Boy are these guys in for a shock.

Five twenty something guys from Korea have taken it upon themselves to spread the message to the world that the Dokdo Islands, a small barren rock in the Eastern Sea, belongs to Korea. Marketing themselves as the "Dokdo Riders", these five boys from Korea are going to ride motorcycles through a number of countries to spread the gospel of Dokdo and grab themselves a spot in the weird Quixotic realm of Korean hero worship.

Here's the rub. What happens when they travel through these countries preaching their love for a bird-shit spattered, isolated clump of nothing out in the middle of the ocean and nobody gives a shit? Their first leg of the trip is supposed to be a ride from L.A. to Boston, stopping along the way at college campuses to drum up support for their cause. I pretty much guarantee that one of the first questions they get asked on any given campus in the States is "Wow, dudes. Riding motorcycles across the country? Cool. You dudes from Japan?"

These guys state that the don't really have any political views on the subject of Dokdo, or that the trip will do anything to solve the problem (although they do plan to hold seminars and discussions on the subject). Hmmm, so this is really just an ingenious way to get a free trip around the world paid for by corporate money and the charity of Korean organizations abroad.

I guess it beats cleaning up grease at a samgyupsal restaurant.