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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject: Extended Warm Spell |
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2004/12/16 16:24 KST
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By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- With tropical air hindering the Siberian cold front, the Korean Peninsula is experiencing warmer-than-usual weather this winter, irritating domestic seasonal businesses and health authorities, experts said Thursday. |
I read this on the yonghap news agency website, however I can't understand why health authorities are so irritated over warm weather. Is it because they are missing out on frostbite cases? |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Not enough people will get sick.
Doc needs the $$ for his new Audi. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:02 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes..global warming continues..just see what it will be like ten years from now, we are in huge trouble:)
Ok go back to your fun threads... |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| Hell... If this is global warming... Where's my SUV? |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Gollum wrote: |
Not enough people will get sick.
Doc needs the $$ for his new Audi. |
That'd be the Daewoo Audi then....??? |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Ha, saw one in Lotte Dept Store on display and the thing looks like a Honda selling for 86,000,000 won.
Stupid stupid stupid |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| Freezing my frigging bum off tonight. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Brrrraving the chill
The temperature in Seoul fell yesterday to minus 5.5 degrees centigrade (22 degrees Fahrenheit), making for a real winter day.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200412/20/200412202326045779900090409041.html
"Citizens are advised to bundle up as a cold continental pressure front is currently expanding over the peninsula," the KMA official said, advising people to take special care of their health and of facilities.
Cold Spell to Prevail Over Peninsula Till End of Week by Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (December 20, 2004)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200412/kt2004122015351210220.htm
"The Siberian high pressure is likely to influence the nation for a while, so citizens are advised to dress warmly, and farmers and maintenance workers at facilities should guard against possible damage by the cold spell," the Korea Meteorological Administration said.
Cold spell hits nation by Lee Sun-young, Korea Herald (December 21, 2004)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/12/21/200412210021.asp
If you are a non-citizen, then ....
citizen
1. A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
2. A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
3. A civilian.
4. A native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place: ��We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community�� (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=citizen |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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What happen to the EXTENDED warmth spell!?!?!?!
It's COLD! |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Citizens in heavy coats and mufflers brave the coldest day of the season in Seoul, Monday.
Chosun Ilbo (December 21, 2004)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200412/200412200036.html
If you are a non-citizen, then ....
citizen
1. A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
2. A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
3. A civilian.
4. A native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place: "We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community" (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=citizen |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
What happen to the EXTENDED warmth spell!?!?!?!
It's COLD |
Its over. Like this all week apparently with a tiny respite on Friday.
Its cold enough down here in the south, I don't feel sorry for you guys up in Seoul. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| It's brass monkeys in Seoul. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
Ah yes..global warming continues..just see what it will be like ten years from now, we are in huge trouble:)
Ok go back to your fun threads... |
Palm Trees in Alaska!!
Los Angeles entirely submerged!!
Hey, one has to look on the bright side. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Let's Wear Underclothes
As part of their energy conservation drive, civic groups
are waging street campaigns in Seoul on December 21,
urging people to wear underclothes to ward off cold weather.
Temperatures went below zero celcius in most of South Korea.
Yonhap News
http://bbs.yonhapnews.co.kr/board/0218000000.asp?boardid=1129 |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Let's Wear Underclothes
As part of their energy conservation drive, civic groups
are waging street campaigns in Seoul on December 21,
urging people to wear underclothes to ward off cold weather.
Temperatures went below zero celcius in most of South Korea.
Yonhap News
http://bbs.yonhapnews.co.kr/board/0218000000.asp?boardid=1129 |
Yeah, those skinny red Korean Santas do look pretty jerky, but these annual "let's all wear longjohns" campaigns accomplish little besides giving civic groups a reason to come downtown, horse around for a few hours, and then go off and get blitzed in overheated restaurants & noraebangs. Or so say the girls I know who've actually particpated. Some years they sell cut-rate sets of under-jammies, but it's just a pretense for gathering in central Seoul for their own own ����ȸ (year-end bash).
The reality, Reality, is that any Korean who can afford it will blast the thermo and complain a house is too cold if they can't run around in their undies in the dead of winter. Those Koreans who can't afford it will huddle under piles of blankets till spring comes. |
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