tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post3747524954759557600..comments2008-07-04T00:34:31.151+09:00Alex Pollackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15571578922615334437noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-39105208155569830062008-07-04T00:34:00.000+09:002008-07-04T00:34:00.000+09:00The protests have gotten bigger since my post, but it looks like the government is stepping in a bit more directly and wielding its authority. (Recently, they raided protester headquarters and nabbed some computers.) The beef is coming, whether the Koreans like it or not.Alex Pollackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15571578922615334437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-14963999209854106742008-06-30T16:11:00.000+09:002008-06-30T16:11:00.000+09:00Addendum: during the european football championships yesterday, angry, protesting Koreans were in the news update. Has it gotten worse?Plochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05418322941584202629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-58041448604131761692008-06-16T16:57:00.000+09:002008-06-16T16:57:00.000+09:00HOW DO YOU DO... KOREAN<BR/><BR/>Intelligent design<BR/><BR/>The Korean government are forward thinkers. Some bright spark at the internal affairs office realised that instead of buying costly street sweepers they could just use bored middle aged women. Thusly every Korean mother or aunt is bowlegged, shaped like a question mark and smells of bins. But those street corners, wow.<BR/><BR/>...more at: lifestyleguides.blogspot.comJOLLY ROGERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00783431169281777041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-26276465448179853622008-06-11T07:27:00.000+09:002008-06-11T07:27:00.000+09:00The boy've got style.I'll say the hat stays.<BR/>I am a big fan of your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-45289934711469881752008-06-11T04:03:00.000+09:002008-06-11T04:03:00.000+09:00Yeah, I don't get the hat either, man. Just to be honest. Maybe it's a Korean thing.Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04549482963119220242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-28616943626336562502008-06-10T23:17:00.000+09:002008-06-10T23:17:00.000+09:00Yeah, Ryan, the South Korean president is trying to strengthen relations with the U.S., so that's absolutely part of the backlash against him. But, at the risk of sinking into generalities, South Koreans seem to have a love-hate relationship with the U.S. - on one hand, there's a palpable drive to learn English, study abroad, and enjoy Quiznos and Indiana Jones; on the other hand, there's a resentment against America's presence along the military border with North Korea and a basic distaste for American "loudness". Some South Koreans worry that America basically uses and abuses South Korea for only the benefit of the U.S. Some students in one of my friend's classes view the U.S. as being more dangerous to South Korea's well-being than North Korea! <BR/><BR/>Anyway, some of the mad cow madness can be chalked up to anti-U.S. sentiment, though the protesters' anger is more directed at their president than ours...though they don't have the kindest words for Bush either. A blanket I saw at the protest had a cartoon of a pointy-eared Bush saying "sorry" and pushing the Korean president off a cliff. So there you go. <BR/><BR/>That being said, they like themselves some Obama here.Alex Pollackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15571578922615334437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-64255403591841199682008-06-10T21:17:00.000+09:002008-06-10T21:17:00.000+09:00Is the beef scare really about food or just a convenient excuse for otherwise pro-American South Koreans to express their anger with our country? I have the impression that the South Koreans might be too polite to directly criticize their "protector" nation, or am I wrong? <BR/><BR/>Is their current president a little too pro-US? What counts as too pro-US there?Plochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05418322941584202629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-45491150223915593762008-06-10T11:41:00.000+09:002008-06-10T11:41:00.000+09:00The hat is kickin' cool!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-10035261586106623552008-06-10T11:01:00.000+09:002008-06-10T11:01:00.000+09:00It's no cowboy hat at Blue Heron, Michael, but it's how I mix it up.Alex Pollackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15571578922615334437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-49065007842541429402008-06-10T09:53:00.000+09:002008-06-10T09:53:00.000+09:00That hat again. Seriously?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13704331997805758915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915103519858814671.post-60871114346055090842008-06-10T07:57:00.000+09:002008-06-10T07:57:00.000+09:00"I see many huddled on blankets, eating tomatoes and drinking soju." Just wait until they hear about the tomato scare here in the United States. That will give them something else to bitch about.<BR/><BR/>Protests kinda make me nervous. I don't like being at them at all. Come home, Alex. ;~)<BR/><BR/>JSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com