Monday, March 28, 2005

Dokdo Forever--2005

Vnok200503211633541_1These are supposedly 30+ foreigners "selected" as volunteers for a "Tokto belongs to Korea" protest. They are students of Korean in some university (Hanyang? Can't recall, lost the link and the will to find it again).



I don't know, they just don't seem to be that angry to me.



How were they selected? The article didn't say, but here's how I imagine it worked out. One day the director of the language program came into the class and, after giving a heartfelt speech about that rock they love to love, he then asked who would NOT like to help out their host country by joining a protest. After five seconds of awkward silence, the director says, "Great! Let's start making your posters!"



Sian1008200503231954491Here is a protest held by Korean residents in the US in Washington D.C. No mention of the numbers, but clearly there are at least 2.



Have you ever noticed that the lower number of protestors, the closer the cameraman goes in for the shot?



Englishhome20050327222737Here are some patriotic Korean tourists on their way to visit Tokto. The weather was too bad for them to dock, so I guess they just circled around a few times and burned some Japanese flags on the boat.



Price of the tour: 330,000 Won, no refunds.



Roh's Harsh Criticism Stuns Japan!



Roh speaks and Japan is shocked! Flabbergasted! Discombobulated! Speechless even!



The Korean reporter was a little sparse on details, but I understand that many Japanese, on hearing Roh's words of mighty rage, rolled their eyes and shook their heads, which in Japanese body language means pure shock, if not pee-in-your-pants terror.



Several days later when some Japanese politicians were finally able to regain their senses, one said, "There were a lot of emotional expressions. It's like a North Korean statement."



You got that right. Severed fingers in the mail, mofo.



I for one hope this never ends.




Comments on original post



Your blog's da bomb, for shizzle, keepin' it real and representin.' At least that's what the K-rappers say about it. It's especially entertaining when Koizumi or other Japanese politicians say Roh's comments are just "for domestic consumption," because a) it's true and b) it means the don't give a toss what he says. That really gets the fingers choppin'...

Posted by: Michael | March 27, 2005 at 10:35 PM

this may be the best site, ever.

Posted by: adrian | March 30, 2005 at 08:06 PM

Your comment that the fewer the protesters the closer the camera is perfect. Once I saw a small protest of about 12 or so Koreans protesting the US for something. Later that night I saw it on TV and it seemsed it was much bigger than 12 people. Very close cameras that time to be sure. How a protest of 12 people makes it on TV blows me away. Then again it was about 9 months after the middle school girls accident and any protest made it on TV to keep the hate going

Posted by: non korean | April 05, 2005 at 10:09 AM

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Dokdo: To die for

An article from yesterday's Korea Times.



The nation's biggest portal, Daum Communications, Thursday said it had shut down five overly pro-Japanese online communities.





``After consultation with the Information Communication Ethics Committee (ICEC), we closed five communities, which claimed Japan's sovereignty over Tokto,'' a Daum spokesperson said.





She added Daum also found five more overridingly pro-Japanese communities and is mulling over whether to close them.





The state-backed ICEC said the online communities, which distort the history and thus doing mental harm to youth can be shut down under relevant laws.













Of course, "distort the history" means having any version of "the history" that does not match South Korea's version, or insists on pointing out facts that Koreans are trying very hard to pretend do not exist. God forbid Koreans ever read something other than the "correct" views of those properly nationalistic.



More state approved censorship: Ain't it great that Korea is run by a government that is truly progressive and democratic? We all have so much to learn from the progressives here. I just wish the US government would do more to protect Americans like me from the "mental harm" we suffer when we have to read "distorted" versions of events from non-Americans like Robert Fisk, Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky (I believe they are all Canadians and/or French). Our worthless Internet portals don't block shit.



To whom does dokdo belong? I'd say Korea, though neither side has much of a claim. This rock is uninhabitable for common folk and was thus largely ignored by both for centuries. But anyway, if it's land then someone's got to own it (we humans are an extremely territorial species) and I say Korea gets it by schoolyard rules: they raced out to the island and shouted "first."



