Is it a Korean Culture? Korean Men Beat Up Women

Question today comes from Gina:

I saw one Korean man stated that in Korean he is the King! Women are slaves. Korean men beat up women. And I saw this article where Korean men beat up Chinese women in KFC. Is this a culture n to day world?

http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/videos/chinese-girls-beat-up-by-suspected-korean-men-in-chengdu-kfc.html

SOURCE: http://www.meetup.com/korean-165/boards/view/viewthread?thread=24275602

Response:

Hi Gina,

Beating another human being is not a culture. It's a bad behaviour.

We tend to stereotype and conclude only a certain group of people have certain traits. Examples:

• Latino men are chauvinistic.
• Asian women are stuck-ups.
• Asian people are good at math and science.
• Los Angeles girls are fit or skinny.

And we all know these are not true. 

I hope that you, and anyone reading this thread, understands that bad human behaviour of a small group of people does not make it culture of the entire group of people. It's a dangerous generalization.

On the same topic, there are a couple of expressions that reflects Korean culture and their views about violence against the weak in general:

• The weak and the arrogant resort matters with violence.
  (능력 없는 놈이 주먹질로 해결하려고 든다). 

If that someone is a woman or a child, they were referred as 

• "A bastard who does not deserve his balls"
  (불알이 아까운 놈)

So if you must ask if beating a woman is Korean culture, the answer is no. Based on the general ethics on this issue, it seems that it's exactly the opposite.




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