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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: What happens on Liberation Day? |
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| In all my time in Korea I've never actually been here on August 15th. Anything interesting go on? Parades and such? |
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ryanbonner
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| i believe custom is to get train wrecked on the night of the 14th and then spend the entire day on the 15th curled up in a ball on your bathroom floor. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hang a flag out the window. If you have motorcycle, you can decorate it and drive around like a lunatic. (K-traffic cops hate Aug 15th).
Other than that...not too much. Drink the night before and spend the day in bed hating the decisions you made the night before. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Except for the flags out the window thing, about the only that happens is that the prez goes to the national cemetary and does a wreath thing. A few super-patriots get teary-eyed.
Nothing much special to see and do. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Hang a flag out the window. |
Japanese flag?  |
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Mr Crowley
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Hang the stars and stripes out your window. |
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jaderedux2
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: lurking just lurking
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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Well tomorrow a number of Koreans are going to protest at the garrison at Yongsan and the American Embassy. I always find this amusing. Japanese surrender, Korea becomes a country, PROTEST AGAINST THE AMERICANS...ASSSSSSAAAAH!
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Mr Crowley
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Hell, I may walk down the street waving my US flag. |
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Mr Crowley
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| Are they really going to protest outside the Yongsan post tomorrow ? If they are they need to be ran over by a M-1 . |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Are they really going to protest outside the Yongsan post tomorrow ? If they are they need to be ran over by a M-1 . |
Not funny.
Remember the middle school girls that got ran over by a US military transport in 2002?
If so, definitely not cool. |
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jaderedux2
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: lurking just lurking
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| Mr Crowley wrote: |
| Are they really going to protest outside the Yongsan post tomorrow ? If they are they need to be ran over by a M-1 . |
Yes they do protest. I have yet to figure out logic. But if you get a hangnail, your citizens are taken hostage, your mom is mad at you, your life sucks or your wife/husband leaves you. Protest at the American Embassy cuz it's probably their fault.
Jade |
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jaderedux2
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: lurking just lurking
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Mr Crowley wrote: |
| Are they really going to protest outside the Yongsan post tomorrow ? If they are they need to be ran over by a M-1 . |
Not funny.
Remember the middle school girls that got ran over by a US military transport in 2002?
If so, definitely not cool. |
Not an entire transport btw a tank. It was a horrific accident. The girl's families accepted settlements. Everybody apologized about a hundred times. Soldiers were kidnapped and humiliated. Ugly situation all around but as I have seen in Korea the tears seem to be of the crocodile variety.
Same people that don't want the inconvenience of car seats. Let their children run the streets in the middle of the night. I see them playing downstairs (little pre-schoolers) at the outdoor hof well past midnight. Send their kids to school and such until 1 a.m.
What happened with those young girls was terrible and tragic. What happens everyday is the same.
Jade |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| jaderedux2 wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Mr Crowley wrote: |
| Are they really going to protest outside the Yongsan post tomorrow ? If they are they need to be ran over by a M-1 . |
Not funny.
Remember the middle school girls that got ran over by a US military transport in 2002?
If so, definitely not cool. |
Not an entire transport btw a tank. It was a horrific accident. The girl's families accepted settlements. Everybody apologized about a hundred times. Soldiers were kidnapped and humiliated. Ugly situation all around but as I have seen in Korea the tears seem to be of the crocodile variety.
Same people that don't want the inconvenience of car seats. Let their children run the streets in the middle of the night. I see them playing downstairs (little pre-schoolers) at the outdoor hof well past midnight. Send their kids to school and such until 1 a.m.
What happened with those young girls was terrible and tragic. What happens everyday is the same.
Jade |
I'm not denying the ridiculousness of the anti-US hysteria that incident unleashed, nor the fact that it was an accident. Nevertheless, joking about Koreans needing to get run over by US military vehicles is in pretty godawful taste considering the fact that it's actually happened and not all that long ago.
I repeat: The joke was not funny. At all. |
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Captain Courageous
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Location: Bundang and loving it
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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Someone's a little sensitive.
Toughen up. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Just remember that all of these Korean flags are celebrating the US nuking of Japan in 1945. US flags should be quite appropriate.
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