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South Korea is in danger of becoming the most xenophobic....
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Purcell's stuff is usually written to make Korea sound like hell-on-earth for foreigners, for what purpose I'm not sure. A few years back he was posting stuff about how awful Itaewon is, and if I recall it basically came down to saying that there are sleazy bars with lots of drunks and hookers wallowing about. It's the kind of thing that would seem really down and dirty to someone who's never moved out of the suburbs, which I suspect is Purcell's target audience.

Now, as for this latest masterpiece:

Korean manufacturers complained when a British TV show criticized Korean cars? I fail to see anything sinister about this. The manufacturer's are responsible for maintaining a good rep for their products, so if the cars get criticized in the media, of course they're gonna want to repsond.

The Oprah controversy? Please. That lasted for about two days. I don't think I've heard or read a single thing about it since.

Some unnamed guy in some unnamed embassy doesn't like Korea? I'd imagine it's pretty easy to find disgruntled embassy employees in any country who don't like where they're stationed.

And so on and so forth. Other posters have mentioned his attempt to make the anti-ESL thing sould like an escalating issue. As for me, I do find it odd that the article makes no mention of the SBS program, which leads me to think that he wrote the thing shortly after the "Playboy" controversy broke and didn't bother revising it.

My theory: Purcell started out as a writer during the Ohno-World Cup-martyred-schoolgirls era, and figured he had stumbled upon a foreign correspondent's wet dream. Here indeed was the stuff of screaming headlines: RIOTS! FLAG-BURNING! SOLDIERS ASSAULTED!! PANIC IN THE STREETS!! Of course Korea eventually settled down, but that hasn't stopped our low-rent Edward R. Murrow from trying to relive what passed for his glory days.
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darrin312



Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Location: Kyopoville
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
canuckistan wrote:
I remember some guy and his Korean Fight Club post on another website. He bragged about setting up/baiting random Korean guys and then beating them with his western "gang" 4-on-1 style by surprise.
Sound familiar?


Link?
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little mixed girl



Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
meh, i'm still planning on going back.
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
darrin312 wrote:
canuckistan wrote:
I remember some guy and his Korean Fight Club post on another website. He bragged about setting up/baiting random Korean guys and then beating them with his western "gang" 4-on-1 style by surprise.
Sound familiar?


Link?


Sorry, no link, but it wasn't that long ago you (PK) wrote that on one of Big Bill's boards. Plenty of us around who remember that. Pretty sick really. And so isn't it ironic you're now posting a concerned-about-violence-towards-foreigners "article" here.

Maybe you should have followed the first rule of Fight Club Laughing
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Derrek



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
indiercj wrote:
What a nice little piece of crap.

It beats the SBS report hands down.

I bet that Purcell guy wrote it on his way home from Itaewon at 4AM. Laughing



Are you nuts? Oh, no, wait... you are one of those nationalistic Koreans. That report is dead-on truth, and we all know it. The SBS report was hardly truthful. This is full of facts. How can you even compare them?

I'm also laughing at the apologists, at least two of which have posted recently above this post.
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darrin312



Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
canuckistan wrote:
Sorry, no link


Hmmm, no link? So you could basically say whatever you want here, but cant back it up? How about you STFU then canuckgirl? Wink

Have a nice day! Wink
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canuckistan
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
darrin312 wrote:
canuckistan wrote:
I remember some guy and his Korean Fight Club post on another website. He bragged about setting up/baiting random Korean guys and then beating them with his western "gang" 4-on-1 style by surprise.
Sound familiar?


Link?


Have I hit a nerve? Thank you for taking the time to respond to my initial post, which could have been directed at anyone in this thread hey. I knew YOU would jump on it though.
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darrin312



Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
canuckistan wrote:
darrin312 wrote:
canuckistan wrote:
I remember some guy and his Korean Fight Club post on another website. He bragged about setting up/baiting random Korean guys and then beating them with his western "gang" 4-on-1 style by surprise.
Sound familiar?


Link?


Have I hit a nerve? Thank you for taking the time to respond to my initial post, which could have been directed at anyone in this thread hey. I knew YOU would jump on it though.



I responded with a one word question "Link?" as I was a bit surprised that a mod here would be responding to the original post that way. I wanted others here to be able to read of this thing you supposedly were describing. Unfortunately, you could not produce the link, so I then pointed out that you could be claiming anything and there would be no way to verify it, which got me some more of the famous mod courtesy to the users here. Way to go!
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indiercj



Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep. This thread is going down.

Now. Keep fishing.
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Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not hard to believe that many koreans would rip on foreigners. You only