BEIJING - According to the Kyung Hyang Daily News in South Korea, an article titled "Mainland Series" has been circulated around the country for some time.  The article is humiliating for Chinese people.  

It reported that there was a picture named "The Zebra in China". The picture purportedly showed mainland Children riding on the back of a zebra.  However if you look carefully, the "zebra" is fake.  It's a white horse painted to look like a zebra.

According to the Korean National Daily Report, "The Mainland China Series was originally to report on stories happening in China and to indicate the huge size of the country. But it was used by some netizens in South Korea to humiliate and criticize China's backward culture and the people's unhealthy behavior." The report also said, "The Mainland China Series started during the Beijing Olympics, and some South Korean netizens thought that Chinese spectators were not nice to South Korean sports teams. So they did the picture series to vent their anger."

Dong-A Ilbo reported, "The Mainland China Series humiliated China as a backward country. Now if you write 'Mainland China' in any search engine in South Korea on the Internet, you will automatically be lead to websites that contain these series of pictures. It became a popular search term in South Korea."

The first to post this series was a website called "Gao Xiao Univeristy". Some South Korean netizens began posting these pictures in October. Now, the "Mainland China Series" has evolved to contain different categories such as "The Chinese Army Series", "The Chinese High School Students Series", the "Sex Education Series", and more. Many of the pictures have been changed and Photoshopped. 

The circulation of these pictures online raised some cocnerns among South Korean media and academics. Professor Liu Zhong Xia from the chinese language department of Yonsei University said: "Using these pictures to define China's image is really, really dangerous. To criticize a certain country will stimulate nationalism. It has to be warned and dealt with properly." A culture critic in South Korea said it was ridiculous, "Over criticizing and enlarging some wired behaviors of Chinese people will arose anti-China emotions."

Source:  Beijing Youth Daily (Chinese)