Column: Korea Doesn't Need Student Activists or Institutional Lap Dogs – She Needs the Truly Capable
South Korea’s so-called “red guards,” the student movement circle, have ingrained themselves into the fabric of progressive politics, wreaking havoc akin to their Chinese counterparts. Their incompetence during the last Moon administration was a disgrace, reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution's chaos.
Conversely, we have the bureaucrats, Nazi judges and Gestapo prosecutors – those institutional lap dogs slavishly devouring the scraps tossed to them by those in power. These relics of the past remain shackled to outdated 20th-century political agendas, their loyalty nothing more than a farce in the 21st century. They are anachronistic scum, groveling at the feet of obsolete power structures, competing each other for favor like centipedes in a race.
As we stand on the brink of a new industrial revolution, driven by artificial intelligence and robotics, what Korea desperately needs are individuals capable of navigating these unprecedented changes. Labels be damned – if their skills can pull Korea and its struggling citizens from the brink, we should embrace them, even if they appear as demons.
Are we really going to cling to antiquated Joseon-era ethics, 19th-century purity, or the delusional integrity of washed-up drunkard as a president and his scandalous former whore wife who constantly causes disgrace to South Korea? More trial and error will only lead to nuclear war burning the entire Korean peninsula or the continued descent of our pathetic lives into oblivion.
The real question is whether these capable individuals will deign to enter the filthy cesspool of Korean politics. If they are willing to dirty their hands, our only path to survival is clear: we must wield the executioner's sword, sweeping away the corrupt red guards and institutional lap dogs in one decisive stroke. It’s time to start the sword dance and purge this nation of its festering political filth.