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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: 40% of Koreans don't know when Korean War started |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706250011.html
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Views of N.Korea Dim on Anniversary of Korean War
Four out of 10 Koreans in their 20s to 40s don't know which year the Korean War broke out, a poll on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the conflict suggests. Gallup Korea polled 1,005 adults at the request of the Chosun Ilbo. Asked when the Korean War broke out, 61.8 percent of the respondents correctly answered 1950, 38.2 percent replied "I don't know," and the remainder gave wrong years.
Views of North Korea were slightly more critical than in previous years, with more respondents pointing to the North�s military strength and provocation, and a stronger view that the Korean War was an unlawful invasion by the North. But more respondents also showed no interest in defending their nation, agreeing with the statement, �If a war breaks out, I won�t return home.�
Asked what they think the danger is of North Korea starting a war, 51.3 percent opted for "the danger exists," 11.7 percent "a great danger" and 39.5 percent "a certain danger." These replies were the most common among those in their 20s with 61.1 percent, followed for 46.4 percent in their 30s, 45.7 percent in their 40s and 51.9 percent in their 50s. They exceeded 50 percent for the first time since 2000, and were up 18 percentage points from the 32.8 percent registered in a poll in November 2002, just before the current administration took office.
Comparing military strength between the two Koreas in 1999, more respondents felt South Korea was stronger (46.9 percent) than North Korea (32.6 percent). But this year, more opted for North Korea (45.4 percent) than South Korea (42.5 percent), reflecting greater fears since the North test-fired a nuclear bomb in October last year. Asked "Which country do you think North Korea�s nuclear weapons threaten most?" the largest proportion or 49.8 percent cited South Korea.
Some 48.7 percent said they would return from abroad if a war broke out, down from 53.6 percent in December 2002. The proportion who said they would not come back rose from 31 percent to 45 percent in the same period. The biggest group of refuseniks were in their 20s (57.2 percent), followed by those in their 30s (51.8 percent), their 40s (45 percent) and their 50s (31.1 percent).
There were also changes in the historical view of the Korean War. In December 2002, more opted for "a proxy war of the U.S. and the Soviet Union" (44.5 percent) than "an illegal invasion by North Korea" (31.2 percent). In the latest poll, more than a half opted for an illegal invasion by North Korea (52.3 percent), followed by a proxy war (35.7 percent). Among college students, the view that the war was an invasion increased sharply from 17.7 percent to 41.7 percent, while those seeing it as a proxy war declined from 67.2 percent to 54.7 percent.
Asked who they think was responsible for the Korean War, 33.2 percent said both North and South Korea and another 33 percent North Korea. Some 18.2 percent blamed �powers surrounding the Korean Peninsula."
The confidence level of the poll conducted by telephone on Saturday was 95 percent with a margin of error of 3.1 percent.
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Zolt
Joined: 18 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Yet another chosun street poll. Contents are interesting but I smell BS.
So 61.8% answered correctly, 38.2 said I don't know, and the rest gave wrong years. So if we do the math we have 0% giving the wrong year. So 0 wrong answers in 1000... Somehow I'm dubious. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Let's do a poll of how many Canadians can tell us what years WWII started and ended. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| That's easy; it was around the same time that Napoleon was king of the Roman empire. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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1939-1945
| jvalmer wrote: |
| Let's do a poll of how many Canadians can tell us what years WWII started and ended. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Let's do a poll of how many Canadians can tell us what years WWII started and ended. |
Easy it started two years earlier than in did in the USA. Haha. Just having some fun. |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| That's easy; it was around the same time that Napoleon was king of the Roman empire. |
Wrong! It was when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Let's do a poll of how many Canadians can tell us what years WWII started and ended. |
Canadians would do fine. For laughs, I think you'd want to ask Amercians that.... Or ask them to locate Texas on a map.... Sorry American posters. Not meaning to pick on you, but isn't there always some poll in the States thats say "40% Americans don't know XXXX" Just showing how ridiculous the OP is. Every country has idiots. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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I remember a ton of similar polls in the US.
"More children can recognize Mickey Mouse than they can George Washington"
"Most high school students do not know the capitol of the US"
These polls are stupid. 50,000,000+ people in Korea and they only poll 1000. 0.00002% of the population. All of a sudden that is suppose to be reflective of the whole country.
Its been a while since I took stat, but I think the margin of error and the confidence intervals involved are not very good. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Korean War? |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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The guy selling me
my motorscooter told me
it started today, June 25, 1950.
I dedicate my first ride to those who died. |
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Gemfinder
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:01 am Post subject: |
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a good history quiz flub from high school...
Question was a write-in: Who won the war of the North and South?
Answer: the East. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Let's do a poll of how many Canadians can tell us what years WWII started and ended. |
A better question might be something:
Who was Canada's first prime minister?
What year was confederation?
What year did Canada adopt the maple leaf flag?
Those would probably confound the average young Canadian. |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| They would be shocked to learn that most of the Korean troops during the Korean war turned around and ran when the fighting got tough. If it wasn't for the United nations forces busting their guts all of Korea to-day would be bowing to Kim Il Sung. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Len8 wrote: |
| They would be shocked to learn that most of the Korean troops during the Korean war turned around and ran when the fighting got tough. If it wasn't for the United nations forces busting their guts all of Korea to-day would be bowing to Kim Il Sung. |
It's more because S.Korea's army was very very disorganized after 1945 and the government was pinning all there hopes on the US to defend them (as they do now). The North had more experienced soliders that fought with the Chinese. Within a few days of the initial NK attack, the only safe cities were Daegu and Busan.
So, the ROK-army was basically picking up any male that looked 18 years old to send up to the front. And let's be honest, if there wasn't a commanding officer threatening to put a bullet in your head, if you didn't fight, many of us would have done the same and chickened out. |
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