A candle zombie (촛불좀비) is a South Korean term for a person who only follows others' opinions, especially anti-government opinions, without thinking on his/her own. It is analogous to calling someone a "sheep" in English.

The word originated in May and June of 2008, when thousands of people marched in the streets with lit candles, demonstrating against the government's decision to re-allow U.S. beef imports. The marchers were called "candle zombies" by their opponents.

It is now a wide-spread term in South Korea.[1639]

See also

Fanaticism

Zombie

But actually, the only people who use this term is those who so called "the GNP part-timer". They are hired by Korea's ruling Grand National Party whose task is to post various malicious replies and thousands of mean posts.

Chosun Daily, a powerful and ultra-rightest newspaper, said that Korea's web-opinion is led by a few web users who accounts for only 1 % of total users. An analysis over the usage of web revealed that these top 1 % users were those who were the GNP part-timer.

Therefore, It's hard to describe the term "Candle Zombie" as a widespread, and popular word and this term is only used by a few of the ruling party proponent.

Gallery

<gallery>
Image:Candle-zombie.jpg|a parody cartoon of the candle zombie
Image:North_candle_zombie.jpg‎|the North Korean candle zombies
Image:Candle_zombie_war.jpg|at war against the police
Image:Candle_zombie_kicking.jpg‎|kicking a policeman
Image:Hitting_candle_zombie.jpg‎‎|hitting a policeman with a pipe
Image:Spade_candle_zombie.jpg‎|hitting policemen with a spade
</gallery>

External links

S. Korea to import U.S. beef CNN May 29, 2008

S Korea seeks beef deal change BBC 3 June 2008

40,000 march against US beef in South Korea over fears of BSE TIMES June 8, 2008

U.S. beef import protests CNN June 10, 2008

The beef about U.S. beef USA Today June 12, 2008. "It might seem odd or irrational that people with an erratic, nuclear-armed dictator on their border are taking to the streets because of concerns about beef safety."

Collection of the candle zombies