Rhie Won-bok Comics Withdrawn

A series of popular Korean-language comics about other countries that have been accused of anti-Semitic slurs and stereotyping has now been withdrawn by publisher Gimm-Young. This action followed a meeting in Seoul between the publisher and a coalition that included the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Abraham Cooper and the National Korean-American Coalition's Richard Choi Bertsch. The comics make assumptions about the nature of Jewish influence in the United States.

I hadn't been aware that the way Jewish people were caricatured was at issue. I was personally glad to see Cooper kneecap Rhie Won-bok's vaguely non-committal and unconvincing apology.
 
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