tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62348217132444724932024-02-19T21:24:27.482+09:00Dokdo Is OursYankee Go Home! but please spending tourism money and tell friend "Hey! Come to Korea! It's great!" first before eat shit and die.Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-80143240381431933492023-09-14T10:32:00.003+09:002023-09-14T10:32:27.245+09:00Ask Planners of Scout Jamboree! Setting The Record Straight<p>This summer Korea expanded global reputation to world top class elite brand image of luxury with Scoot Champoree. Korea is Champ again! But news articles often said Jamporee was a disaster, so this article is setting the record straight to correct your wrong opinion.</p><p>We talked to organizers of the Soutct Jamporii at Saemangeum to explain and correct the many misunderstandings about the Socutt Jmborre, in order to bring commensurate status and glory to Korea, world's top nation. </p><p>First, people said the Jabmbmore was built in an inappropriate setting, in reclaimed land that was too recently built, did not have proper drainage, tree cover, or adequate shade. However, if you look at photos of Scout Jambuurees from many other global top countries, you see many pictures of glorious prestige kids swimming in water! Rainy days and bad drainage can make that dream a reality for hopeful kids wanting a top-class luxury Jabberwokee in Korea. Also, reclaimed land shows Korea's engineering prowess and skill with special projects, like creating special land just for Jamppri, just as Olympics 1988 and 2018 made buildings and stadiums and sports facility. </p><p>Secondly, after some kids got too hot, it's a clear misunderstanding: the Scote Chamboree was Korea's hot-spot -- not Apgujeong or amazing night-life places, but Saemangeum Jjambbonglee! Plus, it was a fantastic opportunity for Korean bottled water brands and Korean convenience store brands to display their amazing largesse and generosity, to spread their global brands worldwide. It's a win-win!</p><p>Finally, many people are asking for an accounting of the money spent and the effort made in preparing this Jbmambmori, but the organizers would like to clarify that the money was well-spent indeed, with these photos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtcR7YJUB-6356nTMzdzURItZVY9yltH1EFl_SuwCl_JN2ljtP29z4tU5DhcrU-hNQvUMnAvxIATsCo6rzofHH_VrlmnvxhDQVOg12o_Mj2FU4LljTcq30GEfrdxrU2R7Ic13-CtAd6ewbyQJlhFFPZYsw26W60HDbZqPsG0i9Fm91ffWoAk3eQSJ__g/s280/00_SsangYong_Chairman_W_CW700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="280" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtcR7YJUB-6356nTMzdzURItZVY9yltH1EFl_SuwCl_JN2ljtP29z4tU5DhcrU-hNQvUMnAvxIATsCo6rzofHH_VrlmnvxhDQVOg12o_Mj2FU4LljTcq30GEfrdxrU2R7Ic13-CtAd6ewbyQJlhFFPZYsw26W60HDbZqPsG0i9Fm91ffWoAk3eQSJ__g/s1600/00_SsangYong_Chairman_W_CW700.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzyNefJs6hc0dnKDb8mXd7Fus6Aesa7TWk_HFHBrSb4LvtjSWMzWjfgk6hyNQCkPDgq3eeYmdrI2wqa8DNuBJPtYureB5Us3LI16gCUmUau0EAnevaeCCSaVYnxJ7I_n1fspp2pIh5DnW6Go5797y2kiKUPg_qCzyJiie1PXXJuk4vjneVZ9i5r2I1uE/s390/2016_hyundai_equus_angularrear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="390" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzyNefJs6hc0dnKDb8mXd7Fus6Aesa7TWk_HFHBrSb4LvtjSWMzWjfgk6hyNQCkPDgq3eeYmdrI2wqa8DNuBJPtYureB5Us3LI16gCUmUau0EAnevaeCCSaVYnxJ7I_n1fspp2pIh5DnW6Go5797y2kiKUPg_qCzyJiie1PXXJuk4vjneVZ9i5r2I1uE/s320/2016_hyundai_equus_angularrear.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_j6l-S6iblLF5T-DcbjrB37dtshQy3_veLrveEOMNKL2qPsEsoJGB9gHPcOOrNvtqU9smAlZ043mf7L4LKXthAppLN3BnrbYpJXnZOyMTm_Y8CrLAg42MyGXxwXBZvRmtBjinU9by9L948ey7SRk9G2sYSbWNcfoJFDeNXATw6w-1oXFz_DteBHtit0/s1600/2019_lexus_ux-250h_4dr-suv_base_fq_oem_1_1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_j6l-S6iblLF5T-DcbjrB37dtshQy3_veLrveEOMNKL2qPsEsoJGB9gHPcOOrNvtqU9smAlZ043mf7L4LKXthAppLN3BnrbYpJXnZOyMTm_Y8CrLAg42MyGXxwXBZvRmtBjinU9by9L948ey7SRk9G2sYSbWNcfoJFDeNXATw6w-1oXFz_DteBHtit0/s320/2019_lexus_ux-250h_4dr-suv_base_fq_oem_1_1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Those cars aren't cheap, understand?<div><br /></div><div>We hope these clarifications will remove misunderstandings and eliminate wrong opinions about Korea Scott Jazzboiling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you: Dokdo Is Ours and Scout Champori Organizers<br /><p><br /></p></div>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-5273118283687223522014-08-18T14:57:00.002+09:002014-08-18T15:02:27.858+09:00Itaewon Ebola Scare: "No Africans" Sign Not Enough to Protect UsAs Facebook walls twitter hashtags and <a href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2014/08/182_163037.html">The Korea Times</a> go wild, it falls once again on long-dormant Dokdo Is Ours to cover the true story of the shocking "No Africans" sign posted in front of a well-known Itaewon bar.<br />
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A snapshot shared on Facebook, like a racist snowball rolling down a slope of fresh-fallen outrage, has taken Expat social media by storm!<br />
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Blogger "Liberal White Guilt... and Kimchi!" and "Whitesplain your Seoul" published the first stories on the issue, while the bar owners' shift to damage control mode was met with cynicism by local bloggers and internet journalists, if that's what they're calling themselves these days. (Read more <a href="http://www.asiapundits.com/itaewon-bars-ebola-ban-sparks-outrage/">here</a> and <a href="http://adamrcarr.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/how-one-korean-bar-tried-to-prevent-ebola-by-banning-africans/">here</a>)<br />
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The Ebola flare-up in West Africa has indeed caused consternation in South Korea, as two of Korean mothers' greatest fears: germs, and black people, combine into a single image of terror.<br />
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Duksung Women's University cancelled conference invitations to three Nigerian students (note: <a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0G40GV20140804">this <i>actually happened</i></a>) and trips to Africa have been cancelled by numerous groups. From Somalians (over 6000 km or 3800 miles from the main outbreak) to South Africans (5700 km/3500mi), whether they have visited their homelands this decade or not, anyone who is visibly African (you know what I mean, and if you don't, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/17/us/missouri-teen-shooting/index.html">ask a Ferguson cop</a>) are now objects of suspicion and ignorant questions at customs, on the street, and anywhere they go around, brazenly looking different from Koreans and white expats.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early stage Ebola patients. <a href="http://soresportmovies.blogspot.kr/2012/03/dead-2010-horror-zombie.html">source</a></td></tr>
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Also, in a pre-emptive move, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/korean-air-suspends-flights-kenya-over-ebola-worries-075056581--finance.html">Korean Air has cancelled flights to Kenya</a>, which is <a href="http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from/Liberia/to/Kenya">really far from where Ebola is happening</a>. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/18/korean-air-apologizes-for_n_1606926.html">Perhaps they are being extra cautious to account for all that primitive energy</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early stage Ebola patient. <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/high_gravity/2009/07/1000-zombies-march-on-the-streets-of-manchester.html">source</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late stage Ebola patient. Note red eyes and dark skin. <a href="http://401ak47.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/28-days-later-black-zombie2.jpg">source</a></td></tr>
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Though geographical knowledge of Africa is sparse, and only three of the 300 000 Korean mothers polled could point out the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak on a map, more accurately than the continent of Africa overall, Korean mothers were nearly unanimous in their fear of ebola, and the need for Kimchi manufacturers -- particularly domestic Korean kimchi producers, and none of that maggoty Chinese kimchi-- to speed up production to help protect Korean children.<br />
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"Kimchi did the job against swine flu, but I heard African viruses are more athletic, and have better rhythm than South Asian ones," lamented Mrs. Lee, who has kept her children home from school for three weeks now.</div>
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As <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/08/116_162614.html">officials consider importing an ebola treatment from Japan</a>, such an extreme measure increases concern for many. "We'd even let a Japanese firm profit in Korea, just to deal with this thing? Christ almighty, we might be fucked!" exclaimed Choi, who declined to give his full name.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late stage Ebola patient. At this point, he is highly contagious. <a href="http://culturemob.com/ahhhhh-zombies-black-cat-washington-dc-movies-film-festival-14th-st-u-street-nw">Source</a></td></tr>
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Others have used the Ebola scare as an opportunity to criticize Korea's migrant worker programs. "If they have enough money to frequently travel back and forth from Africa -- which <i>must</i> be the case if mothers are worried about them bringing Ebola to Korea, then it's clear that we're paying migrant workers far too much!" explains internet commenter "SayNoToNegro," a frequent commenter at KoreaPureMinjokForever.org and Daum cafe "Not A Drop Of Ink."<br />
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Another, "PureBloodHan" used the public fears to boast about Korea's advanced internet technology. "Korean telecommunications are the best in the world: even viruses can transmit through our data networks!" he crowed. Asked for proof that any person in Korea had contracted Ebola at all, much less because of phoning home, PureBloodHan also pointed to mothers' concern. "Five million mothers can't be wrong, can they?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hold your arm up to the computer screen to check. <a href="http://www.beautyheaven.com.au/celebrity/celebrity-beauty/crazy-but-true-pregnant-snooki-gives-up-tanning-9395">source</a></td></tr>
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Korean Immigration has been doing its best to assuage concerns, promising to re-test foreign English teachers for HIV, and if the mothers do not settle down, rounding up and deporting anyone with a sniffle and skin darker than tanning-bed Snooki, despite complaints from the ambassadors of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, The Philippines, and every other country in South Asia.<br />
