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[fidel]

Anyone else hear an echo in here

[Derrek]

[desultude]

Yeah, by the way, I saw the way you gracefully and humbly accepted my apology on the other thread. You are just one class act, you are.

I live in a land where I often disagree and am disagreed with- RESPECTFULLY.

Your credibility and face, at this moment, is zero.

[Derrek]

[Cymro]

Anyone's who's dated a k-girl knows they don't freely nor willy-nilly splash out with their apologies.

If I remember correctly, Michael Breen said in his book that for a Korean to apologise was like saying "hang me" (or words to that effect).

I understand it's a different way of doing things here, where saving face is all so important and it's something I've learnt to put up with. Actually, I find it quite amusing to watch some people's fine display of lying.

The denial of any wrongdoing by obviously guilty people seems a lot more prevelant here than at home and the Koreans I've spoken to don't disagree much. It's then that I point out they're not too different from the few Japanese who try and cover up their country's past evils.

You've got to just laugh!

[mindmetoo]

Yeah. If there's one thing people around the world agree on, it's when America is wrong, America admits it. Not like those Koreans.

[scarneck]

[Konundrum]

I've always contended that it's the Confucian thing again. In my interactions with the natives, older, "superior" beings, often have a hard time admitting they're wrong to inferiors.
I also think this is one of the things that keeps the North from following suit with all the other communist regimes that either crumbled or modified their ideologies to accomodate some economic growth. If they go down now, it'll be like admitting they were wrong...also makes me think they may start something just to get it over with. If they are soundly crushed by the Capitalist Imperials, they won't have to admit anything....