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[Yurim]

Today is the 57th day of protests where innumerable people including 1,700 civic groups and now labor unions have gathered in center of Seoul.

Hundreds of arbitrary detentions by the government, 700-800 people injured on both sides as groups of protesters brutalize individual police and vice versa, protesters destroying public property and infringing upon press offices, the government seizing intellectual property from progressive civic groups, arresting the democracy and human rights director of Korea Alliance for Progressive Movement, a 10-year ban on tear gas lifted, unconstitutional governmental response to what they call "illegal protests", setbacks to production and progress, the Grand National Party holds a national convention to elect its new leaders and do local delegates represent the people when the party's representatives comprise 70% and citizens 30% when it should be the citizens who decide their representatives' positions?

What I do not understand is why 3 in 5 Koreans supported the FTA during President Roh's term (ChosunIlbo 4.4.07), which was heavily criticized for poor foreign relations. President Lee has actually addressed these concerns by foreign policy and signing on to the FTA and making significant progress towards North Korea's nuclear disarmament in his Vision 3000 plan replacing the Sunshine Policy [controversial]. His canal project, entirely self-funded through an innovative idea of funds by selling sand and gravel in the construction process that cleans the rivers, could revolutionize the mass transit and bulk transport of goods in Korea, however, 32 million people's water supply could be jeopardized in the process while submerging Buddhist relics. 80 professors at Seoul National University oppose the initiative. There is a disparity between researched figures $50 billion and the president's $16 billion claim. The problem is that the waterway appears divisive on Korean topography. The Chungyechon Stream development initiative that completely transformed underdeveloped slums into an urban waterway was once criticized for high cost and the possibility of traffic issues. From a president who declares that he would donate all his assets to society, I don't understand why these issues are occurring.

[Jandar]

Can you sum up the topic please?

[The Bobster]

There's more not to like about 2MB than just the FTA. He wants to privatize the ROK givt up the wazoo, and his ideas about a market-based public education system sounds like it will eff up the Korean education system more than it is already, which a lot of us thought would be near-impossible, of course.

On the other hand, he was elected, and I think it's impolite to ask him to resign or call for impeachment until he's actually done more than talk about intentions.

The American beef thing is just another example of a lot of people belie3ving things that aren't true, but being sure it MUST be true because a lot of other people have said it so many times. When I consider that sigificant percentages of Americans still believe that Saddam was in cahoots with Al Queda and that Barack Obama is a muslim, I'm not going to point fingers at Koreans and act like they are unique in prefering fantasy to reality, though.