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philipjames
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: The kid who got 'lost' while out walking, now ski pro. |
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Anybody else following the rediculous story about the kid who was 'lost' while out walking with his dad in 1981. Now he's a ski expert. Can you imagine getting lost while out walking with your dad back home. Next thing you know, you're taken to a home and sent abroad. Glad I never got lost as a kid.
How much time and energy do you think the dad put into finding the kid after he got 'lost.'
This country should be relocated to the moon man, because it's full of crazy cats. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:25 am Post subject: Re: The kid who got 'lost' while out walking, now ski pro. |
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| philipjames wrote: |
Anybody else following the rediculous story about the kid who was 'lost' while out walking with his dad in 1981. Now he's a ski expert. Can you imagine getting lost while out walking with your dad back home. Next thing you know, you're taken to a home and sent abroad. Glad I never got lost as a kid.
How much time and energy do you think the dad put into finding the kid after he got 'lost.'
This country should be relocated to the moon man, because it's full of crazy cats. |
Thanks for having the sack to say the obvious.
Perhaps his father and mother felt that they were too poor to raise the young guy on their own and, scared as all-get-out, simply reacted to this overwhelming emotion.
Second, one has to feel a sense of gladness and warmth in the knowledge that the guy has met his Dad and Biological Brother- let us hope that they get on well!
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ajstew
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:25 am Post subject: lost |
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| Yeah. The story seems fishy to me. I bet there is so much more we will never get to hear about what truly went on in that family. ' |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: Re: lost |
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| ajstew wrote: |
| Yeah. The story seems fishy to me. I bet there is so much more we will never get to hear about what truly went on in that family. ' |
Excellent point.
As an aside: Do you reckon we should know about it?
Really, some part of me says that we should know; an other part tells me that we've no business going there.
Take care, and God bless.
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crsandus
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:27 am Post subject: |
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I almost made a thread about this topic except I was going to ask "What are Toby Dawson's chances of overthrowing Hines Ward as Korea's favorite bastard son?"
edit: geez! you can't even say b*stard? It's not always a curse word you know. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| crsandus wrote: |
I almost made a thread about this topic except I was going to ask "What are Toby Dawson's chances of overthrowing Hines Ward as Korea's favorite *beep* son?"
edit: geez! you can't even say b*stard? It's not always a curse word you know. |
Nice.
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jurassic5
Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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glad to see that he was able to find his biological father...especially after 100's of people contacting and claiming that they were his birth parents.
i hope his foundation and story brings attention to adoption within Korea and promotes more domestic adoptions. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: The kid who got 'lost' while out walking, now ski pro. |
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| philipjames wrote: |
Anybody else following the rediculous story about the kid who was 'lost' while out walking with his dad in 1981. Now he's a ski expert. Can you imagine getting lost while out walking with your dad back home. Next thing you know, you're taken to a home and sent abroad. Glad I never got lost as a kid.
How much time and energy do you think the dad put into finding the kid after he got 'lost.'
This country should be relocated to the moon man, because it's full of crazy cats. |
I wish I would have got lost in a market and adopted by a rich family from Vail and become an Olympic medalist. |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: The kid who got 'lost' while out walking, now ski pro. |
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| Roch wrote: |
| philipjames wrote: |
Anybody else following the rediculous story about the kid who was 'lost' while out walking with his dad in 1981. Now he's a ski expert. Can you imagine getting lost while out walking with your dad back home. Next thing you know, you're taken to a home and sent abroad. Glad I never got lost as a kid.
How much time and energy do you think the dad put into finding the kid after he got 'lost.'
This country should be relocated to the moon man, because it's full of crazy cats. |
Perhaps his father and mother felt that they were too poor to raise the young guy on their own and, scared as all-get-out, simply reacted to this overwhelming emotion.
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And nobody else thought that this was odd?
Neighbour: so where's your three year old son, I haven't seen him around lately?
Dad: Lost him in the market a few days ago.
Neighbour: Bummer!....Still what can you do?
Aunts, uncles, grandparents just blithely accepted the 'lost him in the market story'?
Nobody suggested contacting the police? |
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Alan Partidge
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree that the details behind the scenes are not our business. However, I hope the biological father doesn't get one cent/won from the son. No matter how bad things are, there's no excuse for "losing" a child. It's clearly a nice way of saying that he was abandoned. His father deserves a kneecapping. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Father to police: I lost my son in a Pusan market!
Next day.
Social Service to police: We found a lost boy in the Pusan market.
Police: Hrm. We're out of ideas.
Now I recall the man didn't report his son missing right away. He looked for him himself. He was afraid to go to the cops. Busan cops circa 1980? "How much do you want to pay us to look for your son? Nothing? Where'd your kid go? I guess you just murdered him and all these other child murders we have on our books. Good work, boys." |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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I caught bits of the press conference after their "reunion" on CNN just before.
It was funny that Toby joked about him seeing the ressemblance (sp?) - referring to their bushy sideburns. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey, I just watched that on the news about 30 minutes ago. Yeah, that's pretty weird; he's lost in a market place, and the next thing you know, he's sent to an orphanage? Too weird, man. Too weird. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, thats a weird one. The parents said they scoured all the orphanages in the area desperatley searching for their son, i doubt it but. The kicker is that as soon as he becomes famous every man and his dog come out of the woodwork to lay claim to him. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I imagine that was a face-saver. It's Asia, harmony is more important than truth. |
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