From the Chosun Ilbo:
Children enjoy themselves drawing pictures of Tokdo island on pottery at an art center in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul, Tuesday.
BTW, the painting reads, “Dokdo is our land!”
UPDATE: dda has a slightly modified version of the photo over at Headspin’s.
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I kind of wonder what would have happened to me when I was teaching grade 10 Social Studies in Canada and I had my class do presentation on:
THE ALASKA PANHALE IS CANADIAN LAND!
1. I would have been laughed off the planet.
2. I would have been disciplined
3. I would have been fired.
4. I would have reminded that something that happened 102 years ago is not really pertinent to today’s world.
5. A room full of people would have said “What in the hell is he teaching our kids?”
oops, PANHANDLE. I have been sick with the flu all week
Slightly modified interpretation of that “drawing” on my blog
Sorry, Marmot, but if ddang is “land”, what is ddong?
????is land, ??? is shit.
so this is basically a ???????issue. DongDang-it!
Danke.
What a dirty coward…stupid idiot. I have to laugh when Koreans say that “their people are incapable of evil”
Read the article…already the typical Korean charcter of blaming others for their own faults comes out. THe guy claimed he was beaten up by a Japanese…in his OWN country?!?!? What a joke. It was later found out that this guy totally made the story up and just wanted a excuse for his sick behavior and hatred of anything Japanese.
Seriously, Koreans are a messed up bunch. It’ll be no time before they will find someway to blame the US army for this incident..just like they seem to blame America for their shitty quality of cars, the IMF crisis, bad weather, the filthy state of the Han River, the Korean War, etc.
I seriously hope these ingrateful bastards get their wish and the US pulls out ALL of their troops so that they can be reunited with their brethren in the North and spend the rest of their lives eating tree bark and worshiping Kim Jong Il’s ass with a rife pointed to their heads everyday.
Ax-wielding man attacks Japanese child at school in Seoul
Friday, January 30, 2004 at 03:48 JST
SEOUL ??р?A 6-year-old Japanese boy was seriously injured Thursday morning in an attack by a South Korean man wielding an ax at a school for Japanese children in Seoul, the school said.
The assailant struck Hiromu Takishima twice in the head around 10 a.m. with the 30-centimeter-long ax shortly after the boy got off a school bus, it said.
The 36-year-old man entered the school via a main gate when the bus arrived, the school said, adding he also tried to attack a 6-year-old Japanese girl.
The man was seized by two guards at the scene and the girl was unharmed, the school said.
South Korean police said they arrested the man on the spot, and are now questioning him on suspicion of trying to kill Hiromu.
The police quoted the man as saying he carried out the attack in revenge for being assaulted by a Japanese national the previous day.
However, the police said the man has a record of being treated at a mental institution and that they are planning to conduct a psychiatric checkup.
South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon expressed regret over the incident later in the day in Manila.
During talks with Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Masatoshi Abe, Japanese officials quoted Ban as saying “I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep regret.”
They are in the Philippines to attend a two-day foreign ministerial meeting between East Asia and Latin America.
Hiromu, who underwent emergency surgery for skull damage, will stay in hospital for about four weeks, the school said. His condition is not life-threatening.
The attack sparked panic at the school in southern Seoul. About 370 pupils were sent home and the school decided to close Friday.
“It is extremely regrettable that such an incident took place,” said Mitsuru Minamide, principal of the school.
Minamide also apologized to the families of those studying at the school for failing to prevent the incident.
He promised that the school will beef up security measures.
Thursday was the boy’s sixth birthday. His father Kazunori Takishima, 38, is a teacher at the school. (Kyodo News)
For your information, Hyprocrite Hangook, the fifthiness of the Han river is partly because of American civilians working for the USFK are dumping chemicals secretly into the irver and surrounding neighborhhods. Not to mention, a U.S. army verhicle crushed two girls in June, 2002, and they were acquitted of all charges, by the US COURT MARTIAL. That means, our own country’s (USA’s) forces delibirately went soft on these criminlas responsible for for the two deaths. How shameful is that? As an American, I certainly am.
Also, the Korean War is partly becuase of the United States AND the Soviet Union (I never said only the United States) becuase the U.S. was the one who agreeed to divide the Korean peninsula, and they wanted that to happen so much that they assassinated Kim Gu, a Korean activist leader who was calling for Korean autonomy from the United States.
Hangook, that tree bark bit was hillarious! Almost inhaled my drink. Dunno about the veracity of those claims, but that one bit was worth reading the ax-wielding-psycho bit.
Yeah, that dumping chemicals bit is great. Are you saying that the civilians (not the military, getting smacked around by the UCMJ isn’t fun, believe you me) working for the USFK are the ONLY people dumping stuff in the river? I mean, is this a daily occurence or what? Cause I seriously doubt a couple of guys sneaking out chemicals now and then can result in an entire river resembling septic backflow. I’ll agree they contribute (and they do so wrongly) and should be dipped in their own refuse for such a thing, but I highly doubt they are the majority cause of the end result.
About the truck thing… I’m assuming this was either a convey truck or humvee. Without links, it’s hard to know. Did they INTENTIONALLY run down these two innocents, or was it more of an accident. There’s a difference between “delibirately went soft” and “found innocent because it was an accident”. Yeah, if they ran them down in cold blood, then I’d be ashamed. But if those are accidents, try comparing them to the number of annual deaths due to automobiles in the United States or SoKor and see if such shame is misplaced.
Sorry on the division of SoKor and NoKor. I guess you’re right–it WOULD have been better for the USSR to occupy the entire region (you think they would have remained independant for more than a year?). Then SoKor and NoKor would BOTH look like NoKor does now. That’s a lovely proposition there. That tree bark must be mighty tasty.
You make it sound like the US is some sort of parasite that has been leeching of the SoKor all this time when the reality is quite the opposite… they have been giving far more than they have been taking. I do agree, too, that things would have been quite different had the Cold War never happened, but wishing that away or trying to blame it is downright silly. When elephants battle, it is the grass that suffers–eventually one must (and did) fall, but not until after they had trampled all around them.
that art teacher is ugly as sin
After deep analysis, I must conclude, the only hypocrites here are Americans.
Americans say they are not racist, yet look at how their political system is run, how their schools are run -colleges especially-, and their foreign policy.
Americans say they are democratic; yet their political institutions were designed for and by the wealth elite.
And their greed?
They run their foreign policy based on economic interests; not on human rights or democratic ideas or whatever they think.
Other:
Any simple comment against the validity of Dokdo as Korea’s land is narrow-minded; do research before you make any claim.
Any usage of isolated/rare events done by a insignificant minority of Koreans cannot possibly reflect the mood the entire people -anyone want to doubt this go ahead.
And for the last comment. If that art teacher is ugly as sin, I bet you sick narrow-minded a** is ugly as Satan himself.
The red, white, and blue (American) represented well here.