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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: When Someone Doesn't Die...in Korean Culture |
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http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjNXbcnQ9xzUqV1V95ifk-ZFUSbQ
Mock funerals: South Koreans placed in coffins in pursuit of better lives
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| Experts see the well-being and well-dying trend as a sign that South Koreans have grown affluent enough to be able to consider quality-of-life issues. But some dismiss services such as the fake funerals as moneymaking ventures. |
Just when I think Koreans are the wackiest people on the planet, they have to go and do this... |
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adabeie
Joined: 10 Feb 2008
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: Quality of life? |
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Wait... so, even though people can afford the newest computers, cell phones, cars, and clothes, the next thing on the list is a mock-funeral? I might have thought it would be an increase in the number of younger-generation people living by themselves, or some other trend of independence.. I guess my assumption shows how Western I am. But still, the only other place I can think of where there was a mock funeral was in the movie "Empire Records." Can anybody correct my ignorance? And looking back at what I said, it's cause for me to wonder who these individuals are, since most of the Koreans I have worked with are actually not terribly affluent. Maybe that's because they've either been young or teachers..  |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| link goes to the wrong article. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| link goes to the wrong article. |
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Moderate earthquake felt across wide area of England
Feb 26, 2008
MANCHESTER, England - The strongest earthquake to hit Britain in more than two decades was felt across large parts of the country early Wednesday, officials said.
Some homes had minor damage but there were no reports of injuries. The British Geological Survey said it was a 5.3-magnitude quake but the U.S. Geological Survey earlier put the magnitude at 4.7. The quake struck at about 1 a.m. local time and was centred about 200 kilometres north of London.
Julian Bukits of the British Geological Survey said it was the most powerful one in Britain since a 5.4 quake hit North Wales in 1984.
"It was scary," David Somerset said by telephone from Driffield, about 100 kilometres from the epicentre. He was working on the computer at the time.
"It was a strange sensation as the room, ornaments and chest of drawers started wobbling and making a loud rumbling noise," he said.
Many other people in southern, central and northern England reported feeling their homes shaken by the earthquake in a country where such tremors are uncommon.
Lincolnshire police said they had received dozens of phone calls about the quake and some minor damage to homes had been reported.
"This is a moderate earthquake," Rafael Abreu of the U.S. Geological Survey told Sky News from the United States.
He described it as a shallow interplate earthquake and said his U.S.-based group would likely adopt the 5.3-magnitude rating from his British counterparts.
The epicentre was reported to be in Market Rasen in Licolnshire, a small market town known for its racecourse.
"I was in bed at the time and suddenly there was quite a big bang and shaking that woke us up," said Laura Bocock, who lives close to Market Rasen in northeastern England.
"It sounded like someone had hit the bungalow and (I) was quite frightened."
"I couldn't get back to sleep because I was scared it could happen again."
The North West Ambulance service said its crews had also reported feeling the quake but had received "no actual calls from the public," said a spokeswoman.
John Jenkin of Bourne said the jolt knocked objects from the shelves of his home.
"I was woken up. It was hell," he said.
A woman in Notting Hill, a wealthy section of London, reported her radio was bumping up and down on a shelf for several seconds.
A quake of magnitude 5 is capable of causing considerable damage. Britain is hit annually with up to 200 quakes but only 10 per cent are strong enough to be felt.
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