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RE: Ellen Suggests It Is Okay To Be Kind To Someone You Disagree With...
When George Bush was president he was generally despised in Korea and there were large demonstrations, especially when he visited.
However as a former president he more recently visited Korea to attend a 10 year memorial service for the former president of Korea (he was in office when Bush was president, but committed suicide). Koreans were really happy to see Bush here, despite not liking him while in office and appreciated his speech.
I think holding grudges against retired politicians is odd. Bush is barely noticable on the political scene these days and just gives his opinion or joins events occasionally.
Yeah, that's a good view. For me I am curious about the story it seems so out of the usual.
Anti-American sentiment in Korea was extremely high during the Bush W. Era because of several incidents.
I don't really feel like explaining them, here is a link to an article about a song here from that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_USA
Mr. W.Bush (rightwing) visited Korea with a painting he made of Mr. Roh (leftwing) and brought it to his memorial.
In my opinion, by then no one really disliked him anymore because he wasn't really the cause for much that happened here, he was just the guy in charge. Also, the current president of America is really trying to fix some things about Korea.
Fucking USA
"Fucking USA", often called "Fuck'n USA", is a protest song written by South Korean singer and activist Yoon Min-suk. Strongly anti-US Foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the Apolo Ohno Olympic controversy and an incident in which two Korean middle school students were killed by a U.S. Army vehicle, anti-American sentiment in Korea reached high levels. Musically it is a parody of "Surfin' U.S.A.", and though it has a vulgar aspect it is not supposed to be, according to Yoon, just an angsty punk-type song but a serious critique of the Bush Administration and US foreign policy in particular in the Korean peninsula, just conveyed in an ironic and jokingly vitriolic way.In 2012 the US band Neung Phak covered the song on their album Neung Phak 2.