At one point I was tempted to make a video and try to get some of what I was seeing onto the internet. But at my level of expertise it would have been too time consuming a task. I don’t know how to edit video clips. Perhaps I need to learn how …

Here’s the link to editorial piece that Ken mentions:
http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/04/20/korean-killing-spree-virginia-tech/

I am glad that someone else wrote about this.

I watched coverage on Tokudane and News Station.

Apparently some Japanese anti-Koreans were upset when the term Asia-kei was applied. They posted clips of the news station report onto the internet. See here.

I followed TV coverage more than anything, and I was appalled by the focus on him being “Korean,” sometimes to the point of mentioning it twice in a sentence. I don’t think ethnicity had anything to do whatsoever with this massacre, and the attempt to tie his citizenship with criminal proclivities was pretty sad.

I also thought the announcers had a very poor grasp on American culture, laws, ways of life and so on. They also made quite a few translation errors in broadcast that I never saw acknowledged.

Not a far drop from being associated with criminals here simply by being “foreign”…