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However, when Dokdo Is Ours went to the pub in question last weekend, concerns about blatant racism seemed overblown, as patrons from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Kenya, Angola, The Congo, Botswana, Madagascar, Egypt, and even Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries hardest hit by Ebola, were all admitted without problems. The pub employee checking IDs at the door seemed confused. "I see a lot of dark people, but their passports are all the names of countries I don't know. So far everybody's gotten in: nobody seems to be from Africa."<br />
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Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-77940028136296357542012-11-20T11:35:00.000+09:002012-11-20T11:38:24.485+09:00Honored to be linked in The Diplomat!We at Dokdo Is Ours have been mostly inactive lately, but we had to mention this one:<br />
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Our article, "My thoughts on what I call 'a culture of copying'" were linked in The Diplomat's article titled "<a href="http://thediplomat.com/2012/11/18/apple-samsung-and-s-koreas-growing-pains/?all=true">A Battle for the 'Seoul' of South Korea's Economy</a>" -- a true honor!<br />
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Joe from the Zenkimchi Cafe, <a href="http://www.zenkimchi.com/FoodJournal/commentary/a-culture-of-copying/">whose VERY SIMILAR article about Korea's copying culture</a> appeared suspiciously close to the publishing date of the piece here at Dokdo Is Ours (so suspiciously close, some [who are clearly wrong] even suspect it was published BEFORE Dokdo is Ours' analysis) and featured some similar formatting, had this to say:<br />
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"Congratulations Dokdo on being linked by The Diplomat. You are clearly the original writer of this article, and probably also good in the sack."<br />
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<br />Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-63600635204155277002012-09-06T12:33:00.000+09:002012-11-20T11:41:10.823+09:00My thoughts on what I call "A Culture of Copying"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rarely do I go into the messy mine-ridden field of cultural commentary. Please indulge me this one time.</div>
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Among the verdicts for the various Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits coming out, other events have been happening in my personal life that have gotten me again pondering why we see so much blatant copying in Korea. It’s unashamed, as in people are surprised when someone points out that copying may be wrong.</div>
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I don’t have a pat answer at the end nor anywhere. Let me lay down some graphic examples of unapologetic copying that are but representatives of a sea of copyright infringements, logo hijackings, and downright plagiarism that anyone can see while walking down a street in Seoul.</div>
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Let me get all this off my A.D.D.-riddled brain first. The Korean media and netizen response to the California Apple vs. Samsung verdict have predictably defended Samsung. It’s mostly been loud proclamations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">psychological projections</a>. They accuse the jury of being <a href="http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/08/27/so-uncle-marmot-what-are-the-korean-papers-saying-about-the-samsung-shellacking/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">overtly nationalist</a> in their decision to side with Apple while also lambasting their “leftist” press for not being nationalist enough–for admitting that Samsung is a bloated behemoth that is so myopically arrogant and institutionally corrupt that it makes the Sopranos make out like a Girl Scout troop. They criticize the idea of a jury itself, one of the longest lived and most cherished foundations of modern law. They pronounce that juries shouldn’t decide tech-heavy cases, ignoring that there were engineers and patent holders on the jury itself that helped educate those that weren’t up on the technology and patent law. Said the head juror retired engineer Velvin Hogan:</div>
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We were at a stalemate, but some of the jurors were not sure of the patent prosecution process. Some were not sure of how prior art could either render a patent acceptable or whether it could invalidate it. What we did is we started talking about one and when the day was over and I was at home, thinking about that patent claim by claim, limit by limit, I had what we would call an a-ha moment and I suddenly decided I could defend this if it was my patent…And with that, I took that story back to the jury and laid it out for them. They understood the points I was talking about and then we meticulously went patent by patent and claim by claim against the test that the judge had given us, because each patent had a different legal premise to judge on. We got those all sorted out and decided which ones were valid and which ones were not. [<a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/28/apple-v-samsung-meet-the-foreman-of-the-jury/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">link</a>]</div>
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Oh, and I imagine that the judges in the Korean case, untainted by an unwashed jury, had those engineering degrees in their pockets?</div>
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What it came down to was not anything that technical. It was memos that basically said that Samsung needed to copy Apple and FAST!</div>
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For those who were not here in Korea or have forgotten, let me give a brief history of the smartphone in Korea. The iPhone had already been around for two years before it appeared on Korean shores in 2009. Before then, the average Korean didn’t have Apple on her radar. It was a maker of iPods, which were slowly creeping up on the market share of the popular iRiver MP3 players. People didn’t have Macs. If they did, they were useless because most Korean websites heavily depended on using Microsoft’s defunct ActiveX plug-ins to run them. Some still do, especially for security, even though Microsoft itself has publicly ditched ActiveX.</div>
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The Korean mobile makers dominated the Korean marketplace. Nokia was sort of making an appearance, but it was flaccid. Samsung, LG, and company were innovating in making cell phones cuter and fuller of gimmicks, like the unfortunately named <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQbxoGmrODI" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Magic Hole</a>. And does anyone remember the craze for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobFa91EjUw" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Show phones</a>? They even got K-Pop groups to team up on phone models, like the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lollipop model</a>, whose TV campaign was a hit music video from (at the time) fledgling girl group 2NE1 and Big Bang.</div>
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The foreign community was plugged into what was going on overseas, and we were begging to get the iPhone in Korea. We’d mention this to Korean friends and co-workers, who responded with puzzled looks.</div>
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“What’s an <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone</em>? What’s so great about it?”</div>
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It wasn’t that Apple didn’t want to enter the Korean market. The government had placed protectionist controls to block it out. The iPhone didn’t conform to some <a href="http://www.web20asia.com/304" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">outdated data standard</a> that the government required. After a lot of work, this requirement <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/04/133_35873.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">got dropped</a> in 2009. Apple made a carrier partnership with Korea Telecom. The iPhone finally entered the Korean market in late 2009.</div>
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This whole time the Korean manufacturers were smug and actually clueless of what was going on in overseas markets. They were smug in the sense that they were banking on Korean nationalism to again support them like they do the car industry. I call it <a href="http://www.hancinema.net/-d-war-scores-with-nationalism--10462.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">D-War nationalism</a>, after the fervor for the god-awful dragon movie that came out a few years ago that Koreans at the time blindly supported–even giving <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/15/world/fg-deewar15" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">death threats to a Korean critic</a> who said it wasn’t all that great. The premise is that no matter how shitty the product, Koreans would support it if it was Korean.</div>
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Apple burst that bubble.</div>
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Koreans were smarter and savvier than Samsung and LG anticipated. The people who only months before scratched their heads when I mentioned the word “iPhone” were coming up to me saying, “Do you know iPhone? Let me show you.”</div>
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It killed that myth Korean marketers had so much repeated. Korean consumers were pretty much like consumers anywhere in the world. If something’s good they want it. Nationalism be damned. (to some extent)</div>
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This was the situation that Samsung found itself in. The memos brought up during the trial that greatly influenced the jury came from this time. The memos proved they simply weren’t listening. They were so busy trying to copy Nokia that they forgot to copy Apple.</div>
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So they quickly got some iPhones, reverse engineered them, put Android on them instead of their poorly developed Bada platform–even though they had before <a href="http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=%22in+the+plex%22+android+samsung&source=bl&ots=BRqR6q8jiA&sig=fDm87yPBfq0QSCZETGzgDAajxsg&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">laughed the Android developers so far out of their boardroom</a> that they went to Google. There was a lot of crow being eaten but there was still the classic arrogance combined with the frog-in-the-well world perception that got them in trouble in the first place.</div>
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You see, copying is endemic in Korea. Companies have been getting away with it for so long because, really, Korea has been off the radar internationally. No one has paid attention to what Korea has been doing inside Korea, so we have generations of people brought up with the idea that copying successful companies is normal. It’s actually a virtue if it’s in the name of progressing the country or at least the family–of which some see little difference.</div>
