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Why are we lenient toward US military crimes? Is it a temperamental trait of Koreans?

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I was going to include all of this in my previous post about "race," but I'm writing a new post because I was afraid the topic would wander off track.
Many people are mistaken in thinking that US military crimes have decreased or are not what they used to be because times have changed.
Strictly speaking, US military crimes are on an upward trend again.

I saw a post here saying something like "Surely not in 2026??", which shows how deeply people are mistaken. The reason people have felt a recent decrease is that the US Forces Korea (USFK) controlled nighttime outings. However, they lifted these restrictions recently.
Just from the articles I've seen: an incident in Hongdae where two Black soldiers fought over women and assaulted a college student.
Hongdae Club USFK Assault "Two Perpetrators"
An incident where a Korean man was assaulted while trying to stop four US soldiers from catcalling.
[Exclusive] 4 USFK soldiers arrested for assaulting a citizen in Itaewon... handed over to US military police | KBS News
Itaewon, Hongdae, Dongducheon... they are starting to become dangerous again.
There are hundreds of violent crimes every year. People constantly make a fuss about crimes committed by Chinese or Southeast Asians, but
as revealed in the program "I am a Detective," the violent crime rate per 100,000 people is
overwhelmingly high for Americans, US military personnel, Canadians, and Mongolians, while China and Southeast Asia are at the bottom.
And regarding undocumented immigrant crimes, which are not well-recorded in statistics, those from Africa are overwhelming.
Even last year, our NIS caught a drug kingpin known as "K-Jeff."
But we don't make a fuss about their crimes. Why is that?
There is only one reason: because they are scarier and stronger than us.
M-Park (this community) isn't much different; you can find countless examples if you search here.
Why is it that we feel rage toward crimes committed by other Asian countries (China, Southeast Asia, India) and easily disparage their flaws,
yet we turn a blind eye or play dumb regarding USFK crimes?
Why is it so easy to hate and disparage Southeast Asians and Chinese, yet we jump so high in criticism regarding the wrongdoings of Black people,
even going as far as calling them racists... why do you think it's not racism just because they are also Asian?
I ask you to think deeply about this. Is it really a rotten nature inherent within us, a chronic trait of Korean society?
Is it a manifestation of "being strong to the weak and weak to the strong"?
This seems to have almost no correlation with gender or political ideology.
Sites with opposing political views or female-dominated sites show similar reactions. In fact, although M-Park claims to be conservative,
it shows a tendency to be more lenient toward the USFK and Westerners who actually commit hundreds of violent crimes against us every year.
What conservative group in the world welcomes the stationing of a foreign military when they aren't properly punished in their own country
and run wild while causing harm to civilians?
So, as a side note, this is why I believe the conservatives in our country are not true conservatives.
Comparing them to crimes by foreign workers is almost embarrassing.
No matter what statistics you bring, the crime rate of foreign workers is significantly lower than that of locals.
I don't have a single Chinese relative, nor am I from Jeolla-do; I am 100% Korean.
I am saying this out of caution because I hear "Huagiao (ethnic Chinese)," "Joseonjok," or "Jeolla-do" so often when I speak up.
Try Googling the program "I am a Detective."
Our country is a society that is not yet that sensitive to race, so Statistics Korea data is easily searchable.
On the other hand, regarding USFK crimes, there are 1,300 violent crimes recorded by the Ministry of Justice in a single year.
That is an annual average, not a total. There must be far more unreported minor troubles and citizen assaults.
Scholars say it is almost unprecedented for a host country of an ally, rather than a subjugated nation, to be treated this way.
Nevertheless, we still think we are living peaceful daily lives and don't care much.
Then, when an emotionally charged incident like the US military student being crushed occurs, we only rise up then.
While it has decreased significantly now, there were as many as 40,000 illegitimate children of USFK in the 50s and 60s.
Just thinking of famous people like Insooni, Lee Yu-jin, Ben Henderson, Sandy Kim, Park Il-jun, and Hines Ward, that's how many there were.
But why don't we recognize it well? Because they were all sent for forced adoption just because Syngman Rhee was disliked.
And they even received money for it. Those who remained lived their whole lives near base towns, stigmatized and discriminated against, only to die lonely.


Insooni is truly a miraculous case.
Despite this, far from being angry, we have never properly discussed this issue.
Is it because even fellow Koreans are bystanders and the state is an accomplice, making it impossible to know who to send the bill to for compensation?
So many people have been hurt and victimized, yet even women's groups and human rights organizations completely ignore this part.
Meanwhile, regarding the roughly ten Black-mixed illegitimate children in Africa, thousands of miles away,
somehow they found them, and they were introduced in Kim Hye-soo's W documentary and received donations.
Yet, for the US military mixed-race children suffering right around us, it's hard to find even a single line of news, let alone a program.
I wonder why such an irrational difference occurs.
I am curious if this is a problem unique to our country. It is truly unfortunate.

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