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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject: Dog Poop Girl |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html
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Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of the Internet's Power to Shame
By Jonathan Krim
Thursday, July 7, 2005; Page D01
If you no longer marvel at the Internet's power to connect and transform the world, you need to hear the story of a woman known to many around the globe as, loosely translated, Dog Poop Girl.
Recently, the woman was on the subway in her native South Korea when her dog decided that this was a good place to do its business.
The woman made no move to clean up the mess, and several fellow travelers got agitated. The woman allegedly grew belligerent in response.
What happened next was a remarkable show of Internet force, and a peek into an unsettling corner of the future.
One of the train riders took pictures of the incident with a camera phone and posted them on a popular Web site. Net dwellers soon began to call her by the unflattering nickname, and issued a call to arms for more information about her.
According to one blog that has covered the story, "within days, her identity and her past were revealed. Requests for information about her parents and relatives started popping up and people started to recognize her by the dog and the bag she was carrying," because her face was partially obscured by her hair.
Online discussion groups crackled with chatter about every shred of the woman's life that could be found, and with debate over whether the Internet mob had gone too far. The incident became national news in South Korea and even was discussed in Sunday sermons in Korean churches in the Washington area.
Humiliated in public and indelibly marked, the woman reportedly quit her university. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Errr kind of old news. No? |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:43 am Post subject: |
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any links to it on daves esl in the past?
just curious.. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Ethical Debates May Mar Hwang's Achievement
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Korea is busy hailing the medical feats of Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk whose cloning of customized stem cells last month was the first time in history...
However, some experts say that ethical debates might emerge as major obstacles to the Hwang��s dreams.
In addition to the wrangling on embryos, Hwang��s opponents take issue with his procurement of human eggs, which he said was the key to his success.
They argue Hwang failed to keep ethical standards in getting the eggs because he did not fully explain the risks involved for the donors...
...a paper from David Magnus and Mildred K. Cho from Stanford University which takes a close look at the ethical problems in Hwang��s egg procurement...
"After learning the existence of the three-page explanation format, the Stanford team apologized for their misconstruction," said Ahn Cu-rie, one of Hwang��s closest colleagues...
Another problem is an economic one: the high cost of the stem cell cures will benefit only the rich since the stem cloning therapy is unlikely to be a mass-produced, cheaply produced medicine...
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200506/kt2005060617191212350.htm
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:08 am Post subject: |
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Nice!
I was in Las Vegas during July.. dog poo on korean subways was the last thing on my mind..  |
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