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"K" - Nationalism

Posted by BenNike

Having myself dwelling more into Korean Entertainment, I've come to realized a certain serendipitous connotation behind the very hard-wired nationalism among the Korea netizens. Netizens, which simply stands for a mass group of online-communities. In Korea, every minutiae is taken into consideration, particularly under the all the rage entertainment domain. Controversy happens all the time. And these controversy leaves no rest to any stars and celebrities.


To my surprise, as I searched further on for informations regarding a popular group, 2 P.M, a sub-group of "One Day". One of the member has been strongly involved in a major controversy which revolved the entire communities of Korean. His name is Jaebeom, a third-generation Korean American from Seattle and talented leader of that group.


"Jaebeom joined JYP Entertainment in 2005 at age 18, and was trained in Korea prior to his debut as a 2PM member. 2PM was very successful, rising to the top of the charts by early 2009." - KoreanTK

Through a brief summary, he has embarked on the competitive field of entertainment, with debut option as the main goal. Time passed, and he has realized his debut dreams, winning ostentatious awards and so forth.

Paradoxically, reality sets in sooner or later, as polarized fan base comes after being successful. Haters give no mercy in imposing every minute detail that's well enough to be contradicted on. Support-wise, gives well-enough notions for the supportive fan base. With the recent incidence, which have to my surprise would be Jaebeom.

His used to be private Myspace, has been made publics, and netizens has come to dig out a significant info which he relates to the Korean communities when he started staying in Korea. Missing home, as all would experience home-sickness, starts to make his "youthful mistakes", as negative comments of his detestation towards the Korean. The very moment the news were to leaked out on the nets, K-pop fans, varying from both sides, starts to engaged in this hot issue.


Reactions from online-fans, particularly over the Internet, was swift, harsh. and unsympathetic. Massive amount of hate mail and blog posts soon overwhelmed the popular Korean websites such as Naver and Daum (similar to Yahoo and Google.) Soon, petitions were implemented calling for 2 P.M's disbandment. Despite the whole drama, the JYP-entertainment industry, which endorse 2 P.M called upon a statement to the press, stating the post was written at least four years ago, and thus, does not relate to current circumstances.

Fast-forward, he quits and released an official apology to the public and heads back to his hometown in Seattle.

"Having said that, this episode is indeed very interesting because it is an excellent illustration of a particular characteristic of a Korean society that often baffles the outsiders – its interconnectedness. Korea is an extremely interconnected society. Put differently, everyone knows everyone in Korea. (Or more accurately, in Korea, everyone knows at least someone who knows another, leading to knowing everyone.) And by “everyone”, the Korean truly means everyone – including the biggest stars and celebrities." - KoreanTK

Often this is described as Korea’s being small, but it is more than that. Compared to Americans, Koreans build a much denser social network over their lives through school, work, hometown and neighborhood. Also, Korea itself is literally denser than America – anything and anyone that matter are located in Seoul, a 12-million people gigapolis. On top of that, Korea is unquestionably the most wired country in the world. Internet works on incredible speed.

There are many practical implications of this, which will be discussed over other posts as well. But one of the major implications is that in Korea, the distance between the media/Internet and the real world is very, very small.

In contrast to America. Take Britney Spears, for example. There is no doubt that she lives in a fish bowl of sorts in America. Paparazzis follow her around everywhere. Any small detail of her life gets publicly exposed on Perez Hilton, E-News, etc. But as bad as her life is in America, her career as a celebrity might suffer, but she can more or less go on living her life.

But again, by September of 2009, the consequences for a celebrity who pisses off his fan base should have been pretty clear to anyone. Jaebeom is still an idiot for allowing this to happen. Jaebeom is actually lucky, because his sentence was not hell but a purgatory. The Korean society now has had the time to reflect the excesses of its Internet culture, and is coming around to realize that it is being too harsh on individuals for understandable mistakes that individuals are capable of making.

In the nutshell, we can see the strong bond of nationalism deep-rooted among Koreans. Such inherent abilities, sometimes do have it's pro's and con's. I guess Korea culture sure is a total opposite of many nations.

- BenLim

Highest rate of stupidity

Posted by BenNike

As much as I hate to say, but this just tends to go overboard at times.

Despite the various environments I am exposed to, the one and only one that are able to raise my blood pressure would be my sister.

Countless arguments have I been into and numerous of times have I made physical argument with, none of these is enough make me incensed nor irate. But a mere conversation with my sister is already enough to tick me off.

