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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:19 am Post subject: Korea: the only culture based on love/open-mindedness |
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It's true. Read it for yourself over at the herald:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/07/27/200907270021.asp
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He says Koreans need to step out into the world with the globalism and humanitarianism that is inherent in their long history.
Korea is the only culture in the world that is based on such teaching of love and global open-mindedness, and the Korean people, whose have grown up in such culture, have the most developed group conscience, he said. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Korea: the only culture based on love/open-mindedness |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
It's true. Read it for yourself over at the herald:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/07/27/200907270021.asp
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He says Koreans need to step out into the world with the globalism and humanitarianism that is inherent in their long history.
Korea is the only culture in the world that is based on such teaching of love and global open-mindedness, and the Korean people, whose have grown up in such culture, have the most developed group conscience, he said. |
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Is he living in the same South Korea as me? |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:31 am Post subject: Re: Korea: the only culture based on love/open-mindedness |
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Well, no. The professor says he wants to reintroduce Hongikingan back into Korean society because of the impression his students gave him of being lost and aimless. And we're talking about something that was advocated many centuries ago. As he says: Hongikingan was championed by Dangun, the founder of Gojoseon, the first kingdom in the Korean Peninsula in the B.C. 2333-B.C. 108 era.
With a suicide rate bordering on tragic, he's got the right attitude. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: |
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The professor has now become a school lion and students greet him or even offer to help him with his trash-picking, she said.
Birdsong also leads a campaign to send to North Korea packs of rice attached with short messages. |
This guy is quite a character. He has even become a lion.
I appreciate him trying to give his zombie-fied students a little spiritualism in the harsh modern culture of Korea. But I don't think Hongikingan can really be the key to world harmony.
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| I see myself as a mind coach for the Korean people who have lost a precious old spiritual value," he said. "The spirit of Hongikingan cannot be lost, for the sake of mankind, and I want to advise Koreans to go back to the root of their national culture." |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
This guy is quite a character. He has even become a lion.
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Sounds like the next Hogwan advertisement: Come! Let Korea transform you into a Lion! Lion Safari English Academy will help you get there! Come roar with us! Teaching English has never been so wild! |
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ytuque
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Location: I drink therefore I am!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:53 am Post subject: |
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He says Koreans need to step out into the world with the globalism and humanitarianism that is inherent in their long history.
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If this is so, why was Korea known as the Hermit Kingdom? |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Globalism, humanitarianism and love are probably the things that Korea lacks the most! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:28 am Post subject: |
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love for those other than family and close friends?  vs. indifference to those they haven't met
global in terms of perspective vs. nationalistic and inward looking
openmindedness vs. closed-minded and stubbornly so
I applaud the tactic of the guy in trying to find historical roots for a flower that ain't blooming much hereabouts these days. But... the "only" culture? that special, unique one-of-a-kind blanket statement is so typical of a closed-minded, nationalistic, inward-looking ignoramus. |
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ACT III
Joined: 14 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:39 am Post subject: |
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"When I learned that Hongikingan was a doctrine to practice love and dedication to the humanity, I immediately felt that this was not only the heart and soul of the 5 thousand-year-long Korean culture, but also a spiritual treasure for the entire world," he said.
Wasn't this a theme in "Atlas Shrugged"? If I remember correctly that didn't work out so well in the book... And back in the day I think they used to chop off the heads of any foreigners that ended up crashing on the shores... And even farther back they used to pay off China as a tributary state not so much for the peace of mankind but to prevent being conquered...
Am I missing something? |
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newinseoul
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Location: Busan
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The title is misleading..
I have met some nice, and loving Koreans. A few mind you, but I have met some kind people here. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| "whose have grown up"? Do they even proofread that rag? Sounds like my old students' essays. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| ytuque wrote: |
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He says Koreans need to step out into the world with the globalism and humanitarianism that is inherent in their long history.
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If this is so, why was Korea known as the Hermit Kingdom? |
You'll note that it is not a Korean or Koreans saying this, but a Westerner. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| newinseoul wrote: |
The title is misleading..
I have met some nice, and loving Koreans. A few mind you, but I have met some kind people here. |
That's completely meaningless. Name a country where you will not meet "some" people who are "nice and loving." |
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Elvis Gratton
Joined: 12 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Another foreign nut-job who couldn't possibly become a professor in any country that had standards? |
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backhand
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| Korea is the best in pretty much everything-better than Japan and USA. |
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