Your comment essentially says "I received corporal punishment and it wasn't that bad" without acknowledging that my experience of corporal punishment was pretty bad. In the absence of your explicit appreciation of my experience, the implied intent of your comment is "I don't understand why you're upset about corporal punishment, because it happened to me and it wasn't that bad." This is especially egregious given my post explicitly addresses Koreans born and raised within Korean culture, and you are a non-Korean raised in a non-Korean culture. You may not have intended to convey that message, but in the absence of a clear indication of what you intended, that is the implied message perceived by the reader. In other words, it's not what you said, but rather what you didn't say.

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The lesson here is, if you don't want to commit microaggressions (which are typically committed without malintent as is the case with your comment), you need be very explicit about what it is you do mean. If you're explicit, you will either avoid unintentionally hurting the other person (which is what happened here), or consciously realize you actually do carry regressive attitudes, in which case you can proceed with the happy task of becoming a better person.