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sulperman
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Emeliu
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
Location: Korea, i'm OMW
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: Re: Hilarious K-Herald Column on 19th Cent. Korea |
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Haha, that is hilarious. |
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halfmanhalfbiscuit
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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Nice generalizations. All Koreans carry around tobacco and mirrors?
Honma should have watched what he said, I'm sure people could have said negative stuff about his country too!
If he didn't like it here, he should have just gone home.
Honma was probably just a noodle-boiler back in his home country.
Maybe Koreans threw stones at him for good reason. He didn't understand the culture here. |
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Pwillig
Joined: 26 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Nice generalizations. All Koreans carry around tobacco and mirrors?
Honma should have watched what he said, I'm sure people could have said negative stuff about his country too!
If he didn't like it here, he should have just gone home.
Honma was probably just a noodle-boiler back in his home country.
Maybe Koreans threw stones at him for good reason. He didn't understand the culture here. |
Honma was really just trying to kidnap the Korean women. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Nice generalizations. All Koreans carry around tobacco and mirrors?
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Its a book from the 19th century. Plus, he never said all Koreans. If I said, "Soldiers in the Korean Army use the K-2 rifle," nobody is gonna really take that as every single soldier actually carrying a K-2. Some of you need to ease it with the generalization policing.
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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^ Agreed! My second biggest pet peeve on Daves. Some posters feel compelled to add the disclaimer: "Of course not all so-and-so's... blah blah blah." I think we're all smart enough to know that. It just comes off as weak and wimpy.
Can I give you a +1?
It's all the rage. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| too bad they didn't have dave's to post on back then, he would have fit right in |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| fermentation wrote: |
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Nice generalizations. All Koreans carry around tobacco and mirrors?
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Its a book from the 19th century. Plus, he never said all Koreans. He just all. If I said, "Soldiers in the Korean Army use the K-2 rifle," nobody is gonna really take that as every single soldier actually carrying a K-2. Some of you need to ease it with the generalization policing. |
Well, looks like The Urban Myth was right.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=159117&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Still TUM, I prefer to eschew disclaimers. |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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Kim Seong-Kon has been writing great and introspective articles for years. I recommend doing a search for him and his column, Koleidescope (sp?), and give them a read.
Last week's article on Koreans and modern technology was also very good. |
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Arthur Dent
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Location: Kochu whirld
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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I like his column too. Apparently he replaced another writer who was even more openly critical of Korean society. This was before my time here.
He was a visiting professor in the US. Travel broadens the mind.
I also liked the previous column about ethics. One of the first things I thought of when I arrived here. It could have been expanded to include thoughts on the practical uses of technology, and understanding of how things work and why.
The post on the unfamiliarity with combination locks
(right, then left, then right) being a good example. Yet, they designed some fairly interesting locks here many years ago, if anyone has visited the lock museum in Hyehwa. |
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ducati
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently not much since you're still here. |
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