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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:57 am Post subject: Man drinks poison, demands respect for scientist Hwang |
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Man drinks poison after demanding respect for disgraced scientist
A drunken man in this South Korean city swallowed poison Thursday after demanding that the country's disgraced stem cell pioneer, Hwang Woo-suk, be respected and saved from possible criminal punishment, police said.
Yonhap News (January 19, 2006)
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20060119/910000000020060119190830E8.html |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Did he die?
Sparkles*_* |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| I hope others who share his outrage follow his example. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| hub nubbin' good. The gene pool is that much cleaner. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| That crazy bugger deserves a 'Darwin Award'. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Sick. Sad. Stupid.
This is what happens when an overly-proud Korean nationalist doesn't want to face a truth too difficult to bear? |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Not only that, he poured it for himself. How rude! |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Further proof Hwang should consider becoming a cult leader. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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You've got to hand it to the Koreans. When it comes to weirdo's and freaks, they're definitely amongst the world's premiere nations.
... actually I'd imagine that you could tell a lot about a country by examining the various symptoms and phycotic natures of the mentally challenged. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| BigBlackEquus wrote: |
Sick. Sad. Stupid.
This is what happens when an overly-proud Korean nationalist doesn't want to face a truth too difficult to bear? |
Sick, sad and stupid, yes, but not entirely outside the cultural script. Der... sorry, BBE, you had that thread a while back asking for recollections of the "IMF Crisis" from posters who were in Korea then, right? Well, your post here has jogged my memory banks, and this popped out.
It was a financial crisis, and it was the financial sector that took the brunt of the job-cutting bloodshed through consolidation and shuttering of many banks (commercial banks, a lot of the regional banks which no longer exist, the merchant banks who played a key role in triggering the crisis) brokerages, and others.
As I or other posters on your IMF thread may have mentioned, once the Korean government stopped denying the size and seriousness of the problem and realised it had no choice but to work with the IMF and take its medicine, news and events of the meltdown began flying too thick & fast to process.
You had the typical organised street protests against the IMF-prescribed restructuring that was to come, and there were of course the suicides that were related to the crisis, just as there was a rash of rooftop-jumpers in Wall Street following the great stock market crash of 1929. But we also saw some tragicomic "feel-good" antics that were uniquely Korean.
It seems everyone today knows about the gold-collecting drive (which incidentally drove down world gold prices, limiting the effectiveness of the whole undertaking). It was in the midst of all this that a group of... were they KSE employees? staff from one of the brokerages? I can't remember now, but these guys would gather in the (cold! winter) mornings before work and hold this bizarre tribal shouting ritual. They'd all cover their ears with their palms, slam their eyes shut, and just start screaming stuff -- "NO IMF!!! KOREA FREE!!" and other blah-blah of the "I'm not listening! I can't hear you!! I can't see you! Watch, I can make all the bad things go away -- see?!!" sort. IMF primal scream therapy?
Gosh, I wish I had some of the photos I clipped from newspapers handy to scan & post.  As I recall, one of the photo captions actually contained the word "ostriches".  But it was right there in Yoido near the Exchange, and I have a "mental videoclip" that will never be erased.
Now, just how outlandish was that really? Seemingly not very, considering the far more colourful anti-IMF/WTO/globalisation protesters in their grease paint, clown suits, Darth Vadar garb and Mediaeval chain mail of spirited opposition. But if not properly "outlandish", there was definitely something more unsettling in the sight of these (undoubtedly) well-educated, possibly even foreign-educated Korean money-men in their pricey tailored suits & designer neckties, baying as it were like wolves at the moon for things and forces they cannot see and cannot control. "Mommy, why is Daddy on TV news screaming and shouting like a crazy man?" As unsettling as it was funny. 
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Reflections
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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One would hope that kinda behavior catches on in mass.
Bucket loads of poison spiked with Something Special whiskey and OB beer (to give it a better taste) downed 'poktan style' at a nightime Gwangwhamun ralley (the real poison is the Korean alcohol).
Then one would naturally assume in this particular instance that the riot police would be confronted with a 'different kinda' problem.
I would take the 2nd floor vantage at Burger King and munch on my whopper (minus tomato - kinda soggy) and fries and enjoy the view. Coke on the side.
Camera poised.
Never know, could provide for a thrilling nightimes entertainment. Even take a date along for the ride.
Just jokes of course ^^.... |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| dbee wrote: |
You've got to hand it to the Koreans. When it comes to weirdo's and freaks, they're definitely amongst the world's premiere nations.
... actually I'd imagine that you could tell a lot about a country by examining the various symptoms and phycotic natures of the mentally challenged. |
Yes, the hub of crackpots in Asia.
Then again, the US has more than its fair share of cults and weirdos. Maybe it's because if you want to start a cult, you might as well start one where the money is. Heck, you might even be granted tax exemption like one UFO pseudo-scientific one that will remain unnamed. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Good. Did he die? I hope so. We'll unfortunately have to wait for these types to die out before Korea makes any real social progress. |
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ticktock
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| dbee wrote: |
You've got to hand it to the Koreans. When it comes to weirdo's and freaks, they're definitely amongst the world's premiere nations.
... actually I'd imagine that you could tell a lot about a country by examining the various symptoms and phycotic natures of the mentally challenged. |
well God help the country you come from...  |
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