Does Not Compute
What a sweet story this would be, except for two lingering questions:
- How the hell can you lose your kid in a market?
- If you do, and if you’re willing to admit it, do you really deserve to have a parental relationship with your misplaced Olympic athlete?
Hi biological father is a bus driver? His adoptive parents are ski instructors? If he had been raised in Korea, instead of Colorado, he would be selling fruit out of a truck now. Oh yeah, that would have been an improvement. I am sorry he grew up feeling “Different” but in reality, EVERYONE grows up feeling like they “Just don’t quite fit.” It’s called adolescence.
You know, I grew up poor, and I consider myself fortunate in picking good parents anyway. Because, you know, they weren’t the kind of parents who would have forgotten me in a frigging fish market. What’s more, I find that kind of behavior highly exceptional for Korean parents, who usually dote on their kids. So personally, I take culture, nationality, and socioeconomic status right out of this picture. This guy just wasn’t qualified to be a father.
Yeah, but you’re forgetting, rich, poor, or middle class, he would have had his very own cell phone by age 7 if he had grown up in Korea, and would have updated to a new model every year before the new school year started.
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It’s strange how any time a person of Korean descent does anything that gets publicity, anywhere in the world, it becomes overblown here. The person could have never spent a day in Korea in his/her own life or not speak a word of Korean, but it doesn’t matter. The small town mentality is very interesting. It would be like people in the US getting excited about all those guys playing baseball in Japan…or David Hasselhoff’s singing popularity in Germany.
It’s strange how any time a person of Korean descent does anything that gets publicity, anywhere in the world, it becomes overblown here.
Yep, but that’s not nearly as entertaining as watching an entire nation erupt into convulsions of mouth-foaming nationalism when a Korean athlete who they thought would do well gets “robbed” of his glory by an American athlete, (speed-skater or gymnast) who of course was somehow in cahoots with the Swiss and Italian judges.
It’s all a vast conspiracy against the Han race.