Respect, does she not show most of the time, or would I say ever before. Her trademark tone, being exasperating and rile used in most of her conversation among us, be it my dad or my mom or me. What's more, her sense of unfounded illogical statements and her recurrent, unpredictable disposition. And a master in being temperamental just further sideline the affection of what a brother should have towards a sister.

For the most part, I always tell myself not to bother such a minuscule and infinitesimal detail. But yet again, patience and tolerance do have their maximum threshold. While mine is has long been exhausted and over the boundaries, which what makes me feel like typing something here now.

Complains or would I say, sensible suggestions to my parents to make her a better person or to be a less annoying person to me, just fail with every approach. Like they said, point a finger to a person and have 3 fingers point back at you. They affirmed me that it was due to my over-worrisome attitude and blame me for mumbling so much while calling me senile.

Boy, I'll definitely tell you this, be lenient now and you can see a static deterioration in her attitude and improper self-development. Trust me, my parents just seems to be pamper her too much.

She doesn't do house-chores. Fine so be it. But at least have some sense of responsibility of placing leftovers and dirty plates back to the sink and not leave it on the computer table and everywhere else.

She did not switched off her iron and left it there, that if she used it. Just imagine would happen to my our precious home.

She just likes to leave the door entrance opened while she is upstair or in her room. What's more of locking it. My area is well known for robberies and my neighbor just gotten into one. When will she ever learn.

There was once she left the gas stove on, after cooking her omelet. That I believe, need no explanation for the undying consequences if anything were to happen.

There is just too many things to rant about, and I sometimes ponder why would even bother to post things regarding her and waste my time. I don't know. Let's hope she will get back to her senses in years to come, and someone would just beat her up nicely and let her know what has she been doing all this while.

- Ben

12-01-10

Posted by BenNike

12th Jan 2010 ~

Months and days have passed, as the days are slowly numbered till the commence of the start of Uni orientation.

Let's see what I've done during the start of holidays -

Road trips

  • Melaka
  • Penang
  • Langkawi
  • Genting Highlands
  • Cameron Highlands
  • Ipoh
  • BBQ's ? Yup
  • Drinking ? Yup
  • Reading ? Yup
  • House-cleaning ? Yup
  • More badminton ? Yup =)
  • "Yamcha" ? Of course
  • Surprise parties ? Yup
  • Clubs ? Yup
What else.. hmm

- BenLim

The Price to Pay

Posted by BenNike

There are times, I wonder, just what is real basis of our state of learning outcome from college and other education ?

Global issues, inflation for instance.

Despite the peculiarity of how inflation gives it's redistributive effects, as associated with inflation for giving the increase in the average level of prices, not a change to any specific changes, I asked myself, supposed is that how I see things now ?

Gardner Ackley of University of Michigan once observed, that a significant real cost of inflation is what it does to morale, to social coherence, and to people's attitude towards each other. The society, as what we perceived, is built on implicit and explicit contracts, linked to the very idea that dollar actually means something. And if the value of dollar were to be precluded, the system is undermined.

Albeit living under a parlous economy, the price to pay for the purpose of education sometimes seem to be a little far-fetched. As dollars are being printed out continuously, the assessment on the value of dollars slowly depreciates over time, no doubt. And dwelling into that, every so often the issues of Cyclical Stability of Economy is brought up, sometimes I ponder if it should be put credence into concern for my parents in the future.

I guess time will tell.

- Benjamin

In progress

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A few more minor changes to be tweaked on and I'm done !

- BenLim

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About Me

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What is my name ?

Benjamin Lim Beng Han =D

How do you describe yourself ?

Lol. Err, Knowledge, logic and deceit is what I value. I love to pursue wisdom but also to manipulate and deceive. At my best, I am brilliant and progressive. At my worst, I am treacherous and cold. Period.

Oh ! 1 more thing, I'm a loyal fan of SNSD. Hahax

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WPress Orientated Blog Template

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Definitely something new. Took me some time to configure everything. Javascript was a little tricky.

Anyway, still on the process of updating.

Image slider seems to be out of place using IE, let's hope I can solve it. =p

- BeN

New Year 2010 - (06-01-10)

Posted by BenNike

Hey again, updating two blogs at once can be a hassle at times. Guess, 2 month just went by based on my last post.

Ah, I'm good. Everydays a productive day for me. Will be posting soon =p

- BenLim