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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: The best way to stop the grand canal? |
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Build a tunnel from Korea to Japan instead, like the one between England and France.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST14339020080215?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true
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Japan lawmakers want "peace tunnel" to South Korea
Japan and South Korea, long at odds over their wartime history, should be linked by a railway tunnel under the sea symbolising peaceful ties, a group of Japanese lawmakers was reported as saying on Friday.
The cross-party group of parliamentarians is proposing a 128 km (80 miles) tunnel that would be part of a rail link between Karatsu on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu and Pusan in South Korea via two Japanese islands, Kyodo news agency said.
The tunnel -- which would be more than twice as long as the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France -- could one day allow passengers to travel by rail from Tokyo to London, Kyodo quoted lawmakers as saying.
"This is a dream-inspiring project," Kyodo quoted former defense chief Seishiro Eto as telling reporters after a meeting with other interested lawmakers from various parties. "We'd like to promote it as a symbol of peace-building."
The lawmakers' group first plans to try to persuade Tokyo and Seoul to fund a feasibility study, Kyodo said.
Eto was not immediately available to comment on the report.
Relations between Tokyo and Seoul have improved since former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stepped down in 2006. Koizumi irritated Asian nations with annual visits to a war shrine that critics see as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
Conservative South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak was born in Japan and is seen as Tokyo-friendly. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda plans to attend his inauguration in Seoul later this month. |
It would make a lot more sense.
(Hat Tip to the Marmot's Hole blog.) |
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TheChickenLover
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Location: The Chicken Coop
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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As long as the Chinese have no involvement in building it, I would seriously consider using it for a few days of shopping in Japan. Costs a little too much right now to fly, but at times can be worth it.
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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I recall Vanislander had a lot to say about this. It sounds like it'll go from Kyushu to Geoje.
The Japanese really want a mainland connection, and this is the best way. Not really a stupid idea at all. It would make a trip to Japan quite easy. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a much better idea than the canal plan. As long as they make the tunnel earthquake proof. |
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aaabank
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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The Japanese would sure take a more supportive role in reconciling North and South Korea if this rail link with mainland Asia were to happen. I can just see the Japanese businesses eyeing the potential for land trade with China as a huge plus for them. The Chinese would also love this link for trade in the other direction with Japan.
My take is that this is an excellent idea. It would definitely help the 60-year old war finally come to a conclusion. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Canal would provide hundreds of jobs for migrant workers. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| Canal would provide hundreds of jobs for migrant workers. |
Why not just give them the money and tell them to take their families on a nice trip? |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I like the idea of a canal, having grown up beside Neptune's Staircase. |
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nateium
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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One part of me want to help protest the canal because it's obviously a bad idea.
Another sick side of me wants to watch them build it just to see what will happen.
A train seems to be a much better idea. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| nateium wrote: |
One part of me want to help protest the canal because it's obviously a bad idea.
Another sick side of me wants to watch them build it just to see what will happen.
A train seems to be a much better idea. |
Can't go fishing on a train line. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: |
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bet you it wouldnt be cheap to use the train anyway..
from seoul to tokyo it would still be cheaper to fly and way faster..
good for people from pusan or people around fukoka.. but tokyo, osaka or seoul forget it.,. will cost hundreds of thousands of won and take half a day just to get there.. Id rather fly for 300.000 won and get there in 2 hours! |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: |
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Most retarded plan I've ever heard of...oh except for his other plan to have ALL Korean teachers in EVERY subject teaching their students in English. Oh and 99% of other Korean policies I've head about.
I thought crack was illegal here.
Someone get the pipe out of this guy's mouth before he has any more crazy ideas. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| All of these grand ideas are just a snowjob to keep journalists busy so that they don't talk about his LMB's involvement with BBK so much. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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Even better - a tunnel from Korea to China!!
korea.net
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Gyeonggi-do (province) has begun feasibility studies on building a mammoth underwater tunnel connecting Korea to China, a province official said Sunday (Feb/ 17).
Lee Han-joon, a chief policy advisor to the province, said in a conference held aboard a ferry heading from Pyeongtaek in Korea�s Gyeonggi-do to Rongchen, China, that a detailed review on the engineering that would be involved in the construction is being reviewed.
In addition, the overall cost and time required to complete the task are being examined, he said, adding that the benefits that can be derived from the ambitious project will receive key attention.
"This project requires long-term political and diplomatic planning on the part of the governments of Korea and China, with Gyeonggi-do offering a reference point by conducting the review," Lee said.
Pyeongtaek, located 70 kilometers south of Seoul, is a port being developed as the new logistics hub of central Korea.
Lee said that while the total length of the underwater tunnel connecting Pyeongtaek with Weihei on the Shandong Peninsula would be 375 kilometers, the average depth of the Yellow Sea along the length on the planned tunnel is about 40 meters, with its deepest point reaching 73 meters, making the construction of the tunnel possible from an engineering standpoint. |
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