Hey, some people can dream, can’ t they?
Taken from the photo gallery at Naver.com.
UPDATE: On a related but much more serious note, check out Kirk’s post at It Makes A Difference to the Sheep.
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As if China would ever allow itself to become so tiny. Heh.
Kevin
Downright delusional.
Not only delusional, self-destructive. People who make these sorts of maps are a menace in the neighborhood and your international investment is a lot less safe there. It’s a cheap signal that the place is moonbat city and should be avoided.
but where did they get “uigur” and “toburn”?
Say, do you suppose this is related to that shipping of over-the-hill pop singers and dramas to China?
uigur is a language spoken by the people that live in that region of china (at one time).
Sinkiang, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People’s Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people.
i’m assuming that toburn has the same meaning.
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What the hell? I guess that Chinese guy knows how millions of Koreans feel about the Chinese trying to claim Koguryo (spelling?). But I don’t think millions of Koreans will be lining up to take a turn on his mom.
Freaing Nationalists.
Why link this? … you can find all kinds of idiotic stuff on personal websites of Americans as well. Unless this ?째째??째??짯 guy (it’s his webpage) is someone of any prominence in Korea … this isn’t anything that should be of interest. If this were on Pres. Noh’s webpage now that would be news.
There are nutjobs everywhere. I could link some interesting homepages of people in Idaho that love the Turner Diaries … what would that prove about Americans? … nothing.
Haha. I guess some people never stop dreaming. But what’s the deal with Taiwan? It’s the same colour as China? Is it part of the “New China” or is Taiwan independent?
Thank you for entitling the post Korea 2040 and not “Corea” 2040.
Why don’t we just all agree on “Gorea”?
Sad thing is that the comment from “a chinese” marks relative sophistication by the standards of nationalistic PRC internet. You should see what they write about Taiwan or the U.S. on a regular basis.
If you think Korean netizens are a scourge on the world wide web, wait til the PRC gets universal broadband and PC bangs everywhere. We’ll be pining for the puerile postings of lux bearer and shin jong il.
ari(w)rong - I thought it was cute and knew some people would get a kick out of it, so I posted it. Besides, you know damn well that the sentiments expressed by the map are not limited to a small segment of nutjobs, even if few would ever consider expressing those sentiments in the form of national policy.
Besides, a) he left Mongolia independent, which makes him OK in my book, and b) if I’m going to whore myself for comments, don’t inflammatory maps make a welcome alternative to Korean booby pics?
I found no ethnic or language groups in the world called, “Toburn”. Wouldn’t it be even more scarier if the author meant “to burn”?
What’s that little message in the far righthand corner about Korea having a claim to the Kurils?
And, Vietnam is the same color as Japan? Does this mean Vietnam, probably the fiercest and most nationalistic country in Asia is a colony, too? Vietnam, the country that hates South Koreans even more than the North!
That Kuril message is on most political maps with the “Japan claims” message. It seems that, after Gorea takes over Japan, it will also take Japan’s claim to the Kurils.
BTW, the map would have been much cooler (and maybe scarier) if the guy would have limited “Corea” to lands that Gorea could actually have some historical claim to.
BTW2, Homebody also failed to give Inner Mongolia to the Mongolians, which would have almost doubled the size of the country.
I started pondering the implications of that large swathe of China under Gorean control — admittedly a fanciful exercise. What would change for those in territory going from PRC to ROG rule?
Corruption: break even
Television: break even
Pop Music: break even
Internet commections: improvement
Traffic Etiquette/safety: break even
Newspapers: slight improvement (assuming no Hankyoreh by 2040)
Food: China’s loss
Spittle on sidewalks: modest improvement
Air quality: modest improvement
Women: mixed bag (Goreans prettier, Chinese more sane and mature)
Human rights: question mark (Gorea democratic but record suggests cruelty toward non-Goreans. Conditions in North Gorea have nowhere to go but up)
Ahh… first, give a Korean traffic cop a whistle, and now, give a Korean nethound a pirated version of Photoshop - you just can’t control them. Our boy missed “Demarcation Line” in the Yellow(WTF?) Sea (Nelson Muntz - “ha, ha”). And while he was at it why didn’t he carve Tannu Tuva out of Russia?
Sure, a lot of Koreans share this vision, just like they want the North to be successful in makng the bomb (hey, how else are they going to take Japan?). Still, if it were up to me, I’d post boobies.
