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ed4444
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 Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:17 am Post subject: Jeju the busiest island in the world!!!!! |
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Nice bit of journalism here. Well done to the Chosun Ilbo as usual 
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/11/14/2011111401014.html
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| The number of tourists to the island totaled 940 million last year, and that is expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2020 |
Just to put that into perspective
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| France attracted 78.95 million foreign tourists in 2010, making it the most popular tourist destination in the world |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps that's since the dawn of time? |
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itistime
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:39 am Post subject: |
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like, whoa!
lotta people  |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:38 am Post subject: Re: Jeju the busiest island in the world!!!!! |
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| ed4444 wrote: |
Nice bit of journalism here. Well done to the Chosun Ilbo as usual
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/11/14/2011111401014.html
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| The number of tourists to the island totaled 940 million last year, and that is expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2020 |
Just to put that into perspective
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| France attracted 78.95 million foreign tourists in 2010, making it the most popular tourist destination in the world |
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totaled 940 million ( I suppose that is since 1900?)
The figure i know is around 8 million since January. |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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It's a 'lost in translation' thing-- we all know how confused Koreans get with large numbers in English...   |
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eamo
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| thrylos wrote: |
| It's a 'lost in translation' thing-- we all know how confused Koreans get with large numbers in English... |
True.....which I find weird because I pretty much got the Korean big numbers down pat after just a few months living in Korea......is there something inherently difficult about the western numbering system if you're coming from the Korean one?
I find myself having to correct pretty fluent Korean English speakers often on their big numbers......yet I speak Korean at a very basic level, but have no problem with the numbers. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah they mix up "million" and "billion" all the time...or at least that's been my personal experience.
I think there's three (or more) extra zeros in there somewhere. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| thrylos wrote: |
| It's a 'lost in translation' thing-- we all know how confused Koreans get with large numbers in English... |
True.....which I find weird because I pretty much got the Korean big numbers down pat after just a few months living in Korea......is there something inherently difficult about the western numbering system if you're coming from the Korean one?
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Well it is a bit different. For example their "million" is quite literally 100 ten thousand(s) whereas we use a totally different term from "100 or 10,000"...we say a "million". So they link two everyday numbers together whereas we use a different word to express "million."
That's my theory on it anyway...  |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| ....which I find weird because I pretty much got the Korean big numbers down pat after just a few months living in Korea......is there something inherently difficult about the western numbering system if you're coming from the Korean one? |
I still get confused when it goes up to 억's. Nothing to do with Korean, just too many zeros. What a pointless load of numbers! |
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I still think they got something wrong or they're counting everyone that came to Jeju in a year as a tourist.
940 million is 940,000,000. That's almost 80,000,000 people a month. That's 30 million more than the entire population of Korea in one month. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
I still think they got something wrong or they're counting everyone that came to Jeju in a year as a tourist.
940 million is 940,000,000. That's almost 80,000,000 people a month. That's 30 million more than the entire population of Korea in one month. |
I was thinking the same. I've been to Jeju and it couldn't bear 8 million in a month- forget 80 million. I think they are counting every tourist and family member, businessperson, stewardesses.... |
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ed4444
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it is the number of tourists that have arrived since 1653 when Hendrick Hamel first washed ashore on the island paradise and immediately initiated the count at 36 (or 64 if you include the dead bodies!!!!).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Hamel |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, China does have a lot of people. |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:07 am Post subject: |
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This story shocked me enough to send an email to the address listed in the article. After 30 seconds of 'research', I was tickled by the fact that the UNWTO (Tourism organization) quoted
"Out of a global total of 940 million tourists, the top ten international tourism destinations in 2010 were (see the barometer for the full rankings)"
Yeah, it's sooo realistic that about 98% of global tourism visited the second (third)-rate destination of Jeju...
I gave 'em an earful, will gladly post the reply (if it isn't babelfished) |
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ed4444
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Given that integrity is not exactly a cornerstone of the Korean media, I am not sure what you will achieve but good luck. Lets us know how you get on. |
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