‘99% of population like dogs and pigs:’ Top South Korean official outrages nation

South Koreans are up in arms over remarks recently made by a top education official, who added to the heated national debate over rising inequality by saying the country needs a class system, because “99 percent” of the people are “like dogs and pigs.”
Na Hyang-uk, chief of policy planning, was speaking with the newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun on July 7 when he said, “We need to acknowledge a hierarchical social class system. The people are pigs and dogs. It’s enough just to feed them and let them live,” which many took as a reference to the country’s vast population of have-nots. Within a matter of hours, Na’s comments created an online stir that has refused to die down, as the education ministry’s message board filled up with people calling him out, often signing their messages “oink oink” or “woof woof.”’
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