How Not to Protest V

Throwing eggs at politicians, not good (Via. Lost Nomad)

SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) — An ultra-rightist lawmaker was hit with eggs Thursday as he visited Korean war veterans to explain a softened North Korea initiative of the Grand National Party (GNP).

Shouting “Back off from the North Korea initiative,” about 20 members of the Korean Veterans Association (KVA) threw several eggs at GNP Rep. Chung Hyung-keun as he walked into the lobby of the KVA headquarters in Seoul, hitting his forehead and his suit.

Chung was there to give a briefing on “Peace Vision for the Korean Peninsula,” a package of new North Korea policies that the GNP recently adopted ahead of December’s presidential election. The new policies reflect a shift from the GNP’s hard-line policy on the communist North to a flexible, reconciliatory one.

The policy change has drawn a strong backlash from its conservative supporters, including the war veterans who called it “a copy of the sunshine policy that gave birth to North Korean nuclear weapons.”
Taken aback by the attack, Chung was hurriedly escorted by the building’s security guards to a hall where he gave a speech.