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freethought
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Sergio Stefanuto
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Sorry to sound rude (this is actually intended as a polite, constructive request).
In future, can you please give some indication as to your thread's topic in the title (for example, Korean Air Force condemns unpatriotic maps). If you absolutely must name a thread 'too funny' or 'lol' or 'check this out', perhaps give some indication as to what your thread's about in your OP?
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if the OP thinks it's funny that the maps had the wrong names, or it's funny that some Koreans are upset about it.
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The Air Force's F-15K fighter jets carried some digital map information that is at odds with their mission to defend the country, it has emerged. The jets carried digital maps that referred to Korea's Dokdo Islets either by their Japanese name "Takeshima" or as "Liancourt Rocks," the East Sea as "Sea of Japan," and Mt. Baekdu in Chinese as "Changbaishan" -- all names that are red rags to many patriotic Koreans.
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I think it's safe to say that, if ANY country were using military maps that referred to disputed territory by the rival country's preferred names, the government wouldn't be too happy about it.
And if it's supposed to be funny that Korean jets were using the wrong names to begin with...
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The Army geospatial-intelligence corps, which is in charge of making maps for the Korean armed forces, has asked the U.S. on as many as nine occasions at bilateral geospatial-intelligence conferences since 2002 to correct the misnomers, "Takeshima" and "Sea of Japan," but to no avail.
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So, assuming this is true, the fault is Boeing's, and the Koreans have done pretty much all they possibly could to remedy the situation. |
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freethought
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It's funny when someone/a country takes out full page ads in the NYT over the naming issue, when exchange students in the US shave 'Dokdo is Korean' into the side of their head when an American teacher says sea of japan in class, when a people are absolutely delusional over the topic and often contradicting themselves in the process (they claim it has always been east sea etc, and wont accept Sea of Japan, but when Italy--or another EU nations-- says they support dual naming they say that nation is right, even though they are going against their own stated position).
The arguments against their position are well known and don't need to be rehashed here. But if they were at all rational about the issue it wouldn't be funny. But the level of hysteria that it raises means something like this is funny. Or, I should say, it's funny to me. Kinda like when a sports team says they're the best etc, and no one thinks so. Then they get their 'butts' handed to them. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| But the level of hysteria that it raises means something like this is funny. |
Well, it would be a lot funnier if they had made the maps themselves. But they didn't. They got the maps from Boeing, who had gotten them from the American government. And the American government had placed the alleged misnomers on the maps despite repeated protests from the Korean military. |
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