Big Boom in Korea

[Drake Tungsten]

of course, to hear some people on this side of the ocean talk, they don't particularly care about the skoreans...

Apathy's better than the hatred many South Koreans seem to have for us.

[Q Classic]

you've never met me, the shame.

[Q Classic]

Apathy's better than the hatred many South Koreans seem to have for us.

it's easy to ignore the love many others seem to have when all you get are the broadcasted hate.

of course, apathy also makes it easy to suggest things like war, since the people in question don't even factor.

[pchang]

I have seen both love and hate. My question is just how many of each are there. Sometimes it seems the haters outnumber the lovers.

[Q Classic]

of course it seems that way. an anecdote:

dear abby once asked her readers the question of, given the choice of having children again or not, would they have their kids? strangely enough the results of that highly unscientific poll showed that msot people would rather have not had their kids.
the problem with taking this as fact is that people who complain, people who hate, will almost invariably be noisier, louder, and more noticeable than those who do not.

when people call customer service, rarely is it to say a job well done--it's almost always saying how that company is bad and screwed them over.

it's no different in this case: you'll see a huge protest with claims of maybe a million against the us, when odds are it's about a hundred thousand, and the other nine hundred thousand were trying to get past the protest to go to their office. you'll hear about the people who beat up white tourists because they think the tourists are american, but you won't hear so much of the people who buy the tourists a meal, or offer a place to stay.

bad news travels. good news does not.

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Originally posted by Ned
the Chinese could advise Kim that it was time to go, and to grease his skids out of town. Kim may be just sane enough to take the offer -- as once did Marcos when the US offered him asylum.

Man, you are so outta touch with reality.

Kim is a cult leader. He won't go easily. He'll try and burn the Korean peninsula and everything in his reach as a monument to his divinity.

Marcos took the U.S. offer because he had no choice. Within a very short period, his presidential palace was going to be stormed and he would have been ripped to shreds by angry mobs.

There's only one way to get rid of Kim, the painful way, which is why no one's gonna do it. It's not worth millions of dead Koreans just to get rid of him.

It really all depends on just how persausive the Chinese are. True Marcos left because he almost had no choice. Kim has to be convinced that he has no choice as well.

[Ecthy]

so when will we get to see that showsown on TV?