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This image captures state-sanctioned measures by South Korea to uphold their nation-building that are anti-black and highlights the extent that they are willing to go to, to maintain a racially homogenous nation. This image further complicates the idea of toxicity depending on whose view is being advanced. On the one hand, the toxic subjects according to the image are the mixed-race children because they defy racial notions in South Korea and would contribute to defying the patriarchy that South Korea seeks to sustain.

My immediate impression of this image was first I felt very sorry for these brown babies who were left alone and suffered from starvation after wars. Also, it is very shameful and irresponsible that the Korean government did not properly include mixed-race children as our own citizens and enlarge the boundaries of nationality, but rather ostracized them.