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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: VANK loses government financial support |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200810/200810220024.html
Bwa ha ha ha ha! I love it. I guess the government realized that harassing people is not a good way to improve Korea's image (Gee, imagine that. You mean, if I relentlessly stalk a woman, she won't fall in love with me?). So if VANK want to continue to hassle people, they're going to have to pay for it out of their own pockets. Justice. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: VANK loses government financial support |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200810/200810220024.html
Bwa ha ha ha ha! I love it. I guess the government realized that harassing people is not a good way to improve Korea's image (Gee, imagine that. You mean, if I relentlessly stalk a woman, she won't fall in love with me?). So if VANK want to continue to hassle people, they're going to have to pay for it out of their own pockets. Justice. |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200701/200701190031.html
Seoul Ranks Last in Happiness Index
Koreans Laugh 1.5 Minutes a Day
Seoulites are the most unhappy city dwellers in a list of ten major world cities. The average happiness index of Seoul residents stood at 63.6, the lowest, according to a study on happiness and life satisfaction. Ten cities were included in the index: Seoul, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Tokyo, Beijing and Stockholm. The study was conducted by the Seoul Welfare Foundation, an affiliate of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the National Academy of Sciences. Stockholm earned 80.1 points, the highest, followed by Toronto with 80.0, New York with 78.3 and London with 76.7. Asian cities placed in the bottom, with Tokyo and Beijing ranked eighth and ninth. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Official Support for 'Cyber Diplomats' to Continue
Chosun Ilbo (October 22, 2008)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200810/200810220016.html
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| The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said Tuesday it will continue to support a group of self-appointed "cyber diplomats" who seek to correct what they see as misrepresentations of Korea, largely on the Web, denying reports to the contrary which provoked an outcry in some quarters. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea or VANK was instrumental in campaigns such as promoting Korea�s sovereignty over Dokdo islets and changing representations of the sea between Korea and Japan as East Sea, not Sea of Japan, in maps around the world.... |
VANK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VANK
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| VANK or Voluntary Agency Network of Korea is a non-governmental South Korean organization made up of 16,000 volunteers, including 1,000 youth members and 5,000 foreign members. |
VANK Deserves Better
Chosun Ilbo (October 22, 2008)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200810/200810220024.html
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Starting next year, the government is said to have decided to stop providing budget support to a group that has been using the Internet to rectify what it sees as incorrect information about Korea in foreign countries. The group, the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, or VANK for short, was launched in 1999 by a group of volunteers who call themselves "cyber diplomats."...
The government has given W650 million in budgetary support this year to 74 civic groups that took part in the anti-U.S. beef protests that brought government business to a grinding halt earlier this year. It makes no sense to stop supporting a group that has been doing the government's job with half a diplomat�s annual salary. |
VANK- Voluntary Agency Network Of KOREA
http://www.prkorea.com/english/etc/about1.htm
Korean Vision Network
http://www.prkorea.com/english/e_overseas/overseas1.htm |
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DrunkenMaster
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| This reminds me of the twats in Quebec who'd drive around looking for English-only signs, or French that wasn't twice as predominant as English. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: Re: VANK loses government financial support |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200701/200701190031.html
Seoul Ranks Last in Happiness Index
Koreans Laugh 1.5 Minutes a Day
Seoulites are the most unhappy city dwellers in a list of ten major world cities. The average happiness index of Seoul residents stood at 63.6, the lowest, according to a study on happiness and life satisfaction. Ten cities were included in the index: Seoul, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Tokyo, Beijing and Stockholm. The study was conducted by the Seoul Welfare Foundation, an affiliate of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the National Academy of Sciences. Stockholm earned 80.1 points, the highest, followed by Toronto with 80.0, New York with 78.3 and London with 76.7. Asian cities placed in the bottom, with Tokyo and Beijing ranked eighth and ninth. |
Not surprising, considering that, last year, Korea had the highest suicide rate from among all OECD member countries. Suicide is the leading cause of death among Koreans in their 20s and 30s.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200704/200704230029.html |
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