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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| It's hard to believe no German food will be available for a month. Are ALL the German restaurants shutting down for a month just because McDonald's and Budweiser are sponsors? If so, no wonder the Germans are complaining!!! |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: Gonna snap! |
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The whole Korean love affair with noise combined to this Red Devil extremism is driving me crazy. It's bad enough that every Monday morning at my elementary school the loudspeakers blare the announcements at full throttle, both inside and outside the school. Now they've added the Korean Re Devils noise to the mayhem. They've just played the Silpung Korea song three times in a row at full level, followed by inexplicably loud talking/yelling into the microphone.
What's with Korea's obsession with noise? Even the fans at the sports games with their unmelodic and aggressive chants accompanied by loud percussion instruments.
I hate second-hand noise of any sort, andi this soccer noise is just too much. Even yesterday at the movies I had to endure Taehanmingook chants in the previews etc. before the movie.
I hope they go home tomorrow if, for no other reasaon, to get a respite from the obnoxious noise. |
Sounds to me like indoctrination. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Free World wrote: |
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| I wonder how many Korean soccer players are enjoying German food??? hahaha!!! I'd like to see how much ramyon they had to take with them. I guess the US players have been busy looking for the nearest Burger joint. Americans and Koreans: so similar when they travel. GEEZ!!! I like food from all over the world!!! |
German food? Where? McDonald's is the official food sponsor for the world cup and budweiser is the official beer sponsor. If anyone is upset with the food and beer selection it would be the Germans. |
Well, aren't hamburgers German?
Budweiser as the offical beer sponsor certainly is a slap in the face to Germans. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Free World wrote: |
| princess wrote: |
| I wonder how many Korean soccer players are enjoying German food??? hahaha!!! I'd like to see how much ramyon they had to take with them. I guess the US players have been busy looking for the nearest Burger joint. Americans and Koreans: so similar when they travel. GEEZ!!! I like food from all over the world!!! |
German food? Where? McDonald's is the official food sponsor for the world cup and budweiser is the official beer sponsor. If anyone is upset with the food and beer selection it would be the Germans. |
Well, aren't hamburgers German?
Budweiser as the offical beer sponsor certainly is a slap in the face to Germans. No surprise, though. FIFA is French, after all.  |
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PaperTiger

Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: Ulaanbataar
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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I think when Stephen Jesse Bernstein wrote "More Noise Please", he must have been living in Seoul.
I think the whole noise pollution thing is just a deeply ingrained part of Korean culture, perhaps the loudspeaker and blaring music wierdness is some leftover from communist leaning propoganda that exisited during the military totalitarian period of Korea. Sometimes I'm not sure whether I'm in South or North Korea...such is the bombardment of loudspeakers or public announcement units posted in many of the apartment block-style housings.
Maybe Koreans might be better off if they weren't always so oblivious to one another. |
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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Free World wrote: |
| princess wrote: |
| I wonder how many Korean soccer players are enjoying German food??? hahaha!!! I'd like to see how much ramyon they had to take with them. I guess the US players have been busy looking for the nearest Burger joint. Americans and Koreans: so similar when they travel. GEEZ!!! I like food from all over the world!!! |
German food? Where? McDonald's is the official food sponsor for the world cup and budweiser is the official beer sponsor. If anyone is upset with the food and beer selection it would be the Germans. |
Well, aren't hamburgers German?
Budweiser as the offical beer sponsor certainly is a slap in the face to Germans. |
Hamburgers - brilliant.
Beer: well, the American Budweiser ain't beer so that's no competition. Now the Czeck stuff ..... |
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