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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 Mar 12, 2009 6:09 am Post subject: Japanese wants to buy Cheju Island. Seriously. |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/113_41138.html
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Japan's opposition Democratic Party President Ichiro Ozawa has floated the idea of buying South Korea's Jeju Island on the strength of the yen's rise against other currencies, Japan's news outlets reported, quoting a former chief of Japan's largest labor organization.
''Let's buy Jeju Island given the yen's current strength,'' Ozawa told Kiyoshi Sasamori, former president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, in February, according to Sasamori. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| They're just baiting the Koreans into another tantrum. |
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Stones1962
Joined: 26 Nov 2008
Location: Europe/Asia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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hehehehehe.....this is going to be fun  |
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ryoga013
Joined: 23 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| Stones1962 wrote: |
| hehehehehe.....this is going to be fun |
I just got some popcorn and a few bottles of booze. Anyone have a widescreen TV to watch this unfold??? |
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Stones1962
Joined: 26 Nov 2008
Location: Europe/Asia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| Mindless hysteria and conniption fits coming soon to KBS and MBC and your local demonstration site... |
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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| They're just baiting the Koreans into another tantrum. |
International political trolling.  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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I just checked what he really said and yes, it's just international political trolling. A former union leader said that Japan should buy up Jeju-do, then Ozawa said that since Korean capital is trying to buy up Tsushima then they should be able to buy Korean land too if they want, but Ozawa didn't even know what Jeju-do was in response to a question so he obviously doesn't have any clear designs on the island.
Even if you don't know Japanese you can see him in the video not knowing what the reporter was talking about with this "Jeju":
http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00151045.html |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
I just checked what he really said and yes, it's just international political trolling. A former union leader said that Japan should buy up Jeju-do, then Ozawa said that since Korean capital is trying to buy up Tsushima then they should be able to buy Korean land too if they want, but Ozawa didn't even know what Jeju-do was in response to a question so he obviously doesn't have any clear designs on the island.
Even if you don't know Japanese you can see him in the video not knowing what the reporter was talking about with this "Jeju":
http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00151045.html |
I hope no one actually thought the guy was serious.
Personally, I think that's the best response he could have. Show the idiots who want to buy Takadokdo exactly what you think of them via biting sarcastic humor. |
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Spike
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| Better the Japanese than Micheal Jackson. |
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MissMaggie
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Spike wrote: |
| Better the Japanese than Micheal Jackson. |
dude ain't got no money... |
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Socks
Joined: 15 May 2008
Location: somewhere in here...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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The Japanese are smart business people... they already bought half the land around Sydney and the Gold Coast (famous tourist destinations in Australia) back in the 1980's..
However, I guess they can only buy Jeju-do if it is "For Sale"..
I could never see Korea selling Jeju-do - it means to much to their national pride to have a small island that they can boast as being the "Haiwai of Asia"... (which of course its NOT) |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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I love the Japanese!  |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Being fair now, I wouldn't want to see the Isles of Wight sold to the French. |
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travelingfool
Joined: 10 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| It's funny how after spending time in Korea a lot of us will automatically side with their opposition. I remember cringing when a Korean golfer was about to win a PGA event because I knew I would hear about all day long for the next few days and how Koreans dominate the LPGA, highest IQ, 5000 seasons, ad naseum. Like most Americans I was neutral (more like apathetic) when it came to Takashima but after spending time in Korea and seeing their antics I am very much pro Japanese now. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it comes from their ajeossi style of politics. Never compromise, wave your hands around a lot and bluster, respect only aggression and loud noises. |
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