahah same clothes even, its epic~

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:45 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ Anon 08:58 :

    Wow. "He" looks like a "she" in that linked-to pic.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:42 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    korean wwwwwwwwww

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:06 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Stop trying to be Japanese weeaboo

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:22 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think the words of Heavy Weapons Guy best describe this: "KEEP CRYING, BABY!"

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:08 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    HAHA... KILL ALL KOREANS .... THEY ARE SHITS... !

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:07 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL !! DIE ALL YOU KOREANS.... !! I HATE U ALL ...

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:26 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    >hatred of Korea
    They say it like something bad. And like they themselves love Japan. lol

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:22 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    how can they QQ about racism theyre all asian...

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:04 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I always thought that zombie was a little odd, I thought he might of been someone famous but that was as far as I cared to think about it. I didn't know who the zombie was suppose to represent until now and I still don't see what all the fuss is about.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:05 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    besides the fact that you know....koreans are even more racist than the japanese ever were.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:16 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    True. especially against African American in US and South Eastern Asian.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:57 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    A fact you pulled out of your ass?

    Comment by Andrew
    09:26 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yeah, the Japanese treated the Korea and China very well before and during World War II.

    Learn 2 History.

    Comment by brningpyre
    10:02 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    History doesn't justify current events. It may motivate them, but it doesn't justify them.

    Comment by Andrew
    12:03 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I never said it justified racism or anything. Just responded to 8:05's stupid comment of why there is so much tension between Korea/China and Japan.

    Hint: Nanjing.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:06 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Comparing Pearl Harbor to years of colonization. Is this the part where I laugh?

    Look, I get that you're a little slow so you can stop posting now. You still haven't answered my question. Are you Japanese or a white man? I'm still hoping that you are Japanese, because otherwise, LOL.

    Comment by Master Slavehandler
    17:59 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lol, the reason why chinks and gooks hate Japan is because they cant accept the fact that the Japanese are superior to them.

    Silly dogs, barking at every little thing Japan does.

    Dumb shits cant stop clinging to the past. Do you hear Americans bitching about pearl harbor every time Japan does something? No, because Americans are more developed than stupid gooks and chinks.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:07 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    ALERT: weeaboo detected.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:21 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    So the Koreans had no issue when the characters were focused on killing Japanese zombies, but they pick up torches and pitchforks because the characters killed a character that looks like a Korean celebrity and now call it racist?

    1 Korean celebrity look-alike in comparison to 1000+ Japanese zombies being slaughtered, that's still considered racist?

    The Koreans who are constantly up at arms are the most racist. I still don't understand how they could complain about Hetalia when the show made fun of every single race, but they consider it as a show that focused on making fun of Korea? Koreans should really get over their own superiority complex and start joining the rest of the world.

    Comment by Njrg
    10:20 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wait... is the resemblance just a coincidence? Or was it actually meant to be him? For the most part, all asians look alike.

    Bae Yong-joon, isn't the only Bae Yong-joon I've seen. I imagine there are hundreds of thousands of look alikes.

    Comment by Trucy
    10:35 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I want to see David Caruso.
    The shoot will just graze his sunglasses.
    Then he will pick up the sunglasses and wear it again.
    Then he will shout YEAAHHHH.....

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:14 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I know Yon-sama is very popular in Japan.
    Maybe this is just a parody...

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:41 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The scene is the proof most of Japs are racists IMO.
    Why can Japs enjoy killing Korean actor even if in Anime?

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:27 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    So, if you're in a situation where you're swarmed by zombies of other races, you're not going to kill them because they don't match your race? Is that what you're saying?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:54 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    you are korean. lol

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:03 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Even if I'm Korean, the fact Japs enjoying killing GAIJIN never changes. lol
    Also, I'm not Korean.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:42 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Don't you know are there many movies and novels that korean kill or nuke japanese?

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:39 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    True.

    Comment by brningpyre
    10:01 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Why is it racist? Is a movie racist every time an American dies? Is every horror movie ever made racist, 'cause the black guy dies?

    Obviously, no. Professional victims are the only ones that ever complain about this shit, and nothing good ever comes from listening to them.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:51 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The nigga can choose if he hate the role.
    Anime characters cant.

    Anyway, you guys must understand how the Korean guys feel.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:26 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The nigga can choose if he hate the role.
    But, in anime, All choice is for the creators.

    The problem is that Japs chose a Korean star as the victim.
    Why didn't they choose a Japanese star as the victim?
    You must know how Korean feels the fact.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:22 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Because Yon-sama's smile is popular in Japan.
    The nationality is not related.
    The zombie of the smile is interesting.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:54 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I don't really see a similarity of the two, the hair is so different as well.

    I think they're just trying to start shit, and if you ask me all SE Asians look the same imo.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:30 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    #1 You are either blind, mentally disabled, or both.

    #2 Korea and Japan are NOT part of SE Asia.

    #3 Go fuck yourself.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:45 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yeah my mistake but all Asians look the same, If I just said Asians i could be talking about Russians so eat me.

    And let me guess your "asian".

    Comment by Hyra911
    10:09 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Some Korean act stupid again, it's hardly surprising anymore...

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:38 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    remember kids, when sankaku complex is involved, its not racism so as long as the japanese arent the ones being made fun of.

    Comment by Andrew
    14:04 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Quoted for Truth...

    *sigh*

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:30 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Weaboos will be weaboos.
    Creepy fucks.

    19:17 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    That don't happen when it comes to 2ch dissing foreigners playing their games and reading their mangas for free..

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:07 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    i demmand Aya hirano zombie

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:27 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    for me to poop on :P

    Comment by Ukonkivi
    03:21 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Korea, you're ruining relations between you and Japan with this.
    Once, the two of your cultures were extreme similar, likely even speaking almost the very same language.

