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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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 Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:39 am Post subject: Korea Times Essay Contest on Dokdo |
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(There's no link- only a popup that is there when you go to the Korea Times homepage- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/index.asp )
This is how the popup reads-
The Korea Times is holding an essay contest on Dokdo in cooperation with the Northeast Asian History Foundation to promote public awareness about the history of the rocky islets.
Koreans and foreign nationals, both in and out of Korea, are eligible to enter the contest titled "Why is Dokdo Korean Territory?" Applicants providing new pieces of evidence of Korea's sovereignty over the islets, including unpublished maps, photos and documents, will be given high marks.
The deadline for applications is Oct. 17. Submissions will be accepted online through email to [email protected].
Applicants are asked to submit an 800-word essay, a passport-size color photo (jpg. format), and a 50-word self-introduction. Inquiries will be answered only through the above email.
Winners will be given free round-trip tickets to Dokdo. Tickets are effective for one year. Overseas winners will also be given a free round-trip ticket from the airport nearest their home from which Korean-flagged airlines fly to Seoul.
Title: Why is Dokdo Korean Territory?
Submission: [email protected]
Deadline: Oct. 17
Prizes:
Grand: Plaque, five two-day round-trip tickets to Dokdo.
Golden: Plaque, four two-day round-trip tickets to Dokdo.
Silver: Plaque, three two-day round-trip tickets to Dokdo.
Bronze: Plaque, two two-day round-trip tickets to Dokdo.
Overseas winners will be given round-trip ticket from their home to Seoul. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Okay, folks, let's give it your best shot. I would love for a fake essay to win.
It's kind of a rip-off, though, that some gyopo in New York will get a roundtrip ticket to Seoul while all I'll get is a plaque and a trip to Dokdo. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Applicants providing new pieces of evidence of Korea's sovereignty over the islets, including unpublished maps, photos and documents, will be given high marks.
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Who has something like this lying around?  |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| I got some free time tomorrow afternoon, I can make an unpublished map. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| yeah....I'm Photoshoping one now. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
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Applicants providing new pieces of evidence of Korea's sovereignty over the islets, including unpublished maps, photos and documents, will be given high marks.
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Who has something like this lying around? |
lmao. Unpublished maps?
"Don't turn the map in for 1,000's of dollars or your name in a history book. No, just give it to us for a trip to a rock." |
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jangsalgida
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Could this be why my students have been asking me what I think about Dokdo while they were getting to know me?
I stay as clear away from my opinion(but I don't know much other than who I trust more/whom to believe) as I can knowing that a University Native English Prof. was fired for sharing opposing views. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Dokdo should belong to Korea just because nobody else in the world really cares, and so they will shut up about it. |
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Pooty
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Location: Ela stin agalia mou
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| SHANE02 wrote: |
| yeah....I'm Photoshoping one now. |
If you enter the contest and get published, it's worth at least a bottle of whiskey on me brother.  |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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I'll chuck in a hooker for anyone who manages to win a prize whilst including "Hub of Asia", "American beef", "Incheon Free Economic Zone", "Dynamic Korea", "Land of the Rising Sun", "the Great Emperor Hirohito", "All your Dokdo is belong to us" and a map which makes Dokdo look bigger than Okinawa in their entry.
Good luck! |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| someone should make a map and put "dokdo" around the isle and write sea of japan right next to it, and see the reactions. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| What a fricking joke. Anyone have any old maps of Korea depicting Dokdo accurately? Now is your chance to be a national hero on par with Guus Hiddink. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| Pooty wrote: |
| SHANE02 wrote: |
| yeah....I'm Photoshoping one now. |
If you enter the contest and get published, it's worth at least a bottle of whiskey on me brother. |
IF I enter, I'm in it to win it.
LOL  |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Korea Times Essay Contest on Dokdo |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| Applicants providing new pieces of evidence of Korea's sovereignty over the islets, including unpublished maps, photos and documents, will be given high marks. |
This suggests to me that the pre-existing evidence for Korea's claim to the islets is weak. Why would new evidence be required when, apparently, the evidence is already undisputable? |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Doek-Joek do belongs to Canada & Michigan, because we invade it biannually with beer, bondfires and guitars an Seopori Beach. We dub thee "party island"!! Oopse! Wrong one.
Dok-do - from the air, they look like a pair of cuff-links! |
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