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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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 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: Protesters literally throw crap at U.S. beef |
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This is not the way to win sympathy for your cause.
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Beef sales bring out a storm of protests
Demonstrators force suspension of sales at six Lotte branches |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2878042
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Lotte Mart trumpeted its rollout of U.S. beef with full fanfare. First, the store sent out an announcement on Wednesday, talking about how much cheaper the meat would be than the Korean or Australian offerings.
Then Lotte followed the standard Korean marketing plan: posing models next to the beef to generate even more press.
�The news that Lotte will be the first chain store to sell U.S. beef received plenty of publicity,� said Gwak Gye-yeong, salesperson at the Seoul Station branch of Lotte.
What Lotte didn�t count on was a rush of protesters, some throwing dung, who forced six of the chain�s 53 stores to stop selling the beef yesterday.
The stores opened at 10 a.m. Less than an hour later, about 100 people from the civic group called the Korea Alliance Against the Kor-US FTA stormed into the Seoul Station branch, fought past riot police and held a sit-in.
The Seoul Station, Chungju, Anseong, Sangmu, Cheongju and Gwangju World Cup branches had to stop selling the meat because of the protestors. Chungju and Cheongju are in North Chungcheong. Anseong and Sangmu are located in Gyeonggi and Gwangju, respectively.
Yesterday was the first day the meat has been ever sold by large supermarket chain stores in more than three years, since fears of mad cow disease brought a ban on the beef.
More than 100 kilograms were sold before the protestors rushed in at Seoul Station.
Even after the sales were stopped, customers there asked for the U.S. beef. A woman in her late 30s who declined to give her name, said she wasn�t worried about mad cow disease. �I stayed in Los Angeles for two months last year. Nothing happened to me,� she said.
She said she couldn�t understand the protesters. �I know the cow growers are not well-off, but what about the city dwellers?�
Lotte said it had sold an estimated 2 tons, or 35 million won worth of U.S. beef, as of 2 p.m. yesterday. The amount was four times more than the import beef sales last week.
Lotte Mart, the country�s third biggest supermarket chain, prepared 10 tons of sirloin, rib eye, chuck short rib and chuck, all choice grade, which is equal to Korea�s first grade. They also lowered the price for a promotion. �Lotte is not making any direct profits from today�s sales,� said a Lotte Mart employee who declined to be identified.
One hundred grams (3.5 ounces) of non-frozen top sirloin sold for 1,550 won ($1.70). The same part from a Korean cow is sold for 6,000 won. Each customer was limited to a purchase of 1 kilogram.
Lotte will continue selling beef and the sales at the four will also resume in the near future, said Gwak. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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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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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Oops, sorry. Maybe I missed it because it has such an innocuous title ("US Beef Protest"). It needs something snazzier, like "U.S. Beef Protests are bulls히t -literally." |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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No ones throwing manure at Bennigans Tony Romons or T.G.I.F.'s
I saw some steaks at the black market for 10 000 won. Thay're also had American bacon and hot dogs. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Man, that's some nationalism to the extreme. Of course they're out to protect their comfortable economic situation and importing foreign beef and other products is not the way to make Korea richer or sustain this hyper growth they are experiencing since the IMF crisis was resolved. America is getting poorer, because these countries out here just copy cat it's ideas such as Doritos and automobile designs, but don't want to buy American. A big transfer of wealth and career opportunities are going from America to Asia and India. It is a zero sum game and no one wants to buy American since it does not help a country's own producers or it's own economic growth to buy foreign. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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If you're teaching idioms today, you can teach them "biting the hand that feeds you".
South Korea enjoys the wealth it has today in a big way thanks to the sales of Korean products in the American markets. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Pathetic people.
That guy in the photo had to go out to his farm, scoop up a bunch of crap, put it into that kimchee bucket, carry it back to his place, load it into his car, meet (the group) outside the store, smuggle it into the store, and finally chuck it at the counter. I bet he never washed his hands once, nor did he wash them when his group went out to eat at the pig restaurant after the demo was over. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I prefer it when they cut their own fingers off ... |
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ruffie
Joined: 11 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| As the dung came from pure race Korean cows, there are no health risks. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
Oops, sorry. Maybe I missed it because it has such an innocuous title ("US Beef Protest"). It needs something snazzier, like "U.S. Beef Protests are bulls히t -literally." |
For my other forum I titled it "Sh1tty Beef," but I don't think that would fly here (pun a little bit intended). |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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I think this guy is behind the turd throwing incident. 
Seriously, he must have loved it.
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad they brought all this attention to the fact that US beef can now be bought here.
I'm going out after work to buy a $hitload of it... |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought the mud festival was supposed to be in Boryeong? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| bulls히t |
Dude I thought I was clever with my "mouse over" swear filter work around. But that's great.
http://*beep* |
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KimchiExplosion
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| I'm just waiting for them to rip a live calf apart in protest. |
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