Where's the U.S. outrage over South Korea?

Almost unnoticed for weeks, millions of South Koreans are marching in the streets, vandalizing cars and shops and picketing their government, protesting the importation of American beef! Koreans are demanding that their government immediately rescind approval allowing American beef imports.

While this is all happening directly under our noses, uncaring, disinterested and foolish American saps are purchasing hundreds of thousands of Korean manufactured Hyundai and Kia cars, plus millions of Samsung and LG electronics, cell phones, plasma and LCD TVs, computers, monitors, stereos and major appliances.

As one who personally visits Korea several times per year, guess how many American cars you'll see on the streets of Korean cities? Virtually none.

And guess whose imported products are taxed and dutied to make them 300 to 400 percent higher in price in Korea than back here in the good ol' USA? And guess whose troops, paid for by American taxpayers (including American consumers of Korean goods), are guarding the North Korean border preventing invasion of South Korea by Kim Il Jung's fanatic hordes?

Where's the USA backlash? When's this beef protest been reported as the lead story on TV news, or in the newspapers? Where's our outrage? Why haven't Americans demonstrated to send all the Korean car imports back?

We protest constantly about our own customer-friendly Wal-Mart who pays millions in taxes, but don't utter a peep about this major Korean insult. I ask you, aren't Americans simply the most apathetic people on earth or what?

Albert J. Dzermejko

Gilberts