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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
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| Park, also known as Masao Takaki, was also a volunteer in the Japanese air force. |
Holy cow did your father in law brain wash you. |
No, he's right. On top of that, he supposedly led a communist student's protest when he was at the military academy. Some of his critics say that he basically stole most of his ideas from the Russians and the Japanese. |
Not led. His older brother led him into it. |
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If it as not for Park this country would most likely remain a poor backwater. He took the bull by the horns and pretty much created the modern South Korea. To me he is someone to be respected. So some leftists got trampled on, more reasons to like him. |
Well, given the fact that the US gave 6 times more aid to South Korea from the late 50's to the late 60's than it did to the whole of Southern and Central American nations, I wouldn't be so fast as to sing his praise and ignore that he had thousands of dissidents tortured and murdered if I were you. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Park, also known as Masao Takaki, was also a volunteer in the Japanese air force. |
Holy cow did your father in law brain wash you. |
No, he's right. On top of that, he supposedly led a communist student's protest when he was at the military academy. Some of his critics say that he basically stole most of his ideas from the Russians and the Japanese. |
Not led. His older brother led him into it. |
does
it
matter
?
?
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If it as not for Park this country would most likely remain a poor backwater. He took the bull by the horns and pretty much created the modern South Korea. To me he is someone to be respected. So some leftists got trampled on, more reasons to like him. |
Well, given the fact that the US gave 6 times more aid to South Korea from the late 50's to the late 60's than it did to the whole of Southern and Central American nations, I wouldn't be so fast as to sing his praise and ignore that he had thousands of dissidents tortured and murdered if I were you. |
And Europe got the Marshall Plan. What Park did was create the foundations for what we see today, thats nothing to sneeze at.
You say tomato
I say tomahtoh
You say dissidents
I say communist traitors
Let's call the whole thing off |
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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And Europe got the Marshall Plan. What Park did was create the foundations for what we see today, thats nothing to sneeze at.
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A country awash in corruption and suicide, largest IMF bailout ever, 1,000,000 prostitutes. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| CasperTheFriendlyGhost wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
And Europe got the Marshall Plan. What Park did was create the foundations for what we see today, thats nothing to sneeze at.
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A country awash in corruption and suicide, largest IMF bailout ever, 1,000,000 prostitutes. |
Idiotic ramblings. Read about where Korea started. 40 years ago this place was poorer than bangladesh is now. is it perfect? No. Are there problems, yes? However the IMF bailout didnt crate Samsung or LG, it didnt take Korea from one of the poorest places in the world to a top 12 economy in the world. Your simplistic post totally misses the point of the matter. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
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| jinju wrote: |
And Europe got the Marshall Plan. What Park did was create the foundations for what we see today, thats nothing to sneeze at.
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A country awash in corruption and suicide, largest IMF bailout ever, 1,000,000 prostitutes. |
Idiotic ramblings. Read about where Korea started. 40 years ago this place was poorer than bangladesh is now. is it perfect? No. Are there problems, yes? However the IMF bailout didnt crate Samsung or LG, it didnt take Korea from one of the poorest places in the world to a top 12 economy in the world. Your simplistic post totally misses the point of the matter. |
I agree with Jinju. There is no doubt that this society has some very serious social-economic problems that it is going to have to deal with. However, I think the Koreans have done an incredible job of taking their country from abject poverty to (relative) prosperity. Most of the 20th century was brutal for Korea. Virtually all of my Korean friends have amazing work ethics. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:11 am Post subject: |
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I'll give Koreans a lot of credit for their hard work and perserverence if they give credit to Japan and the United States for the incredible amount of money, technology transfers, increased access to some of the biggest markets in the world and low interest loans they have given them over the years.
Give credit where credit is due.
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However the IMF bailout didnt crate Samsung or LG |
Certainly the origins of the Chaebols would make an interesting study wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be ironic if they were founded by Japanese collaborators? |
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
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And Europe got the Marshall Plan. What Park did was create the foundations for what we see today, thats nothing to sneeze at.
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A country awash in corruption and suicide, largest IMF bailout ever, 1,000,000 prostitutes. |
Idiotic ramblings. |
Maybe. Anything I said that isn't true? |
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