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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: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: Korea number ONE!! Er, number two ... |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2008/07/133_27642.html
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Scientists operating Korea's next-generation nuclear fusion reactor Tuesday reported their first generation of plasma, saying it marked progress in futuristic experiments to create limitless energy for human use.
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Korea number ONE!!
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| The reactor is the second of its kind in the world to generate plasma using superconducting material. China was the first with its EAST reactor in 2006, according to Kwon Myeon, a director at the National Fusion Research Institute. |
Er, number two. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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So? Good on them.
They're doing a good thing, and just because they didn't invent it first doesn't mean we should critize them for it. |
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PigeonFart
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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He probably wasn't criticising them for it.
He was just highlighting their tendancy to exalt their success. If i might add another point, they never seem to criticise their country's faults (maybe not to foreigners anyway). |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| PigeonFart wrote: |
He probably wasn't criticising them for it.
He was just highlighting their tendancy to exalt their success. If i might add another point, they never seem to criticise their country's faults (maybe not to foreigners anyway). |
How were they exalting their success? They didn't claim they were number one or that their reactor was the first of its kind. |
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WoBW
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: HBC
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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The only time the word 'first' is mentioned when it says they reported 'their first generation of plasma.' It doesn't claim that they are the first in the world to do it.
I think that's a  for the OP.  |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| PigeonFart wrote: |
He probably wasn't criticising them for it.
He was just highlighting their tendancy to exalt their success. If i might add another point, they never seem to criticise their country's faults (maybe not to foreigners anyway). |
You're either not talking to the right people or not approaching the issues in the right way.
My students (adults) talk about their country's flaws quite often. I don't approach the issues in a confrontational, your country versus mine way. They open up a lot more than one would expect. |
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Bigfeet
Joined: 29 May 2008
Location: Grrrrr.....
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Great, mass production by about 2050. I'll probably be dead by then, you youngins enjoy it though. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Plasma? Wow, that stuff was science fiction not too long ago. Cool. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Bigfeet wrote: |
| Great, mass production by about 2050. I'll probably be dead by then, you youngins enjoy it though. |
Technology speeds ahead exponentially and has a great many breakthroughs. 2050 is probably a high guess.
The sooner the better, and the more people working on it the merrier! |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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I remember a headline from a few years back in the Korean Herald;
Pak Se-Ri the First Rookie to Win a Major Tournament!
Sounds impressive, right? Well, the headline was lifted right out the article, which came off the wires. The article read something like;
"Her win today made Pak Se-Ri the first rookie to win a major tournament since [so and so] did it two years ago, and the [higher than five]th rookie to do so in LPGA history".
It was a couple of years ago, so I don't have the wording exact, but that was the gist of it.
I don't know if it was intentional, or just sloppy editing. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| PigeonFart wrote: |
He probably wasn't criticising them for it.
He was just highlighting their tendancy to exalt their success. If i might add another point, they never seem to criticise their country's faults (maybe not to foreigners anyway). |
You're either not talking to the right people or not approaching the issues in the right way.
My students (adults) talk about their country's flaws quite often. I don't approach the issues in a confrontational, your country versus mine way. They open up a lot more than one would expect. |
Within two hours of meeting my co teacher she had given me a list of what she didn't' like about Korea. Same with my lang. exchange. I think it's generational. |
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