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Bibbitybop
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| wylies99 wrote: |
If you have a Canadian flag on your backpack you can join in the fun and help them burn American flags. Yeah, really let Bush have it. That Canadian flag patch will prove to everyone how "cool" you really are. Go there and have fun and make new friends.
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Can I rally against Bush as an American? |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
If you have a Canadian flag on your backpack you can join in the fun and help them burn American flags. Yeah, really let Bush have it. That Canadian flag patch will prove to everyone how "cool" you really are. Go there and have fun and make new friends.
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Mocking the Canadian-flag-on-backpack cliche has become cliche in itself. Find something new to make fun of. |
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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like the rally's going on now. Anybody see it up close?
It seems there were less people there than the article said there would be. |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
If you have a Canadian flag on your backpack you can join in the fun and help them burn American flags. Yeah, really let Bush have it. That Canadian flag patch will prove to everyone how "cool" you really are. Go there and have fun and make new friends.
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Mocking the Canadian-flag-on-backpack cliche has become cliche in itself. Find something new to make fun of. |
It is still something worth poking fun at; "Oh look at us, we aren't American and we travel." Get over yourselves, you're not that popular. |
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parisny
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Location: Steven Seagal's Brain
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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My office is real close to the Sejongno intersection so I have a good view of hundreds of riot police and 100+ buses in complicated anti-riot formations. Absolutely no traffic on the intersection since early afternoon, which is oddly relaxing. A group of protesters coming from the Jongno side just got some watergun action. It's getting too dark for photos, which is too bad because some police choppers are flying eerily low (6th or 7th floor level) between buildings.
Anybody saw the protests on the City Hall side? And in Dongdaemun? All those groups are supposed to meet in front of the Kyobo building, which is clearly not going to happen. |
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pastis
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When the 2 Koreas join out due to the south looking to make use of it's natural resources and manpower to grow bigger, richer, and more powerful, Korea may not be so accepting of westerners despite having modernized and became rich with the help of westerners and their technological ideas. I can see a one Korea in 10 years from now that is communist, but rich and powerful who is no longer Americas ally.
This I hope does NOT happen, but it sure is looking that way. |
It never will. If you're interested in reality, don't listen to what most Koreans have to say about it (i.e. within 20 years a united Korea will overtake Japan, becoming "rich and powerful" and all that crap). Korea will probably never reunite, and even if they do the 'united' Korean economy will simply tank (perhaps permanently). It will never be communist, and America is not going anywhere. |
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PeteJB
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Your blunt. Did you know they are working on it and coming closer to it all the time? Slowly, but surely they will join and take on some of the qualities of the north. Of course, we would not want to acknowledge where it's going, but we know. |
South Koreans do NOT want communism and the majority of the young generation are not anti-western. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| I didn't see a protest, but I was as close as you could get to Gwanghwamun on a motorcycle and traffic was fuuuuucked up. I forgot about the rally and made the mistake of trying to get from Cheonggye 4ga to Seodaemun. I would've hated being in a car. |
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tacon101
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little bit of smoke bombs and people climbing on to police buses by the intersection in gwanghwamun with the statue...some of the protesters on the bus wrangled some shields away from some cops and there was a tug of war with a hose...
the marchers were quite friendly |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| The protesting peeps were friendly enough. Wish I would of read this posting earlier. Got to see water cannon action though. Interesting night to say the least. |
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the_beaver
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| I can see a one Korea in 10 years from now that is communist, but rich and powerful |
What the hell have you been smoking? |
Your blunt. Did you know they are working on it and coming closer to it all the time? Slowly, but surely they will join and take on some of the qualities of the north. Of course, we would not want to acknowledge where it's going, but we know. |
If they ever get together it'll take a *beep* of a lot longer than 10 years to get the North's economy going. The disparity between the Koreas makes the disparity between the Germanys look small and some would dispute whether or not Germany has recovered yet. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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I went to that rally (or at least a similar one) a couple years ago in Yeouido. They were playing old fashioned communist sounding music and pretty well standing around. I don't know why anyone would be scared.
And no, I wasn't wearing a Canadian flag. I was hanging out with some American skinheads. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I went to that rally (or at least a similar one) a couple years ago in Yeouido. They were playing old fashioned communist sounding music and pretty well standing around. I don't know why anyone would be scared.
And no, I wasn't wearing a Canadian flag. I was hanging out with some American skinheads. |
You don't see many skinheads even at Skunk Hell |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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I went to Lotte Myongdong, came out, and ended up right smack in the middle of this thing. I ducked under the street tunnel, and came out the other side. I phoned the lady to find out what it was all about. She said it had something to do with the FTA, so I stayed clear. I got close enough to take this shot, however. Nobody bothered me.
This was taken in front of the old Avatar building, where the church people usually sing.
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
If you have a Canadian flag on your backpack you can join in the fun and help them burn American flags. Yeah, really let Bush have it. That Canadian flag patch will prove to everyone how "cool" you really are. Go there and have fun and make new friends.
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Can I rally against Bush as an American? |
It doesn't matter if you're the most anti-Bush person on Earth, you still have to do like the rest of us Americans who don't like Bush's policies and listen to the Canadians in Korea lecture to us about how we're so bad for voting Bush into office even when you and I voted against Bush. Welcome to Korea.
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