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Violinist loses $1.9m Stradivarius
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murmanjake



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jvalmer wrote:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/12/08/2010120800810.html

It's on a long term loan to the violinist. Looks like she grew up in London. Interesting thing is she seems to be a Korean in citizenship only, looks like she grew up in London. So I think she wasn't your typical naive Korean girl that would leave her purse on the table to get her sandwich. But then again it seems she had quite a privileged upbringing.


Now I'm more confused. What's with the original Reuters article which implied that the musician and the owner were two separate people?
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jvalmer



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

murmanjake wrote:
jvalmer wrote:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/12/08/2010120800810.html

It's on a long term loan to the violinist. Looks like she grew up in London. Interesting thing is she seems to be a Korean in citizenship only, looks like she grew up in London. So I think she wasn't your typical naive Korean girl that would leave her purse on the table to get her sandwich. But then again it seems she had quite a privileged upbringing.

Now I'm more confused. What's with the original Reuters article which implied that the musician and the owner were two separate people?

It's on loan, therefore the owner and user are two different people. Owner expects the violin back, probably been in the family for a long time and the owner wants it played.
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murmanjake



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jvalmer wrote:
murmanjake wrote:
jvalmer wrote:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/12/08/2010120800810.html

It's on a long term loan to the violinist. Looks like she grew up in London. Interesting thing is she seems to be a Korean in citizenship only, looks like she grew up in London. So I think she wasn't your typical naive Korean girl that would leave her purse on the table to get her sandwich. But then again it seems she had quite a privileged upbringing.

Now I'm more confused. What's with the original Reuters article which implied that the musician and the owner were two separate people?

It's on loan, therefore the owner and user are two different people. Owner expects the violin back, probably been in the family for a long time and the owner wants it played.


Makes sense.

Guess the original Reuters article was wrong(not just inaccurate) when it claimed the owner was Kym Min-Jin.

Dunno why I chose this of all things to nitpick...
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Stalin84



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why did they spell Kim with a y?
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flakfizer



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't feel too bad for her, though. I heard that ever since she lost the violin, she's kept her chin up.
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diver



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm....She's in on it, maybe?

Truckers used to set up their trucks to be "stolen" by the mob. Hell, maybe they still do...

And really? A $23,000 reward for a 1.9 million dollar violin? Yeah...THAT will make people want to turn it in.
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IMF crisis



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

flakfizer wrote:
Don't feel too bad for her, though. I heard that ever since she lost the violin, she's kept her chin up.

Laughing
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Mikejelai



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

probably an insurance scam
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