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I’m also playing with the hypothesis that there’s a little superstition going on there as well. When, say, a pigs feet restaurant does well, other restaurants tend to open up next to it offering the exact same thing, usually at the exact same price. I’m guessing people think there’s some type of magical ju-ju about the location or some magic combination they did to become popular–other than differentiating themselves from the market by making good food.</div>
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I received an email from a restaurant owner in Vancouver. He and his partner own a popular sandwich shop called <a href="http://meatandbread.ca/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Meat & Bread</a>. They specialize in porchetta sandwiches. If you’re in Vancouver check them out. They’ve been featured on the Food Network, too.</div>
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I’m sure the Korean version of this restaurant is good, but do they have to copy it that shamelessly? Is it some superstitious good luck charm? There’s a difference between building on someone else’s idea and just copying someone else’s idea. In fact, many people don’t mind if you copy them if you at least just give them some credit. The Meat & Bread owner mentioned that he only wanted acknowledgement. He wasn’t interested in money or anything like that.</div>
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On top of that, when a magazine like <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cookand </em>featured this Korean restaurant in an article, they copied and pasted the entire article on their blog, which is highly unethical in web publishing.</div>
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I’ve gotten the reaction from folks, “What’s wrong? People do it all the time.”</div>
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Just because a lot of people do it doesn’t make it right. Just because other countries do it doesn’t make it right. I think we have all become so jaded from seeing this all the time. I’m guilty of the same. It’s cultural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stockholm Syndrome</a>. We’ve gotten so accustomed to Korea that we’re making excuses for what really is bad behavior. Not cultural differences. Bad behavior.</div>
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Actually, my business partner Ms. Kang is upset. She says that this has nothing to do with cultural differences. She grew up in Korea and has occasionally lived overseas. She says that even though Korea has become powerful and successful, there is still a lack of confidence. It’s considered safe to copy. No one teaches in schools that copying is wrong. It’s not considered stealing when one copies someone else’s hard work, be it a restaurant menu and design, a magazine article, or a smartphone.</div>
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She told me a story of lifestyle magazine writers and editors getting together in hotel restaurants with a bunch of foreign lifestyle magazines, looking at them not for inspiration, but finding articles to steal and paste and photos to mimic.</div>
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An English corporate jargon term has become common in Korean business. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benchmarking</em>. Yet when I am involved with meetings or such when Koreans use that word, they don’t mean it by the original sense of looking at a prime example in a field and testing your product against it. It means looking at a prime example in a field and figuring out how to copy it.</div>
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That’s one reason there are a lot of Korean movie posters that look exactly like Hollywood movie posters. Producers and movie companies go to the designers, or the designers show them some examples of other posters, and the suits find a poster they like and <a href="http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/09/24/stop-stealing-foreign-movie-posters-thanks/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">want something exactly like that</a>. They don’t want something in that style. They want <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em> movie poster.</div>
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A friend of mine told me a story of a job his company did for Samsung. They were creating a website, and the website company was outsourcing my friend’s company for some translation. Samsung later found out that the web design company was outsourcing and then got directly involved. The Samsung guy in charge wanted to use terms that were distinctly Apple’s. They were trying to copy Apple’s website and jargon even though many of those terms were unique to Apple. My friend gently told the quite arrogant Samsung manager that he couldn’t do that. Shrugged him off. The project itself was eventually dropped but not because Samsung was again blatantly copying Apple even against dire warnings.</div>
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The K-Pop industry also goes by this model. Check out this <a href="http://www.allkpop.com/2010/09/korea-music-copyright-association-list-20-plagiarized-songs" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">list of twenty plagiarized songs</a>. Video blogger Michael Aronson points out a recent example of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTA3LKjoPBI" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">IU and Fiestar’s “Sea of Moonlight</a>” doing a variation of A-ha’s “Take on Me” and passing it off as an original. And you’d think that IU’s handlers would have learned from <a href="http://www.hancinema.net/music-mogul-ordered-to-pay-for-plagiarism-38677.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the last time</a>. While you’re at it, check out this video, which a Korean court ruled copied a scene from “Final Fantasy VII.”</div>
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<span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">It’s the way business is done in Korea. Japanese and Chinese tourists come here not for the sites but for the imitation Gucci handbags. High school students copy on exams.</span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/plagiarism-imperililng-south-koreas-academic-reputation/1147381.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">College students plagiarize their papers</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">from the internet. Professors</span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.dgupost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=27" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">plagiarize their papers from their undergrads</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">. One of the biggest frustrations I hear from foreign faculty in Korean universities is the amount of</span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2012/08/181_110142.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">unabashed and unashamed plagiarism</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">that goes on. Students really don’t know how to write for themselves. There have been swaths of scandals of people in high positions being caught with</span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/world/asia/28iht-korea.1.7285800.html?pagewanted=all" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">forged university degrees</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">(then they use the</span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/2012/06/rising-tide-of-unqualified-foreign.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">foreigner distraction</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">). I’ve heard the excuse that in Confucian tradition, students are supposed to copy their teachers and not do anything that involves critical thought. But teachers copying students?</span></div>
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Beyond the fake Louis Vuittons, piracy has also been unapologetic. And it’s bitten Korea in the butt. Because Korea was so <a href="http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/15570" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">notorious for piracy</a> Nintendo made it so that only games made for Korean systems could be played in Korea. No one could pirate games from other countries and sell them in Korea. Which was just a band-aid solution. Buy a Wii at Yongsan Electronics Market, and they ask you if you want it modded to break through this system as casually as if they ask if you want an extended warranty.</div>
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This all said, I’m glad that Samsung did get its posterior in gear after the 2009 iPhone disaster. The Galaxy S may be an outright copy of the iPhone 3Gs, but the Galaxy series are wonderful phones. I’m hoping that this verdict has similar results in again shaking up Samsung’s corporate culture (I hadn’t mentioned the masses of executive firings at Samsung and LG after the 2009 iPhone disaster). I wish they’d head on over to Hongdae and pick up some of those talented Hongik University grads so we can really see what really great Korean designers can do.</div>
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In the meantime, I’ll sip on my <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Starbucks-loses-dispute-over-South-Korean-chain-s-1216969.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Starpreya</a> or <a href="http://www.jjbeancoffee.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><del style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JJ Bean</del></a> <a href="http://jjcaffe.co.kr/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">JJ Caffe</a> latte and <a href="http://www.ryanmroberts.com/2008/12/kicker.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kicker</a> candy bar, listening to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a5SxZdA2dA" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">G-Dragon’s “Heartbreaker”</a> or maybe some <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/07/01/south-korea-k-pop-icon-hyo-ri-brings-the-plagiarism-issue-up-to-the-light/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lee Hyori</a> while shopping at <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBsoG3V7Zu8MrvrwzP2NZrPNgo3d-tTpsjON0DiysikCM5e_1fktDyBUoJgx-bi5aOfAa6tDmy5odQr0biCcDcaugQ86OHYubeLtc0RqqKQV2MZg4nwtpwlKu3boABIacHCFcsDijos2o/s1600/IMG_3400.JPG" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">TOMMYATKINS</a> and maybe hang out with my friends at <a href="http://cocoperez.com/2012-08-22-south-korean-bar-sued-by-chanel-for-name-infringement" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chanel Business Club,</a> the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3oei2Ic72PYUz1x1NOx1SBJFaTCQ8zUwp4U81aUUa6mMTk6RuIM6S3OGS1gnKb_eBxXwevtqDspcrEe-rLhDRgRL-8mvAbPhlD7eQwtI02iTFu11D4b0225Qgta8lYzMmM3Fa7siXMSE/s1600/IMG_0862.JPG" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BMW Noraebang</a>, or the Popeye Chicken Hof.</div>
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Update: <a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.kr/2012/11/honored-to-be-linked-in-diplomat.html">I got linked by the Diplomat!</a><br />
