Comments on: News of the day

By: baduk

baduk — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:26:07 +0000

Have you seen the movie, “the insider”? It is about the media business. Very often money decides what to report and how to report.

Money talks, through media.

By: Curious (a.k.a. Sewing)

Curious (a.k.a. Sewing) — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:55:27 +0000

Baduk, you certainly have a way with words….

“In this regard, newspapers are similar to travelling medicine merchants or prostitutes.”

By: baduk

baduk — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:16:52 +0000

Dr. No? James Bond?

Newspapers have to make money. They have to pay reporters, editors, ink manufacturers and paper factories. So, they run advertisements(which can be known lies, especially oriental herbal aprodisiacs ads). Newspapers are basically mouthpieces for these companies that want to lie to people.

In this regard, newspapers are similar to travelling medicine merchants or prostitutes. They have to “hook” people in and then they sell advertisements.

Newspapers are private ventures under market forces. However, Dr.No does not understand market economy. He is drenched with communist/dictatorship ideas, so he likes to manipulate market and sell only “his” papers. Maybe he is afraid of “freedom of the press”.

Kick out commies from the administration and set the country to the right direction. If he does his job right, then he has no reason to be afraid.

By: judge judy

judge judy — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:00:10 +0000

there must have been a foot-in-mouth policy memo circulated this month. dr. no’s comments were almost as good as the official who told everyone that a japanese official said the US didn’t trust korea to be discrete with political discussions. hehe… enough to wax pathetic about the state of politics here these days.

By: i-ching addict

i-ching addict — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:20:32 +0000

i want a gravatar please! How can i get one?

By: MichaelMichael

MichaelMichael — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:49:05 +0000

Thanks for the link Young Yoo–yeah I doubt flushing Sihwa Bay (it’s not a “lake,” just a bay blocked by a seawall) like a giant toilet is going to help the environment, just send the pollution out to sea to become the world’s problem.

By: Young Yoo

Young Yoo — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:57:40 +0000

On a different note, take a look at this article:

South Korea to Build World’s Largest Tidal Power Plant

Link: http://www.renewableenergyacce.....y?id=31016

” … Not only will the project generate power, but VA Tech Hydro said the existing water quality of the Sihwa Lake will be significantly improved. Due to industrial facilities taking process water out of the lake and releasing waste water into it, the zone has over and over again been the subject matter of discussions during the past years. Regularly flushing the Sihwa Lake with sea water was identified as an acceptable method of remediation, according to the company. It was obvious that such an investment would only be cost-effective, if the operator simultaneously gained profit out of the energy production of a tidal power plant …”

Quite a simplistic way of assessing the project’s environmental impacts. I am skeptical that this tidal wave project would resolve the underlying problem of industrial pollution and contribute to the Korean quest for (cleaner) alternative energy resource.

By: MichaelMichael

MichaelMichael — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:31:59 +0000

The suckiness of things that suck is the kibun that gives Westerners their han. Or something.

By: R.elgin

R.elgin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:43:50 +0000

To be completely nonpartisan about it, the GNP and Uri Party both suck.
. . . and Koreans think that “Han” is a feeling that begs description.

The Korean media is good at leaving out certain things, but then I notice more and more the same from the US.

By: MichaelMichael

MichaelMichael — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:06:21 +0000

To be completely nonpartisan about it, the GNP and Uri Party both suck.