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Current events or general discussion?
A. Current Events
57%
 57%  [ 4 ]
B. General Discussion
42%
 42%  [ 3 ]
C. None of the above
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Total Votes : 7

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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:12 am    Post subject: Where would you place this information? Reply with quote

Where does this post belong current events or general discussion?

Foreign Businesses Shunning Korea
Chosun Ilbo (June 25, 2007)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706250031.html
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The government came out with a so-called �balanced national development� plan that runs counter to global trends and imposed regulations after regulations against foreign businesses seeking to obtain factory space. Fickle economic policies, militant unions, complicated authorization procedures and backward education and living conditions haven�t changed at all over the last five years. The Incheon, Busan and Gwangyang free economic zones, which had claimed to be a Northeast Asian "hub", were able to bring in only 34 cases of foreign direct investment over the last five years. Since it was launched in 1990, the Shanghai free economic zone was able to attract 2,646 instances of FDI, which is 80 times more than what Korea was able to achieve. And because of the government, which has been shouting out that it has not done anything wrong, Korea is being branded as an investment risk zone.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I voted current events because it is certainly that and is NOT specifically about us living in Korea.

General Discussion Forum
Forum for general discussion on issues related to *living* in South Korea.

Current Events Forum
For politics/current events/news discussion

Yup... seems to be news, current events and politics to me....
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ttompatz wrote:
I voted current events because it is certainly that and is NOT specifically about us living in Korea.

General Discussion Forum
Forum for general discussion on issues related to *living* in South Korea.

Current Events Forum
For politics/current events/news discussion
Yup... seems to be news, current events and politics to me....

issues related to *living* in South Korea?
"Fickle economic policies, militant unions, complicated authorization procedures and backward education and living conditions haven't changed at all over the last five years.... investment risk zone."
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Real Reality wrote:
ttompatz wrote:
I voted current events because it is certainly that and is NOT specifically about us living in Korea.

General Discussion Forum
Forum for general discussion on issues related to *living* in South Korea.

Current Events Forum
For politics/current events/news discussion
Yup... seems to be news, current events and politics to me....

issues related to *living* in South Korea?
"Fickle economic policies, militant unions, complicated authorization procedures and backward education and living conditions haven't changed at all over the last five years.... investment risk zone."


And what part of that is NOT news, current events or political discussion?

What part relates specifically to something like where is the local e-mart, finding shirts that fit or dating the girl next door (living here stuff)?

current events.
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is new...let's not discuss the article but, rather, discuss in which forum it belongs... Laughing
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ttompatz wrote:
Real Reality wrote:
ttompatz wrote:
I voted current events because it is certainly that and is NOT specifically about us living in Korea.
General Discussion Forum
Forum for general discussion on issues related to *living* in South Korea.
Current Events Forum
For politics/current events/news discussion
Yup... seems to be news, current events and politics to me....

issues related to *living* in South Korea?
"Fickle economic policies, militant unions, complicated authorization procedures and backward education and living conditions haven't changed at all over the last five years.... investment risk zone."


And what part of that is NOT news, current events or political discussion?

What part relates specifically to something like where is the local e-mart, finding shirts that fit or dating the girl next door (living here stuff)?
current events.

issues related to *living* in South Korea?
"Fickle economic policies, militant unions, complicated authorization procedures and backward education and living conditions haven't changed at all over the last five years.... investment risk zone."

Does "Korea: investment risk zone" fit in this group (from Current Events Forum)?
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Or does it (Korea: investment risk zone) fit better in this group (from the General Discussion Forum)?
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