And that's probably how just about how most people view it on both sides of the Sea of Japan/East Sea/Sea of I Am So Hate! (that's my proposal for what that body of water should be called). But the extremotards* from Japan had to make a big issue out of it and that got the extremotards in Korea all riled up and now we have this very silly argument raging increasingly out of control.



Burnin_for_tokdo Burnin' for Tokdo, cause chopping off your fingers sometimes just isn't extreme enough. 쑈쑈쑈 하는 냄새가...



I have to admit that though the Japanese extremotards started this ruckus, the Korean extremotards are taking it to a whole new level of extremotardism.



So much hate, so little time...



Projapan Collection of signatures: Citizens participate in a signature campaign organized by a civic group to call for the enactment of a special law that aims at depriving pro-Japanese collaborators during the nation’s colonial period of their properties, in Taehangno, Seoul, Saturday. Yonhap



This is nice. Especially when you consider that anyone old enough to be a collaborater during colonial times would be over 80 years old at best. Throw great grandpa and grandma out in the streets! Take away the property from their children for having the audacity to be born in the wrong family!



More of that sweet smelling Korean-style progressivism and democracy...





* To my knowledge, I am the creator of this word (extremotard and all its grammatical derivatives) and thus hereby copyright it. Anyone wishing to use this word must pay me 100 Won (don't pay me in that increasingly worthless US money, I've got to eat you know) each time they use it.








Comments from original post


Just to show that I am also a cunning linguist, I've invented the word "exopooper" (like exoskeleton, but this time all the poop's on the outside). Please send 1,000,000 won for each usage to the Dynamite Dokdo Fund.

Posted by: Happy Tiger | March 21, 2005 at 03:15 AM

Sorry, honourable Pooper. Chomsky is 100% American and an MIT prof of lingustics.

Another attempt to blame Canada gone wrong.

Posted by: kimchipig | March 23, 2005 at 10:03 PM


Don't try to confuse us true Americans, Sir Kimchipig. Next you'll try to tell us that Michael Moore, Ralph Nader and people from Oregon are American as well.

And we aren't so sure about that French lookin' Kerry guy either...

Nice to see you still drop by the old neighborhood from time to time, by the way.

Posted by: pooper | March 24, 2005 at 01:48 AM

Cheque is in the mail. For the grand prize and all the candy in Egypt!

extremotardoxic (adj., of or relative to extremotardoxy)

extremotardiclism (n., earth-shatteringly stupid event)

extremotardopoly (n., dominating economic or institutional infrastructure that is SO DAMN EXTREMOTARDED that even the King Extremotard of Extremotardopolis is powerless to challenge it)

All is futile in the face of the coming Extremotardocalypse.

Ha. Ha hah hah. :)

Posted by: reed | March 28, 2005 at 09:20 AM

Saturday, March 5, 2005

Andre Kim: The Gay Undead

This is Andre Kim: premier fashion designer in Korea and Prince of the Undead.



Andrekim Be afraid...







Ckh9882_7 It's right behind you! RUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!





Ckh9882_2 Andre back when he was one of the living.





0913sh_22 Woah! That's about the scariest thing I've seen since the Exorcist.





Meikun3_37 Despite his undead status, Andre manages to blend in to Korean society surprisingly well.



Art058_42



During his free time, Andre likes to hang out incognito near high schools, always on the look out for new talent.









Kge891225_9 They say to become a top male model in the Korean fashion industry, you have to go through (or "under," as the case may be) Andre. This guy is actually an actor, (or "talent" as they say Konglish, ironically enough) but something about his haunted expression makes me wonder if he got more than he bargained for with the "Andre Experience."



Ckh9882_11 Lee Hyo-ree was at the same fashion show as the previous pic. Her photo here has no real relationship to this post, but it seemed a shame just to pass it by.





Ng1115_6 Speaking of Michael, I understand that this outfit was designed by Andre Kim. Looks bitchin, actually.





Not to rain on Andre's gay parade, but IMHO, Michael is still the reigning King of Freakdom.




Comments on original post


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Posted by: Alfredo Versace | March 05, 2005 at 01:37 AM

I just wanna know when pants-wetting became fashionable.


Kevin

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Posted by: puppyiz | May 26, 2006 at 10:07 AM