Comments on: Lee Myung-bak hints time not right for female president

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:59:22 +0000

Sugar Shin, you are right, cheap shot, shame on me.

By: Sugar Shin

Sugar Shin — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 +0000

Name one female leader that was a success?

railwaycharm

Hm, it’s difficult to objectively define “success”… anyhow, let’s see:

Elisabeth I. of England, Catherine the Great of Russia, Maggie Thatcher?

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:18:01 +0000

Name one female leader that was a success? No gochu, no job!

By: dda

dda — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:41:19 +0000

Fifteen years ago Seotaiji couldn’t appear on MBC with long dyed hair. Harisu’s public acceptance would have been unthinkable. Ajosshis marrying Uzbeks, Filipinas, and Vietnamese women in large numbers would have been thought heresy against the nation.

You got a point, but this is all related to men, really, even a man sans dickie like Harisu. It's still very much one-sided...

By: JiMong

JiMong — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:40:20 +0000

He just lost millions of vote from other side.
And there will be protests by civic and women-rights groups.

By: snow

snow — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:14:43 +0000

It’s a (slim) possibility we might see a Hillary vs. Condi race in the US in 2008, why not Park Geun-Hye in SK? Couldn’t possibly be worse than having the Roh-nothings in charge.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:54:31 +0000

If KJI were to exhibit his microscopic gochu it might be good to have a woman in the Blue House to laugh at him.

Whatever you think of her, Park Geun-hye is still very much a contender according to the polls.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:49:42 +0000

Koreans are conservative to the bones

Fifteen years ago Seotaiji couldn’t appear on MBC with long dyed hair. Harisu’s public acceptance would have been unthinkable. Ajosshis marrying Uzbeks, Filipinas, and Vietnamese women in large numbers would have been thought heresy against the nation.

By: Sugar Shin

Sugar Shin — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:39:59 +0000

Female state leaders in other countries don’t command over such a bandwith of power like a female Korean president would do. Only democratic states like the US or France come to my mind, where presidents can have some kind of “imperial” rule over cabinet and armed forces - in Korea it’s nearly unrestricted by law.

Does anybody want a girl sitting in the Blue House, while KJI drops his trousers to show off his Taepodong? Koreans are conservative to the bones, I can’t imagine that they’d acccept a female leader as their commander-in-chief.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:29:08 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if it’s not Pavlovian that Koreans have to reference the United States constantly. I don’t think the U.S. is ready for a lot of things that Korea is or could be. When there have been many other nations with female leaders, who cares whether or not there has been a female U.S. president?