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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: Yeah - today is the anniversary Koreans FREED THEMSELVES.... |
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maybe - I just had a bad today - but hey.......
Today is the anniversary of the day - that the USA, England, Australia NZ etc etc etc GOT the Japanese people OUT OFF Korean and liberated (made free) the Korean people....
Today is what Korean people call "Independence day" (from Japan)...
and what have Koreans done to thank us??????????
discrimate against us....
blame us for all their problems....
place restrictive banking placed on us....
(why would anyone want to teach in a country - where all the money THEY EARN - is NOT allowed to be sent back to that persons home country).... - which is coming into law in a couple of months....
abuse us.....
maybe - we should have left Japan here.........?
what else can you think of to celebrate today?
(Don't forget - during WWII - even Korean soldiers were fighting AGAINST us - on the side of the Japense forces in Philippines etc)....
we helped them........... and still are... but for what?
today the Korean people celebrate" How they got themselves liberated from Japan".....
and for the other 364 days of the year - they will blame us "Waegukins" for all their problems...... including how we keep them down... impoverished... etc etc....
can we ask the Japanese to come back...?
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: Re: Yeah - today we gave Korea their freedom? |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
what else can you think of to celebrate today? |
Not having to teach camp.
And my Korean boyfriend who help navigate all of the BS of Korean society.
And my Korean "family" who thanked me yesterday "for bombing Japan." |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| There is a link on rjkoehler.com to the English version of the speech the pres of Korea gave today - funny as how he makes it sound as Koreans liberated themselves... |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| The poster Yesterday sure seems like the opinion-expressing side of fact-touting Real Reality. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| The poster Yesterday sure seems like the opinion-expressing side of fact-touting Real Reality. |
yesterday is yesterday...
today just a few-too-many-koreans pissssed me off - whilst they were celebrating the day "they grew balls and freed themselves from Japanese oppression"..... |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| heh.heh.heh...Koreans and their little inferiority/superiority complexes...But hey, they gave me a day off to sleep, and one less day of rugrats, so I thank them. |
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exit86
Joined: 17 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Just a question to Yesterday or anyone who may know:
What legislation might be passed concerning sending money back to our home countries? Any links or anything else to explain this more in detail?
Doesn't seem altogether right.
Yesterday, I feel your pain and frustration. I think a lot of people are down these days. I attribute it to the monsoon season (though our trusty Korean meteorologists insist that "Changma" started way back in June--when it never rained--and ended several weeks ago--when it began pouring and hasn't stopped yet. As opposed to admitting any type of misreading of the weather--which is inevitable in that profession--our faithful, all-knowing meteorologists saved face by saying this year is a freak occurence. It happens just like this every year though.)
Anyway, about all of the other frustrating things in your list, like my favorite song says, let's just "Blame it on the Rain."
Ain't nobody else gonna take responsibility in this very foreign land for all of the illogical, irrational, bass ackwards schtuff that tends to frustrate the hell out of your every-day, garden-variety individual with a working brain. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Civic Groups Rally to Remove War Hero Statue
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| The group, the Special Committee to Get Rid of MacArthur's Statue, plans to rally on July 17, Korea�s Constitution Day. The statue was erected in 1957 to commemorate the September 1950 landing of the United Nations troops, led by Gen. MacArthur, which marked a crucial turning point in the war against North Korean forces. "The U.S. military pretended to be an emancipator or savior of Koreans during the war," said Kim Su-nam, 63, who heads the group. "But they were nothing but another invader to replace Japan." |
Civic groups rally to remove war hero statue
JoongAng Daily (June 28, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2587104
Cockeyed nationalism
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| We are concerned that a few opposition groups advocating the removal of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's statue from Incheon�s Freedom Park are becoming more organized in their operations. Repeated demonstrations are now just the basics. Recently, a professor wrote in a published article that the "statue of war-crazy MacArthur must be thrown back into history." Then came a song with lyrics such as "General MacArthur is a murderer" that is currently being widely distributed. At a rally yesterday, demonstrators yelled that the statue of General MacArthur -- "which symbolizes occupation and slaughter" ― will soon be dismantled. |
Cockeyed nationalism from JoongAng Daily (September 11, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2616932
Seoul restaurants bar US diners
BBC NEWS, Asia-Pacific (November 28, 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2523237.stm
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: |
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EDIT: you know RR, I usually dig your links and all... but come on man, that pic is from 2002. 
I was asking a whole bunch of my Korean friends about this holiday yesterday, they're responses were interesting:
"it's the day Korea gained independence"
"it's the day Japan surrendered"
"it was when the Japanese left"
All of the comments revolved around the same. When I asked them "hey, why did the Japanese surrender?" We eventually found our way to the two bombs.
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