    But this ridiculous hatred between the two of you is not only on the Japan side. It's also the fault of you doing things like this. Groups accusing the other group of racism all the time, does not endear one group to another, and kill off racism, it only breeds it.

    The rest of the world should really stop using the United States as any example of how to deal with ethnic issues.

    Comment by Fgwar
    19:59 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Its not like Korea is arrogant and racist in its own accord, I mean, its totally not like they made threats to wipe out a third of a countries population, smashed their national bird and their own on "enemy flag", and had dressed up as Nazis to advertise a game. Nor to the fact that their Arirang TV Channel states that Korea is the number one country, everything that is Asian actually originally derived from Korea and therefore belongs to them, nor openly deface Vietnam as a mere crappy carbon copy of Korea and its magnificence in a documentary.

    DID YOU KNOW THAT RICE WAS FIRST DISCOVERED BY KOREA, AND NOT CHINA? PSSSH, I KNOW RIGHT? SILLY CHINESE PEOPLE THINKING THEY DISCOVERED RICE BECAUSE THE OLDEST KNOWN RICE FARMS WERE IN CHINA 8,000 YEARS AGO.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:38 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I kinda understand Korea's attack against Hetalia... Sorta. At least after this

    Just because the drama star who is mocked happens to be Korean it's racism?

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:25 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    People from Japan (or any country) being ethnocentrics, and people from Korea (or any other country) being mocked is nothing new. Let's move on.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:37 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Their RAEG is played like a vicous sonata in the winter of discontent...

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:01 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lol I'm korean and even I think my country is being silly. XD hahaha

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:42 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    that's why you kill equal amount of any race in any anime or movie

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:35 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The Japanese actually LIKE Bae Yong-jun though... They have a series of "Learn Korean with Bae Yong-joon" DS games for his legions of lonely housewife fans!

    Comment by guarayakha
    23:24 04/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Don't we also have a George W. Bush sometime later in the manga? OMFG the Japanese are racist against the Americans! Fire the nukes!

    Also, lame Koreans nationalist are lame. Seriously, I sense more "example of hatred of Japan" everytime they rage about something. Seriously, was the show even aired outside of Japan? They obviously downloaded it illegally in the first place.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:03 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    How can asians been racist with asians?

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:26 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    hahahahahaha Koreans are so stupid!!!!

    Comment by darknetwork
    02:30 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    when i saw it, i thought it was an old woman

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:14 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    An atomic bomb was dropped to Japan in the movie in South Korea.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:36 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    So if Koreans are overreacting, then if a Hollywood actor/actress or someone like Obama was killed in an anime, you guys are telling me the US wouldn't care? Nationality is universal and given that Japan invaded Korea(and China)and killed/raped/abused many people, could you all really blame Koreans? Japan caused WWII as well so if you think about it, Japan is historically more aggressive than Koreans will ever be.

    Comment by Anonymous
    01:36 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    No, most people in the US would not care if some Hollywood actor/actress was killed in an anime given it is a CARTOON, and if done in parody. We do it ALL THE TIME. As for depicting violence on Obama, I don't see the correlation, was the supposed Korean actor killed in the High School of the Dead episode the South Korean president? Stop being silly, an actor and a president are obviously totally different issues.

    To tell the truth, right wing people are already making all sorts of threats against Obama and definitely not in cartoon form, so if a cartoon is all he has to worry about, then it's not a big deal is it.

    I doubt most Koreans even care about this issue, just some closet anime geeks that need to shut up and take a cold dose of reality.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:37 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Typo, Japan caused Pearl Harbor and had the nuke coming

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:34 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Frankly, post-war relations between East-Asian countries is awful- Who would care if a Polish celeb was killed in an German TV series? Moreover, who would blame the maker of being racist?

    Comment by Russell
    00:19 07/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Oh it's just a Korean Drama actor, I thought it was supposed to be Dominic Deegan for a moment.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:11 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Strange that Koreans are complaining about racism...what with the treatment blacks and south east asians receive in the land of morning fucking calm lol

    Comment by Jun-01
    16:11 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Those nationalists should be more worried about the North Korean nukes pointed to their asses than making accusations of racism against a late night anime about tits, pantsu and zombies.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:45 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    make them south koreans play crysis broadcasted on ultralarge TV pointed at the border so they can see kim-jong il sons being choked by nanosuits and drama ensues.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:03 07/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I don't get it. Why all the rage? Besides, if the world really had a zombie apocalypse, everyone has the potential to turn. (Even your beards.)

    Do we really have to make celebrities an exception to that?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:04 09/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    that doesn't look like yon-sama at all...

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:24 01/12/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    This was all soon picked up upon by nationalistic Koreans with nothing better to do.*** As usual, just what business it is of Koreans to complain about an anime not even aired in their country is not clear.***

    Heh,Expected from this site with their japanese and what not.

    On a different note what if i made a manga and NOT release it in america. And in that manga i shot and killed someone that looks like Obama, I think the american people would be just fine right?

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:44 25/09/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    ...that's so stupid...idek....

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:48 12/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Korean uses an A-bomb of Hiroshima as a joke
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QSUJT-1Os

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:56 11/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Korean dance mocking physically disabled person....Koreans are truly sick people.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQX1zHaCEO8

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:37 10/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Show me your RAGE!

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:29 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    hurry someone make this as a left 4 dead mod!

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:27 06/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    who gives a fuck those gooks are the most socially backward and racist people. just look at the la riots and lack of diversity in korean owned stores. Koreans such have to wiped out by the japanese so the world won't have to see their same ass faces as they are so ethnocentric and hate interracial(i am a hapa)

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:54 05/08/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    OMG, I watched this show and they killed like 1,000,000 zombies. Japanese are racists against zombies. Time to rage!








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