http://www.popehat.com/2009/01/12/humiliation-its-whats-for-dinner/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.popehat.com/2009/01/12/humiliation-its-whats-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-21193 “Humiliation” suit over Korean broadcasts Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:40:59 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=2616#comment-21193 [...] Patrick @ Popehat (otherwise known to our readers as SSFC) takes a look at a sequel to the mad-cow affair. To quote Steven Mikulan at L.A. Weekly: Spearheaded by about 50 of their fellow countrymen from the Los Angeles area, 1,020 Korean Americans have filed a $735 million lawsuit against Seoul TV broadcast company MBC. The suit claims that, by sounding a new alarm about mad cow disease and U.S. beef, which has been banned in South Korea since 2003, MBC caused the Korean Americans to be “humiliated . . . and subjected them to mockery in the United States.” A spokesman for the plaintiffs claims that MBC implied that anyone eating American beef would contract the disease, and that Koreans living in the U.S. were held in low regard as consumers of the beef. [...] [...] Patrick @ Popehat (otherwise known to our readers as SSFC) takes a look at a sequel to the mad-cow affair. To quote Steven Mikulan at L.A. Weekly: Spearheaded by about 50 of their fellow countrymen from the Los Angeles area, 1,020 Korean Americans have filed a $735 million lawsuit against Seoul TV broadcast company MBC. The suit claims that, by sounding a new alarm about mad cow disease and U.S. beef, which has been banned in South Korea since 2003, MBC caused the Korean Americans to be "humiliated . . . and subjected them to mockery in the United States." A spokesman for the plaintiffs claims that MBC implied that anyone eating American beef would contract the disease, and that Koreans living in the U.S. were held in low regard as consumers of the beef. [...]

]]> http://www.popehat.com/2009/01/12/humiliation-its-whats-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-21115 Andrew Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:00:17 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=2616#comment-21115 I'm telling all of my Korean American friends to get in on that action. I'm telling all of my Korean American friends to get in on that action.

]]> http://www.popehat.com/2009/01/12/humiliation-its-whats-for-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-21112 David Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:18 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=2616#comment-21112 You're barking up the wrong 'chee. You're barking up the wrong 'chee.

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