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[Captain Corea]

[fermentation]

[falco]

Interesting discussion thus far. I'm usually a fairly left leaning kindof person myself but I cant quite get my head around any foreigner actually living here actively supporting the left in this country. I've lived here too long and heard too much racist drivel coming out of the mouths of the 'liberals' of this country to ever give much creedence to what they say.

Nonetheless one or two points did come in the preceeding posts that are worth commenting on. For example I wasnt aware the Park Geun Hye was the benefactor of her late father�s forced confiscation of the Scholarship Foundation started by Kim Ji Tae. That kindof makes me look at Park Guen Hye in a new light (if in fact it is true). That other point that Dave Chance made about the Bodo League massacre made me think as well. I seriously doubt the 100,000 figure (those kindof numbers would put it into the holocaust category ie. Nanking massacre etc....very very difficult to cover everything up when those kindof numbers are involved), but nevertheless he does make a valid point about the roots of the current conservative movement.

However the rest of the stuff posted by the K-left leaning posters here miss the point entirely. Every political discussion about the ROK has to be put into the context of the current and past situation involving North Korea. The North Korean �govt� was and still is the most radically extreme communist personality cult in history with not even the most basic human rights extended to its citizens. Just think about that fact for a moment. Any political dialogue that fails to take this into consideration is essentially pointless. That�s why comments like� �

[Dave Chance]

"Park Geun-hye's illusion"

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/04/202_109225.html

Most noticeable is her reluctance to clean up the mess Lee has made, which should be her most urgent job whether she likes it or not. A case in point is the handling of the government�s illegal surveillance of private citizens. Park pledges to enact a law to prevent unlawful spying on citizens. That may be necessary, but a more pressing task is its thorough investigation and due punishment of the apparent lawbreakers, according to the existing law. Does Korea need a new law to prevent theft to punish thieves?

Park�s hesitancy to expel two successful but shameful candidates ― a sexual harasser and academic plagiarizer ― also casts doubt on what she has long stressed is the ``politics of principle.� If Park�s words and acts change between friends and foes, and before and after the elections, she could succeed as a campaign cheerleader but not as a national leader, even if she becomes one. Also regrettable is her disinterest in key social issues, such as the prolonged strike of broadcast journalists. Voters may think Park sympathizes with Lee�s attempts for media control.

[Captain Corea]

Not quoting the next paragraph of that opinion piece??

[Dave Chance]

[Captain Corea]

And again, you seem to love to focus on the past and dead people. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't Park Chung Hee dead? Is he running in this Year's election?

No?

Oh, you mean that you agree with that editorial/op piece that because of genetics, his daughter holds some responsibility. You certainly do love to bring up past instances, but as soon as they are shown to not be as relevant as you'd like, you decide to shift gears into some other dirt digging.


I'm still laughing at you holding a 9 year old girl responsible for this sort of stuff. lol

[caniff]

[Dave Chance]

[fermentation]

[Captain Corea]

Some people read a few Left leaning history books and feel that they've discovered Atlantis. Every few years you'll get a new poster running around the boards saying "Did you know they killed people?!!?! OMG!?!!"

Where as in most people, and event "right leaning" Koreans, already know the gist of it all. It's not a massive revelation, and exaggerating the numbers and calling people names, doesn't help spread the message.


As Ive said all along in this thread - as soon as you start digging, you're going to find _______ on both sides of the fence. If there are a few crucial issues that stick out in party platforms (taxes, development, welfare), then vote they way you feel best protects your interests.

[falco]

Re:Chance.....I may be wrong but I get the feeling he hasnt actually lived in Korea very long actually. No foreigner (at least no-one I've ever met in my considerable time in Korea), who's lived here for any length of time, supports the racist nitwits that pose as the left in this country. Period. Maybe someone else has met one, but I personally never have.

Quite a few newbees when they first arrive here, wax on enthusiastically to everyone they meet about the food, music etc, in an effort to prove how much they've assimilated the culture. His postings give me the impression hes trying to do the same but using politics as his platform....lol.

[Dave Chance]

Re Falco

He comes off as someone similar to Captain and Fermentation, who lack basic skills of reasoning and analysis, and mistake banding together as hooligans do for courage and manliness.

Don't stray too far from your peer group, you might learrn something.

[Dave Chance]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/04/117_109388.html

Kookmin University announced Friday that the ruling Saenuri Party lawmaker-elect and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Moon Dae-sung had committed plagiarism in his doctoral thesis submitted to the university in 2007, following a preliminary investigation.

�The theme and purpose of Moon�s study was the same as that of a thesis by a Myongji College student,� professor Lee Chae-sung of the university�s ethics committee said in a news conference on its Seoul campus. �The similarity was far beyond the scope which academics ordinarily accept. We concluded it was plagiarism,� he said.

The taekwondo gold medalist in the 2004 Athens Olympics quit the party, which had scheduled a disciplinary meeting. He issued a statement of apology but didn�t mention whether he will give up his seat.

With the departure of Moon, elected to represent a district in Busan in the April 11 parliamentary elections, the ruling party is one seat shy of a clear majority in the 300-member unicameral National Assembly. A blame game is expected to follow over the process in which Moon was selected as the party�s candidate.

[NohopeSeriously]