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[in_seoul_2003]

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/10/117_32671.html

This is just so strange on so many levels. How many nobel prizes were won with the winners specifically setting out to win them? Rather than being 'taken' by the momentum of the research and its implications, why the silly focus on the Nobel? Obviously a spectacle for domestic consumption: why on earth would foreigners care when 99.9% of them couldn't rap off a single name from a list Nobel Laureates from their own countries?

I predict it wont happen for the simple reason that when Koreans usually set their minds to making global prowess or top-ten lists they usually fail... dismally (mentioned in the papers one day and then never heard of again):

--Fashion leaders? Nope.
--Urban style leaders? Nope.
--Top universities? Nope.
--Top hotels? Nope.
--Top tourist destination? Nope.
--Business hub? Nope.

And on and on. In other words, if they want to win one, don't try so hard to win one.

To say nothing of the fact that shouldn't care either way, hence, how does Korea ammend all its jingoistic/nationalistic crap to essentially sucking off and enveloping their psyches with adoration for every prestigious symbol from other countries?


Lee Jang-moo
SNU President
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter

The state-run Seoul National University (SNU) said it will launch a project to nurture a Nobel laureate from the school.

In a speech to celebrate the school's 62nd anniversary, SNU President Lee Jang-moo said university members should seek to win the award as neighboring countries Japan and China have already seen many Nobel Prize laureates. ``If our faculty, alumni and supporters closely network and put their hands together for the goal, I�m confident that SNU faculty and graduates can attain the award, which all Korean people are dreaming of,'' Lee said.

Lee requested SNU members to design a long-term master plan and give full support to it. He also stressed three words, ``openness�� to accept foreign culture and talent; ``flexibility,�� for each department to cooperate and change the formation of its organization; and ``excellence�� in order to solve problems facing mankind.

As conditions for the three key requirements, Lee stressed the importance of autonomy. ``The government's policy to incorporate state-run universities is the most efficient plan to make the university a world top school,'' he said.

However, the president�s address lacked a specific action plan and ways to raise funds for the project.

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[poet13]

I think I should apply there and present myself as a strategy planner for the Nobel award.

On another note, I was in Cambodia ...or Laos with my first wife and a team from Medicine sans Frontiers (doctors without borders) won their Nobel. No woo-hooing there. They stopped for a moment, shook each others hands, and just went back to work.

[seoulsucker]

If they develop a Nobel Prize for "Shooting Yourself in the Foot" then Korea would have a lock.

Seriously...by announcing this, they have set themselves up to fail by showing that they have more of an interest in the award than the valuable knowledge that comes with the research.

If they ever do win a Nobel, their endzone celebration will make Chad Ocho Cinco's moves look like Stephen Hawking's.

[Beej]

The Koreans are forgetting that they already lied, cheated, and scammed their way to a Nobel Peace Prize. Do you think the Nobel committee will be willing to give them another award after that sham of a debacle.

[moosehead]

another simple point they seem to have missed - the Nobel is awarded to indivdiuals, not countries.

it could very well be a Korean living in America, Canada, the UK, i.e., outside of K who could win one - or share in the award -

what then? (well some of us can guess)

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[Beej]