“2MB”

jessicainkorea:

Today I learned that the nickname many Koreans have for their current president, Lee Myung-bak, is “2 Megabytes”: as in, he so dumb that’s how much his brain can process.

Claims my students made about Lee Myung-bak:

• Apparently, he’s imported mad cow disease into Korea. (I looked this up, they’re freaking out because President Lee is allowing US beef to be imported to Korea and Koreans believe US beef carries mad cow disease.)
• He’s a corporate fraud in bed with most of the Korean mainstream media (from what I gather, this is true.)
• They don’t like him because he was born in Japan (kind of silly, but understandable. I mean, we’re talking about the country that occupied Korea from 1910-1945.)

2MB. Ha! Clever.

From what I gather, the criticisms of President Lee Myung-bak is that he’s a corporatist, Christianist right-winger whom many consider “stupid.”

Sound familiar?

Haha, 2MB is a good nickname—I don’t think I ever heard that.  I could never believe how much my little students critically talked about their president.  I probably barely knew who ours was when I was nine.