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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: Spinach-crazed Nazis of Gwangju |
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Not wanting to revive the "Hitler bar" debate, but:
On Sunday night I was walking through downtown Gwangju with a Korean friend, and we witnessed this procession of maybe a dozen or so people carrying flags. The flags included an authentic-looking Nazi swastika, an Iron Cross, and one that had Popeye on it. My Korean friend didn't have any clue what it was about. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Is Gwangju finally getting its own Hitler bar? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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I'm racially pure to the finish
Cause I eats me spinach
I'm Popeye the sailor man!
Toot-toot! |
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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you sure it wasn't the Buddhism symbol? It is reverse of the Nazi symbol. They could have been promoting vegetarianism, which is an eating habit of Buddhists. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| I would be surprised if OTOH would confuse those 2 symbols. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| Are you sure it wasn't the Buddhism symbol? It is reverse of the Nazi symbol. They could have been promoting vegetarianism, which is an eating habit of Buddhists. |
No, it was definitely a Nazi flag. Black swastika in a white circle, on a red base. Plus, they also had the iron cross.
My best guess is that it was some sort of "creative anachronism" club, maybe on their way to acting out a WW II battle. Either that, or some frat type organization, parading around with well-known western imagery just for the hell of it. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:08 am Post subject: |
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On the Other Hand,
Are you sure it just wasn't the extreme heat here causing you to have Alberta flashbacks? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Are you sure it just wasn't the extreme heat here causing you to have Alberta flashbacks? |
I take deep offense at that.
No self-respecting Albertan would carry a picture of Popeye down the street. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:01 am Post subject: |
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Don't feel bad, On the Other Hand...
Just the other day I thought I saw the Ogogopo swimming down the Gwangju River.
And hell, Gwangju doesn't even have a tourist season! |
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IconsFanatic
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Heck, you can find Nazi flags for sale even in "cosmopolitan" Seoul.... |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Personally, I think the title of this thread would be a great title for a new direct-to-video production starring, say, Gary Busey, Rutger Hauer and Dyanne Thorne.... |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:07 am Post subject: |
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| About 5 years there used to be German/Hitler bar at the huge back gate area of Chonnon National University. I went there once only to see what the heck it was all about. Yeah, drinking a beer and looking at huge blown up period piece photographs on the wall of the German army during the 1930's and 1940's along with other reminders... was really creepy and felt stupid I checked it out at all. Needless to say, I never went back and it is now closed, but I don't really know when it closed. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Mosley
Personally, I think the title of this thread would be a great title for a new direct-to-video production starring, say, Gary Busey, Rutger Hauer and Dyanne Thorne.... |
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Maybe I saw the same group a couple of weeks ago in Gwangju. There was a group of around 10 promoting their bar (it seemed) with 2 banging large drums followed by a procession of around 8 others with military-style banners including an authentic looking Nazi swastika flag and Imperial Japan style Rising Sun flag. It was interesting that they had a Rising Sun flag, I don't think many of the older generation would have taken kindly at all to see a bunch of ignorant young Korean punks displaying that flag. They most likely don't know or care about the offensiveness of the Nazi flag but I thought they would have had the sensibility not to parade a Rising Sun flag, obviously not! |
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tommynomad
Joined: 24 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, if generations of brainless, disrespectful twits can wear the nazi symbols in the west, why shouldn't their ignorant bretheren here do the same with the rising sun? |
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