Wedge, the Yellow Sea (???챈?쨌) is the real name. West Sea is a recent invention designed for the sole purpose of justifying East Sea. ???챈?쨌 can be found in Korean documents (both in Korean and classical Chinese) by the cartload, and as far back as a millenium. West Sea is not then years old, I think. At least, it was not in wide use in 1994.
DDA - I’m not sure you know where I’m coming from since sarcasm is sometimes tough to imply on paper, so let me say I expected him to change it to West Sea (although I know Yellow Sea has been used by us English-speakers for centuries). They called it West Sea in 1993 and I’ll defer to anyone in Korea previous to that to identify when they changed it from Yellow Sea.
Speaking of seas, Japan calls the Sea of Japan something like North Coast Sea and the body to the south the opposite (my Japanese dictionary is packed up so someone else correct this if I’m wrong). It’s all relative to the individual country. Only in Korea do they try to impose their local usage on others. Inferiority complexes are a bitch, aren’t they?
No, Wedge, youre’re right, I dunno where you come from. But I get your point now…
‘They called it West Sea in 1993…’
We’ll have to define ‘they’. I remember translating a Korean magazine article about ???챈?쨌 in the late 1990s. It would be interesting to see a study made on the DNS-like propagation of the “West Sea” usage. Gonna be tough on the ?쨀???쨈???s to explain West Sea when Korea reunifies. Or are they gonna change ???챈?쨌????to ??쩔챈?쨌????to justify West Sea?
Hey Ari, lighten up! All the Marmot said was “Hey, some people can dream, can’ t they?”. This is pure entertainment. I’m sure Bae spent a lot of time on his computer making that nice picture for us to laugh at.
Cheers!
I’m going off the Korea Times and Korea Herald, plus what my English students called it. I always heard West Sea, not Yellow Sea, from all Korean sources. Of course, I wasn’t reading hanja in the vernacular papers.
??쨔?쨍짯??쩍?쨘쨘챈????쨈챈???쨍?챈???짚짧챈짰??쩔??쨘??쩌?
?쨍??쩔?≥┖볛?쨍??쨘??쨍짯??쩍?쨘쨘?쨔?챈?쨀챈??챈??챈흹????챈???쨍짯??쩍???챈짰?챈째??흹째?쩌흸?????≤?쨍흹????쨘???쇕?쨍짯?쨘??쩌흸???????????????
??짧챈??챈??챈쨌?????쨌짼?????????
I’m going off the Korea Times and Korea Herald
Not exactly the best sources on Korea…
The fact that in the last few years people have called ?????쨈 ??흹??쨈, mainly in order to justify ?????쨈, is not really a strong argument regarding the name of this little sea. As I said before, the name of one Korean ????comes from this sea (?????쨈???/???챈?쨌????. So Koreans, for political motivations, might want to ignore their own history and geography, but it is hardly convincing.
Revisionism at its best: the ‘new’ 챈짼?챈쨌쨍??쨀
???~???, ??쩔챈?쨌????sic) ?쨈??짼흹??쨈~??쩌?????쨀쨀??? ???????쨌흹??쩌?????쨋???쨈 ??쨈???~?????째…
??징?쩌흸????쩌흸???????쨍짯??쩍?쩔??흹짢??씲?쩌흸??쩍??????챈째???쩍?쩌??짠??째짹?쨘???◈?쨘??쩌흸챈?씲뮨???흹??쩌흸?쨍??쨘?????흹짢?짚짠??™?쩌흸?쨍?챈????쩔?짚짠?쨍??쨘짠?쩌흸?????째챈쨔쩐챈짯???쩍??쨍??????
It is an interesting picture to all other people except Chinese. It is a joke ,isn`t it? But many Chinese would be very angry soon after they saw this. We also like to make fun,for life need this ,but I`m sure ,you will all agree with me ,police is not good material.
Take it easy, guys. It’s just a joke.
Nobody think/want that will come true.
dda,
Some people have called it ??흹??쨈 while some others ?????쨈 since long ago. (Much longer than the ‘last few years’ you said.) Though I don’t think it’s right when they should be called internationally, calling name of the sea according to the direction is just a custom of Korea. Don’t take it too seriously. ?????쨈??? was also called ??흹??쨈??? in the old days. Check this page.
http://www.hwanghaedo.or.kr/sub_pages/sanchun.htm
Result of Inferiority complex.
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And here I thought that only the Balkans spawned stupid “Greater” (insert favored nation here) maps that did nothing but piss off neighbors are raise the likelihood of war and scare off international investment. Nope. It turns out Koreans can…