Chopping off one's fingers is an overused method of protesting nowadays.
So people resorted to something more gory and definitely much more of a headliner.
On March 1, members of the far-right
Patriotic Youth Association staged a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul with the names of Koreans who had collaborated with the Japanese during the colonization of the Korean peninsula (1910-1945) affixed to, of all things, dogs’ heads.
Things have heated up once again in the Japan-Korea, Japan-rest of Asia relations. Just when one got a little hopeful over the new Abe administration. *sigh*