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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Despite coming across as a computer generated program of reports from newspapers or wherever, RR does exist in human form.
check this link www.rrisarealperson.com
for further info...
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm, the link doesn't work. Does it have a photo of him frying burgers during his pre-Korea days? |
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Barking Mad Lord Snapcase
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
Dudes,
Stop wasting your breath about RR. He's clearly a mental case who loves to go off on the hand that feeds him. |
So what about the (mostly Korean) journalists who write the articles that he frequently links to? Can you say the same for them?
Can you say the same for the Korean author of "Seoul Searching"? |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Barking Mad Lord Snapcase wrote: |
| Yaya wrote: |
Dudes,
Stop wasting your breath about RR. He's clearly a mental case who loves to go off on the hand that feeds him. |
So what about the (mostly Korean) journalists who write the articles that he frequently links to? Can you say the same for them?
Can you say the same for the Korean author of "Seoul Searching"? |
For starters, he uses the press reports of a country he clearly dislikes. He's probably said don't trust the Korean press, bla bla bla, yet his only resource is the Korean press.
Plus, he's been in Korea for years yet continues to whine like some mental case about things here, sort of like a patient who goes to see his shrink every day about how terrible his seventh birthday party was. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yaya wrote,
"Plus, he's been in Korea for years yet continues to whine like some mental case about things here, sort of like a patient who goes to see his shrink every day about how terrible his seventh birthday party was."
Korea is wonderful. However,...
Foreigners Experience Difficulties in Living in Korea
"Even though Korea has achieved some degree of globalization in going abroad, it has still a long way to go for globalization in embracing foreigners inward," said foreigners residing in Korea. An official in the International Cooperation Division of Seoul City admitted, "The same complaints regarding visas, transportation, education, and environment are raised every year without being solved, due to the lack of cooperation from government agencies involved and their passive attitudes."
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2004070522448
(or if you prefer)
When in Rome,...
We live in an era where the escalating divorce rate, alcoholism, anxiety and depression affect the psyche of every Korean in some way or the other. Just about every Korean suffers from soul-deadening mental, physical or emotional tiredness.
Professor Chey would like Koreans to "look inside" and explore their inner worlds. When she returned from the United States nine years ago, she noticed a lot of anger and stress in Seoul. "Koreans tend to think the problem is caused by someone else, that it does not lie within the Self," she said.
"But first of all we must do complete self-examination. Our history testifies that Korean people have lacked serious self-examination," he [Professor Rhee Dong-shick] explained.
by Lizette Potgieter, Korea Times (March 18, 2004) http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200403/kt2004031817153511680.htm |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Yo, Real,
You quote the same damn stories all the time. Korea has its problems just like any other country -- they hardly need someone like you to whine about it.
Granted, I believe in freedom of speech but please, seek some professional help. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yo, Yaya,
"Back in Seoul, yipee!"
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:58 am Post subject: |
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It boils down to quality of life.
Korea 1200 sq foot house $300.000
USA 2200 sq foot house with a pool $160.000 (this in Florida and correct)
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Are you comparing like with like ot just using examples from Gangnam and comparing them to parts of the US that can't be considered analagous? Try comparing Manhatten with Gangnam. It's more appropriate. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| chiaa wrote: |
It boils down to quality of life.
Korea 1200 sq foot house $300.000
USA 2200 sq foot house with a pool $160.000 (this in Florida and correct)
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Are you comparing like with like ot just using examples from Gangnam and comparing them to parts of the US that can't be considered analagous? Try comparing Manhatten with Gangnam. It's more appropriate. |
I suppose I'd have to agree with Gwangjuboy that it would be a more appropriate comparison. But I can help shaking my head. What was Manhattan 30 years ago? The global financial capital and the commercial centre of the world's largest economy, as it still is. What was Gangnam? Rice paddies and shacks. What is it now? Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of Koreans who rightly see it as a proud and shining example of their country's rapid economic development. Me? I sometimes shudder to think I live in an age when these two places could ever be seriously compared on any criterion.
Nostalgia. That's what I want. Is that too much to ask? |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
| chiaa wrote: |
It boils down to quality of life.
Korea 1200 sq foot house $300.000
USA 2200 sq foot house with a pool $160.000 (this in Florida and correct)
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Are you comparing like with like ot just using examples from Gangnam and comparing them to parts of the US that can't be considered analagous? Try comparing Manhatten with Gangnam. It's more appropriate. |
I suppose I'd have to agree with Gwangjuboy that it would be a more appropriate comparison. But I can help shaking my head. What was Manhattan 30 years ago? The global financial capital and the commercial centre of the world's largest economy, as it still is. What was Gangnam? Rice paddies and shacks. What is it now? Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of Koreans who rightly see it as a proud and shining example of their country's rapid economic development. Me? I sometimes shudder to think I live in an age when these two places could ever be seriously compared on any criterion.
Nostalgia. That's what I want. Is that too much to ask? |
For a 10,000,000 won deposit I can rent a decent studio for 600k a month in Gangnam. I subway worker in the UK could afford that.
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Koreans Who Earned Doctorate Degrees in the U.S. Do Not Want to Return
More and more Korean scientists and engineers, who graduated from Korean universities and continued on to earn their doctorate degrees in the U.S., are working in the U.S. This can be interpreted as a worsening brain drain in the Korean science and technology sector.
According to the analysis, 73.9 percent out of the 901 Koreans who earned a doctorate degree in engineering, natural science, and bioengineering in 2004 in the U.S. wanted to remain. The figure is a 23.9 percent point increase from 50 percent in 1984.
Donga.com (December 19, 2006)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006121920558
Koreans Look Outward to Seek Better Life: Increasing Number of Technicians, Other Professionals Join Emigration Tide
By Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (October 27, 2004)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/special/200410/kt2004102718575545250.htm |
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