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air76
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I don't think its some explosion of invention here or anything, just that its not a blank book here either. |
I don't think that it is a blank book....I was just saying that for a Korean to truly be able to express themselves and be outside-the-box thinkers that they generally need to leave Korea to do so.
I wasn't trying to say that Koreans are incapable of unique thoughts and ideas, people are people everywhere.....I was just saying that these ideas are not allowed to flourish in this society.
Conformity is revered here, not creativity. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
| She even had some b-list pop singers in her classes who would say they want to do something different, but unless you sing classical or K-pop you will be shunned by the industry. |
Feel sorry for those b-list pop singers. Their only real options are Korea or Asia, it's not like they'll be able to ply their trade in America where even singers from english speaking countries find it hard to break through. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Konglishman wrote: |
| My understanding was that the Japanese actually gave the red peppers to the Koreans just prior to the Imjin War as the Japanese thought the peppers were poisonous. |
So the Japanese were trying to harm Koreans  just like the Japanese tried to kill off the cherry blossoms in Korea after stealing them from here?? OMFG. I thought only Korean children believed this *beep*.
Now I'm doubting other historical things I know less about: their saying that sushi and women divers of Jeju were originally Korean but the Japanese took their ideas. Oh, and the kimono is a rip off of the hanbok. Koreans were in Japan before the Japanese were. Etc, etc. |
At SMOE spring orientation one of the speakers was a high school history teacher who basically said all Japanese culture comes from Korea. If the Korean children believe it, then the teachers are accountable for much of it. |
On some Japanes ESL board the Japan bashers are saying that everything in Japan comes from Korea/China and Japanese textbooks lie.
Meanwhile on the China board it plays out again only with Japanese/Mongolian/Indian stuff.
Then we get the Europe vs. Mideast screaming about who invented the Algebra theroem X or some sundial or the idea that the plague wasn't a divine happenstance.
Yawn. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
On some Japanes ESL board the Japan bashers are saying that everything in Japan comes from Korea/China and Japanese textbooks lie.
Meanwhile on the China board it plays out again only with Japanese/Mongolian/Indian stuff.
Then we get the Europe vs. Mideast screaming about who invented the Algebra theroem X or some sundial or the idea that the plague wasn't a divine happenstance.
Yawn. |
Could you please link us to a message board where the discussions in boldface are being held? I'd be quite curious to see such a thing. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
On some Japanes ESL board the Japan bashers are saying that everything in Japan comes from Korea/China and Japanese textbooks lie.
Meanwhile on the China board it plays out again only with Japanese/Mongolian/Indian stuff.
Then we get the Europe vs. Mideast screaming about who invented the Algebra theroem X or some sundial or the idea that the plague wasn't a divine happenstance.
Yawn. |
Could you please link us to a message board where the discussions in boldface are being held? I'd be quite curious to see such a thing. |
totallymadeupabudabiforum.com |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Korea's newest and biggest shopping center is called Times Square. Who was the creative genius behind that name? Yoido's premier apartment building is called Trump Tower. Keep the good ideas coming. When Koreans actually do go it alone in coming up with original names or slogans we get such gems as "hi seoul" and " korea sparkling". |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I don't think many say they only copy technology. They copy it and then improve/alter it. Therefore,one can have lots of patents. What South Korea lacks is truly original inventions. |
Just like the Japanese did and the Chinese are doing now! |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| TECO wrote: |
| curiousaboutkorea wrote: |
| Well, I don't think many say they only copy technology. They copy it and then improve/alter it. Therefore,one can have lots of patents. What South Korea lacks is truly original inventions. |
Just like the Japanese did and the Chinese are doing now! |
And Europe did from the 500-1500 AD from the Middle East and Chine. These things are all cyclical. Transfers of wealth and rise and fall of empires and that sort of thing. |
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