Chapter 309 – Escalated! (2/2)
The next morning, many local students clashed with overseas Korean students in universities all over China, and many people were injured.
Later that day, a few students from China’s prominent universities started protesting against the unfair treatment of Chinese overseas students in Korea. The students hang banners in their schools, and some even hung them from their hostel’s windows. This conflict had escalated to the next level.
On the sixth day, an organization of hackers started attacking Korea.
Every one of the hackers’ group was mobilized, and many angry youths joined.
“The attack is starting at 8pm! Log onto YY now!”
“Err… I am not a hacker. Can I participate?”
“I also don’t know anything about hacking. Can you all give us some software so we can help?”
“It’s fine if you all don’t know anything. I will send out a guide later, and everyone just has to follow the steps. We have so many people, and just the DDOS attack is enough to give them a bad headache!”
“Alright!”
“We will flood their internet!”
At exactly 8pm, a few Seoul Taekwondo Schools’ websites, the Korean Taekwondo Association website, and forums, were attacked mercilessly. Within twenty minutes, all the websites are either down or hacked. The hackers posted Chinese flags pictures, and some websites played the Chinese national anthem. A few websites were defaced with Chinese and Korean swear words.
Some of Feng Yu’s friends had participated in this attack.
For example, Xiong Zhiyong’s son, Xiao Hua, and Xie Huilan’s younger cousin, Xie Hao.
Xie Hao is a noob with PCs, but he is a born trouble maker. He downloaded several hacking software and sent it to websites with Korean IP address with his classmates. Xiao Hua’s hacking skills are better. He managed to hack into a Taekwondo School’s website through a loophole in their server and changed the homepage to a picture of the Chinese flag. He also embedded a song called on the site.
The hacker war between China and Korea started. No one knows the exact number of Chinese that had participated in this war. The estimation is a few hundred thousand Chinese.
In the end, the Chinese won, and many Korean websites were taken down.
The moment the Korean websites were repaired, they received relentless attacks again.
The fighting intensified.
The Chinese demanded the Koreans to compensate for the medical fees and apologies from Tianma Taekwondo School and Korean Taekwondo Association. If not, the hacking activities will not stop.
Koreans: “Blame yourselves for being so weak! Shut up!”
Koreans: “We just want to beat you all up! Apologize?! In your dreams!”
The Koreans were firm is not apologizing and compensating for the medical fees. They felt it’s right to beat up those Chinese students!
The Chinese side got mad, and more people joined the online war against the Koreans. All of them want to get revenge for overseas Chinese students!
This war is escalating to the next level.
……
Dong Xuebing, who was still in Seoul, received a phone call.
It was Xu Yan. “Xiao Dong, are you still in Seoul?”
“Yes. My friend is still undergoing treatment.” Xu Yan had helped Dong Xuebing applied for his passport, as it’s not easy for an ex-State Security Officer to get the approval. Xu Yan is one of the few who knows Dong Xuebing is in Seoul.
Xu Yan asked. “How is your friend? Is surgery successful?”
Dong Xuebing laughed. “Thank you for your concern. The operation is very successful.”
After chatting for a while, Dong Xuebing asked. “Leader, I heard the incident in Seoul had blown up in China. Is it true?”
“Haha… you just heard about this?” Xu Yan laughed. “My son had come over to stay with me on Monday, and I overheard him cussing at the Koreans in front of the TV. I wonder where he learns the swearing from, and I was so angry that I give him a beating.”
Dong Xuebing paused for a second and said. “Is it that serious?”
Xu Yan replied. “I called you is to remind you that Seoul is quite dangerous now. You must be careful there.”
“Sigh… It’s none of my business anyway.”
“It is no longer whether if it is your business or not. I had received news that some Korean Taekwondo Schools’ students and instructors are targeting the Chinese. Some of our overseas students and tourists were beaten up by them. You must watch out for them.”
Dong Xuebing’s eyes opened wide. “Did they really do that?”
“Yes. These Koreans are really too much.”
After hanging up, Dong Xuebing called Li An and verified what Xu Yan told him. Not only the Chinese students and tourists were beaten up. Two Chinese restaurants were smashed, and countless Chinese students and workers were scolded and insulted. All these are done by the people from Seoul Taekwondo Schools. They had vented their anger on all Chinese!
Bastards!
Dong Xuebing is furious!
Not only you all did not apologize after beating up our students, but you all are also targeting all Chinese now?! Are you all crazy?!
This information was relayed back to China and become the turning point of the online war. The Chinese side heard that the Chinese were beaten up in Korea, and the Korean police are not doing anything to stop it. All of them were furious. Some hackers employed more extreme forms of attacks, and their attacks spread to the whole of Korea Taekwondo Schools. But many people started to call for hackers to stop. This is to prevent the Chinese Korea from getting beaten up.
A few hours later, the Chinese side stopped their attacks on Korea Taekwondo School’s websites.
Everyone was still mad.
But despite the Chinese side stopped attacking, the Koreans did not stop. Some Korean Taekwondo students continued to find trouble with the Chinese. They went to Chinese restaurants to create trouble and smash up the place. Some even left without paying.
Some of the more common attacks are in the form of insults!
When the Taekwondo Schools’ students heard people speaking Chinese along the streets, they will find trouble with them and insult them. Some even start beating up the Chinese speaker. A Korean singer, who used to practice Taekwondo in Seoul, even insulted the Chinese publicly during his concert!
Within a few days, there are dozens of assault cases in Seoul.
But this is only the cases that were reported. Many Chinese cannot speak Korean and did not make any reports.
Most of the injured are Chinese, but a few Japanese tourists were beaten up as they were mistaken for Chinese.
The Korean police stepped in to control the situation and arrested many Taekwondo students.
But the Seoul Taekwondo Association has powerful connections. All it takes was a few phone calls, and those Korean students were released. Korean media also did not report on these incidents, and there was no follow up by the police. There was nothing the victims can do, as they are in another country.
Seoul Taekwondo allowing their students to beat up the Chinese, and the arrogance of the Korean students were too much!
Anger had reached a boiling point in China!