Comments on: Visas, visas http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/07/13/visas-visas/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dkapflzks http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/07/13/visas-visas/#comment-4595 dkapflzks Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:45:33 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=924#comment-4595 This reminds me of the indignant reaction to a comment made by the president of Harvard, by which he was actually complimenting Korea as an example of how a country's society benefits from economic improvements. Oh but he made the mistake of suggesting child prostitution in Korea thirty years ago. According to the articule, the Korean Welfare Minister said he was "was bitter in thinking that this was the perception that American leaders had of Korea. " What does this mean? Should foreigners avoid heralding Korea's advancements, for fear they conjure up memories of a time when Korea was not so advanced? Should we avoid ever mentioning that there was a time when mobile phones *GASP* lacked camcorders and mp3 players? Perhaps the minister is feeling sad because he's of the opinion that Korea never, ever had a "million chold prostitutes". I'm sure the government says that the actual number in 1970 was only a couple hundred or so. Luckily now though there's nothing like that happening in Korea these days. This reminds me of the indignant reaction to a comment made by the president of Harvard, by which he was actually complimenting Korea as an example of how a country’s society benefits from economic improvements. Oh but he made the mistake of suggesting child prostitution in Korea thirty years ago. According to the articule, the Korean Welfare Minister said he was “was bitter in thinking that this was the perception that American leaders had of Korea.
” What does this mean? Should foreigners avoid heralding Korea’s advancements, for fear they conjure up memories of a time when Korea was not so advanced? Should we avoid ever mentioning that there was a time when mobile phones *GASP* lacked camcorders and mp3 players?

Perhaps the minister is feeling sad because he’s of the opinion that Korea never, ever had a “million chold prostitutes”. I’m sure the government says that the actual number in 1970 was only a couple hundred or so. Luckily now though there’s nothing like that happening in Korea these days.

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