Why do people do this? Taiwan's hate on South Korea

Latest, hottest news in Taiwan: Korean wins game, but Chinese Taipei advances

Yes, talking about World Baseball Classic (WBC)

Not surprisingly, 24-hour TV news will non-stop talk about how sad Chinese Taipei lost the game, especially to Korea.

I got up this morning, checked my facebook and found that almost every friend of mine posted things about WBC game last night. Not that I was surprised about the whole cheering and then crying thing, I'm actually stunned to realize how a baseball game is turned to some kind of a tool people and media use to arouse people's hatred toward Korea.

To be clear, I don't watch baseball, and I'm not K-pop fan either. I love Taiwan, but Taiwanese people sometimes get too carried away.... Why? Here are the reasons.

1.  Media fail
Before the game, the reporter was outside the stadium in Taichung talking about Korean baseball fans asked for free soup several times. The things is, the vendor says herself that the soup is free!! Now she's blaming customers for that just because they are Korean? What the heck?  Media, media...sigh

2. Insult

Flag of South Korea

 Flag of South Korea is composed of the element of Tai Chi. And below is how some people decide to mock the flag.

Basically it's a play on words. It says " Bye, Tai Chi!" but it contains bad meaning in it that I don't want to even explain.  Frankly, at first I thought it was funny, but later I just don't think it's appropriate to make fun of the national flag like that. A dog on the flag? :(

3. Overdo?

The announcer cried when Chinese Taipei lost.  It's sad, I know. But is it a bit ...too much?

4. It's your fault, President!
President Ma congratulated Chinese Taipei advancing on his Facebook. Comments like "Shut up, you brought the shitty bad luck!" appeared.

Friends may say I'm being too serious about the whole thing when it's supposed to be funny but I just fail to see how insulting a nation can be funny. If the flag of Taiwan was treated like that of Korea, what would Taiwanese people think?

 I'm no expert on this Taiwan-Korea complicated relationship, however, I find people doing these childish things so immature and annoying.

Anyways, I wish Chinese Taipei best of luck! Go Chinese Taipei!