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Kitten
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 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: The 1988 Summer Olympics |
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http://www.cohre.org/store/attachments/Seoul_background_paper.pdf
There are plenty of dark secrets revealed in this report, here is a good one:
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It is no accident that the Olympic bid project,
begun late in the regime of the previous dictator Park, was of no interest to Chun�s officers
early in the take-over of power, but by the fall of 1980 the unpopular regime developed a
sudden interest in reviving the bid attempt as part of the �3 S� (sex, sports, screen) policy of
soothing public unrest by loosening restrictions on entertainment. The �3 S� policy was
responsible for creating professional baseball in South Korea, along with hosting the 1988
Olympics, allowing the proliferation of �love hotels� along domestic tourist routes, and
permitting on-screen nudity. (Son 2002, MBC 2005) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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A great strategy.
I was always surprised how few of my students knew the 1988 olympics were in Seoul. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Globalization, on step at a time.
20 year later...... |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Good stuff, Kitten.
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{page 29}
The changeover to high rise apartment towers in the redeveloped zones was driven by the larger political economy of land development in the central city rather than as a result of aesthetic planning for the international events. It had more to do with soaring land prices and need to increase density.
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The redevelopment in the form of luxury highrise apartment towers was driven by some of the same underlying economic and political dynamics as the drive to host the Olympics: the need to store capital in the built environment, the need to create the urban image of an international financial center, the need of the capitalist system to install a system of private property ownership where previously the norm had been collective use of public land (Lee JY 1990, Davis 2005), excess building capacity, and so on. Furthermore some have argued that the need to upgrade the housing standards of low-income people, to get them out of self-built housing without municipal sewage, was partially fueled by competition with North Korea over living standards (Son 2003, v. p. , KCHR 2001, p. ) although that factor would not have dictated the highrise apartment form that emerged.
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Within this context of a concerted, multi-decade push to establish government-registered, private ownership of property and homes, the urban residential redevelopment push which was immediately instigated by pre-Olympics central planning takes on a new significance as a forebearer of a new system of land regime, and furthermore a new regime of housing
production whereby home building was taken out of the realm of the urban worker�s household and assigned to private conglomerate companies, acting under central government sanction. The result, seen in the redevelopment boom of the 1990s, is a new mode of housing which has been corporatized and industrialized.
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Capitalizing on the evils of urban sprawl. It appears the Olympics was just the excuse they needed to push that riff-raff out of the way after they pacified (tranquilized?) them with the 3S's.
I keep wondering how long it's gonna take the NASCAR dummies to wake up and realize all the fuel being wasted running around in circles. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: Good site |
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Wow, that was a good site.
Now, all I need is my own small country to rule. China, Korean, Nazi Germany, etc.: they all provide good examples for controlling the masses.
Honestly, think of what this place would be like without the 3ses. I hear many complains about Korea. Imagine the increased quantity of complaints we would have if the 3ses hadn't taken place. Imagine the fewer "privlages" that would be available that we take for granted -- especially when complaining about the lack of options.
As was said before: "globalization" ... "one step at a time." |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| How did you find that site, kitten? And just a week before the Olympics, too. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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I'm going to assume, OP, that housing matters strikes your interests? If you don't mind gaining some knowledge thru fiction, "A Fine Balance" is an excellent light-reading book to find.
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Amazon.com: A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club): Rohinton Mistry: Books
A modern version of an old-fashioned novel, A Fine Balance held me from ... I devoured A Fine Balance like a very fine meal and at the end wanted even more. ...
www.amazon.com/Fine-Balance-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/140003065X
A Fine Balance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Fine Balance is the third book by Rohinton Mistry. Set in Mumbai, India between 1975 and 1977 during the turmoil of The Emergency, a period of expanded ...
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Really, the razings they did there for political gain will knock your socks off. It's a book to laugh AND cry over. Learn about Hindi/Muslims relations, the caste system remnants, enforced sterilization, homelessness. It's brutal and it will open some eyes in it's honesty. Oprah had it in her book club, and she does pick good books, ya know.
Very emotionally written, it will rock your soul. And make you realize that life goes on. |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| surprising how many medals they won during that olympics considering all their previous and post results in any olympics..... |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| I_Am_The_Kiwi wrote: |
| surprising how many medals they won during that olympics considering all their previous and post results in any olympics..... |
They stole the gold from Roy Jones
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Passions
Joined: 31 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Amazing how far they got during the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup as well.  |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| skconqueror wrote: |
| I_Am_The_Kiwi wrote: |
| surprising how many medals they won during that olympics considering all their previous and post results in any olympics..... |
They stole the gold from Roy Jones
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Yes. |
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