Comments on: Keep dreaming http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/09/02/keep-dreaming/ Korea... in Blog Format Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: slim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2003/09/02/keep-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-82 slim Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:58:24 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=40#comment-82 Hard to say it better or add anything Marmot, but what is scary to me is that Oh My News is embraced by the Roh administration as a serious alternative to the Cho-Joong-Dong big three dailies AND is very popular among the youth. I am stunned at how diametrically different are the reactions of Westerners in Korea (and a minority of mostly conservative media) and the South Korean masses to the whole debacle at Taegu. Equally flabbergasting is how South Koreans can go ballistic at even imaginary insults or slights by non-Koreans, but embrace, coddle and forgive their insultors when they are North Koreans. PING: TITLE: Hushoor's Korea Briefing: 2003-09-16 BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET KOREA TOPICS 9/16/03: NK gulags & SK complicity; 2 great Korea blogs; The Beijing talks in depth; Chinese getting impatient; Opinions on how to deal with North Korea; ROK army to Iraq (maybe); Various items on South Korean politics; Suicide in Cancun;... Hard to say it better or add anything Marmot, but what is scary to me is that Oh My News is embraced by the Roh administration as a serious alternative to the Cho-Joong-Dong big three dailies AND is very popular among the youth. I am stunned at how diametrically different are the reactions of Westerners in Korea (and a minority of mostly conservative media) and the South Korean masses to the whole debacle at Taegu. Equally flabbergasting is how South Koreans can go ballistic at even imaginary insults or slights by non-Koreans, but embrace, coddle and forgive their insultors when they are North Koreans.

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TITLE: Hushoor’s Korea Briefing: 2003-09-16
BLOG NAME: Winds of Change.NET
KOREA TOPICS 9/16/03: NK gulags & SK complicity; 2 great Korea blogs; The Beijing talks in depth; Chinese getting impatient; Opinions on how to deal with North Korea; ROK army to Iraq (maybe); Various items on South Korean politics; Suicide in Cancun;…

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