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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:13 am Post subject: Is there a rush to buy seaweed? |
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Evidently, yes, in Korea.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2933870
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Shoppers, including Japanese tourists, crowd an aisle stocked with seaweed at Lotte Mart�s Seoul Station branch yesterday. As radiation fears in Japan grow, consumers are rushing to buy seaweed, which contains iodine. However, experts say that seaweed doesn�t have enough iodine to protect humans from radiation�s effects on the thyroid gland. Iodine pills are necessary for people in contaminated areas. And no radiation from Japan has been detected in Korea. [NEWSIS]
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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My gf told me that seafood is contaminated (from an unverifiable source on NAVER  ) scares me, because ocean water probably spreads radiation further (and faster) than we will ever know |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Crap, another rush of stupidity that I have failed to cash in on. This all started back in winter of 2001 when a (Korean) friend of mine asked me what she should invest in. I told her oil because of 9/11, that it would go up to 3 bucks a gallon, at least. She laughed at me and invested her money in the stock market. I spent my money on beer. Been cursed ever since.
I should have seen this seaweed angle coming.... |
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s10czar
Joined: 14 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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�The market does not care how you feel. It will not prop-up your ego or console you when you are down. Therefore, trading is not for everyone. If you are unwilling to face the truth about the markets and the truth about your own limitations, fears, and failures, you will not succeed.�
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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i heard dating waygooks will prevent radiation sickness.  |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Ramen wrote: |
| i heard dating waygooks will prevent radiation sickness. |
I heard the same thing about smoking pot |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw on TV that the supermarkets in China are sold out completely of salt because there was a rumor that radiation from Japan would contaminate the seawater and cause salt shortages........so the Chinese ajumma were fighting each other for packets of salt!!! |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Seaweed tastes gross anyways. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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Look at the pic at the link- 
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/03/22/debate-continues-after-china-arrests-japan-radiation-salt-panic-culprit/
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A week after panic over radiation from quake-damaged reactors in Japan sent table salt flying off the shelves across China, the country is engaged in debate over who was responsible and who should have to foot the bill.
Chinese authorities seemed to have partially answered the first question Monday after state-run Xinhua news agency reported that police in the coastal city of Hangzhou had arrested a 31-year old Internet user in Zhejiang Province for �spreading salt rumors.� The man, whose surname is Chen, was detained for 10 days and fined 500 yuan, or $76, for posting a note online saying radiation from Japan had polluted the sea off China�s coast and urging people to stock up on salt and kelp, Xinhua said.
Meanwhile, China Daily reported that in Shanghai police plan to prosecute two unidentified men for posting comments online that claimed the city would be severely contaminated as a result of Japan�s nuclear leaks, citing local news service Xinmin.cn.
But many, including some in the official Chinese media, aren�t willing to let the blame fall on Internet users.
Reporting on Mr. Chen�s arrest Tuesday, the state-run China Daily quoted Qiu Liping, a professor in the sociology department at Shanghai University, blaming the government for not releasing information about the situation in Japan quickly enough to head off fears: �The panic perhaps could have been avoided if the government had released enough reliable information in response to the recent series of disasters in Japan.�
Another person quoted by China Daily, 82-year-old salt buyer Lu Huizhen, indicated the Internet wasn�t the only place rumors spread: �I got my earthquake fears from another old lady in the market, who made me believe that Shanghai will be severely affected soon.� The fear inspired by that sidewalk chatter was so strong, the newspaper said, that Lu�s daughter had to stop her from withdrawing all her savings from the bank and moving inland.
The panic, which began in China�s coastal provinces on Wednesday night and spread rapidly throughout the country, appears to have been fed both two strains of misinformation: First, that radiation from reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, might contaminate future salt supplies; and, second, that the iodine in common table salt can mimic potassium iodide pills in helping ward off thyroid cancer as a result of radiation exposure.
Jittery customers bought up approximately 370,000 tons of salt across China last Thursday, another 220,000 tons on Friday and 82,000 tons on Saturday, according to figures from the China National Industry Salt Corp quoted in a China Daily report on Monday. Typically Chinese shoppers will buy 15,400 tons of salt per day, China Daily said.
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Sector7G
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Vox_Populi
Joined: 04 May 2009
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Seaweed is so gross! It wouldn't bother me if it all got irradiated and no one could eat it anymore. The smell makes me wanna throw up. Of course, if that's your thing, then more power to you! |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| I've noticed that the price seems to have gone up a little bit. I love the packs of seasoned seaweed. When I'm craving a salty snack, that's my go-to snack. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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murmanjake
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redaxe
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Japanese people buy a ton of seaweed when they visit Korea on vacation anyway, because they have a different species of seaweed in Korea that's supposedly more delicious than Japanese seaweed, or something. |
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