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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: Nobody Could Ever Have Predicted This! |
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Well...actually anyone could have. There are three very happy crooks ...opps...CEOs in South Korea today. Thanks for the "pardon" President Lee. Checks in the mail.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/08/12/skorea.pardons.ap/index.html
Hey...while President Lee is at it why doesn't he reimburse "Lone Star Funds" for the witch hunt the Korean government and legal system put them through. Oh yeh, American businesses aren't allowed to make profit in South Korea.
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| They riot over non-existant mad cow, but when millions of criminals are just pardoned no one misses a beat. How the hell can people be ok with this? I will never, never, never, never, never understand Korea. Heaven forbid US beef enters the market, but drunks divers, gangsters convicted of assult, people who stole millions of dollars, politician who cheated and stole from the gov't get put back into society and can have their old jobs back and everyone is cool. What a messed up place this is. No wonder no one gives a crap about rules. First, the police don't care and when they acutally lock people up or charge them they just get let go. What a joke. |
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: |
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What? You can't read English?
According to CNN:
The Justice Ministry said the pardons were meant to help South Korea '"break through the serious economic difficulties" it faces.
Isn't that reason enough to pardon three crooks?
I have a new idea...How about calling South Korea "The Hub of Crooks."
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monkinwonderland
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| Typhoon wrote: |
| They riot over non-existant mad cow, but when millions of criminals are just pardoned no one misses a beat. How the hell can people be ok with this? I will never, never, never, never, never understand Korea. Heaven forbid US beef enters the market, but drunks divers, gangsters convicted of assult, people who stole millions of dollars, politician who cheated and stole from the gov't get put back into society and can have their old jobs back and everyone is cool. What a messed up place this is. No wonder no one gives a crap about rules. First, the police don't care and when they acutally lock people up or charge them they just get let go. What a joke. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a serious question. Does South Korea know what the hell it is doing? |
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JERGENIUS
Joined: 09 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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And you know what if you ask any of your coleagues or friends they will probably just shrug their shoulders and say nothing, not caring the slightest. Yet mention US beef and watch their reaction to that.
I guess this contrast has already been highlighted with the Brian Deutsch saga.
Oh this must be a Daves esl first right? 5 - 6 replies in and no one has yet to mention the classic 'well in America... x, y and z happens' or 'In Canada... a, b and c happens'. |
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Passions
Joined: 31 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Just what the hell is everyone whining about? They are Great Korean patriots and anti-Japanese fighters. All for the sake of the nation! Man se! Man se! Man se! Korea Fighting! Dokdo belongs to Korea! We don't care about criminals as long as Korea is #1!!! Man se! |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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According to CNN:
The Justice Ministry said the pardons were meant to help South Korea '"break through the serious economic difficulties" it faces. |
Yup. And releasing embezzlers and fraudsters makes a lot of sense. Daewoo asshat put them in big difficulties years ago by stealing billions, and he was pardoned, too.
Korea doesn't care about their economy. They can just blame Lone Star and HSBC and the rest of the foreigners. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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It's hard for us to understand. In the west, we look negatively on crony-ism, old boy network, dirty deals in smokey backrooms...........In Korea they just revel in it!!
They have a different social class dynamic here. The rich feel their social position gives them the right to do what they like, and the poor agree!!!! |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
It's hard for us to understand. In the west, we look negatively on crony-ism, old boy network, dirty deals in smokey backrooms...........In Korea they just revel in it!!
They have a different social class dynamic here. The rich feel their social position gives them the right to do what they like, and the poor agree!!!! |
Yeah, and how's that working for them? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
It's hard for us to understand. In the west, we look negatively on crony-ism, old boy network, dirty deals in smokey backrooms...........In Korea they just revel in it!!
They have a different social class dynamic here. The rich feel their social position gives them the right to do what they like, and the poor agree!!!! |
Yeah, and how's that working for them? |
Working for the poor? Not too well, of course. But there's an accepting quality in the lowly Korean. They have a pretty clear view of the social strata. They will just think they are on the bottom because maybe, a, they weren't well educated, or, b, they believe any crap told to them that things like IMF put them out of work.
It's really hard to fathom the when Koreans, even that huge bulk of Koreans who could be described as lower-middle class, protest about something, it's never about the large-scale corruption that goes on here. It's about importing US beef.
I wonder just how much the chaebol can squeeze koreans before they break. Food, apartments, education, fuel, have all risen way above the average pay level in recent years. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Agreed.
BTW, there's a political payoff in this, somewhere. LMB is learning how to "play the game." |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| And Koreans are puzzled why foreign investment is filtering out or being avoided in Korea. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: |
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oh c'mon you folks - cut K some slack already - !! 
let's see - the (alleged) leader of the so-called free world is there because of a questionable election decided by an even more questionable court action
oil companies barter beg lobby and bribe their way thru the planet's rain forests spreading toxic waste everywhere then go crying to the U.S. admin to strongarm the govts who are suing their butts for ecological damage (i.e., Chevron and Ecuador; Burma and Chevron)
Texas (in the U.S.) executes foreign nationals despite pleas by the World Court to stay their execution on grounds their rights were violated by not allowing them contact with their embassies
recent revelations regarding the French govt's involvement in the massacre of nearly a million citizens during the Rwanda nightmare in the 1990's between the Hutu and the Tutsi (sp?)
Japan regularly violates the ban on hunting whales under the guise of "research"
and we ALL know about China -
so K is just trying to play with the big boys - pardoning a few petty criminals - oh c'mon now - !! let's get real - K isn't even out of the sandbox yet - ! |
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