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Thousands are now suing MBC's "PD Notebook"
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Troll_Bait



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:07 am    Post subject: Thousands are now suing MBC's "PD Notebook" Reply with quote

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2894246
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agentX



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I posted about this earlier this month, so it doesn't surprise me that there would be more Koreans joining the case.
Now that PD Diary is being dealt with, the next target to flush out are the Nork sycophants who helped organize the rallies. We can't have them gumming up the works, now can we?
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jdog2050



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

...seriously though? F'ck em. You heard me. They cost their own country billions of dollars, and stalled a lucrative FTA deal that's probably the most one-sided in history, and now they're suing even though a rudimentary google search would have disproven PD Diary? F'ck em.
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CentralCali



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What would be great is if the people who lost business because of those protests sued both MBC and the group now suing!
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Ruraljuror



Joined: 08 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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According to the organization, a total of 2,650 plaintiffs claiming stress, lost business, and even shame when facing international business partners, will be seeking a total 2.65 billion won ($2.45 million) in damages.



For some reason, this part made me laugh. I guess I'm too used to America, where if you sue a big corporation, you always try to sue for at least $10 million, and hope that you get a sympathetic jury. I mean, even if you only collect 10% of 10 million...SCORE. It doesn't take a super powerful calculator to realize that those 2,650 aren't going to be able to retire on the $2.45 million IF they win.

This lawsuit is a interesting moral dilemma...should we root for the shameless xenophobic yellow journalists, or the gullible xenophobic morons? And surely I deserve some dough for having to put up with this stupid *beep* from my students and co workers...and the fact that I still can't order a damn burger without getting in a fight with my wife.

Thanks PD Notebook! Thanks Moronic Protestors! You, much more than Park Tae Hwan, made this a summer to remember.
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Lekker



Joined: 09 Feb 2008
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This should be interesting to see what the outcome will be.
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GoldMember



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No Pecuniary Damages in Korea.
Yea you can sue BUT with no pecuniary damages, you get sweet FA. That's why you can get away with being an Ahole in Korea.
I don't think the PD Notebook people are sweating.
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Gollywog



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, and when are these 2,650 plaintiffs going to apologize to Americans (and every white person in Korea that Koreans assume is an American) for the shame, stress, humiliation and discriimination Koreans inflicted (and continue to inflict) on us?

Put a picture of a cow up in the classroom and at least a couple of students will still heckle "Mad cow! Mad cow!"

Has ANYONE received an apology from ANY Korean at ANY time during or after this hysteria?

Did anyone here observe any Korean speak out against the lies spread among students and teachers (sometimes by teachers) about Americans, including that Americans were trying to commit genocide on the Korean people?

I didn't.

Unless they spoke out during the protests, they don't deserve a single won.

A BBC article reporting on one of the protest mentioned there was ONE Korean holding a sign opposing the mad cow lies, and the Korean police took him away. He's the one who deserves the money. All of it. And more.

The rest of the Koreans who stood by silently are nothing but craven COWARDS.

Frankly, I sometimes get the feeling Korea is a nation of cowards.
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fortysixyou



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We (westerners) tend to believe everything our media tells us and just accept it as fact, even though it's mostly bullshit.

Korean people weren't so wrong to trust what their mainstream media told them.

We would've believed it too had we not known the actual truth.

Obviously Koreans didn't know the truth, so they believed the lie. That sounds really simple, but consider all the lies westerners believe just because our media tells us it's true.
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Gollywog



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fortysixyou wrote:

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We (westerners) tend to believe everything our media tells us and just accept it as fact, even though it's mostly bullshit.

Korean people weren't so wrong to trust what their mainstream media told them.

We would've believed it too had we not known the actual truth.

Obviously Koreans didn't know the truth, so they believed the lie. That sounds really simple, but consider all the lies westerners believe just because our media tells us it's true.


I beg your pardon?

Speak for yourself.

You certainly aren't speaking for the people I know.

And polls show most Americans don't exactly trust the media, so I think it's safe to say you aren't speaking for them.

But I think this would be a safe description of Germans in the second half of the 1930s, if you are talking about "Westerners." So I suppose there is at least a little historical truth in your absurd generalization.

Oh, and if Americans, and most Westerners, believed "everything" the media told them, they would have to hold about 200 different and contradictory ideas in their head on every issue at the same time.

Western media, buddy, is not homogeneous. Do you actually, or have you ever, actually lived in the West?


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pkang0202



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MBC's ratings have gone down the tubes since the PD Diary thing.
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it's full of stars



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I fought tooth and nail with at least one of my friends, a committed Labour party member, about the war in Iraq. He thought it was right, I vehemently disagreed.

Let's not forget the estimated 1,000,000 people who marched into London, against the war in Iraq.

How about the continuing discussion on the war in Iraq? Obama was using it to show the ideology gap between himself and Hilary Clinton in the nomination race.

I think there is a lot of cynicism in the West. Many people simply don't have anywhere to vent their feelings.
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TheBulimicFatGuy



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jdog2050 wrote:
... and now they're suing even though a rudimentary google search would have disproven PD Diary?


Don't you know that Naver is the best search engine in the world...for Koreans? Just ask any Korean.
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Ginormousaurus



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gollywog wrote:
Yeah, and when are these 2,650 plaintiffs going to apologize to Americans (and every white person in Korea that Koreans assume is an American) for the shame, stress, humiliation and discriimination Koreans inflicted (and continue to inflict) on us?

Put a picture of a cow up in the classroom and at least a couple of students will still heckle "Mad cow! Mad cow!"

Has ANYONE received an apology from ANY Korean at ANY time during or after this hysteria?


Nobody owes me an apology.
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weatherman



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

good for them!
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