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Check out the Korean Embassy Websites-Hilarious!
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GoldMember



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:06 pm    Post subject: Check out the Korean Embassy Websites-Hilarious! Reply with quote

We have this:
http://www.dynamic-korea.com/dokdo/dokdo_send.php Love of Dokdo!

http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/
Check out the International feast of Rock! mmmm, rock soup, barbequed rock, delicious. It's the "International" rock festival, yet it's classified as Korean wave.

I thought it was now "Korea Sparkiling", guess the embassy dudes are still behind.

Then we have to East Sea Propoganda. Koreans call the sea on the other side, the West Sea (so hea) , since The Korean Peninsula is the center of the universe, yet on the official Embassy map it's the Yellow Sea. Looks like deference to China, and up yours Japan. The usual story!

Then there is the Korean Embassy Website for Australia

http://www.mofat.go.kr/ee/ee_a001/ee_auau/ee_jpjp02.jsp

Immediately upon loading the page you get the Dokdo pop up!

Infantile, absoloutly infantile!
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cdninkorea



Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whenever Koreans mention Dokdo I always say, feigning confusion, "wait, I thought it was called 'Takeshima'?"
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Yu_Bum_suk



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cdninkorea wrote:
Whenever Koreans mention Dokdo I always say, feigning confusion, "wait, I thought it was called 'Takeshima'?"


It's real name is Laincourt Rocks. I told this to a Jap and Tawainese I was drinking with and they burst out laughing that its English name is rocks and not island. The Jap really, really thought that Koreans' fuss over Dokdo was hilarious, and they couldn't believe that every day Dokdo makes the weather forcast even though no one watching the weather forcast will be going to Dokdo.

I was re-writing a dialogue with my students on the blackboard and the students decided that the characters in the dialogue would be going to Dokdo. I told them 'in English Dokdo is Laincourt Rocks' and wrote that on the board instead.
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garykasparov



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leaders of Korea and Japan should fight on the next UFC fight card. I think it's UFC 74 "Respect." The winner gets Dokdo and there's no more fucking and moaning.
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Lizara



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

garykasparov wrote:
Leaders of Korea and Japan should fight on the next UFC fight card. I think it's UFC 74 "Respect." The winner gets Dokdo and there's no more *beep* and moaning.


I'm sure I'm not the first one to suggest this, but why not just settle it the Korean way... rock-scissors-paper?
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Captain Corea



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lizara wrote:
garykasparov wrote:
Leaders of Korea and Japan should fight on the next UFC fight card. I think it's UFC 74 "Respect." The winner gets Dokdo and there's no more *beep* and moaning.


I'm sure I'm not the first one to suggest this, but why not just settle it the Korean way... rock-scissors-paper?


wouldn't that be dokdo-scissors-paper?
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viipuri



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk: You might want to actually teach them the correct name for Dokdo in English (unless you genuinely made the typo twice...) - no harsh intent meant on my part, just pointing it out: LIANcourt Rocks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokdo
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johnpeterson2008



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neither side will give in for the next hundred years. Maybe this can be settled in a court of law in a country both countries agree on. Don't know if this could happen though. It would make for an extremely interesting legal case.
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CentralCali



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there any chance of dropping the racial slurs?
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Jake_Kim



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Falkland Islands vs. Islas Malvinas. Are they mutually exclusive?
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Pak Yu Man



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
Is there any chance of dropping the racial slurs?


A snowball's chance in a Daegu summer Smile
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
Is there any chance of dropping the racial slurs?


Is there any chance of not being such an anal PC *beep* the entire time?
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makemischief



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
they couldn't believe that every day Dokdo makes the weather forcast even though no one watching the weather forcast will be going to Dokdo.


not only do we have the falklands/malvinas in the argentinian weather forecast- but antarctica too. i always love how both chile and argentina claim a big slice of it on all of their maps.
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komerican



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are many countries that have territorial disputes. I don't know why you folks think korea is in the wrong here. When the japanese colonized korea one of the first territories they claimed was dokto. It was also the japanese who brought this issue up again recently when one of their cities claimed it.


Canada also has laid claim to a small island called Hans Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island


"While Canada wanted to assert sovereignty of its northern territories for a variety of reasons unrelated to this dispute, Hans Island soon became the focus of the debate, and was presented as the main reason for this new Canadian policy.[citation needed]

The Arctic sea region has long been a subject of dispute. In this matter, Canada, Denmark, Russia and Norway all share a common interest because they regard parts of the Arctic seas as "national waters".

"'A new development came to light after Canadian Defence Minister Bill Graham visited the island on July 20, 2005. Peter Taks�-Jensen, the head of the International Law department at Denmark's foreign ministry, said the following in an interview with Reuters on July 25 in response to the event:

'We consider Hans Island to be part of Danish territory and will therefore hand over a complaint about the Canadian minister's unannounced visit.[2]'

� Peter Taks�-Jensen, Danish Foreign Office'"

has the korean defense minister visted dokto? lol.
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the eye



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

komerican wrote:
there are many countries that have territorial disputes.

...has the korean defense minister visted dokto? lol.

No. But lot's of other Korean ministers have...

Quote:
SEOUL, March 18 (Yonhap) -- The country's ruling and opposition party lawmakers are planning trips to the Dokdo islets to protest the latest Japanese claim to the South Korean territory, party officials and lawmakers said Friday.

http://korea.na.go.kr/abo/zin_read.jsp?cha=1&boarditemid=1000000697

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SEOUL, March 10 Kyodo

South Korea's ruling party chief will visit Dokdo, South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Takeshima in Japan, on Saturday, party officials said Friday.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2006_March_13/ai_n16105299

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S. Korean minister visits Dokdo


South Korea's Information and Communication Minister Chin Dae-je made an unscripted visit to the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Monday to check communication services there, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a ministry official as saying.
http://english.people.com.cn/200505/02/eng20050502_183544.html

Quote:
Commissioner General, Huh Joon-young, visited Dokdo Island on March 19th. It was the first visit to the island by a security agency head. Huh made the visit along with the head of the Cultural Heritage Administration Yoo Hong-joon and other high-level officials. The head of police said that as long as the police guard the island day and night, and the public loves the island, Dokdo will not be lonely. The goal of the historic visit was to overview security issues in regards to stringent territorial precautions and the opening of the island to the public. [Huh Joon-young, Commissioner General ] "As long as the police guard the island day and night and the public loves the island, Dokdo will not be lonely."
http://www.police.go.kr/KNPA/index.jsp?_pageNumber=25&_module=yboard&_action=View&_view=View&idx=15

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Park Yu-chul Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs visited and cheered Dokdo Coast Guard on Thursday, September 15th at 11am and delivered comfort words to them who are playing a leading role in maintaining maritime security in the coast of East Sea under the difficult circumstances.
http://english.mpva.go.kr/press/issue_view.asp?page=8&news_seq=32&p_part=0&p_item=

Now I ask you, have any Canadians or Danish done this over their diputes???
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