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Russell wrote:I wonder whether it is the same school, because the roofs are different.
Coligny wrote:Roof 1: /--\
Roof 2: /\
yanpa wrote:Coligny wrote:Roof 1: /--\
Roof 2: /\
That's the camera angle playing tricks.
Coligny wrote:That would explain the shadows angle over hinomaru...
Wage Slave wrote:yanpa wrote:Coligny wrote:Roof 1: /--\
Roof 2: /\
That's the camera angle playing tricks.
That's what I thought too.
South Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday that it would consider taking legal actions against the Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese conservative newspaper, for allegedly running an offensive story about President Park Geun-hye.
Citing the Chosun Ilbo column, Sankei said a rumor was circulating that Park went missing for several hours on April 16, the day the Sewol ferry sank off Korea’s southwestern coast, and that she may have had a “secret meeting with someone” during that time.
Takechanpoo wrote:Kimchi gov to sue SankeiSouth Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday that it would consider taking legal actions against the Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese conservative newspaper, for allegedly running an offensive story about President Park Geun-hye.
Citing the Chosun Ilbo column, Sankei said a rumor was circulating that Park went missing for several hours on April 16, the day the Sewol ferry sank off Korea’s southwestern coast, and that she may have had a “secret meeting with someone” during that time.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140807000977
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and there is another rumor that current Kimchi president is still vergin
A film depicting a famous 16th century naval victory against Japanese invaders has set records at the South Korean box office, drawing the largest audience and becoming the first local movie to take more than $100 million.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Film on 1597 victory against Japan breaks Korean recordsA film depicting a famous 16th century naval victory against Japanese invaders has set records at the South Korean box office, drawing the largest audience and becoming the first local movie to take more than $100 million.
UNITED NATIONS, August 31 -- A recent and ongoing press freedom case in South Korea has echoed all the way to the UN in New York. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was a long-time South Korean diplomat before taking up his UN post. But he has been notably quiet about press freedom generally, and now strikingly, with regard to South Korea.
The government in Seoul has summoned Sankei Shimbun's Tatsuya Kato on possible charges of defaming President Park Geun-hye, and has blocked him from leaving South Korea in the interim.
It is particularly troubling that while Tatsuya Kato of Japan's Sankei has been targeted, the South Korean publication Chosun Ilbo from which he quoted is not being targeted. This disparate treatment of journalists, based on nationality or other factors, should not be tolerated.
Russell wrote:Do you have any hobbies Takechan?
chokonen888 wrote:Yeah, if it's factual, that's more fucked than even how the J-gov operates.
Mr Kato landed himself in trouble by writing about speculation as to the whereabouts of Ms Park on April 16th, when her country was struggling to deal with the sinking of the Sewol ferry. The disaster killed almost 300 people, mostly high school students. Ms Park was handling the aftermath badly, Mr Kato seemed to imply, because she had gone off for a tryst with a recently divorced man.
His article ran online on August 3rd. It said that Ms Park’s advisers had no idea of her whereabouts for seven hours, and quoted other reports to the effect that she was at an “undisclosed location” with the man in question. Ms Park’s office has denied the gossip to which he referred and insists she was at her post inside the presidential compound.
To deny it is one thing. The accusation of libel though has left many analysts scratching their heads. After all in his article Mr Kato’s was careful to quote only South Korean sources, including the conservative Chosun Ilbo newspaper and on-the-record comments that were made by Ms Park's chief secretary during proceedings of the national assembly. Someone who works at the Sankei said they were puzzled by prosecutors' interest in their case, but then offered a possible explanation: “The South Korean government hates us.”
The Sankei is a right-wing paper that has spent years campaigning to reverse a landmark apology that was made on behalf of Japan in 1993.
wagyl wrote:They invented the movable type press, so they are so far in advance of the rest of the world they have the time to spare.
...rack up another victory over Japan?
Greji wrote:...rack up another victory over Japan?
I wonder if they sell Southern Comfort in any of their bars?
IparryU wrote:So want some SoCo now!
Ol Dirty Gaijin wrote:IparryU wrote:So want some SoCo now!
Want to relive being 18 again? Why?
Sometimes, in his off hours, Yie Eun-woong does a bit of investigative work.
He uses the Internet and other means to track personal data and home addresses of foreign English teachers across South Korea.
Then he follows them, often for weeks at a time, staking out their apartments, taking notes on their contacts and habits.
He wants to know whether they're doing drugs or molesting children.
Yie, a slender 40-year-old who owns a temporary employment agency, says he is only attempting to weed out troublemakers who have no business teaching students in South Korea, or anywhere else.
The volunteer manager of a controversial group known as the Anti-English Spectrum, Yie investigates complaints by South Korean parents, often teaming up with authorities, and turns over information from his efforts for possible prosecution.
Outraged teachers groups call Yie an instigator and a stalker.
Yie waves off the criticism. "It's not stalking, it's following," he said. "There's no law against that."
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"Why are they following teachers? That's a job for the police," said Dann Gaymer, a spokesman for the Assn. for Teachers of English in Korea. "What this group is up to is something called vigilantism, and I don't like the sound of that."
[...]
Yie says he has nothing against foreigners. Growing up near the city of Osan, he often rode with his taxi driver father and encountered foreigners who served at the U.S. military base there. "I learned to pick out the good guys from the bad guys," he says
In 2005, by then living in Seoul, he joined the fledgling activist group after seeing an upsetting posting on a website: claims by foreign teachers that they had slept with Korean students.
Yie, who is single and has no children
"People were angry; most of them were parents with kids," he said. "We all got together online and traded information."
Gaymer says he doubts that such a posting ever existed. Instead, he says, Koreans were angry about photos posted on a job website showing foreigners dancing with scantily clad Korean women.
"They were consenting adults at a party with foreign men," he said. "They weren't doing anything bad or illegal."
Yie's group, Gaymer says, has used the incident as a rallying call. "They're posting online pictures of teachers' apartments and whipping each other into a nationalist frenzy, creating a hysteria against all English teachers, troublemakers or not," he said.
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