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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject: One More Reason to Despise the Herald |
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| Anyone else sick of seeing that nettlesome picture of the 3 "employees of the KOSPI" YOU KNOW which pic i'm talking about. The one with the 3 goofballs smiling at a computer screen. All 3 of them must be liquidated, so i never have to have my morning tranquility shattered again by their hideous mugs. |
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dutchman
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: My backyard
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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And what's with the deification of the Samsung chairman? Every week they have another full page article glorifying the guy. He either owns the paper or the editor lusts after his body.
And, by the way, Samsung sucks! Everything I've ever bought from Samsung has had to be serviced:a vcr, a refrigerator and two cd-roms. Thankfully they have excellent AS. |
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gomurr
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Don't forget about those horrible ESL schools that they give franchise rights to. |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:40 am Post subject: |
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I need to revitalize this thread to remind folks once more about the dangers of thinking the "Herald" is good for anything other than finding out how much money I'm not making by not investing in Mobis back when it opened at 7,000. 
Oh yeah, and those KOSPI assweepays were on the FRONT PAGE the other day. As if their ugly mugs are worthy. |
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Trinny
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Most of the articles in Herald are actually someone else's (e.i. NY Times).
As for domestic news, take it with a grain of salt. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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The Herald really needs to calm down on the, 'Korea is an important, cosmopolitan country', trip.
As Trinny said, any serious article is cut and pasted from other newspapers. The rest is stupid, unnecessary bragging about how good Korea is and how Koreas profile as a world power is constantly growing.
I mean, did we need an article about the percentages of Korean goods sold in India? (65% of washing machines in India are korean made...Thanks Herald)
Why don't they just report the national and international news? We don't need their magazine-style banality. |
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masuro
Joined: 22 Apr 2003
Location: Gangwon, Inje-kun, Hanam Village
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I gave up reading the Herald after they ran a front page story on Bill Clinton's Christmas shopping trip with his daughter. They always have so many stories on the U.S. even though it's the Korean Herald. But, to tell the truth, many of the Korean papers also run a lot of stories about the States. Irritating. Why are the California state elections important to Koreans? I always hated it when foreigners said to me, "Korea is just a colony of the States" but perhaps it is, culturally, at least. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| gave up reading the Herald after they ran a front page story on Bill Clinton's Christmas shopping trip with his daughter. |
Possibly something to do with Bill and Chelsea being seen as exotic foreign celebrities. Sort of like how newspapers outside of Britain gave coverage to whatever Lady Diana was up to when she was alive.
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| Why are the California state elections important to Koreans? |
Not sure about this, but I would guess California has the largest population of Koreans and ethnic Koreans outside of Korea itself. Presumably, many Koreans know people in that state, and are interested in what's happening there. The LA riots, which reuslted in the destruction of some Korean-owned businesses, also got a bit of play over here, giving rise to typically wild conspiracy theories about the supposedly anti-Korean LAPD. |
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masuro
Joined: 22 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| gave up reading the Herald after they ran a front page story on Bill Clinton's Christmas shopping trip with his daughter. |
Possibly something to do with Bill and Chelsea being seen as exotic foreign celebrities. Sort of like how newspapers outside of Britain gave coverage to whatever Lady Diana was up to when she was alive.
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| Why are the California state elections important to Koreans? |
Not sure about this, but I would guess California has the largest population of Koreans and ethnic Koreans outside of Korea itself. Presumably, many Koreans know people in that state, and are interested in what's happening there. The LA riots, which reuslted in the destruction of some Korean-owned businesses, also got a bit of play over here, giving rise to typically wild conspiracy theories about the supposedly anti-Korean LAPD. |
Good answers. It still bothers me that the news would be so focussed towards one country when there are expatriots from lots of different countries here. I wonder if the editors are mostly Korea-Americans? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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It still bothers me that the news would be so focussed towards one country when there are expatriots from lots of different countries here. I wonder if the editors are mostly Korea-Americans?
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I was kinda assuming the articles were aimed at the Korean ESL junkie readership, not expats. Hence, the focus on California elections but not, say, New York elections. I wonder who makes up the bulk of their readership? |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| I don't even look at those papers(although the Times has one guy who gives good Editorial comments-don't know his name), if I want my fix of news it is here on the net or if I need something in bed with me it is the International Herald Tribune(good international stories), if you need your Korean propoganda the Joongang Daily has an 8 page supplement on the inside, |
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