Protest Real Time Strategy

[chookbobberki]

So ever since I started embedding myself in the massive protests here these past few weeks, I've been amazed at the interplay between the (rather organized and laptop carrying) protesters, and their police force opponents. The protesters want to swarm the Blue House (the korean equivalent of the White House). The policemen need to set up strategic

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Koreans love StarCraft!

[borcherm]

Why are they protesting?

The following, as far as I can tell:

[chookbobberki]

-Ostensibly, it is because of the president agreeing to (after a five year ban) import American beef with minimal inspection standards and no age limit, and people are afraid of Mad Cow. This is the initial draw for protest, because it requires little or no thinking. This is also what the media here focuses on when they report the protests, but it is not accurate to what the protests are like now, which has grown to be a more general protest against the president calling for his resignation

Why else?

[chookbobberki]

Oh, but to answer your question more precisely: because everybody else is doing it, and we've got nothing else to do?