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Ex-Pats Should Avoid South Korea

November 21, 2011

skorea.jpgleft, South Korea. It's crowded!




From the Frying Pan into the Fire!
Don't go to South Korea unless
you're looking for a front- row seat on the Apocalypse. 



by Daniel O'halahan
(henrymakow.com)

 
My escape from Amerika began in 1996. To say that I was disgruntled before 9/11 would be an understatement. After eight years of "Slick Willy" (Clinton), I naively thought "W" would represent political sanity.

My hopes were officially dashed when he declared war on Iraq because of Saudi hijackers. The Shaved-Monkey-in-Chief then went on to "Shock and Awe" Baghdad. While watching the video, I thought of the women and children of Baghdad screaming and crying in terror. Terror generated by bombs paid for with my tax money. No way was I going to be part to that sick karma. I started looking for an exit.
 
I want to start off by saying that I do NOT recommend South Korea as an expat escape destination. I'm here permanently because of my Korean wife and I still nudge her about moving. No luck so far.
 
Korea does have its share of beautiful places. I've never been homesick while living in Korea because the terrain reminds me so much of the mountains of Pennsylvania - it's like my hometown only overrun with Asians. It's not the women, the women are great! I should know, I married one. I've been happily married to my Korean wife now for five years and I love that woman more everyday.

It's not the people; Koreans are great folks. Very nice, smart, always willing to help. It's not the food, the food in Korea is a little on the spicy side but otherwise fresh, locally grown and tasty.

"Well", you say, "I've already got my bags packed, I got my 'Hangul for Dummies' and I'm ready to get felt-up and irradiated by TSA. What's the downside? "
 
I picked South Korea for no other reason then they were paying the best and I needed a job - I started teaching ESL. I considered Japan, China, Taiwan, Russia and a couple of places in South America. Korea paid the best; it was as simple as that.

I wasn't as worried about where I was going as much as I was just frantic about leaving the murder twins George Bush and Dick Cheney behind. But if it weren't for my wife I'd have left South Korea when the North started lobbing munitions last winter.
 
Folks, South Korea is a tiny place, about the size of Florida. Believe me, with 50 million people and the price of empty land, you start feeling claustrophobic rather quickly.

Another thing that leads to your claustrophobia is our neighbors. To the west is communist China, to the north is the reincarnation of Stalin, the "Dear Leader" himself, Kim-Jung Il. To the east are the three or four exploding nuclear reactors of Fukushima, Japan.

My back is against the water and, while I might look like a walrus, I'm really not a great swimmer. There is a small island off the southern tip of Korea called Jeju Island (fantastic vacation spot!) that the United States Navy has decided to build a new air base on (read, a first-strike-on-China airbase).

Folks, if a shooting war with the Chinese ever breaks out, you can kiss your buddy Dan good-bye. China will light up South Korea like a Christmas tree.

It's either that or a North Korean regular singling me out as the token "wey-gookin" for target practice. Of course there's always door number three: Waiting around long enough to be slow-roasted by a melted down Japanese nuclear reactor. Unpacking your bags yet?
 
Another thing that really gets my goat is that we are totally disarmed here. Koreans are disarmed and love it! Anytime a shooting war starts (like what nearly happened last year) and armed invading troops land in the south, the general population will be open to a massacre of epic proportions.

Koreans are some of the best archers on the planet but aren't able to buy even a target bow without a license, much less a gun. They argue with me when I point out their strategic and political situation. I can't even get a hunting knife here and I've tried.

If you love all-things-Asian my advice is to learn Chinese and don't worry about moving. They'll be coming to your home town soon enough with deeds in hand.

Thanks to the gutless wimps and traitors you elected they own the place. As for me, I've got a front-row seat to the Apocalypse. Lawn chair, shades and genetically-modified popcorn in hand, I'm good .. I'm good.

Daniel O'halahan
djsjbh1@fastmail.fm


 


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Comments for "Ex-Pats Should Avoid South Korea"

Mike said (November 22, 2011):

Brave people like Daniel with limited options chose not to just "take it" and take some chances. Would you be brave enough Jason? Yeah right. Most Americans are too spineless to even consider such a leap of faith. Like Jason I left the US of A.

Right after a Policeman threatened to beat my pregnant wife's head in. Yes I know, he wouldn't have threatened it if she hadn't deserved it. But still it was very disturbing to realize that he could, would and the courts would back him up and there was nothing I could do.

In short I too moved to a country that is more communist than not. This same country donates to Obama as well this country enjoys a dictator who overthrew the elected leader several years ago, when not elected in a general election the usurper just refused to leave. This place is called Australia, and they are not our allies. Yet, I fly under the radar hoping one day to return to claim my birthright despite my ignorant fellow countrymen and their television induced fantasies.


Mike said (November 22, 2011):

Here's someone who finds the land and it's people agreeable but has formed no bond with them. The potential for an armegaddon exists everywhere in this world. If your attention is riveted on danger and the need to flee, chances are that you will always run into that target wherever you go.

There seems to be a correlation to the recent article 'i married a feminist,- now what?' People trapped within their own mental concepts, and unwilling to change the point of view that holds the problem together. There is no real assumption of responsibility and no real indication of love or commitment beyond presently perceived self interest. Thats the same situation that exists in the relationship between the collective population and the Illuminati with their encroaching New Order.


Jason said (November 22, 2011):

Daniel is another American coward who “escaped” the United States to a foreign land and is SURPRISED to find himself surrounded by tyranny?

This is what will happen to EVERYONE who runs from a fight with oppression and tyranny. You can run for a short while, but eventually it will catch up to you and then resistance will be too late. It won’t even be an option.

Another American tragedy… but, on the positive side, true American patriots are pleased to be rid of such a coward.


Jo said (November 22, 2011):

" Please think about Tasmania, we speak English here and over 80% is of European stock, and misdeeds (crime) is very low. It is bigger than Ireland with less than 500,000
dwellers, and 1/3 is cool climate rain woods.

But, if you do come here then PLEASE build your homes in Classic North American Colonial styles, Gramble roofs, 45 degree pitch, no tin, please held better our culture which suffer
awfull box and awful depressing mainland Aussie post war knock off architecture.

Come here and help better the place! sachsen888@hotmail.com"


Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at