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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: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: First Korean Mad Cow Death (Netizens have bloody hands) |
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A pseudo-famous celebrity, former host of En-U [sic] entertainment show, committed suicide a few weeks ago in his car, but his body was just found yesterday.
Apparently (according to my K-wife) the guy's celebrity wife had said something negative about the candle-light Mad Cow vigilantes, and the Netizens were all over her, which resulted in the two celebrities' business going down the drain.
They had something like 4 mill in debt, and the netizen boycott worked.
So, the netizens have blood on their hands. Mad Cow netizens have now caused one celeb to kill himself. Still no deaths from meat, though. |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: First Korean Mad Cow Death (Netizens have bloody hands) |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
So, the netizens have blood on their hands. Mad Cow netizens have now caused one celeb to kill himself. Still no deaths from meat, though. |
no one causes anyone to kill them self, thats a complete personal decision.
id prefer to read this part of the article than blame some bloggers./....
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30755.html
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Ahn, who owned several bars, restaurants and shoe stores, was reportedly heading for bankruptcy and he recently had to sell a lucrative bar he owned in Gangnam as a last resort. It was revealed that he owed about 4 billion won to private moneylenders. The loan sharks had threatened his wife, calling on her to repay the debt. She had planned to meet with them Monday to discuss the issue.
Some observers said Ahn had long showed signs of suffering problems. A couple of weeks ago, he was sacked from his job as a TV presenter on the entertainment news program ETU, allegedly because he had missed several live broadcasts. Some media reported that he hid himself since then, but his agent explained it was merely an attempt to go on diet.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow. Hagye. Quite near where I used to live. |
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ellegarden
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Why did it take over a few weeks to find a dead body?
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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The gov't needs to put a law in place (or enforce one if they don't have one already) that makes it illegal for private money lenders to make more than a certain percentage if they loan out money. Have you seen some of those rates advertised on TV? We're talking 28 to 48 percent interest on late payments!
Rush-n-cashee... San-wha mohn-ee... they're of the devil.
I'll bet you my bottom won that politicians are getting money from those organizations somehow. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Every other commercial on TV is for some sort of quick loan service. It's a predatory practice, but usually on a very pretty small scale.
The thing that shocked me the most about this incident were the close-up shots of Sunny as she was being wheeled into the hospital on a gurney. You'd think they'd offer some sort of privacy protection...
Then again, this is the same country in which celebrities actually invite the media hoardes to their weddings and have a press conference/photo shoot for them during/before/after the ceremony. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| ellegarden wrote: |
| Why did it take over a few weeks to find a dead body? |
I would suspect it's not unusual to see Korean males sleeping off a morning, afternoon, or night of drinking and putting their cars in inappropriate places. And oh he's back again? Oh he just must have a hard job.
I bet you the car looked like this:
http://www.gokorea.info/rndimg/600moveit2.jpg
Just your old apartment guy slapping them on the car and never really noticing the dead bloated guy. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of mad cow nuts, I still get heckled in class with: "Mad Cow, Mad Cow."
I wish, by now, they could at least make a complete sentence.
Why you don't want to argue with Koreans, from the Korea Times:
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Drunken Man Attacks 3 After Argument Over US Beef
A drunken man attacked three men with a knife early Tuesday morning after an argument over the safety of U.S. beef, Yonhap News reported quoting police sources.
The victims, all in their 30s, were taken to a hospital but their injuries are not life-threatening, according to police.
The assailant, identified only by his family name Park, argued that U.S. beef is safe for consumption before assaulting the men just outside the Jogye Temple, headquarters of the country's largest Buddhist sect.
The victims are members of the Anti-Lee Myung-bak Cafe, an online community supporting organizers of the anti-U.S. beef protests who have been taking refuge since July in the Buddhist temple to evade arrest.
"A man approached arguing that Korean beef is more dangerous than U.S. beef, and then appeared to leave before coming back with a knife," a witness was quoted as saying.
Police said the suspect runs a restaurant near the temple and plan to seek an arrest warrant for Park on charges of attempted murder. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/113_30774.html
I sure hope this guy is not a foreigner. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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A guy commented on my site that the boycott of her products based on her comments about beef may have led to financial difficulties. It was bullshit that she was forced to "decide to retire" based on her comments, though I don't know if I'm ready to call his death Mad B S related just yet.
