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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: Korea dumping human and animal waste into their waters |
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I don't know why this got deleted. Isn't someone suppose to contact me explaining why something was deleted?
What is going on here? I provide a link to an article from a Korean newspaper and it's not worth discussion?
I'll try it again
America hasn't dumped into the water since 1988.
The reason the government gave for doing this is "it's cheaper."
By the picture, it sure looks as if they are dumping more than that!
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703080019.html |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| If it is negative then no one wants to read it. The issue isn't that they dump into the ocean.. the issue is that we are suprised that they do it. Seems obvious that it must be the Chinese sneaking over into Korean waters to dump the garbage, much like the air pollution. I mean it can't be Korea doing it ..right. |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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So any give Mod determines it ain't worth reading, or do they all discuss the matter together?
If it is in the newspaper, then what? |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Cho Kang-hee, the head of the KFEM's Incheon chapter, said if Korea doesn�t stop dumping waste into the sea right now, it will be unable to prevent China from doing so on a massive scale in the future
Does Korea really have ANY power over China?  I think China does as China wants. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: |
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39 people arrested for polluting Seoul's reservoir
The prosecution said yesterday it indicted 39 restaurant owners for contaminating a huge reservoir near Seoul with untreated sewage and erecting buildings on its shore without permission from the government. The man-made reservoir is the main source of tap water for the Seoul metropolitan area.
by Joo Sang-min, The Korea Herald (November 4, 2002)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/11/04/200211040039.asp |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: |
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39 people arrested for polluting Seoul's reservoir
The prosecution said yesterday it indicted 39 restaurant owners for contaminating a huge reservoir near Seoul with untreated sewage and erecting buildings on its shore without permission from the government. The man-made reservoir is the main source of tap water for the Seoul metropolitan area.
by Joo Sang-min, The Korea Herald (November 4, 2002)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/11/04/200211040039.asp |
The link didn't work! Pretty old article though aye?
I'm guesssing that was before the American military dude poured chemicals down the drain. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: |
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39 people arrested for polluting Seoul's reservoir
The prosecution said yesterday it indicted 39 restaurant owners for contaminating a huge reservoir near Seoul with untreated sewage and erecting buildings on its shore without permission from the government. The man-made reservoir is the main source of tap water for the Seoul metropolitan area.
by Joo Sang-min, The Korea Herald (November 4, 2002)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/11/04/200211040039.asp |
The link didn't work! Pretty old article though aye?
I'm guesssing that was before the American military dude poured chemicals down the drain. |
You have to subscribe to the Korea Herald to get old articles.
The incident with the American military personnel happened in 2000.
In early 2005, Albert McFarland was sentenced to two years� probation and a suspended jail sentence after being tried in absentia on charges that in 2000, he ordered two morgue workers to dump about 192 16-ounce bottles containing a formaldehyde mixture.
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, August 11, 2006
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=38325&archive=true
Did you hear about the following story from 2003?
15 held for dumping poison into Han
Seoul prosecutors yesterday said they have indicted 15 people for dumping more than 270 tons of a toxic chemical into a tributary of the Han River, just three kilometers (1.9 miles) from locations where drinking water for Seoul is collected.
by Lee Soo-ki, JoongAng Daily (November 2, 2003)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200311/02/200311022354215509900090409041.html
How does 192 16-ounce bottles compare with 270 tons?
Alleging US 'poisoning' of Seoul's water
South Korean officials and figures in Korea's ubiquitous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have railed against the mortician, McFarland, citing what they called his "attempt to poison Seoul's water supply" - as it has been described in local news reports.
However, as evidence of a double standard, there has been strikingly little coverage or discussion of the 15 Korean men arrested just last November for dumping 270 tons of formaldehyde into the Han River. The dumping site was less than three kilometers from where Seoul's drinking water is collected.
The mortician's tale: Time for US to leave Korea
By David Scofield, Asia Times (January 28, 2004)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FA28Dg02.html |
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