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drunkenfud · Joined: 08 Mar 2007

I've just returned from a visit home to Bonnie Scotland (tm). In addition to eating my own bodyweight in pies, swilling down beer that actually tastes like beer rather than morning after piss, and whining about not being able to smoke in pubs, I've also checked out one of the worlds finest cultural events - the Edinburgh Festival.

OK... All I did was get drunk and end up seeing some transvestite comedians, but I digress.

I was walking down the street and saw the following poster (I've posted a link in case we still can't display images). It seems there are Koreans plying their trade in my fair city, and it seems they expect us to know what Dokdo is. As probably the only person in the city who didn't think the logo was a slogan along the lines of "Coke is it", I felt it was my duty to take a quick cellphone snap and share it with you.

After all, you don't think it's pathetic, right? You think it's a brave attempt to bring the worlds attention to a noble cause, right?

Right...?

[img=http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4248/dokdouy4.th.jpg]

aka Dave · Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river

I'm sure Scottish troups are deploying to defend Dokdo as we type.

Whirlwind · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

That's what I find so odd about Koreans. They don't integrate, keep to themselves, yet they have this great desire to be respected by the world. They want the world to back them when they themselves make absolutely no effort to try to understand their neighbors. In the end, their efforts end up looking foolish. "Dokdo is Korea" doesn't even sound right. People there will have no idea what a "dokdo" is.

KAMAKAZI · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Location: Jamshil

haha, they probably think dokdo is the name of some famous korean clown Laughing

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Who cares about Dokdo? I'm more concerned with how you found out what morning after piss tastes like.

bobranger · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan

Free Tibet.. Why not dokdo? Airang Tv has a bunch of comercials about this issue (very dramatic). I'm sure some neo-hippie at some university will leach onto this cause.

Poemer · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae

(Dokdo = Tibet) = (apples = atom bombs)

shaunew · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Location: Calgary

Dokdo is Korea.
Korean people love the Dokdo.
Dokdo has been in the Korea for 6000 years.
Japan people steal dokdo and want all the natural gas.
Many fish in the dokdo.
One map from 1901 shows dokdo korea.

I really hope things ends soon, I hate hearing about this retarded subject. When Koreans ask me about Dokdo, I respond. You mean Takashima, that is Japan islets.

DRAMA OVERKILL · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

I want to put up a huge "Hans Island Is Canadian Territory!" banner somwhere here in Korea.

I want to educate Korean people on this ongoing territorial dispute Canada has with Denmark.

So, when Koreans say "so what?", I can say "you don't care about my country's near meaningless territorial dispute?!", and they reply "no, I don't care", I can say "Yes. Exactly. Get it???"

BreakfastInBed · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do

I picked up a Dokdo is Korea sticker at my local township office that I'm itching to stick up somewhere. I'd like to put it in the most unlikely, god-forsaken spot I can (someone beat me to Scotland -kidding) and enjoy the thought that someday, a week, a year, ten years from now, some random Joe who has served his time in Korea will stumble upon it and get a laugh.

I'm sympathetic to the cause but I'd be much more so were the Koreans not so deadly, passionately, annoyingly earnest about it. You already possess it, quit crying all over the globe already. Get a sense of humor. "Claim" a Japanese island for yourselves. Go ahead. Rename it and put it in a book. It will be no more yours than Dokdo is theirs.

Another poster on another thread had a nice way of dealing with the issue by referring to Dokdo as belonging to North Korea. I thought that was a great idea. I am working on the apporpriate tone of feigned innocent ignorance in my voice to deliver such a statement with maximum impact. I'd like to literally short-circuit someone.

bobranger · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan

Poemer

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

The Dokdo went extinct hundreds of years ago, but it was actually a Korean bird. Not many people know that.

Poemer · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae

Fair enough bobranger. But, I think it is clear that the reason why some causes are chosen as worthy is because even though they don't affect 90% (or even99%) of the earth's population directly, they rub up against people's conceptions of justice and human dignity.

Not many people are going to rise up and angrily proclaim, "I will not stand idly by while portions of a nation's industrial fisheries and natural gas reserves are being imperiled by the affixing of another nation's name to a rock in the ocean!"

It is true that some causes, like Tibet, become trendy and others, like Darfur, do not. But that by itself doesn't mean that all such causes are silly or should be ignored, and certainly, all international disputes should not be placed on equal footing just because they all appear obscure by way of our geographic, political, economic, etc. removal. Dokdo is definitely not Tibet.

bobranger · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan

Well said. I suppose most "causes" rub me the wrong way. Hey, I'm getting old and cynical. MAYBE a little grumpy too.

Poemer · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Location: Mullae

Well, I suppose it can become easy to get cynical sometimes when you have a lot of uninformed people spouting off about real issues just because everyone else is, and when you have people spouting off about issues, such as Dokdo, which in the balance of things are not very significant (at least not in the same way as issues of human rights and genocide are.)