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[diver]

When my students bring up Ohno, I tell them to do an internet search on:

'Roy Jones Jr Boxing Seoul Olympics 1988'

Try it with your students

[komtengi]

I find it ironic that they don't care that when Ohno won that the Korean skate desecrated the Korean flag bt spiking it into the ice. In most other countries that skater would cop a beating.

Its also ironic that the referee from the Italy/Korea World Cup match has admitted to taking bribes in the past, and from the look of some of the calls in that game he wasn't far off it again.

[Holyjoe]

[butterface]

Diver brings up an excellent point about Roy Jones Jr. What follows is a quote from a BBC biography of the American fighter who lost a gold medal to a Korean fighter in what should have been a unanimous victory. Belive me, anyone who remembers that fight know that Roy Jones inflicted a severe and decisive beating against his opponent, but - inexplicably- lost the fight and the gold medal to a South Korean in Seoul:

"he lost a highly disputed decision in the final fight. Jones Jr. lost to a South Korean fighter, and a subsequent investigation led some of the judges to admit that they had accepted bribes from Korean officials to vote against Jones Jr. Jones Jr. never accepted the silver medal, and his case, along with Carbajal's case, led Olympic organizers to establish a new scoring system for Olympic boxing, a system that later began to be used on all amateur fights. "

Last I remember, I don't recall any of the judges in the 2002 Winter Games admitting to accepting bribes. I saw the replay and two things were obvious: Ohno legitimately was fouled and Kim Dong Sung's behavior following his disqualification was more befitting of a bedwetting schoolyard athlete than an olympic medalist. Korea's unflinching allegiance to his graceless protest is another example of the simplistic group-think mentality that infects the minds of Koreans, or at least the vast majority of them.

[Joe Thanks]

[Ody]

[Joe Thanks]

Some interesting thoughts on the subject:


http://jeffinkorea.blog-city.com/read/356957.htm

and

http://incestuousamplification.blog-city.com/

You need to scroll down towards the middle where the musing begins with:

[mithridates]

That's all true, though I can see where their paranoia comes from. Historically Korea's been backstabbed more than once whenever they've let their guard down. I think it was some three days before North Korea invaded that S. Korea decided to give their soldiers leave to go back to their homes to visit; as soon as they did that North Korea poured in.
Hmm, but North Korea is Korea too, now that I think about it.
Nevertheless, being right in the centre of China (largest population in the world + huge military) and Japan (2nd largest economy in the world and former empire) with US soldiers inside and a million North Korean soldiers on the other with the world watching their every move makes them a bit nervous and edgy when it comes to the outside world watching them. This doesn't justify it, but I think it explains it to a certain extent. I think a unified North and South with some firm military and economic treaties with the countries around them would help them relax a bit.
That's not likely though.

[Joe Thanks]

[KoreanLifer]

whats up with the koreans showing World Cup highlights when ur waiting in the immigration line-up at ICN.to most folks its all over and in the history books.i guess they still want to prove to the world they r still #1 & bestuuh!!!

[Gladiator]

Holy Joe wrote

[Holyjoe]

[Gwangjuboy]

[matko]

The next time the Americans play Korea and score a goal, the goal scorer should run to the nearest corner flag, pick it up and slam it to the ground in disgust!

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