So what were her controversial comments?
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| Amid rising iron prices, some people have been stealing manhole covers. People participate in candlelit demonstrations over big issues such as mad cow disease, out of patriotism, but do not feel guilty over such small things as manhole theft, which is a crime. Who knows? Some of those steaming over the big issue and participating in the rally may be such small-scale offenders. |
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/06/117_25433.html
Everything's pretty much died down, aside form the odd loon as mentioned in the post above mine . . . in fact people are looking to blame PD Diary for all this, for getting them swept up, and for causing embarrassment to Korea. It's important to remember stories like this, and like the teacher who was disciplined for taking the other side in a beef argument at school, like the protestors who attacked cops with shovels and pipes, like the thousands who took to the streets screaming "살고싶다!" Let's hope it doesn't become easy to forget just how mad this mad bull shit was. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Gatsby wrote: |
Speaking of mad cow nuts, I still get heckled in class with: "Mad Cow, Mad Cow."
I wish, by now, they could at least make a complete sentence.
Why you don't want to argue with Koreans, from the Korea Times:
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Drunken Man Attacks 3 After Argument Over US Beef
A drunken man attacked three men with a knife early Tuesday morning after an argument over the safety of U.S. beef, Yonhap News reported quoting police sources.
The victims, all in their 30s, were taken to a hospital but their injuries are not life-threatening, according to police.
The assailant, identified only by his family name Park, argued that U.S. beef is safe for consumption before assaulting the men just outside the Jogye Temple, headquarters of the country's largest Buddhist sect.
The victims are members of the Anti-Lee Myung-bak Cafe, an online community supporting organizers of the anti-U.S. beef protests who have been taking refuge since July in the Buddhist temple to evade arrest.
"A man approached arguing that Korean beef is more dangerous than U.S. beef, and then appeared to leave before coming back with a knife," a witness was quoted as saying.
Police said the suspect runs a restaurant near the temple and plan to seek an arrest warrant for Park on charges of attempted murder. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/113_30774.html
I sure hope this guy is not a foreigner. |
With a family name of Park?
I like this guy's defense of US beef, but stabbing 3 guys with a knife is kinda weak. Why can't he make a lot of strongly worded posts on an internet message board like a real man? |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Everything's pretty much died down |
It may have died down, but it's not over. This was just the beginning.
Wait till Koreans start dying of vCJD. They will try to blame it on the Americans. That's why, I believe, Korea has been harassing the U.S. over BSE for the past five years. They were setting us up to take the fall.
Koreans are almost inevitably going to get vCJD because Korea imported the same contaminated cattle feed that was used in the UK and throughout Europe, and they continued importing it for years after Britain banned it as the suspected cause of its BSE outbreak.
That's why Korea refuses to test its own cattle properly for BSE.
The only other way out of this is if Korea fudges with its medical statistics in a conspiracy to cover up the outbreak -- precisely what it has accused the U.S. of doing. Easier to just blame the Americans, as usual.
And when Koreans die of vCJD, they are going to make sure we pay for it, with blood. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Gollywog wrote: |
They were setting us up to take the fall.
And when Koreans die of vCJD, they are going to make sure we pay for it, with blood. |
EVERYBODY PANIC! |
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it's full of stars
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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So let's pre-empt them.
If we kill one a week each, until the vCJD outbreak, then we may have the upper hand. What's that work out as? Say 45 a year, because we have holidays. Then multiply that by 10, isn't the incubation period 10 years? So 450-multiplied by 17000.
Somebody help me out here, 7,650,000, right?
If we factor in the Filipinos, then I think we have a winning plan. We, the ELTs, can have our own country, in just 10 years. We can make our passports and everything. |
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bangbayed
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| And when Koreans die of vCJD, they are going to make sure we pay for it, with blood. |
Yes, they believe we English teachers are responsible for pushing American meat down their throats, more so than, say their president. 
Aren't you late for your rehearsal, your highness? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Blaming the Internet warriors, maybe. Blaming the loan shark organisations who were threatening him daily, for certain.
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Rush-n-cashee...
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Or as I always say, Russian Cashee.
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I'll bet you my bottom won that politicians are getting money from those organizations somehow. |
Guaranteed. Didn't these businesses get their start from organised crime? I seem to remember reading they started right after Japanese occupation ended. |
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