Why do Korean women go crazy about him?-Will Smith Oscars Slap

 

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock in the face at the Academy Awards.

Will Smith, who jumped on the Academy Awards stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock in the face. The joke that likened Will Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith to G.I. Jane was the source of trouble.

The comparison of his wife's hair style, who suffers from alopecia, to G.I. Jane's shaved head was very unpleasant for Will Smith.
Anyway, it became a hot topic all over the world, and Will Smith was not invited to the Academy Awards for 10 years.
Since he was not deprived of the best actor award, it could be said to be a soft punishment.

What did Americans think of this?
Who is the sinner?
The U.S. survey allows us to know the reaction of Americans.
The winner is at least not Will Smith.

In an online survey conducted by the U.S. entertainment media TMZ, 83% of all respondents recognized and criticized Will Smith's behavior as violence.
The American public had many opinions that "violence cannot be allowed for any reason" and "freedom of expression should be guaranteed."
It's a view that people in the representative states of liberal democracy.

● Then, how do Koreans react?

Then, what do Koreans think of Will Smith's behavior?
The interesting thing is that it is quite different from Americans.
That is fully understood by the comments of the Internet articles that reported Will Smith's Academy Awards.
Let me introduce a few things.

- We can't stand touching our family.
- It was a relief. I would have punched one more time.
- Awesome! Will Smith.
- How good would it be to be Will Smith's wife? How reliable her husband is.

Most of the comments are like this.
Isn't it amazing?
Koreans take Will Smith's actions for granted and even consider them a fine retribution.
In particular, these opinions are more pronounced among Korean women.

● Why do Korean women support Will Smith?

Then, do Koreans especially women defend Will Smith's behavior?
There must be several reasons for this.
First of all, we can consider the Confucian culture of Korea.
Korea has been in the Chinese culture for a long time.
In particular, Joseon, the last dynastic country on the Korean Peninsula, used Confucius' Confucianism as its governing ideology. The period was as long as 500 years.

The Confucianism of Joseon still remains in Korea in the 21st century.
There are two things that Confucianism considers the most important.
The king, the teacher, and the parents are the same.
Therefore, the people respected the teacher as if they were filial to their parents, and finally, they had to be educated from an early age to be loyal to the king.
As a result, swearing at other people's parents has become dangerous enough to cause murder.

This does not mean that Koreans love their families more than people from other countries.
Korea has a very high divorce rate in the world.
Not a few children are abandoned every year after year.
But Confucianism values honor very much.
So it's another matter for someone to love his family less and for someone else to insult his family.
It may have something to do with this culture that Koreans take for granted that Will Smith threw his palm at a comedian who insulted his wife.

There is another reason.
This, too, has to do with the Confucian atmosphere.
Of course, the times are different now.
For a long time, however, wives were not respected by their husbands in Korea.
No matter how lovely the wife was, the husbands couldn't show off their wives in front of others.
In Korea, there was a saying, "The one who boasts of being his wife is a fool."
Husbands often disparaged their wives in front of others.
That is what was considered a virtue.

Korean women seem to have recalled the image of a husband who not only loved but respected his wife when they saw Will Smith.
A middle-aged Korean woman said.
"We don't want a husband like Macho. What we want is a husband who can bravely stand up for his wife, even if he is weak and small."

Will Smith certainly looked like such a husband at the Academy Awards.

In fact, many Korean husbands were asked by their wives, "What do you think you would have done?"
The dinner menu would have changed depending on how you answered.

Finally, it is the Korean people's consciousness of violence.
Koreans have suffered from violence.
In the 1980s, teachers in middle and high schools carried creepy sticks and beat students at will.
Violence in the military continued until recently.
People who have been subjected to violence have no choice but to hate violence.
But why are Koreans tolerant of Will Smith's violence?

I think it is because there is a difference between the violence suffered by Koreans and the violence suffered by Americans.
Korea is a country where gun use is strictly prohibited.
In the case of ordinary people, violence is mostly caused by bare hands in Korea.
Even if violence tools are used, they are only sticks, and knives are among the most dangerous violence.
But the United States is a country where gun accidents happen.
There are also many dangerous areas that are difficult for ordinary people to visit.

There is a Korean proverb that says, "A needle thief becomes a cow thief.'
Allowing small crimes means that they become big crimes before you know it.
Wouldn't Americans feel the danger of violence better than Koreans?
So the American people will not be tolerant of even a little violence at all.
Americans seem to be more aware of what tragedies can happen in the future, after allowing small violence and being blunted by small repression of freedom.
Maybe that's why they're giving Will Smith a cold look.

Americans value their families, too. But they have the idea that violence cannot be allowed for any reason.
And freedom of expression must be respected.
Punishment will be imposed by the public when there is a problem with the wording.
At least it's not Will Smith's palm.
We hope Will Smith will think it over at home.
Ten years will not be short of time to think about something.