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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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 Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
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| If Busan were Seoul, you would have the same thing but in the south. I would prefer seeing a "4 corners" approach (Seoul Incheon, Gangwon?, Gwangju, and Busan) with a central hub band consisting of Daejeon and Daegu. Spread the wealth. Packing everything into Seoul or Busan, yuck, pooey, through it out the window. |
The megacity is typical of developing countries though (which Korea was while Seoul was becoming ginormous). Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Saigon, Taipei, Lagos, Mexico City, etc. All of these cities are preponderant, and not just because they're capitals. |
Not only developing countries, take a look at Europe. Usually one large city is the dominant city in countries like England, France, Italy, Poland... If Germany wasn't divided after the war I'm sure Berlin would have been much larger than what it is.
Canada and the US seem to be exceptions, due to geography. Both countries a physically huge, but you see pretty large regional cities. If you separated the US along regions those regional cities would probably be their dominant cities. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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If you look at population density I think you will see more of what I am getting at.
Shanghai is ranked 1 in overall population, but with a 7,174 population density.
Seoul is ranked 8 in overall population, but has a population density of 17,288!!
Only Mumbai and Delhi rank higher. In East Asia, Seoul is clearly the highest as far as population density is concerned.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/393438.html
[�Dispersing the population outside of the capital through balanced development is the way not only for the provinces to survive but for Seoul as well.�] |
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Jake_Kim
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Right now, it is the Chinese Politburo who is truly to blame.
They are refusing to reign in their ally in the north.
There is a lot of news reports where the Chinese are denying any influence over the North Koreans, but many of the main military trainers in North Korea are in fact CPLA soldiers and a lot of its modern equipment comes from China- North Korean rockets are made from Chinese components and built according to Chinese design.
Most of North Korea's natural gas and oil comes from China as well as many of the western luxury items used to reward ranking North Korean officials, are filtered into North Korea from both Macau and Hong Kong.
However, the US and Korea are also at fault as well. As I mentioned in another post- US, Korean and other aid provided from western NGOs have been diverted from the population to feed its 1.2 mln-strong military.
Also, a piece of irony- the Iran Millat bank that is situated downtown also has accounts from its North Korean clients, mostly from shell companies that do arms and technological sales in the middle east and southeast Asia. So, Korea is also at fault for allowing this bank to remain open even though it provides hard currency to the very people looking to destroy them. |
On the same note, it's a well-known fact that China-NK alliance - which is a mirror image of ROK-US alliance - comes down from Korean War as well. UN Forces did advance all the way north to Yalu River / Chinese border by the end of 1950. Chairman Mao and Chinese commies couldn't just sit on their sorry asses and intervened, hence causing the 'Retreat of January 4th' and the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, etc. Had the Chinese stayed put, there would've been no Kim Dynasty in the first place, even though the Cold War itself might have progressed somehow. But then, they say they had their soddy reasons. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| Personally, I blame George Bush. |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:53 am Post subject: |
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China was not the only Comintern country who contributed. As Jake_Kim mentioned, the alliance between China and North Korea mirrors the KORUS alliance, but every country that was a member of Comintern contributed- Romania and Bulgaria supplied clothing, food and tents to North Korean refugees, Mongolian, Czechoslovakian, Polish medical units provided field medical hospitals similar to M.A.S.H. units and the Soviet Union provided aerial combat support and reconnaisance for the KPLA and their CPLA units. Not to mention charitable contributions and intelligence information from Communist party affiliates in the US, Britain and Canada and other western countries.
Believe it or not, at this time, because of Czech and Soviet assistance during their struggle for independence in 1948, Israeli IDF members acted as advisors and observers with the CPLA- but this was before the US started to support Israel in the late-50's/early-60's (though you will never hear of their involvement during the Korean War). |
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