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Scotticus
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: Oh man, this Dokdo thing keeps getting better... |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7511065.stm
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| Advertisements promoting Japanese condoms have been removed from Korean underground trains amid a rekindled territorial dispute. |
Wow, that's taking rabid nationalism to a whole new level. |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| I like the fact that they just didn't throw eggs at the Japanese embassy, they threw rotten eggs. That's dedication. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Absolutely ridiculous. This kind of hubris is just begging to get crushed... |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| aka Dave wrote: |
| I like the fact that they just didn't throw eggs at the Japanese embassy, they threw rotten eggs. That's dedication. |
I think it's incredibly stupid, immature, idiotic and downright rude.
obviously it was a corporate advertising firm that offered money to the transit agency to advertise - if anyone should be blamed, it's KOREA'S OWN GOVERNMENT for accepting the money from a Japanese company!!
but do they ever think of that?
I mean honestly - what's the Jp Embassy got to do with condoms being advertised??
Korea SLOBBERING!!! |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Absolutely ridiculous. This kind of hubris is just begging to get crushed... |
It's just symbolic that Korea hates Japan and always will due to previous invasions and theft. Dokdo is just an unfriendly gesture to antagonize Japan, not that the islands are really much like they're saying they are. How much economic importance do these rocks sitting half way to Japan have? Korea wants revenge for the invasions knowing it can happen again since it's happened many times and show who's boss. In the technology age, it's possible for a tiny country like Korea to become a super power that can kick some ass and that's what Korea intends to do someday as it is said to have the largest military spending in the world which means it's developing forces and has big plans to be bad ass. Of course, we have nothing to worry about right now as both countries have too many economic interests to have a war, but someday it's inevitable. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| sojourner1 wrote: |
| visitorq wrote: |
| Absolutely ridiculous. This kind of hubris is just begging to get crushed... |
It's just symbolic that Korea hates Japan and always will due to previous invasions and theft. Dokdo is just an unfriendly gesture to antagonize Japan, not that the islands are really much like they're saying they are. How much economic importance do these rocks sitting half way to Japan have? Korea wants revenge for the invasions knowing it can happen again since it's happened many times and show who's boss. In the technology age, it's possible for a tiny country like Korea to become a super power that can kick some ass and that's what Korea intends to do someday as it is said to have the largest military spending in the world which means it's developing forces and has big plans to be bad ass. Of course, we have nothing to worry about right now as both countries have too many economic interests to have a war, but someday it's inevitable. |
...uh, what? You're kidding right? Korea's military spending is just about half of Japan's (or do you mean per capita, in which case, still so what?). Korea is a gnat compared to Japan, and will never, ever be anything even close to a superpower. Korea (either half) will never even be a regional power. There's just no way in hell.
Obviously SK is only bluffing and rattling its sabre, but all it's going to take is a more assertive Japan, likely in the not too distant future (someone like Ishihara coming along for example) to stop them in their tracks. It's amazing they've gotten away with it for this long with no consequences. Anyway, if Korea ever seriously came to blows with Japan, it'd get swatted down like a fly. Sweet humiliation. |
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: |
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If 2MB really wants to recover some support from his populace he really should consider proclaiming 2008 as the Korean Year of Hate~ 화이팅! ^-^�.
We're only halfway through the year and its off to a promising start so far with an all too brief period of teeth-gnashing against Chinese protesters in Seoul, a long slimmering round of protests over US Beef, and the current latest installment of uber-wacky egg-throwing Dokdo protests. We just need a GI to do something stupid in a drunken rage and an English teacher to act like a drunken Korean man to get this year really going ... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| I think a Japanese entertainer should buy a full-page ad in the NYT stating that under the Japanese occupation life expectancy in Korea increased from 25 to 43 years. |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Its time the USA played King Solomon and just sent a Tomahawk missile right into Dokdo. Probelm solved. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Beej wrote: |
| Its time the USA played King Solomon and just sent a Tomahawk missile right into Dokdo. Probelm solved. |
I agree. They are just two rocks. Let the international water boundaries come into effect then. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: |
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They don't use condoms anyway. It's kind of funny -- lets take away Japanese condoms so we can spread AIDS and more of us can die.
That'll show those Japanese! |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| aka Dave wrote: |
| I like the fact that they just didn't throw eggs at the Japanese embassy, they threw rotten eggs. That's dedication. |
I think it's incredibly stupid, immature, idiotic and downright rude.
obviously it was a corporate advertising firm that offered money to the transit agency to advertise - if anyone should be blamed, it's KOREA'S OWN GOVERNMENT for accepting the money from a Japanese company!!
but do they ever think of that?
I mean honestly - what's the Jp Embassy got to do with condoms being advertised??
Korea SLOBBERING!!! |
But the funny thing is there had to be planning. Hang chon shows up with a bunch of eggs. Hyon son says " Okay, these are eggs, but they're not rotten. Dude. What up with that?"
Hyun-U says "Leave them outside for 2 weeks and *then* we attack*" |
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Whirlwind
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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 Bad ass and Korea do not go together. Being a superpower requires a more "wordly" view and involvement on matters. Korea is too inwardly focused to ever be one. Throw in the fact that it is a tiny country surrounded by 2 powerhouses and it just isn't going to happen. Besides, this is the 21st century, who's Korean going to punch in the mouth militarily? Laos? Cambodia? Korea can start making proclamations of a bad ass military when they stop depending on the USA to back them up. |
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Nexus11
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
They don't use condoms anyway. It's kind of funny -- lets take away Japanese condoms so we can spread AIDS and more of us can die.
That'll show those Japanese! |
Haven't you heard? STDs are just like homosexuality. They don't exist in Korea.  |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| Nexus11 wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
They don't use condoms anyway. It's kind of funny -- lets take away Japanese condoms so we can spread AIDS and more of us can die.
That'll show those Japanese! |
Haven't you heard? STDs are just like homosexuality. They don't exist in Korea. |
There are a lot of things that don't exist here. Yet strangely enough they exist almost everywhere else.
Pillage and plunder. |
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