Comments on: Big noser comes to Korea, lives to write the tale http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/ Korea... in Blog Format Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:49:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: slim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1544 slim Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:59:45 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1544 Read my observation carefully, Tom. With all due respect, he applies the "crude level" disclaimer to the Japanese colonial period and then goes on to ascribe the Japanese-brand-free environment to the mix of past sufferings: a collective psychological non-tariff barrier. I don't expect insightful political economic analysis in an impressionistic travel piece, but I couldn't let that facile oversimplication stand. That said, Greenfield is a nice stylist, if a touch pretentious. Read my observation carefully, Tom. With all due respect, he applies the “crude level” disclaimer to the Japanese colonial period and then goes on to ascribe the Japanese-brand-free environment to the mix of past sufferings: a collective psychological non-tariff barrier. I don’t expect insightful political economic analysis in an impressionistic travel piece, but I couldn’t let that facile oversimplication stand. That said, Greenfield is a nice stylist, if a touch pretentious.

]]> By: Michael http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1543 Michael Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:42:46 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1543 Lots of received notions and superficiality in Mr. Cool's anal-ysis. Anybody who writes "Phil Dick would have understood" is a twat. Saw a bio of him that says he wrote "a paper called a minimal compact about open source constitutions for nation-state sized governance." Too clever by half. Lots of received notions and superficiality in Mr. Cool’s anal-ysis. Anybody who writes “Phil Dick would have understood” is a twat. Saw a bio of him that says he wrote “a paper called a minimal compact about open source constitutions for nation-state sized governance.” Too clever by half.

]]> By: john http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1542 john Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:15:01 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1542 adam is obviously intelligent, yet he links favorably Conor and kimsoft... what's up with that? adam is obviously intelligent, yet he links favorably Conor and kimsoft…

what’s up with that?

]]> By: Tom Joon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1541 Tom Joon Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:22:53 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1541 "But he puts the lack of Japanese goods down to pain and suffering from the past, when there is a more accurate and simpler answer" slim, no he doesn't. He clearly says that this is at a crude level of approximation, that there are other causes. Try reading it again, a little more carefully. Plus his description of New York City is dead accurate. “But he puts the lack of Japanese goods down to pain and suffering from the past, when there is a more accurate and simpler answer”

slim, no he doesn’t. He clearly says that this is at a crude level of approximation, that there are other causes. Try reading it again, a little more carefully. Plus his description of New York City is dead accurate.

]]> By: Antti http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1540 Antti Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:32:58 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1540 And the thing to remember with the lack of Japanese consumer goods is the abundance of Japanese technology and parts (don't ask me for figures), so the more Korean-made gadgets are exported the more Korea needs to import from Japan. Isn't Korea's trade balance with Japan continuously in the red? And the thing to remember with the lack of Japanese consumer goods is the abundance of
Japanese technology and parts (don’t ask me for figures), so the more Korean-made gadgets are
exported the more Korea needs to import from Japan. Isn’t Korea’s trade balance with Japan
continuously in the red?

]]> By: slim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1539 slim Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:19:18 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1539 That writer is capable of a good turn of phrase. But he puts the lack of Japanese goods down to pain and suffering from the past, when there is a more accurate and simpler answer: modern Korean protectionism. He might have notice, for example, that here a few foreign cars of any kind on the roads and few foreign consumer goods on the shelves of stores. That writer is capable of a good turn of phrase. But he puts the lack of Japanese goods down to pain and suffering from the past, when there is a more accurate and simpler answer: modern Korean protectionism. He might have notice, for example, that here a few foreign cars of any kind on the roads and few foreign consumer goods on the shelves of stores.

]]> By: Joel http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1538 Joel Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:54:40 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1538 Could those of you able to reach them please tell the idiots at VANK that each time they spam potential sympathizers, the recipients become more and more pro-China in the dispute over Koguryo? Could those of you able to reach them please tell the idiots at VANK that each time they spam potential sympathizers, the recipients become more and more pro-China in the dispute over Koguryo?

]]> By: slim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/19/big-noser-comes-to-korea-lives-to-write-the-tale/#comment-1537 slim Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:15:46 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=471#comment-1537 (CORRECTING TYPOS) He might have noticed, for example, that there are few foreign cars of any kind on the roads and few foreign consumer goods on the shelves of stores. (CORRECTING TYPOS) He might have noticed, for example, that there are few foreign cars of any kind on the roads and few foreign consumer goods on the shelves of stores.

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