Heroes or rule-breakers? Koreans divided over Gaza flotilla activists’ return home

For me personally, they followed through what their faith told them, and it was not some fanatic faith of many religious people, but a sympathy towards humankind. So yeah, i find very noble what they have done.

When rules are preventing you from doing heroic act, you ain’t going to be a hero if you’re afraid of breaking the rules.

They are heroes and they had a noble cause. I wouldn’t call them selfish, they genuinely wanted to help the suffering people in the Gaza Strip.
But the passport law is there to protect the people. No law is safe from abuse, as I see, but I can’t call this case an abuse of the law, either. They were indeed beaten by the Israelis, and while diplomacy worked out, even after that Israel refuses to acknowledge that their abductions of these activists were unjust.
So it’s open for discussion. But at the very least, if anyone’s a true seeker of justice, it would be these two brave souls who went all the way there to help out those they never even met. Ideally our own government should be doing something for the Gazans, but alas.