Samsung resignations spark rioting, photo burning

Think you're a fanboy? Supporters of the Samsung Group gathered for a rally during a press conference held by Kim Yong-chul, a lawyer calling for punishments to be handed out to disgraced company CEO Lee Kun-hee. During the proceedings, supporters burned pictures of Kim and generally made Apple and Microsoft fanatics look like choir boys on especially good behavior. Now that's dedication.

[Thanks, Dooder; Image courtesy AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon]

[Chebwa @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:33PM]

Check out that poster on the left.

I ain't afraid of no Kim.

[OneLove @ Apr 23rd 2008 5:34PM]

They are suit and tie (old) fanboys! 올드보이 wants his samsung fix!

[rock99rock @ Apr 23rd 2008 5:37PM]

HAHAHAHA! classic.

Who you gonna call?

[kal326 @ Apr 23rd 2008 5:57PM]

You may not be afraid of Kim, but they should be afraid of.....

Battalions of riot police,
With rubber bullet kisses,
Baton courtesy,
Service with a smile

[Zeus.:God @ Apr 23rd 2008 6:18PM]

Song: Deer Dance
Artist: System of a Down
Album: Toxicity

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Circumventing circuses,
Lamenting in protest,
To visible police,
Presence sponsored fear,

Battalions of riot police,
With rubber bullet kisses,
Baton courtesy,
Service with a smile

Beyond the Staples Center you can see America,
With its tired, poor, avenging disgrace,
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality,
Of plastic existence.

Pushing little children, With their fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around,
Pushing little children, With their fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around.

Round, Round,

A rush of words,
Pleading to disperse,
Upon your naked walls, alive,
A political call,
The fall guy accord,
We can't afford to be neutral on a moving train,

Beyond the Staples Center you can see America, With its tired, poor, avenging disgrace,
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality, Of plastic existence.

Pushing little children, With their fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around,
Pushing little children, With their fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around.

Push them around,
A deer dance, invitation to peace,
War staring you in the face, dressed in black.
With a helmet, fierce,
Trained and appropriate for the malcontents,
For the disproportioned malcontents,
The little boy smiled, it'll all be well,
The little boy smiled it'll all be well,

[Pochi @ Apr 23rd 2008 6:48PM]

@Zeus.:God

....

...why?

[Zeus.:God @ Apr 23rd 2008 9:16PM]

@ Pochi

... Why not?

[Tim @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:35PM]

So, does Lee Kun-hee have to fall on his katana now, or whats the deal with that?

[Kain @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:38PM]

Wrong country...

[Ghen @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:51PM]

Nah, in Korea this just means his next career is in bad dramas or being a backup dancer for Rain

[bartoron @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:35PM]

LOOOOOOL.

Those Asians sure do know how to riot.

[helloUser @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:14PM]

What? Do you live under a rock? Did you not see muslim rioting over the danish cartoons depicting mohamed as a terrorist with a turban on his head in the form of a bomb?

These asians have no clue about rioting.

[RichardD @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:39PM]

helloUser: Did you know that there are Asians who are Muslims (hint: think Indonesia). The two are not mutually exclusive.

[Wisam @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:41PM]

Can you provide us with a link to see muslims rioting over Danish cartoons. I'd like to laugh :D

[lucubrator @ Apr 23rd 2008 9:43PM]

The Danish cartoon protests have nothing on the South Koreans. Seriously.

http://www.who-sucks.com/people/the-exciting-world-of-south-korean-protests

I didn't see any of the cartoon protestors pulling apart live pigs or throwing their own feces at anybody.

As far as I'm concerned, the only people more hardcore than the South Koreans when it comes to protesting are the Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire.

[kaztm @ Apr 23rd 2008 6:20PM]

Those Asians? You mean Koreans.
No wonder their country is split in two for more than half a century...

[peachrobotics @ Apr 23rd 2008 7:20PM]

im pretty sure that the middle east is part of asia

[mekkah @ Apr 23rd 2008 8:19PM]

kaztm> so you think korea's divided because they're pro at rioting? where have you been living under? ignorant retard.

[Jon Graft @ Apr 23rd 2008 8:43PM]

Lets stop worrying about who they are, where their borders are, etc. All I know is, every country that isn't a part of North America is crazy ridiculous! And THEY think that they can rule the world?!?! :-D

[kaztm @ Apr 23rd 2008 8:52PM]

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

[loosely_coupled @ Apr 23rd 2008 9:03PM]

helloUser:

In the Danish cartoons situation, at least they had a reason (however primitive, pathetic, and reactionary).
In France, Some of the muslims were rioting for not getting enough welfare and ass-wiping from the government. And many of those were probably looking the other way as the fanatical preach Jihad against their own country at the same time! unbelievable!

[ To qualify my statements, I consider myself a humanitarian and I fall center-left on the spectrum. I believe in a government "for the people", and that includes social services for the struggling like general relief, food stamps, disability/unemployment and health care to the poor.

Having said that, welfare payments and other services are incredibly abused by every religion/culture/skin color/etc. The whole system in America needs to be reformed with technology and legislation to make sure Aid only goes to those who need it, like poor families, injured workers, homeless, mentally ill, etc. There needs to be major limits in place, and technology used to make sure lazy people don't game the system. It will never be perfect, but it can certainly improve. All the fraud and waste has a terrible effect on people who actually are in need of assistance, and also causes many tax payers to oppose the services because they only see the waste and abuse.

Also, I am NOT anti-muslim, just as I'm not anti-anything except for intolerance, bigotry, etc. I recognize that 90% of all Muslims and most living in westing countries are peaceful, family people. However, It appears they are NOT doing enough to strike down the fundamentalists and radicals in their communities.

)

[wako @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:35PM]

we have truely arrived to a new meaning for the word fanboy...

