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[shantaram]

http://www.dynamickorea.go.kr/News/News/newsView.asp?serial_no=20080711014&part=113&SearchDay=2008.07.11&page=1&source=

I'm willing to bet no-one gives a crap about Dok-do on these boards.

I certainly don't.

I teach Korean and Japanese students in Canada. They're smart enough not to get hooked up on all this boring propaganda (I hope).

The debate over Dok-do has some merit. There is a discrepancy over maritime boundaries between Korea and Japan. But what Korea is doing is to make the issue into some kind of joke. It isn't the rocks that is important, it is the surrounding sea. Well then I say to Korea make the issue about the surrounding sea, not the stupid rocks that nobody in their right mind would care about.

Furthermore, South Korea should realise that it isn't the only country in the world with a maritime boundary dispute, and acting like some kind of chronic victim makes people feel less sympathy for its cause.

Dok-do brings out the worst in South Korea's character in my opinion. It brings out the same needy, take-me-seriously self-pity and irrationality that I see in the most wretched characters on the peninsula. This issue, which ought to be a reasonable debate about a maritime issue, inflates those base emotions onto the world stage and makes Korea look like a pathetic confused victim.

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the funny thing is, if you were teaching japanese students, i doubt they'd even know takeshima existed. very few japanese people i meet know about it.

i have said it before - dokdo should be taken from koreans as punishment for acting like children. or at least be grounded from dokdo for 2 weeks.

[komtengi]

does the fact that its a rock and not land alter anything??
can there be an issue over rocks? aren't they something that can't be claimed by a country?

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