Granted, at least the North Koreans might be learning something in the process, but still:
The first rice from a joint project in North Korea arrived at Gyeonggi provincial government offices yesterday following transport from Incheon port where it was unloaded last Tuesday. The first rice ever to come from the North was in 1984 as part of an aid shipment for flood damage.
The 1 metric ton of rice was part of 14.8 metric tons harvested from a joint North-South model farm project in Ryongsong district in Pyongyang. For the project, Gyeonggi province provided rice seeds, agricultural machinery, and technical know-how while the North provided the farmland and labor.
What’s to happen to the rice?
The rice is to be repackaged into 2 kilogram sacks and sent to organizations for the disabled, and national unification organizations and their affiliated groups. In addition, the rice is going to be made into rice cakes and kept for commemoration in the future.
Rather than "national unification organizations," the Korean-language reports (like this one) say its going to organizations of those whose hometowns are in the North.
And here’s a quote for you:
In a statement that seemed to downplay current disputes over rice imports, Kang Min-su, an official at the Korean Catholic Farmers’ Association, said, "Amidst the problems we are having concerning import rice, we welcome the rice from North Korea because after all, we are one race."
There you have it.
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A decade of left wing education and propaganda is starting to see its results, says Chosun English. This reminds me of Chosun Korea, pre 1592 before the Hideyoshi’s Japan invasion, pre-1900 before Japan colonization, pre-1950 before Korean War. Preparedness for the future and learning from past historical mistakes is not a strong suite of Koreans.
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....50026.html
“”Amidst the problems we are having concerning import rice, we welcome the rice from North Korea because after all, we are one race.”
It is such an irony. The NK is starving yet it sends rice to SK. SK has too much rice coming into the country and farmers are committing suicides to stop that. Yet, NK sends rice to be sold in the South.
What an oxymoron!
And, this pro-North jerk says “we are one race.” as the justification for this action. I hope more NK rice to be brought in. I like to see some Commies to cut off their fingers and burn themselves to death on the top of NK rice trucks. The homebred SK Commies will fight against pro-NK Commies! After these losers kill each other off, average Koreans will take back the country.
Agree, Baduk, it would be better that these rice were directed to the people of North that are starving or send their people to the South.
A while back I made a statement something to the effect that N Korea infiltrated the schools of education, re-educated the teachers, and now they have the teachers. Some here poo-poo’d it. Well, we shall see, won’t we??
They don’t have all the teachers. The until-recently-illegal Korea National Teachers Union had pent-up energy when it was finally legitimized, and has been exercising power beyond its numbers, but their opponents, also substantial in number, are only now beginning to mobilize in effective ways.
“…their opponents, also substantial in number, are only now beginning to mobilize in effective ways…” Sounds like it’s a little late for that. The “one race” myopia seems to keep trumping rational analysis.
“…their opponents, also substantial in number, are only now beginning to mobilize in effective ways…”
Sounds like it’s a little late for that. The “one race” myopia seems to keep trumping rational analysis.
You act as if Roh Moohyun and his brood invented teh “one race” notion? It’s been around and used as a reason for eventual unification for DECADES, going back to the days of the military regimes in the South. Both sides use it, sometimes in similar ways, sometimes in different ways.
And, no, it’s not too late to reverse this stuff. When the Chonkyojo (the far-left Korea National Teachers Union) was legalized recently, the floodgates were open. It has taken some time for the other side to get their bearings, but look at the opposition to the President’s plan to sneak Chonkyojo teachers into the private schools.
The opposition has raised awareness of the problem posed by these teachers. Even if they ultimately lose, it will be like Darth Vader striking down Obiwan Kenobi in the original “Star Wars”: it will make them even more powerful.
Parents are waking up to the realization that their children are being indoctrinated, and that is bad because it means they aren’t preparing for tests, tests, and then more tests.
Like I said, Chonkyojo is basking in the triumph of having recently been legitimized, but that power is wearing off. The pendulum is swinging back (but only if people keep up the heat, so keep criticizing the KNTU and their indoctrination any chance you get).
No I don’t act as if Roh invented racialism, you just say I do…I said it’s a little late because a lot of young people in Korea have learned a lot of crap already, viz. the children’s drawings in the subway with open hate for Japanese people, or the poll of soldiers mentioned above.
The gov’t downplays the North’s threat, “teachers” keep up the nonsense they are doing, the media is relatively silent about it, and movies keep depicting the “misunderstood brothers” up North. Where’s the evidence the pendulum is swinging back?
The subway drawing display was orchestrated by Chonkyojo teachers AND they were taken down early because of complaints: it does not represent an irrevocable shift in public opinion. No, it is NOT “a little late for that.”
My understanding is that the subway drawings were taken down after an ESL teacher publicized them on his blog and there was media attention from Japan.
To me that’s just symptomatic of the prevailing situation here. If you think there’s a substantial opposition to this sort of thing (including the soft-peddling on N.K.) I’d be curious to hear specifically what that is.
My understanding is that the subway drawings were taken down after an ESL teacher publicized them on his blog and there was media attention from Japan.
At the time I made some calls about it (I had written about it on my blog and I wanted to get to the bottom of the story) and was told that there were complaints from “neighborhood people.” I asked if any foreigners had complained and I was told some had come to see it, but the person I asked didn’t know if they were the source of any of the complaints.
I sympathize. I too, welcome cars from Germany but oppose those from Korea, because we are of the same race.
Here’s hoping Kushibo’s rather rosy view of things is correct, that their fatuousness and excesses will forever discredit not only teacher’s unions, but also the Uri Party, the current Unification Ministry mindset, the violent farmers and all other moonbat groups in Korea.