[anonymouspimp @ Apr 23rd 2008 5:16PM]

No kidding... imagine if it turned out Steve Jobs participated in something illegal, like backdating stock options or something. Imagine the Apple fanboy riots! There'd be Starbucks cups flying everywhere!

[r3loaded @ Apr 24th 2008 4:42AM]

LOL at the Starbucks cups comment!

[DaCheez @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:36PM]

I want to see the picture that was taken a half second later when the aerosol can being sprayed on the flaming poster backfired and exploded.

[haX0r @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:38PM]

lol

[haX0r @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:37PM]

Bye...don't let the Instinct hit you in the a$$!

[FTY @ Apr 24th 2008 5:58AM]

coming from a guy with a Croatian coat of arms as his avatar, can't be anything else but ignored and laughed at.

[Todd @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:38PM]

I accept the "Ultimate fanboy" challenge from Korea and have begun making Steve Ballmer effigies in Papier-mâché.

[Ghen @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:53PM]

Preemptive strike, I ALREADY have Mario and Goomba papercraft!

[Terpy @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:43PM]

Wow, there are some well dressed rioters over there in Korea, the guy burining the picture is wearing a suit. I am no expert by any means, but I would opt for cloathing/ footwear that enabled me to more easily evade the riot police.

[Howard @ Apr 23rd 2008 5:38PM]

I would think the same thing, but he may be extra clever and realize that wearing a generic black suit makes him blend in much more easily. I might try that the next time I riot.

[Frankenstein Black @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:47PM]

Wow, human fanboys are such odd creatures, especially when it involves an extreme degree of fanaticism about another man. It’s, well, quite frankly, kind a “fruity”. How do you know if you fall into this category? Well, if you’re a dude and Steve Jobs or Bill Gates giving a key note makes you cry, you’re kind a “fanboy-fruity”. Just sayin...

PS And don’t go feeling all superior because your fan-man-crush is not tech related either. If you’re a dude and a male (rock star, sports star, hiphop star, etc.) makes you well-up during a performance, FRUIT!

[Onetruebill @ Apr 23rd 2008 6:10PM]

What if you grow up a little bit but you still think frankenstein is cool??

[XIII @ Apr 23rd 2008 10:07PM]

@OneTrueBill

Franken-fruity? Just sayin'...

[q335r49 @ Apr 23rd 2008 10:14PM]

haha ... alright... i agree with his homophobia, but i thought the frankenstein comment was funny. But yeah, right on -- people need to stop being fruity fanboys and start thinking for themselves.

And i HATE the fruity male bonding on the discovery channel

[frankXchange @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:49PM]

I've seen videos of some of their parliamentary debates. These guys take self-expression and parliamentary debate very seriously. America could learn a lessor or three from these guys. Why are there no burning effigies of Bush over a fake war and thousands of soldiers dead?

[Erwos @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:59PM]

There were.

[Frankenstein Black @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:04PM]

Because teargas and rubber bullets to the face hurt. and thats the easy treatment. Imagine being rendered and water-boarded.
...W...
WTC7
...F...

[Ian @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:34PM]

water boarding? are you saying water boarding is torture because in america it isn't!

[JLTate @ Apr 24th 2008 11:03PM]

@Frankenstein Black
If I could smack you through the internet, I would. When was the last time you actually got beat down for saying stupid shit like that? Yeah, exactly. The government may not be willing to tell you off but I sure as hell will, asshat.

[Matt @ Apr 23rd 2008 3:55PM]

Of course, some of this probably has to do with the fact that Samsung comprises about 20% of the value of the Korean stock market.

[zigolleid @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:02PM]

They're not just fanboys. They're elders who think that Samsung has been the center of Korea's huge growth over 20 years, and that it became the core of Korea's overall economy. They're afraid and claming that with Lee Gun-Hee resigned, Samsung will bear a long harsh time to gather up from the shock, which will directly leads to lowering of Samsung's performance in terms of economic power, and that will eventually damage Korea's overall ecomony and industrial power big time.
So they're doing that not because they like Samsung, but actually because they afraid of Korea's economy gets crushed.

[Wwhat @ Apr 23rd 2008 11:03PM]

Then they should protest the government for not simply taking the bribes (like we do in the west)

[facebookfake @ Apr 23rd 2008 11:20PM]

to do list:

1. pick up eggs and milk
2. throw eggs over DMZ then make Kim Jong-Il chug gallon milk
3. make sure a single company doesn't produce 20% of GDP

[Brendon Carr (Korea Law Blog) @ Apr 23rd 2008 11:32PM]

They are also being paid for this demonstration. Korea has battalions of under-employed gentlemen available to "astroturf" any political issue, for a small gratuity. They could just as easily turn up tomorrow passionately protesting for Sanjaya to be reinstated on American Idol.

[burrr @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:02PM]

They are not fanboys - they are members of far-right political organizations which has deep ties with Lee family.

These people seem to spring up anywhere there is anti-Samsung protest, including the ones held recently by workers at Samsung's semiconductor plant over series of leukemia-related deaths, which are thought have been caused by waste mismanagement at Samsung plants.

[Hotrod @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:07PM]

Those guys are awesome. Some people know that bribery is just part of the game.

[Bill @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:09PM]

Is that honestly the only witty thing you can think of when you see an Asian?

[ajfarson @ Apr 23rd 2008 4:22PM]

Oh come on you are giving apple and MS fanboys too much credit... we just need to give them a reason good enough to break out the hairspray and zippos! Something like...

"And in other news Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer announced a 500 billion dollar takeover of OS rival Apple Inc. When Apple Founder Steve Jobs was asked to comment he said, "No biggie, its all good business, and they paid me a lot of money for my shares. It was all part of the plan... I'm good with it!"