<a href="http://www.zenkimchi.com/FoodJournal/commentary/a-culture-of-copying/">Zenkimchi Joe is thrilled!</a></div>
Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-7935473992019701182011-11-18T11:55:00.001+09:002011-11-18T12:00:18.763+09:00English Teachers are OK!I've been away from Korea for a while.<br />
But I made this, to help English teachers to promote warm feelings between English teachers and Koreans!<br />
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You're welcome.<br />
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Remember kids: Huggy Cutes, the huggy cute bear loves you!Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-77961891117528382002011-04-01T17:47:00.000+09:002011-04-01T17:47:29.385+09:00Closing up shop... secret identity revealed.Well, it's been a good run, but as you've noticed, posting has been light at Dokdo Is Ours.<br />
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I've been busy with other things, and it's time to fade away.<br />
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Thanks everybody for reading (even the pervs who keep finding this page by googling "Michelle Wie Upskirt"...<br />
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and if you miss me, you can go see my other writings, <a href="http://chrisinsouthkorea.com/">at the page that's taking over my free time, as I try to make a go of building a career out of writing about Korea.</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-82791401574904054682011-02-17T15:43:00.001+09:002011-02-17T15:43:25.443+09:00Justin Vievo Is Hate a Korea and Die!Why Justin Vievo is hate the Korea in today?<br />
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<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-5-best-quotes-from-justin-biebers-rolling-sto">It's quote from rolling the stone</a> we're shocking at Justin Vievo who don't like the Korea so we're the angry!<br />
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I'm hope Justin Vievo voice am crack when puberty, and can't sing good after become a woman!<br />
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Hate!Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-37651202592549020582011-02-15T22:46:00.004+09:002011-02-15T22:54:16.534+09:00Jeonju Woman With Drivers License Made President of Korea's Olympic Bid Committee<a href="http://www.examiner.com/world-news-in-national/after-950-tries-woman-korea-passes-test-for-driver-s-license">Cha Sa-Soon</a>, now 70, a resident of Jeonju, who gained world fame by finally passing the written exam for her driver's license, is again in world news, after being named the new president of Korea's Pyoungchang Olympic Bid committee.<br />
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Proud owner of a drivers license, Ms. Cha will be helping Korea promote its bid for Pyeongchang to host the 2018 Olympic games.<br />
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The previous president of the committee, Park Yong-sung, after two consecutive Olympic bid failures: to Vancouver in 2010, and to Russia's Sochi in 2014, has found continued failure simply too disheartening, and resigned.<br />
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On the other hand, Ms. Cha, whose repeated failures to pass the written drivers' exam, did not dismay her whatsoever, is the perfect candidate to head up Korea's Olympic bid committee.<br />
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"Well, after 2018, there's ... 2022, 2026, 2030, 2034..." Ms. Cha explained. There's always more Olympics, you know."<br />
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Dokdo Is Ours asked Ms. Cha whether she thought it was useful to continue making expensive bids year after year, to host the Olympics.<br />
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"Oh! The Olympics! Those are very nice. I do hope we can have them in Pyeonggchang," she said.<br />
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"And if you fail to land the 2018 Olympics, will you change your strategy in your bid for the 2022 Olympics?"<br />
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"Change strategy? No, no, no, like when I earned my drivers' license after 950 tries, I learned an important thing in life: just keep doing the same thing, and failing, until you reach success. Our strategies will remain the same. Forever. 950 times, if need be. We'll be a shoo-in for the 5,818 Olympics. I'm sure the the Master Consciousness Zeblon will grant us the 5818 Olympics, in his infinite wisdom."<br />
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"And what is the strategy?" Dokdo Is Ours inquired.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/sports/08olympics.html">Bribe people.</a>"<br />
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Yesterday, the Korean Football Association announced it is considering making her president of the Korea World Cup Hosting Bid Committee, as well.<br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110215/sp_wl_afp/oly2018korioc_20110215093137">Original story</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-79881952111437468282011-01-10T21:14:00.002+09:002011-01-10T21:17:04.017+09:00Subway-Gropers Also Applaud Korean Legal System Protecting Sex-Attackers' Rights To Grope Rape and Violate Undisturbed<a href="http://dokdotimes.blogspot.com/2011/01/sex-attackers-welcome-reassertion-of.html">In response to a recent press release,</a> The Korean Subway Gropers' Alliance spoke out this week, chiming in with the larger Korean Association of Sex Attackers, expressing their support of a recent court ruling that sentenced a Korean bus driver for stopping a sex attack on the bus he was driving.<br />
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The Korean Subway Gropers' Alliance was "pleased" that the right for <strike>people</strike> men to conduct sex attacks undisturbed, has been defended by Korea's courts.<br />
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While the Korean Subway Gropers' Alliance has been aiming for affiliation with the Korean Association of Sex Attackers, its application has been denied for two consecutive years.<br />
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"Subway groping isn't even violent," explained Lee Byun-Tae, public relations representative for the KASA. "We've debated it every year - given the huge number of Subway Gropers, it would certainly improve our numbers and dues collection, but in the end, we're afraid that mere groping will water down the violent and intimidating image we want to convey."<br />
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Some have accused the Korean Subway Gropers' Alliance of grasping for attention by releasing a press release for an event like this, which happened on a bus, and which was clearly an outright attack, not a groping: outside the Gropers' spectrum of action.<br />
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<a href="http://dokdotimes.blogspot.com/2011/01/sex-attackers-welcome-reassertion-of.html">For more on the issue, please go to The Dokdo Times, The English version of Dokdo's oldest Independent Korean-Language Newspaper.</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-82076644829689527712011-01-03T20:07:00.001+09:002011-01-06T08:24:16.373+09:00The Truth About Robot Teachers in Korea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2577d_v2uqcRk04QIs4F1AmPEFM_OOEnbzEcBEKj8bLrdImrpQ7k8zljZ6BE0Du2j_1dLyt6ONeGF3iR8VChBPOPWapJf8C511P7J1wn_ohYogOokryjj5_z4OqkQpagjbUF1IL5H1aw/s1600/robot+teachers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2577d_v2uqcRk04QIs4F1AmPEFM_OOEnbzEcBEKj8bLrdImrpQ7k8zljZ6BE0Du2j_1dLyt6ONeGF3iR8VChBPOPWapJf8C511P7J1wn_ohYogOokryjj5_z4OqkQpagjbUF1IL5H1aw/s400/robot+teachers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thewaygookeffect.com/2010/11/i-laugh-because-they-are-being.html">hat tip to the Waygook Effect</a></div>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-54905469790148459182010-12-18T14:56:00.008+09:002010-12-18T21:56:10.305+09:00The Twelve Hates of Christmas by Dokdo Is Ours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Sing together with Dokdo Is Ours!<br />
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On the first day of Christmas I hated viciously...<br />
those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the second day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
two downer cows, <br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the third day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the fourth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the fifth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the sixth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the seventh day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the eighth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
eight lanes of traffic<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the ninth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
nine ramen puke spots<br />
eight lanes of traffic<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four rivers project<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the tenth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
ten girly boy-bands<br />
nine ramen puke spots<br />
eight lanes of traffic<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four hogwan moms<br />
three dirty Chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the eleventh day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
eleven sidewalk spitters<br />
ten girly boy-bands<br />
nine ramen puke spots<br />
eight lanes of traffic<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four hogwan moms<br />
three dirty chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, I hated viciously...<br />
twelve hour workdays<br />
eleven sidewalk spitters<br />
ten girly boy-bands<br />
nine ramen puke spots<br />
eight lanes of traffic<br />
seven Jappo textbooks <br />
six office dinners<br />
interracial dating!<br />
four hogwan moms<br />
three dirty chinese<br />
two downer cows,<br />
and those assholes across the east sea.<br />
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...and <a href="http://thehose.net/2010/02/20/apolo-anton-ohno-sucks/">Apolo Ohno</a>.<br />
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Our international pood pestival in the Busan is come. Do you know the Busan? It's a Korea. City in south. Also hub of south cities in Korea and mecca of Haeundae Bitch. <br />
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We're have international food pestibal Nobember 11-13 and tell you about, here's the website. <a href="http://bife.co.kr/main/index.asp#">http://bife.co.kr/main/index.asp#</a>. Please come to the our pestibal.<br />
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Maybe you notice: English button is not click for English page to <i>international</i> pood pestibal. But that's because our pestibal is Korea language pestibal. Maybe you heard Hallyu. Do you know the hallyu? Thanks to the Hallyu now eberybody is speak the Korea talk, so international pestibal is Korea talk only now. We're welcome Korean speaker from every country to the our pestibal. For example, Chinese Koreans, Japanese Koreans, North Korean refugees, Korean Americans (only if speak the Korea speak though), European Koreans, Korean adoptees, Half-Koreans, and especially Hines Ward.<br />
