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Panda
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 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:47 pm Post subject: Sorry Mr. Octopus, but you are Chinese |
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http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=tvh&sid1=102&oid=052&aid=0000320439
It's 21st centuary, but Korean news media keeps treating its audiance as they are idiots.
Briefly, the story is: about a month ago, Seoul city published an investigation they conducted, stating eating octopus is dangerous, because octopus is contaminated by heavy metal. which led to a diving of octopus consumption.
Just a few days later, KFDA made another announcement, refuting the conclusion Seoul city made and saying that even eating octopus everyday is safe although the heavy metal concentration is high in the head of octopus, considering how small its head is.
And a few weeks later, which its yesterday, I read this article, claiming SOME of the octopus they used for examination were from China...........OHHHH.....NO WONDER HEAVY METAL~!!!!
Korea news media, prrrease!!! we wouldnt think you are stupid, if you just confess you misled the public by saying eating octopus is harmful, or if you just admit you didn't expect the report would make Korean fishermen so angry that you later were pressured to take it back..., , but come on...to save your stupid face by saying 1 out of 3 octopus was from China????????? so thats why you got wrong result? |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| The first Bush president in the US of A had stated he didn't like broccoli and then when the broccoli farmers lobby protested he retracted the statement and said something like his mother is right it's good to eat and he does, and he then did a photo op of him eating broccoli. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| The first Bush president in the US of A had stated he didn't like broccoli and then when the broccoli farmers lobby protested he retracted the statement and said something like his mother is right it's good to eat and he does, and he then did a photo op of him eating broccoli. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Feels good doesn't it? Now I guess you know how Americans felt about that whole mad cow beef thing Koreans did a couple years ago. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Feels good doesn't it? Now I guess you know how Americans felt about that whole mad cow beef thing Koreans did a couple years ago. |
Aren't Koreans STILL leery of US beef?
And I wasn't around at the time, but how did Koreans claim it was too dangerous to consume when Americans were still guzzling it down without problems? |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: Sorry Mr. Octopus, but you are Chinese |
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| Panda wrote: |
| It's 21st centuary, but Korean news media keeps treating its audiance as they are idiots. |
Fox 5 news would like to say hello, dude.
Fox 5 news: HELLO THERE!
And yeah, big lulz at korean news!
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GreenlightmeansGO
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| redaxe wrote: |
| Feels good doesn't it? Now I guess you know how Americans felt about that whole mad cow beef thing Koreans did a couple years ago. |
Aren't Koreans STILL leery of US beef?
And I wasn't around at the time, but how did Koreans claim it was too dangerous to consume when Americans were still guzzling it down without problems? |
I think their logic was that the US sold old cows, more prone to mad cow disease, to Korea. It wasn't really researched or true...but in the interests of Korean beef, or possibly taking attention from some other serious issue or other, it was blown out of proportion and the usual university kids and netizen types jumped on the bandwagon. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| GreenlightmeansGO wrote: |
| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| redaxe wrote: |
| Feels good doesn't it? Now I guess you know how Americans felt about that whole mad cow beef thing Koreans did a couple years ago. |
Aren't Koreans STILL leery of US beef?
And I wasn't around at the time, but how did Koreans claim it was too dangerous to consume when Americans were still guzzling it down without problems? |
I think their logic was that the US sold old cows, more prone to mad cow disease, to Korea. It wasn't really researched or true...but in the interests of Korean beef, or possibly taking attention from some other serious issue or other, it was blown out of proportion and the usual university kids and netizen types jumped on the bandwagon. |
Therefore, it was also A-OK for Koreans to eat American beef while in America, because all the mad cow beef was being sold off to Korea and Americans were keeping all the good beef for themselves.
I bet they also think it's still OK to eat octopus while in China now, for the same reason. All the heavy metal octopus is being sold off to poor Korea. |
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drydell
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Heavy Metal Octopus
That's my next band name right there! oh yeah! |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| drydell wrote: |
Heavy Metal Octopus
That's my next band name right there! oh yeah! |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| drydell wrote: |
Heavy Metal Octopus
That's my next band name right there! oh yeah! |
bravo...
Plus, if I were an octopus, the last country I wanted to go would be Korea, I would rather get intoxicated by the heaviest metal in the world....They boil and eat octopus alive. |
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southernman
Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Location: On the mainland again
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| redaxe wrote: |
| Feels good doesn't it? Now I guess you know how Americans felt about that whole mad cow beef thing Koreans did a couple years ago. |
Aren't Koreans STILL leery of US beef?
And I wasn't around at the time, but how did Koreans claim it was too dangerous to consume when Americans were still guzzling it down without problems? |
The thing that confused me the most, being here, was that the beef was actually Canadian, it was just shipped to and processed in the USA. Korean's knew the beef was Canadian
I talked about this fact with my top Middle School students. They conceded the point that yes they knew that the beef was Canadian.
However, for weeks on end these same students would go to the Friday protests with about 10 000 other people from Ulsan. The protests in Seoul were huge but smaller ones were held all around the country.
It's still a mystery to me as why American beef was villified so much at the time. It made no sense at all. My personal theory, and I'm only half joking. Is that Korean's were just hanging out to protest about the USA and this issue came along. |
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