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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: The Virginia Tech T-Shirt I saw being sold in a Korean store |
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Yep, I saw one. Over at the Megabox Shopping Mall complex between HongDae and Shinchon.
It was just a "Virginia Tech" shirt much like one that would say "University of Michigan" or "UCLA". But "Virginia Tech?" |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you buy it? |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Tech isn't a chump school. It has a large fan base and quality athletics programs. It's in the ACC, along with North Carolina, Duke, and NC State. Tech merchandise sells very well. I wouldn't look to far into this. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| I bought my Indonesian brother-in-law a Virginia Tech football jersey here a while back. This was before the shootings mind you. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Tech isn't a chump school. It has a large fan base and quality athletics programs. It's in the ACC, along with North Carolina, Duke, and NC State. Tech merchandise sells very well. I wouldn't look to far into this. |
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| Virginia Tech ranked 34th among national public universities and 77th among all national universities.[2] Its College of Engineering undergraduate program was ranked 9th among public engineering schools and 17th in the nation among all accredited engineering schools that offer doctorates. Seven different undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering are ranked in the top 25 among peer programs nationally - the industrial engineering program is ranked 7th; civil engineering, 11th; environmental engineering, 11th; mechanical engineering, 15th; aerospace engineering, 16th; electrical engineering, 20th; and chemical engineering, 23rd. Its Pamplin College of Business undergraduate program is ranked 22nd among the nation's public institutions and 59th overall.[3] The architecture and landscape architecture programs in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies are ranked among the very best in America. In its 2006 report, DesignIntelligence, the only national college ranking survey focused exclusively on design, ranked the undergraduate architecture program 7th nationally and 4th in the East. DesignIntelligence also ranked the university�s undergraduate landscape architecture program 8th in the nation and 2nd in the East.[4] |
Its also a good school. |
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minorthreat
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: in your base, killing your mans
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its also a good school. |
I don't think anyone's saying VT's not a good school, but rather wondering why Koreans would wear a VT shirt given that a Korean ventilated 30odd people there. |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| ...ventilated... |
*doh~!*
O' the euphemisms I pick up here on Dave's. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| minorthreat wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its also a good school. |
I don't think anyone's saying VT's not a good school, but rather wondering why Koreans would wear a VT shirt given that a Korean ventilated 30odd people there. |
Because Koreans don't read the shirts they wear. You ever asked them if they know what their shirts say (you usually have to ask in Korean)? I have and get puzzled looks that say something like "why would I know what my shirt says?" |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Because Koreans don't read the shirts they wear. You ever asked them if they know what their shirts say (you usually have to ask in Korean)? I have and get puzzled looks that say something like "why would I know what my shirt says?" |
Oh god, this drives me up the wall. Why the hell would you buy a shirt with writing on it if you don't know what it means!? I don't run around wearing shirts covered in Russian, do I? Argh!
Anyway, back to the real issue: I think, in light of the pants pissing Korea did after the VT shootings (you know, how the US was going to retaliate, blah, blah, bah), they would be a little more careful about bringing it up in the stores and around tourists. I had both students and teachers coming to me cause they were worried their family in the US was going to get attacked, let alone the weeks of media coverage the shooting got, ad nauseum. Taking these things into account, yes, I do find it surprising that there are still VT things being sold in Korea. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| minorthreat wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its also a good school. |
I don't think anyone's saying VT's not a good school, but rather wondering why Koreans would wear a VT shirt given that a Korean ventilated 30odd people there. |
So Koreans aren't allowed to wear Virginia Tech shirts because a Korean killed people? Germans aren't allowed to drive VW's or wear Hugo Boss because those companies supported Hitler, who killed millions? |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Scotticus wrote: |
Oh god, this drives me up the wall. Why the hell would you buy a shirt with writing on it if you don't know what it means!? I don't run around wearing shirts covered in Russian, do I? Argh! |
I wear socks with Korean on them, sometimes I don't know what it means. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Besides what other people are saying, most Koreans don't think of it as a Korean-American having murdered those people. They just think it was an American kid whose parents happened to be Korean.
Korean American does bad thing = he/she is just American
Korean American does good thing = he/she is pure Korean |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| minorthreat wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its also a good school. |
I don't think anyone's saying VT's not a good school, but rather wondering why Koreans would wear a VT shirt given that a Korean ventilated 30odd people there. |
Because Koreans don't read the shirts they wear. You ever asked them if they know what their shirts say (you usually have to ask in Korean)? I have and get puzzled looks that say something like "why would I know what my shirt says?" |
that's true...i've never seen a whitey with japanese or chinese writing on their shirt |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| genezorm wrote: |
| cdninkorea wrote: |
| minorthreat wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its also a good school. |
I don't think anyone's saying VT's not a good school, but rather wondering why Koreans would wear a VT shirt given that a Korean ventilated 30odd people there. |
Because Koreans don't read the shirts they wear. You ever asked them if they know what their shirts say (you usually have to ask in Korean)? I have and get puzzled looks that say something like "why would I know what my shirt says?" |
that's true...i've never seen a whitey with japanese or chinese writing on their shirt |
Nope. Whitey gets Chinese character tatoos instead! |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| genezorm wrote: |
that's true...i've never seen a whitey with japanese or chinese writing on their shirt |
Oh please, you can't compare the two. You can't take two steps in this city without seeing a Korean person wearing a t-shirt with English on it (and I don't count name-brand logos as "English"). I maybe see one or two people a DAY wearing a shirt with Japanese or Chinese on it in the US. |
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