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Also, we're welcome food demonstration from international ethnic of Koreans live away from Korea, and some food demonstration from Koreans who have travel to the overseas:<br />
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for example:<br />
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China: Jajangmyeon. That's all. Other thing is too greasy. Kimchi with maggot<br />
Egypt: Turkish kebap, pork stirfry with long grain rice<br />
England: Hamburger, french fry, hot dog<br />
USA: Pizza with special american topping like Yams (it's how called goguma in the America!)<br />
Canada: Hamburger, french fry, hot dog<br />
Japan: Donkaseu and kimbap and udon, kimuchi with bad funny not kimchi STOP STEAL OUR CULTURE flavor<br />
Italy: spaghetti with sweet pickle and kimchi<br />
Germany: Turkish kebap and barbeque ribs<br />
Australia: Hamburger, french fry, hot dog<br />
France: sweet garlic bread, microwave hot dog with dry ketchup on, cream fill bread (Paris Baguette is run the Prance table: it's real Paris eat!) and kimchi<br />
New York: Jew food like bagle. And kimchi<br />
Aprica: haha! Just kidding. Everybody know Aprica is hungry country and no food. But if we find brack people, we bring them to the Aprica table. Maybe give they some food.<br />
Aprica: Hamburger, french fry, hot dog.<br />
North Korea: UN Food Aid Rations. Kimchi.<br />
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Korea speaker from every country can enjoy globalized hub of world mecca food in the Busan.<br />
See you there! (If you are can read the map for find it. That's Korean too)Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-14288928294846161402010-10-27T18:00:00.000+09:002010-10-27T17:23:16.764+09:00I am Want Explain the Visa is Prostitute but English teacher HIV still.Hellow.<br />
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It is a time explain some thing that foreigner misunderstanding about the Korea.<br />
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<a href="http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/117_75193.html">You see, these day, E2 visa teacher is HIV test now, but E6 and E9 migrant worker visa is not. </a><br />
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But after I'm logic, you understand my reason, and you will agree the HIV test.<br />
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For example. But before see my reason, I'm give you example the beautiful Han virtuous culture we are try protect, so that you're see why so important for make these rule.<br />
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OK.<br />
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Now to begin, every mother know that foreigner English teacher training include the blood throw lesson.<br />
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What is the blood throw lesson? <i>Of course you know</i> it's well known with Korean mother that every foreign English teacher have secret "Blood day" when they are take their blood - some clean and some dirty blood - and as joke they are throw it onto student!<br />
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Don't pretend you arent' knew that. It's a true! It happen in my sister's neighbor school three times because they aren't deport the bad teachers fastly enough.<br />
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Second reason: is<br />
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E6 enterntainer is many south asian and russian people visa. But my explain is this: you know russian people is dirty country and so forth. Also south asia or aprica people is darker the skin. <br />
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Because darker the skin and russian face, good, pure Korea people virtuous woman is never sex to them: they are know it's bad, because teach ethics in Korean school, with special unit about the negroe and south-asia pykmy. Maybe dirty girl is sex to them, but not virtuous han girl with scary aprica or smelly india or noisy china people! Therefore, we aren't care to HIV into dirty girls. And if HIV is dirty men who are have prostitute, they can die and Korea is cleaner, mans who cheat the wife will die and woman is free the asshole, so want also.<br />
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But blue eye voodoo is English teacher foreigners English spell. Even a virtuous han girl in good family is sometimes seduce! It's the UNACCEPTABLE!<br />
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Therefore English teacher is still HIV in visa. That way, you can sex the virtuous han good family but not caught by give AIDS, so she pretend still virgin.<br />
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She happy. You happy. She parents happy. (Just don't try marry the her) EVERYBODY happy.<br />
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Please understand our situation.<br />
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Thank you for my chance explain a logically to you. Now I'm sure understand!<br />
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Have a nice day.Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-66913039510263164382010-10-20T22:41:00.000+09:002010-10-20T22:41:50.845+09:00Announcement: Korea To Avoid Responsibility for Korea/South Asian Mix Children until One Wins Superbowlhttp://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/117_74914.html<br />
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As the number of half-Korean children, born to Korean and South-Asian parents, increases, a recent report shows that many do not receive adequate care when their mothers return to south-asia after divorces with their Korean fathers.<br />
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However, both as a nation, and individually, Korea, and Korean fathers, have declared they will shirk responsibility for these children as much as possible, until one of them wins a superbowl, and brings glory to Korea.<br />
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"We saw how the Hines Ward story was so heartwarming: the reconciliation theme as the Superbowl MVP's home country finally opened its arms to welcome him home. Really, we're hoping for something similar to happen in South Asia."<br />
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After being born in Korea, Hines Ward, the son of a Korean mother and an African-American soldier, was taken to America by his mother, in hopes of a better life. The stigma against mixed babies, and particularly against mixed babies that were half Korean and half...the <i>darker</i> races, proved too much for Ward's mother to raise him in Korea. Ultimately, Hines Ward became an NFL Football player, and won the Superbowl MVP with the Pittsburgh Steelers.<br />
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The Korean minister of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Funny Hats, Jung Han-won, explained the situation. "You know, if we start trying to find ways to provide for all those babies, or hold Korean fathers legally responsible for their mixed kids, they will be hobbled financially, and unable to produce and raise <i>real</i> Korean babies. That would just be a shame. Unacceptable, really. So Korea will try to avoid taking any responsibility for these babies, for the sake of the birthrate."<br />
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Asked how failing to support mothers of Korean children would help make women feel empowered to have more babies, Min. Jung suddenly remembered another appointment, and excused himself from the interview.<br />
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A travel agent specializing in trips to the Philippines, Kim Hye-soon, dislikes this decision, and wishes that Korean support for the mothers of half-Korean babies extended not just to the divorced mothers returning to South-Asia, but also to the mothers of illegitimate half-Korean "Kofino" babies fathered by Korean men on sex vacations to the Philippines. "It's getting harder to find brothels, hostels, and human traffickers who will work with me, when they know Korean men refuse to use condoms on their sex vacations, and once impregnating a woman, run back to Korea, where there is no legal recourse to extract child support payments for their children," she explains. "Often it's because they're married, but if they're married, isn't that all the more reason to use a goddamn condom, and not bring home a nasty surprise for the wife?"<br />
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Kwak Seon-yu, the male tour guide who led many of these Philippine expeditions, disagrees. "These men are full of confucian virtue: it is the height of discretion to leave the country completely if one wants to cheat on one's wife, and an admirable sign of confucian modesty and restraint that he does not want to boast of his virility, by taking responsibility for the babies he has fathered. These are true sons of Tangun!"<br />
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Gia Agbayani, mother of a healthy Kofino boy, has taken her destiny into her own hands. "After reading the Hines Ward story, I've gathered a soccer team's worth of these half-Korean boys, and I'm training them to play," she explains. "If they can start winning when they get older, and especially if they can perform in the World Cup, or get contracts in the EPL or another top European league, maybe we can see a heart-warming story like Hines Ward's here in the Philippines, and those Korean baby-daddys will finally be unable to hide their dalliances."<br />
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Dokdo Is Ours, reporting.Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-78126776442057758662010-10-07T17:11:00.001+09:002010-10-07T17:13:49.719+09:00Korea Under 17 Soccer to Start K-Pop BandAfter winning the Women's Under-17 World Cup of Soccer last month, Korea's Under-17 Women's Soccer Team <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100929000987">has revealed larger ambitions</a>.<br />
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"Well," explains team star Yeo Min-ji, the tournament's leading scorer, "Coming from a country where women are often considered second-class citizens, it always burned us the way Korean Men's soccer got all the attention during the world cup, but not a single member of the women's team got <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9eGKOr4Fk&p=C95412637FD92199&playnext=1&index=26">a cosmetics endorsement</a>, or even an awkward beer commercial."<br />
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"So we've decided to do what all Korean teenage girls want to do, if they want to become more famous: we're going to become pop stars."<br />
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SM Entertainment confirmed the report, saying that the entire twenty-three woman roster had signed identical twelve-year slave contracts, and that training in dance moves and sexy contortions would begin in November.<br />
