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andrew · Joined: 30 Jan 2003

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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Children hold up placards during a protest against distortions of regional history in Japanese textbooks in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the announcement of the textbook screening by the Japanese Education Ministry.
Chosun Ilbo (April 5,2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200504/200504050006.html

http://english.chosun.com/media/photo/news/200504/200504050006_00.jpg

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.
Do You Need Therapy?
by Lizette Potgieter, Korea Times (March 18, 2004)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200403/kt2004031817153511680.htm

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

What does "(no) Provocation to Dokdo" mean?

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

any day can be victim's day in Korea.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

Like if a tree fell on someone? That would be cool.

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Ah come on now. Tearing down somebody else makes you feel so good though...
Whatever way you get your self esteem Korea. Gawd, what an insecure country. Rolling Eyes

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

What an odd picture. I have never seen kids demonstrate before. And certainly not about something they don't understand. How many onlookers understood the word "provocation?"

How can other countries be the cause of the ongoing dissastification with one's current life as a Korean now living in Korea, having negligible if any contact at all with foreigners? Sure they US and Japan have a lot of power. But how does that really touch my life day to day, at work, at home with my family etc..? I must be messed up psychologically to blame people who live in other countries for the trouble I cause in my own life, or my inability to be happy.