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exportedhabster
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: Suwon
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 Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject: Deagu subway fire |
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| I just saw on BBC there is a fire in the subway system in Deagu, at leat 10 dead and 100 injured, more feared dead. Smoke it toxic. Witnesses saw a 40-year-old man throwing lit bottles into the underground. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, it is on CNN, but not on the Korean news channels. Interesting. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually it was reported on the 12:00 news, as well as on the Yonhap News Agency website. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I was referring to continuous coveage...........like watching OJ flee on the freeway. |
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Canadian Teacher
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Here in Daegu, it is continuous coverage. The fire started at 9:55pm. |
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IconsFanatic
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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BBC World News (clip on 2 minutes ago)
-at least two seniors are dead (unconfirmed)
-at least ten still trapped underground
Considering thick black smoke is still billowing out from the underground, things don't look very good.... |
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The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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CNN says there are 4 dead and maybe 100 more injured.
"A man in his 40s dressed in a tracksuit set fire to a plastic milk carton containing a flammable liquid and threw it inside the subway train," a witness told Yonhap news agency.
"When the man tried to use a cigarette lighter to light the box, some passengers tied to stop him. Apparently a scuffle erupted and the box exploded into flames." |
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william beckerson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Damn!
There's nothing more to be said. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: yes there is |
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Yes there is.
My Korean girlfriend, who watched the news, did not know about this incident.
Furthermore on MSN chat, I chat with a fair number of Koreans. NONE of them knew about it.
Interesting I learned about this on Dave's Esl Cafe and then CNN... |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans all over the Web are right now commenting on the lack of coverage, many blaming it on the fact that it happened in "the provinces", rather than Seoul.
And thank God the suspect is Korean. |
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IconsFanatic
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Koreans all over the Web are right now commenting on the lack of coverage, many blaming it on the fact that it happened in "the provinces", rather than Seoul. |
"The provinces"?!? Sheesh, Daegu is the third largest city in South Korea!
The parallels between Seoul and Toronto are eerily similar....... |
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chi-chi
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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mods you may delete
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Circus Monkey
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: In my coconut tree
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting I learned about this on Dave's Esl Cafe and then CNN... |
I first learned of the shuttle disaster here. |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I know it's a longshot but hope it wasn't a North Korean. |
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