Jun-man Kang criticizes the passport “second abuse of sexual violence victims, is that progress?”

Kang Joon-man, a professor at the Department of Journalism and Broadcasting at Chonbuk National University, who is about to retire from retirement in February, sharply criticized the Moon Jae-in administration and his passport while preparing for his second life. Professor Kang wrote about the phenomenon of’political tribalism’, citing the failure of the passport’s real estate policy and the secondary abuse of victims of sexual assault.

In an interview with Yonhap News on the 4th, Professor Kang raised the current government’s ideology as an example when asking about’your ideological spectrum’. He asked, “How can it be called progress even if the forces that inflicted great pain on the common people with the disastrous failure of the most important real estate issue in the Korean class struggle make progress on other political agendas?”

He said, “Can people who do not have any problem consciousness in the existing’internal colony’ system can be called progress? People who are blind to partisan interests and are willing to inflict secondary harassment on victims of sexual violence?” Pointed out.

In last October’s new book 『Power Changes the Brains of People』, Professor Kang, who criticized the current government and the passport’Narrow Nambul’, defined it as a phenomenon of political tribalism. In other countries, political tribalism is racially and ethnically oriented, but in Korea, Professor Kang believes that it is expressed as a’group interest’.

He said, “To define Korea’s political tribalism in an easy and simple way, it is a political ideology that commits as if eating a Nambul,” he said. “Even if you do the same thing, if you do the same thing, you can argue that it is romance if you do it, but if the other person does it, you can argue that it is an affair.” Should we do the primitive tribal politics in the 21st century?”

Professor Kang said he also disagrees with the use of the swearword’giregi’ (new words added to reporters and garbage) when the public criticizes the media. “The misinformation and distorted reports committed by some media during the Sewol ferry disaster led to the word’kiregi’, but it was the’partisan war’ that popularized’kiregi’,” he said. “The media that satisfies its political faction He pointed out that the more they did something closer to’kiregi’, the more people were enthusiastic, saying that it was’true press.’

Regarding the virtues that the media should have in the future, Professor Kang said, “I think the media should show honesty in order to reduce the gap between ideal and reality in the future.” “The media themselves glorified their role and shouted out an ideal that is not possible. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has resulted in the result of the project. It is necessary to change the concept of secularization at the level of real-life situations,” he advised.

Since the 1990s, Professor Kang has been analyzing and criticizing Korean politics and society through the social criticism magazine 『People and Thought』. Professor Kang, who has become one of Korea’s leading progressive commentators, will resign at the end of February.

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