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"Usually we have to train those lazy girls, whose only self-discipline comes from dancing into their webcams," explained Jung, SM Entertainment's main talent scout. "These girls come to us already in the peak of physical condition, which gives us high hopes, as long as we can get them to move in unison."<br />
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Stylist Kang Young-ju, SM Entertainment's fashion consultant, has done initial beauty consultations with each of the girls, "They came in pretty confident, having just won the under-seventeen world cup; I had to spend a lot of time shaming them for their big faces, lacks of v-lines and s-lines and x-lines, for their over-muscular legs and energetic demeanors, before they really realized how far they had to come before they could accomplish anything in the world: what man would find a vivacious, strong and fit woman attractive? But don't worry. By the time I'm done, they'll know how to demur, lower their eyes, play aegyo, and act like passive kittens."<br />
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PR Coach Han Sohn-gyu also encouraged the victorious players to be more careful about how they spoke to the press.<br />
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"Stop talking about all this soccer stuff: the last thing a man wants to hear about is a woman telling him she's really good at kicking balls," he explained, shuddering, "from now on, I want them to use adjectives like 'silly' and 'dumb old me' to talk about themselves, not 'ass-kicking,' 'conquering,' or 'world-class'."<br />
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Everyone at SM entertainment is excited about the prospect of a 23-member K-pop band. "There's just so, so, so many! If one of them isn't a good dancer, we can just put her in the back row, but 23 young girls doing dance moves in skirts: we'll have our audiences hypnotized, even if they don't have any talent! And from what I've seen in their first dance trials, they might not."<br />
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"We'll have them ready to be pop-stars in no time. Then, their mothers will truly be proud."<br />
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And if they fail at K-pop stardom?<br />
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"Well, there are always two other ways to success in Korea: passing the bar exam, or marrying a doctor," explained Yeo Min-Ji's mother, who refused to comment on her daughter's habit of playing <ugh> sports.</ugh>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-37873508106764858062010-09-20T13:53:00.005+09:002010-09-20T14:02:34.971+09:00Korean Macarena the 꼭지점 Gok-Ji-Jeom Danseu is World Virus Video! Hallyu! Korea Korea Korea!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/news/090303_p05_korean01.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="450" /><br />
Hello! You think I'm forget to you, don't it, reader? But I'm can't forget! It's too much my love Korea, and want your love also. So today. Oh! So proud!<br />
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Let me explain. Do you know Gok-Ji-Jeom Danseu? I tell you. It's a Korea dance crazy for example like tell me dance! <a href="http://littleseouls.blogspot.com/2010/09/youtube-video-of-girl-doing-korean.html">In fact, it's Korean Macarena!</a> Except nobody heard about. Except Korea people world cup danseu people is know. And we make the dance for promote Korea culture the world by create world craze through South Aprica World Cup so everybody know Korea.<br />
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Also Kroea invent Vuvuzela.<br />
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Here is Gok-Ji-Jeom Danseu. (<a href="http://video.mgoon.com/182733">from source is here</a>)<br />
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I'm want your watchi very carepully. Famous 2006 World Cup Dance! World Craze!<br />
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<img align="right" hspace="5" src="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/img/special/090303_p05_korean02.jpg" style="cursor: move;" />Because now it's little girl: she is love Korea piety. Her have watchi Gok-Ji-Jeom Danseu many time, and then make her dance virus!<br />
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If look the video, you can see two thing: One: the girl dance like virus am spread, just as Korea wave spread and everybody can't resist love the Korea culture like Gok-Ji-Jeom when they are see.<br />
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Two: The girl love for the Korea one blood people is purely like her purely smile and touching: certainly she am good daughter and filial duty also patriotic piously to Korea! Her big smile show: I'm think she have kimchi in her teeth too.<br />
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Now watch it's danseu exact same the Gok-Ji-Jeom. EXACT! It have arm and leg move, like Gok-Ji-Jeom. It have people move same time like Gok-Ji-Jeom. It have big corporate sponsor (it's a world brand Samsung!11!!) like Gok-Ji-Jeom! Watch her pure love to the Korea spread like virus to every town people!<br />
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Maybe you say "This dance are totally different." or maybe you say "Only it's Korea media call Gok-Ji-Jeom" or maybe you say "Other country people don't know Gok-Ji-Jeom and don't know it's Korea Dance and don't care if Korea dance or just little girl cute dance." or maybe you say "Jesus Christ, Korea, just fucking get over yourselves already" and maybe you am have point... but here my answer, completely disprove your question:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why are you hate the korea? You go home monkey white hater people! I'm hate your criticize! So hate! Your foreigner stay away Korea people korea lady no touchi you stupid big nose exploitation to the Korea culture! I'm insult you on the bus if I'm see! I'm hate hollywood! I'm hate Marilyn Monroe and her beautiful round breasts and hate your go home leave us alone! and die yankee scum fuckbag! </span>but please spending tourism money and tell friend "Hey! Come to Korea! It's great!" first before eat shit and die.<br />
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Here am another Gok-Ji-Jeom Danseu for compare: its' exact! Like Dokdo Map accurate and glory to Korea!<br />
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SEE? Exactly the same as little girl who love the Korea. If you're disagree my friends crash to your server, put your personal informations on Naver so everybody see and join hate you like Jim Hewish.<br />
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<a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100916000990">(source: Herald. Sometimes you get it, too.)</a><br />
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More Gok-Ji-Jeom: so great! <a href="http://video.search.naver.com/search.naver?where=video&sm=tab_nmr&query=%EA%BC%AD%EC%A7%80%EC%A0%90%EB%8C%84%EC%8A%A4&ie=utf8&">(see the more: all exactly same like dance virus and same as little girl dance! Really!)</a><br />
<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="408" id="NFPlayer79931" name="NFPlayer79931" src="http://serviceapi.nmv.naver.com/flash/NFPlayer.swf?vid=5CBAFDCA667A1231605464BAEDD96BED6A22&outKey=V1210c22d9ded987c6c2eadb154068dadf1b071f743f33261e4aaadb154068dadf1b0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" wmode="transparent"></embed>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-25493100688278251572010-09-17T17:31:00.000+09:002010-09-17T17:31:48.487+09:00Best of DIO: Wayback - Late 2009Here are some of DIO's favorite posts from 2009.<br />
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2009 was a good year for DIO; enjoy the retrospective<br />
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<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/07/proposed-replacement-slogans-for-korea.html">Proposed Replacement Slogans for Korea Sparkling</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-am-sitting-in-front-of-mirror-as-i.html">I am Sitting in Front of a Mirror as I Write This, and the Mirror is Shaped like a Map of Korea, and on that mirror, I have Written "Yang Yong-eun"</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/09/samsung-introduces-glory-hole-follow-up.html">Samsung introduces new Phone: Glory Hole</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/09/korea-to-create-new-english-test-so-it.html">Korea to Introduce new English Test</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/09/psa-cancelling-kimchi-festival-is-not.html">Cancelling the Kimchi Festival Due to Swine Flu Is Not an Admission That Kimchi Doesn't... You Know.</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/10/yuna-kims-mother-reaches-top-of-korean.html">Yuna Kim's Mother Tops Korean Ranking of Mothers' Bragging Rights</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/11/transcript-how-lee-myung-bak-imagined.html">Transcript of Lee Myung-bak's Lunch with Barack Obama</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-drivers-license-in-hand-jeonju.html">After Getting Drivers' License on 950th Try, Jeonju Woman to Choose Korea Tourism's New Slogan</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/12/explain-korea-culture-to-foreigner.html">Everything was invented Korea! Don't you Know?</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/12/lee-myungbak-multicultural-korea.html">New Multicultural Korea Welcomes Everyone: Even Darkies!</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/12/setting-record-straight.html">Setting The Record Straight: We're The Korea Times, and we DEMAND to be Taken Seriously</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/12/shopkeepers-mind-blown-upon-discovering.html">Shopkeeper's Mind Blown upon Discovering There are Four Christmas Songs</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/12/prioritized-list-how-to-help-foreingers.html">Prioritized List: How To Help Foreigners Adjust to Korea</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-79112306941535712002010-09-16T16:28:00.000+09:002010-09-16T16:28:00.211+09:00Seoul's 2022 World Cup Bid Includes Conquest Plans for North KoreaAfter reading the article, "<a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/09/136_73050.html">Korea to Share Games with North if Chosen to Host 2022 World Cup,</a>" Dokdo Is Ours tracked down Park Yu-tu, to discover further details about such a boggling proposition. Here is the interview as it transpired.<br />
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DIO: So, Mr. Park, you're in charge of South Korea's World Cup 2022 bid?<br />
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Park: That's correct. I mange the slush funds, the callgirls, the promotional materials, and I lead the 'outlandish promises' team.<br />
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DIO: And how many people are on the outlandish promises team?<br />
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Park: About forty-million. Some of them are working on finding ways to control Korea's soccer players by remote access, through computer chips in their heads, so that our Starcraft champions can control our players the way they control their armies in Starcraft. We'd be invincible!<br />
