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[Real Reality]

New round of protests planned

A month-long tour of candlelight vigils in front of U.S. installations throughout Korea was launched yesterday near the U.S. Embassy in downtown Seoul. The organizer is the Pan-Korean Committee of civic groups, which staged last winter's series of vigils to protest the deaths of two Korean girls killed by a U.S. military vehicle.
"Nearly one year has passed since the two teenage girls' deaths, but the Status of Forces Agreement between South Korea and the United States has not been revised," a representative of the committee said.
On June 13, 2002, two Korean girls walking along a road were struck and killed by an armored vehicle during a training exercise. The driver and the track commander of the vehicle were court-martialed on charges of negligent homicide, but found not guilty. The acquittals triggered anti-American sentiment throughout Korea.

[matko]

Just another example of Korean overreaction to everything.

What else could anybody expect?

[Hank Scorpio]

Heh, Roh's already in the doghouse with the current US administration, 2ID's going to pack up and move further south, and they decide that this is the perfect time to flare up some new protests?

Give 'em enough rope, I guess.

[Marathe]

all we need now is ono (however you spell that speedskater's name) to visit and we're all in for it.

let it go people.

[Hank Scorpio]

[Marathe]

[Hank Scorpio]

[matko]

Actually, there is video tape of inproprieties by the Korean Judges (bribery) I can't find it though.

I remember that fight vividly. It was, at the time, considered one of the worst travesties in olympic history!!!!

[crazylemongirl]

[canada_don]

What kills me is that Korea has the second highest accident rate in the world and LOTS of kids die every year in car accidents. Maybe the USA is right to consider pulling out, Koreans burn American flags, insult foreigners they think are Americans and rip EVERYBODY off!

I wonder how long SK would last if the USA did pull out? At the very least, the 6% tax rate would rapidly become double digit! Koreans have made shooting yourself in the foot an artform!

[The Lemon]

[rudyflyer]

dont want to get too off topic but to clarify the Jones fight, when E Germany fell in 1990 and the Stasi records were opened it was discovered that the E Germans bribed the judges for that fight one of a number fixes set up by the E germans

BTW that Olympics had a Korean fighter who thought he won only to have the decision go the other way sit in the ring in protest for like an hour, everybody left and they turned off the lights and he just sat there, remember NBC and Marv Albert kept going back to it. That guy is considered a hero in Korean boxing circles now I read

[bucheon bum]

[Canadian Teacher]

It is, in my opinion, very unlikely the government will allow anything like what happened last year go on this year. Korea is still dealing with the economic fallout and money is all that really matter to most Koreans. The demonstrations last year got Pyongyang's man elected and the mobs are no longer useful to Comrade Noh.I have been following Voice of People and have noticed that they are not getting many hits anymore. Voice of People is the mouthpiece of PSPD, the ultra-nationalist "NGO" that caused all the trouble last year.

As a VERY interesting aside, internet new portal OhMyNews (aka OhMyLies) has now turned against Comrade Noh. They were his biggest supporter last year and he gave his first post election interview to them. They were livid that Comrade Noh sucked ass so hard in his Washington trip, agreeing 100% to the US agenda. Washington rewarded him with a news confrence and a vague promise to not move 2ID.

You can bet that any new hate orgy will set 2ID on the road pretty fast.

[Marathe]