(Minghui.org) It makes me very happy to read reports that Shen Yun is being well received in many cities around the world. We've read about theater tickets selling out, having a full-house, adding extra seating, and putting on additional shows. I sincerely hope the show is successful in South Korea, too.
Recently, however, there was interference when we went to lease a theater to host Shen Yun in Seoul, which has happened in past years and in other Korean cities. Korean practitioners have had to face this every year.
Is it interference by the old forces? I doubt it. It might have been the case many years ago when they were still rampant, but now that the Fa-rectification is reaching its end, the old forces have been mostly eliminated. I believe we have to seriously look inward to find the source of the interference.
A Japanese practitioner shared his thoughts with me a few days ago. His celestial eye is open and he saw the old forces using the large gap between Korean and Chinese practitioners to interfere with the leasing of the theater.
He emphasized that this gap is a serious issue. Some of my experiences as a Chinese practitioner living in Korea echoed his warning.
I worked with a Korean practitioner on a media project some years ago. She commented on my poor Korean a few times. This stirred up my competitive mentality, so I responded curtly, “Why don't you learn Chinese? This is a Chinese language media after all!”
“If we Korean practitioners could speak Chinese,” she replied, “we wouldn’t need a Chinese practitioner in the media.” Her answer hit me hard.
Although her words lacked the compassion of a practitioner, I certainly needed to look inward to find out why Korean practitioners held such a negative impression of Chinese practitioners.
I can see a lot of problems among Chinese practitioners, such as being impolite and a lack of manners.
Shortly after I came to study in Korea, my professor wasn't happy with me talking loudly on the phone. He walked over and said, “Everyone in the building can hear you.” I was ashamed and realized that I lacked the proper manners and had a lot of Party culture to let go of.
During a Falun Dafa experience sharing conference in Korea, for language and translation purposes, practitioners that spoke Korean were in one meeting hall and others were in a different hall.
A foreign practitioner sitting among the Chinese practitioners told me later that she was surprised by some practitioners from mainland China who came to such a solemn conference in slippers, mini-skirts, and had their hair dyed yellow.
Some of them were on their cellphones or talked to each other in low voices while practitioners were sharing their experiences on the stage.
Another Korean practitioner told me she once saw a female Chinese practitioner in the Divine Land Marching Band uniform walk out of a restroom before zipping up her pants at a public event.
These incidents created and enlarged the gap between Korean and Chinese practitioners.
I sincerely hope that Chinese practitioners can pay more attention to politeness and manners and let go of the Party culture.
I also wish that Korean practitioners could be more tolerant of Chinese practitioners and not look down on those who are lacking in manners and education and who are poor.
Shen Yun has been popular in Korea before, and there will be sold-out shows again. I believe that when we let go of our attachments, we certainly can close the gap between Chinese and Korean practitioners.
Time does not wait. To save more sentient beings, let's start the change within ourselves.
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