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Real Reality
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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: Korea has a new empress |
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Korea has a new empress
Without any official backing, some descendants of Korea's former royal family crowned a new empress yesterday. The privately run Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk (the Empire of Korea), organized in June by about a dozen descendants of the last emperor, held an hour-long ceremony in a hotel in downtown Seoul to have Yi Hae-won, 88, restored as the empress of South Korea.
JoongAng Daily (September 30, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200609/29/200609292237455909900090409041.html |
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Gaber
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Is she hot? |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Dude.She's 88......  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
| Dude.She's 88...... |
Sweet, one year for every key on a piano. I wouldn't mind ticklin' those ivories. Who's with me?
_*_ |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Korea's Reigning Empress is Rain. But spelled all different-like. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:03 am Post subject: |
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Ah, a spelling mistake:
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| she is the eldest authentic survivor |
No such word. That should read "oldest".  |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Let the senile old bat have her fun....... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe they thought if she's 88 she won't get gangraped by assassins like the last one. |
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billybrobby
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder if the ceremony had fog machines and lasers like in Korean weddings |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:57 am Post subject: |
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as much as korea love their 5000 year history and talk so proudly of their history.. they couldnt care two bits about the empress!!
we all know what they did to the son of the last king.. they took away all his titles, jewels, and gave him an apartment in kangnam, at that time was a rundown farm village!
this crowning of the empress wont even make TV!!
AT LEAST japan keep their heritage alive... |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Hello, Troll Bait!
I understand that the Korean peninsula was at one time a loose federation of three kingdoms.
Maybe those three kingdoms constituted the empire. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
as much as korea love their 5000 year history and talk so proudly of their history.. they couldnt care two bits about the empress!!
we all know what they did to the son of the last king.. they took away all his titles, jewels, and gave him an apartment in kangnam, at that time was a rundown farm village!
this crowning of the empress wont even make TV!!
AT LEAST japan keep their heritage alive... |
They took away his jewels? I'd rather be gang-raped by assassins. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
Ah, a spelling mistake:
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| she is the eldest authentic survivor |
No such word. That should read "oldest". |
There is eldest - used when you are making a comparison.
My elder sister, my eldest sister.
But in this instance, using eldest is wrong and you are quite right in saying that it should be oldest. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| Julius wrote: |
Ah, a spelling mistake:
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| she is the eldest authentic survivor |
No such word. That should read "oldest". |
There is eldest - used when you are making a comparison.
My elder sister, my eldest sister.
But in this instance, using eldest is wrong and you are quite right in saying that it should be oldest. |
She doesn't have a younger sister who also survived, then?
Damn, there goes my menage-a-three. |
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