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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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Len8
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| Was an article in the newspaper about other countries that had impeached their leaders. I seem to remember them as being Paraguay, Indonesia, The Philipines and a few others. Korea now ranks up there with the worst of them. |
Please don't forget the U.S.A.- impeaching William Jefferson Clinton. And, of course, the 2000 election coup d'etat.
Korea is in good company, indeed. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I wouldn't trust any of these parties, much less the Uri party. No one comes to power in a country by being open and moral. No politician trusts an honest politician, as they're just too unpredictable. A Korean political party exists solely to boost the fortunes of its founding candidate and, anyway, they usually have the average lifespan of a trout-stream mayfly hatch. |
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indiercj
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| animalbirdfish wrote: |
| I wouldn't trust any of these parties, much less the Uri party. No one comes to power in a country by being open and moral. No politician trusts an honest politician, as they're just too unpredictable. A Korean political party exists solely to boost the fortunes of its founding candidate and, anyway, they usually have the average lifespan of a trout-stream mayfly hatch. |
Don't judge too fast. Let's just wait and see. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
| Okay, everybody behaved badly in parliament those two days, but if you look at the rest of the world, most coup d'etats turn very bloody and people die, here they threw shoes- put it into perspective. |
Actions not befitting of the world's 14th largest economy in the 21st century. That's the only perspective I can see. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Mosley
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| True, desultude...in the immediate present. But as someone else suggested, democracy and the rule of law are very recent developments in S. Korea. Those developments, therefore, are very fragile. Coups, martial law, assassinations...are in VERY recent memory. That's why a lot of the concern about ROK's political state is valid, regardless of what side of the ideological fence one may sit. |
I absolutely agree. Its just that people here-in have been comparing the legislators to monkeys and such, but what would we have done in the face of the opposition overthrowing our government? Under the circumstances, their behavior was understandable. It wasn't a debate over some obscure policy, what was happening was huge, and the response was proportional. |
Nonsense. They attempted to hijack the will of a democratically elected assembly. Lets talk about proportionality when it becomes relevant. |
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