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DIO: So, tell me more about this plan to include games in North Korean sites in the 2022 World Cup.<br />
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Park: Well, because we're not totally sure about North Korea's leadership over the next decade, we of course have several contingencies, all of which were presented to the FIFA inspectors during our pitch last week.<br />
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DIO: And what are some of those contingencies?<br />
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Park: After talking with North Korea, they're happy to participate in the World Cup if it means more famous people will be photographed visiting North Korea, in order for their journalists to make up regime-friendly quotes for them. Also, because the host team automatically qualifies for the World Cup, the North is very interested in providing housing and food for the opposing teams, and they seemed particularly excited about providing breakfast for opposing team players on game days. I can't imagine why. They say they are designing special hotel suites for players from other countries, so they'll be especially prepared to play the home team.<br />
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DIO: Were there any qualifiers attached to this cooperation?<br />
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Park: Well, if FIFA insists on inspecting these hotel rooms before the game days, the North will withdraw its cooperation. Unless the FIFA inspectors are the same people as the nuclear inspection team that investigated North Korea's WMD development programs from 1999-2004.<br />
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DIO: And what if North Korea DOES fail to cooperate?<br />
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Park: That's contingency number one, of course. As you can see on these diagrams, extensive plans for the conquest of North Korea were also presented to the FIFA team: we're confident that if we attack in 2018, we can defeat North Korea and have soccer stadiums finished by 2021 - well ahead of time. The unification of the Korean peninsula would be a great backstory to the games, too: "World Cup of Unification!" So heartwarming! Imagine! Hey! Maybe that could be the theme song! John Lennon's 'Imagine.' A defeated North Korea would make an ideal host, really: the broken will of the people will make the people very pliant service-workers in the hotels and restaurants. Plus, we'll be making them work for no pay - victor's rights and all - so the World Cup will be guaranteed to come in under budget.<br />
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DIO: Very interesting. So what other outlandish promises were made during the bid?<br />
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Park: Oh, the usual: legions of creamy-thighed virgins, economic prosperity, safe return of their missing sons, a special off-center balanced ball that will lead to scads of goals, and of course, free Samsung phones for everyone!<br />
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DIO: So you're saying that South Korea will go to war to host the World Cup again?<br />
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Park: You say that as if there's something <i>wrong</i> with that. I haven't mentioned contingency two yet, have I?<br />
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DIO: And that would be?<br />
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Park: The conquest of whichever country IS awarded the 2022 World Cup - that contingency was presented to the FIFA Inspectors as well, and they are well aware that we have all their home addresses.<br />
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DIO: Don't you think the threat of violence is a bit extreme?<br />
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Park: Hey man! Why are you hate the Korea? You should learn more the Korea, or Yankee Go Home! I'm think you don't anything the Korea. Just chase Korean girl, disrespect Korea culture! Why you hate the Korea so much? Oh MY GAT! I so ANGRY!!<br />
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Unfortunately, the interview was ended at that point, when Park Yu-tu attempted to have Dokdo Is Ours stand on a trap door and drop him into a shark tank.Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-82176241994323655632010-09-11T12:04:00.001+09:002010-09-11T12:07:10.603+09:00Civil Service Exam to be Scrapped for Sake of Restoring Proper Gender Proportions<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/08/23/south-korea-civil-service-exams-removed-years-of-studies-wasted/">original article</a><br />
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For literally centuries, Korea's best and brightest young men gathered in the capital for the civil service exam: one of the hardest, and most prestigious exams in the country. According to education scholars, those who succeeded were awarded with high positions of government service, leading to intense competition to be among those brilliant young men who entered the King's courts on scholarly talent alone.<br />
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Yet recently, the austere position of government service has been sullied, more and more so in recent years, and many top policy makers are upset. "It used to be that passing this exam meant something," complains Ryu Gwang-jo, "I remember being alerted that I'd passed back in 1972, and looking forward to working with Korea's most capable male minds over a long career of soju rounds, hands on my male colleagues' thighs in jimjilbangs, and ass-gropings of waitresses at the hoeshik. No prospect could have made me more excited!"<br />
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Unfortunately for Ryu and others like him, in recent years, female applicants have been equaling, and even surpassing men's performance on the civil service exam. "It seems like every entry level worker in our office these days is a female -- I don't even know what to do with them! I can only drink so much coffee in a day, and eat so many sammiches - after I'm full, I don't know how to give all these females orders." Ryu holds up his left hand. It shakes noticeably. "That's from all the caffeine!"<br />
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Ryu was not the only official to notice the disturbing trend: the board responsible for civil service human resources sought a way to restore the proper gender ratio for a prestigious job like civil service. "We've decided to move to a system of open recruiting - interviews and applications and the like - similar to the way chaebols like Samsung and LG keep their workforces overwhelmingly male" recruiting has an added bonus. "By hiring pretty but untalented women, and finding excuses to pass over talented, bright, or highly educated and ambitious women like the ones who have been entering the civil service, we will more easily justify the fact none of the females in our system are being promoted above middle-management. I'm looking forward to my own pretty, leggy, but useless secretary. At least she won't know where to make a formal complaint if I proposition her, like my last secretary."<br />
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Others point out other benefits of the new hiring policy: "We'll be able to hire more male law graduates, and all those talented females wasting years studying for the civil service exam will now be encouraged to get secretarial work, wait tables, scoop ice cream, or make babies. I anticipate a future where many more males will feel proud of their contributions to society," explains Park Jo-moon, one of the architects of the new hiring policy. <br />
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Mr. Park sits back, pleased with himself. "This also comes in good time, because if any more women passed the exam, we'd have to redesign our government office buildings, which only have men's bathrooms on most floors."<br />
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And what will the smart, well-educated, ambitious women who have been preparing for the exam do? "Let them take the bar exam," suggests Park, "while <i>it</i> lasts." Sang Gyeong-mo, president of the Korean Bar Association, is already planning for such an event. "We're already looking at adding new requirements to the Bar, in order to be sure Korean lawyers' ranks remain overwhelmingly male. You may know that females are gaining fast on men in passing the bar as well: whether passing an interview or a law school course will be prerequisite to taking the bar exam - which would put the requirement of filtering out uppity females on universities' law school admissions officers - or whether the final portion of the bar exam will be writing a word with urine in the snow, believe me, we'll find a way."<br />
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No women were interviewed for their opinions on this new change. Why would they be? Dokdo Is Ours doesn't want to waste his time listening to a bunch of talk about pink things and babies.Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-13440027684469307452010-09-03T14:20:00.001+09:002010-09-03T14:36:55.835+09:00Korea Times: You're Shitting Me, Right?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Mnns8hjRXMglDQnV99uYSd_WoKDbiIRqFly-FiFWc0ZTfx8llMHRh2kp5xmnIMUgsT5PnOHxjmNioD_r2dwM3pHwX-XNw3HUerudUE6Th3d6Y7XwL_qzRKYJOKyw0dBTRhzckfin6LY/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-09-02+at+4.15.25+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Mnns8hjRXMglDQnV99uYSd_WoKDbiIRqFly-FiFWc0ZTfx8llMHRh2kp5xmnIMUgsT5PnOHxjmNioD_r2dwM3pHwX-XNw3HUerudUE6Th3d6Y7XwL_qzRKYJOKyw0dBTRhzckfin6LY/s320/Screen+shot+2010-09-02+at+4.15.25+PM.png" width="235" /></a></div>screenshot.<br />
Yeah, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but come on, KT. At least fucking TRY!<br />
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Source. Some of the best parts (before they go back and fix it) from the text:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;">It has been claimed that drug felon Paris Hilton, 29, used her body as a hiding place for her drug.<br />
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A longtime friend of Hilton said Tuesday on ianundercover.com that Paris....has since avoided police arrest by hiding drugs in a lubricated condom in her vagina.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;">an interview from an anonymous source, published on a blog, saying bad things about Paris...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;">“Paris has used all kinds of drugs for years,” said the blog a day before. “She needs rehab more than anyone in Hollywood, including Lindsay Lohan. I went to high school with her and even there she was totally out of control.”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><br />
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and, surprise, surprise, the e-mail address at the bottom of the page (kwh8121@gmail.com) is the exact same as the one about Jennifer Anison's secret threesome genitalia from earlier this week. When called for an interview, KT's copy editor had no further comment.<br />
