Cyborg Theory: After 10 years of being in prison the kill or be killed way of living stuck with Chol Soo Lee and affected him greatly outside of prison. He could barely hold a job, he used drugs to cope, and even got sent back to prison for arson due to his gang affiliation. According to Winthrop-Young and Wutz, “focusing on the intrinsic technological
logic, the changing links between body and medium that factor into the conversations
about what it means to be human or to access humanity in a mediatized age." Prison changes what it means to be human in what we know from outside prison. Inside prison is a very different place and it sticks with you. After enough exposure you become dependent on it like a cyborg, you can't function without it. Years of prison turned Chol Soo Lee into a cyborg, being so dependent on the kill or be killed system. Since the protesters wanted him free and helped contribute to his freedom, mostly the Defense Committee you could say that they helped turn Chol Soo Lee into a cyborg, so does that mean Chol Soo Lee was ever truly freed since he couldn't function very well outside of the prison system? According to Eto, a protestor of the movement, “Mostly
good came from this movement...but the main thing was, this was a
travesty and it ruined a man’s life.”
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