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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: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Dokdo is more important than infant son |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200807/200807170008.html
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Korean Librarian Halts Library of Congress Move on Dokdo
The U.S. Library of Congress has postponed a meeting planned for Wednesday to change the subject heading for Korea's Dokdo islets from "Tok Island (Korea)" to "Liancourt Rocks," an old international moniker, and file it under �Islands of the Sea of Japan,� the body of water Koreans know as the East Sea. The postponement owes much to the efforts of a Korean librarian in Canada.
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"My one-year-old son Ari had a fever during the weekend, but I couldn't take him to the hospital and only gave him a fever remedy, because I was busy reviewing materials on Dokdo and writing the e-mail,� she told the Chosun Ilbo. |
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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Whoa, what a f***ing ridiculous moron!
Get your priorities straight- family before two crappy rocks in the middle of nowhere that the rest of the world doesn't give a sh*t about!
She says it like she's proud she made the sacrifice of her son's health for the country. Idiot! |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone feel like calling Child Services in Canada? |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| My next vacation im heading to Dokdo. What can I do there? Do they have a nice golf course? How about some para-sailing? How about fruity drinks by the pool? |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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You can rent a bu8tter knife and a bucket and scrape bird shit off the rocks.
How about a raw fish sandwich?
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| My next vacation im heading to Dokdo. What can I do there? Do they have a nice golf course? How about some para-sailing? How about fruity drinks by the pool? |
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Passions
Joined: 31 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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She will rename her baby, Dokdo.
A new generation of children with names Kim Dok Do, Park Dok Do, Lee Dok Do will come.
FIGHTING! |
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One2many
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Quack Addict wrote: |
| My next vacation im heading to Dokdo. What can I do there? Do they have a nice golf course? How about some para-sailing? How about fruity drinks by the pool? |
Save your self a trip and just bask in the beauty here.
http://chascreek.blogs.com/a_doodle_a_day/images/more_rocks.JPG |
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newteacher
Joined: 31 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| One2many please change your avatar before I have nightmares. |
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One2many
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't like my speedo? |
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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: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Anyone feel like calling Child Services in Canada? |
I can just imagine the conversation:
Officer: Ma'am, it's our understanding that you deliberately neglected to take your sick child to the doctor. Is this true?
Dokdo Hana: You don't understand Korean culture.
Officer: We are in Canada, ma'am. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Dokdo Hana: Hey! I'm supposed to say that! Anyway, I'm Korean. Rules don't apply to me.
Officer: In Canada, rules apply ... to everyone.
Dokdo Hana. It's a cultural misunderstanding.
Officer: You son was sick. You deliberately did not take him to the doctor. What's there to understand?
Dokdo Hana: You don't understand how important this is!
Officer: A couple of barren rocks? You're right. I don't understand.
Dokdo Hana: We Koreans have "han." You are not Korean, so you can never understand "han."
Officer: "Han"? You mean "holding a grudge"? I hate to break it to you, but that's neither difficult to understand nor culturally unique. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| She says it like she's proud she made the sacrifice of her son's health for the country |
Hmmm. I wonder how French mothers felt in August 1914 when they sent their sons off to fight to get Alsace-Lorraine back. |
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taobenli
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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I think this is probably more a case of yet more terrible reporting from a Korean English newspaper than a case of child neglect. I think it is mostly low-quality reporting. I have met Hana Kim and her son (her husband is Canadian), and I'm sure she would do nothing to harm him. You know how Koreans go to the doctor for even minor things, even things Westerners would never think to go for (colds and such)? Her son probably had a little fever and she gave him medicine rather than take him to the doctor immediately. Also, I'm sure she was talking to the Chosun Ilbo in Korean and they translated it into English oddly, emphasizing a comment that she made off-handedly.
Really, I wouldn't defend her, but I know her- met her last summer. Also, she came across as a very rational person, not overly overly committed to the Dokdo issue (I met her at an academic conference). She probably just felt that she should alert the media and the public to something they would care about (whether or not we see this intense caring about Dokdo as making any sense or not) as part of her public responsibilities as a librarian. |
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