As we talked about in class, Korean owned businesses were
protecting themselves by being armed and standing on their roofs to watch for looters.
Of course, when the news channels reported it, they didn’t report it properly. News
anchors said that they had weapons to show that they are armed and ready to
fight with anyone who messes with them. However, the real reason was protect
themselves from the looters who had destroyed other Korean businesses out of
spite against the government. Essentially, Korean businesses were the easier
targets to get to so they were the ones attacked so now to protect themselves,
they bought weapons.
This angers me quite a bit, especially because the news
reporters aren’t seeing the bigger picture as to why they have the weapons. Although
I am not defending the looters, I can see why they are angry and feel the need
to retaliate but they retaliated against the wrong people. The way the news
reporters classified them makes everyone else in the communities fear them when
they aren’t the ones that need to be feared. This caused an even larger uprising
because I feel as if it looked like a challenge. The Korean people had already
lost so much and they definitely deserved to be protected better instead of
being left to fight one their own.
Monika Ortiz
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