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Also: breaking news:<br />
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It's great to be the Boss's nephew! (<a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/09/133_72351.html">from the same guy</a>)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OFrkmT9LQ0WJBSpDYL2ISG2pT8JHz2tBeHYuw5a4NKihI8-ZKYrofMtIkNb6gz-d-L8s4pEsbBHq3xfz0Ohl_5WD0UZiVQlAxu0TGRUa1RfCz5WR_9lK9ZOqeuie4vbhRVdxFLv-Ty4/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-09-03+at+2.34.43+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OFrkmT9LQ0WJBSpDYL2ISG2pT8JHz2tBeHYuw5a4NKihI8-ZKYrofMtIkNb6gz-d-L8s4pEsbBHq3xfz0Ohl_5WD0UZiVQlAxu0TGRUa1RfCz5WR_9lK9ZOqeuie4vbhRVdxFLv-Ty4/s320/Screen+shot+2010-09-03+at+2.34.43+PM.png" width="260" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Readers, that'll be the last time I pick on the KT for a while. There are some Chosun Ilbo photographers ripe for a lampooning, and while I'm sure KT will continue to provide me with fish in the barrel, it gets boring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Plus, my eyes hurt, and I think my I.Q. just dropped.</div>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-86678201418616327522010-09-01T17:36:00.000+09:002010-09-01T17:36:00.057+09:00Best of DIO: Wayback - Early 2009<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-am-sitting-in-front-of-mirror-as-i.html">I am sitting in front of a mirror as I write this... Hanshik!!!!!</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/03/memory-loss-is-first-symptom-of-mad-cow.html">Mad Cow Disease has been causing memory loss in Korean Homemakers</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/01/k-pop-band-superjunior-caught.html">SuperJunior Plagiarizing again... wait a minute... what?</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-las-koreatown-new-north-korean.html">New North Korean Restaurant as Authentic as it Gets</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2009/01/first-year-english-teachers-surprised.html">First Year Teachers: "Korea is Different Than Back Home"</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-18450262757316916922010-08-30T14:12:00.005+09:002010-09-01T07:04:34.746+09:00Meet the Korea Times' Copy Editor: "It's Hard Typing in Perfect English with One Hand"From the Korea Times Handbook of Style and Journalism Ethics<br />
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Dokdo Is Ours recently had the opportunity to talk to the copy editor of The Korea Times. The interview transcript follows:<br />
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Korea Times Copy Editor: Boobs. Blondes. Boobs. Blondes.<br />
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DIO: Lately, it seems like there have been numerous English errors in the Korea times: especially in articles about western celebrities. Do you have anything to say about that?<br />
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KTCE: Boobs. Blondes. Boobs. Blondes.<br />
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DIO: So did you read this article as carefully as you normally read articles, checking for mistakes?<br />
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KTCE: Boobies. Boobies. Lesbian. Boobies. Lesbian. BLONDE LESBIAN! Jessica Alba!<br />
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DIO: Did you notice there was an article attached to this picture of Jennifer Aniston?<br />
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KTCE: ANNNNISSSSSTOOOOOONNNNNN! Boobieboobieboobieboobie.<br />
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DIO: No, no. The ARTICLE!<br />
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KTCE: What article?<br />
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DIO: Is the Korean translation of the article grammatically correct?<br />
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KTCE: Yuh yuh. yuh.<br />
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DIO: Don't you feel bad for the Koreans who read these articles to try and learn English, and are presented with so many English errors that the article's English translation isn't only useless, it's actually HARMFUL to their English study?<br />
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KTCE: Boobies.<br />
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DIO: You're a terrible reporter! You can't even write in fucking English!<br />
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KTCE: Hey back off, man. It's hard typing with one hand; you want me to do it in perfect English, too?<br />
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Rule 72 in the Korea Times Handbook of Journalism Ethics and Style Rules:<br />
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If it's about naked hollywood stars, google translate will do. 'cause nobody's reading the articles except Dokdo Is Ours.<br />
<a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/08/178_72185.html">(article here)</a><br />
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The rest of the article was about the KTCE's hobby, drumming. In it, you finally get to see Dokdo Is Ours' face, after many years of anonymity:<br />
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Update:<br />
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to stop the bleeding, and the humiliation, Korea Times has shortened and edited the article in question: compare this screencap with the previous one. Maybe the KT should pay DIO for his/her editing services, if they plan to continue use this blog as a content quality control indicator.<br />
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Oh my gat! I are so much upsets! Kim Yuna beautiful Korea people skating hero have the break up to Blian Oseo. Until the four years their partner team is study the skate bery hard and many chapionship! Also she is sing very pretty.<br />
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Now my got is job journalist, after two year Kim Yuna fan club, and follow Kim Yuna to tournament places for see him skate, and I am the Korea Times writing about a Kim Yuna. Sometimes my article are reject, for example "Kim Yuna wear pretty shirt today" and "Kim Yuna the Mother good and Happy Is Win Fighting!" and "Yuna Yuna Yuna Yuna Egg & Yuna" and "Here is Words I wrote To Chames Bont Thema Yuna Is Skate At" but my editor is say isn't news.<br />
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But my is shacked that Blian Oseo have break the Kim Yuna. Before I am think the Blian Oseo are great Canada people teacher and kind even though gay. But now I am see she real chalacter. Some people say Yuna also shouln't the twitter her ugly breakup detail, but it's dirty lie! Yuna are the twenty years so he make mistake sometime, but Oseo is adult guy so him responsible her tell the breakup embarrass story on he wtwitter.<br />
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Yuna so innocent. My love are pure. Here am favorite my picture to her. I'm feel like funny.<br />
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If her pressure or sad too much, then maybe retire, then it's Oseo's fault! HATE! Bepore Canada was my good best country because Oseo, but not it's my hate country. I change my children class to England people English teacher class because Jim Hewish Australia, Blian Oseo Canada and Apolo Ohno America people: everybody is hate!<br />
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Except if Yuna is retire maybe she make more aircon commercial with tight pants. Then happy.<br />
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<a href="http://photo.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/04/25/2009042500286.html">pictures are find the here: many storehouse of pretty and innocent pictures of the pure at chosun!</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-66631325488894911252010-08-22T17:36:00.000+09:002010-08-22T17:36:04.410+09:00Best of Dokdo is Ours: WaybackDokdo Is Ours found many of its readers in the later months of its existence; here are some of DIO's favorite early posts.<br />
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2008:<br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/12/korean-think-tank-traces-every-single.html">The Blame Japan Project</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/12/correction-for-fatmanseoul.html">How to Make Kimchi with Han</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/12/teachers-union-warns-korean-minister-of.html">Education Minister's Evening Dinner Plan will Increase Demand for Hagwons</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/11/korea-unveils-fifth-distinct-season.html">The Fifth Distinct Season</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/10/mayor-of-seoul-walks-past-global.html">Mayor Walks past Seoul Handwashing Day, Ignoring It</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/09/foreigner-orgasms-upon-tasting-kimchi.html">Foreigner Orgasms Upon Tasting Kimchi</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/09/seoul-city-unveils-amsterdam-of-korea.html">Korea's Amsterdam</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/08/genealogies-prove-michael-phelps-is.html">Micahel Phelps is Korean</a><br />
<a href="http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2008/07/korean-middle-school-to-implement.html">Korean School to Implement Foreigner's Suggestion</a>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234821713244472493.post-78415918914307494432010-08-04T20:36:00.002+09:002010-08-04T20:37:59.628+09:00Sing, o muses!Due to various factors, your intrepid reporter Dokdo Is Ours is not finding the kinds of inspiration he/she used to.<br />
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</div><div>Or maybe I just got a job with the Korean Tourism Organization, and I get to be paid to write like this.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Or maybe I've been living back in America for a year already and my backlog of posts finally got published.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Or maybe I'm just bummed that Korean Rum Diary vanished completely.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Or maybe it's time to make space for another Korea comedy blog.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Or maybe I just had my fifteenth birthday and I'm finally allowed to date, so I have other things on my... mind.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Or maybe it's just friggin' hot, and I'll get inspired again in October, when it's cooler.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Anyway, your intrepid reporter will continue reporting on all things Korea... but probably not as often as before.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Thank you, my loyal readers (all 94 of you). You've made it a lot of fun so far.<br />
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And if you have an article you wrote that would fit on DIO, e-mail it to me, and I'll totally run it. Yes, Jon Huer, I'm talking to you.</div><div><br />
</div><div>DIO</div>Dokdo Is Ourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941054686014932234noreply@blogger.com13