[KS] Just a game? Homefront’s sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy

don kirk kirkdon at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 1 02:48:52 EDT 2011


Well, at least you're not getting excited about a bunch of girls worrying about the looks of their legs.
Best,
Don
 
--- On Wed, 3/30/11, afostercarter at aol.com <afostercarter at aol.com> wrote:


From: afostercarter at aol.com <afostercarter at aol.com>
Subject: [KS] Just a game? Homefront’s sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy
To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8:46 AM


Dear friends and colleagues, 


Many thanks to Stephen Epstein for sparking a most useful debate.
I fully share his concerns.


In perhaps parallel vein, I found myself similarly outraged by a new
video game. Am I over-reacting, or is this also reprehensible
and something which should concern the Koreanist community?
- not many of whom, I'd hazard, are familiar with this popular genre.
(And yes, Don, I know it's a free country.) See the first link below. 


Kind regards
Aidan FC



Aidan Foster-Carter
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK
 


 
 
Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly):
 
29 March, 2011   I get all steamed up about a video nasty. Just a game? Homefront’s sick, stupid Korean invasion fantasy. At 38North:  http://38north.org/2011/03/homefront/
 
16 March              Lee versus Lee: A phoney war in Seoul  Asia Times Online
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC16Dg02.html
 
9 March                Korea's pulpit bullies take aim at Islam   Asia Times Online  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC09Dg01.html       (Not my choice of headline, which was “Protestants protest: South Korea’s church militant”)
 
4 March    North Koreans: Still hungry. Who cares?   Asia Times Online http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MC04Dg01.html
 


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