I’m not sure how this ranks with Bush I puking in the Japanese Prime Minister’s lap, but it certainly didn’t look good.
Doubt he did it intentionally to embarrass the emperor, though.
Probably not DJ’s finest moment
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Aww, c’mon. They just thought they were lining up for the subway in Seoul.
Well, I mean, that’s kind of my point. He’s an elderly Korean man. Yeah, as a statesman, he should have been a bit more aware of his surroundings, especially in those circumstances, but you could at least understand how he might do something like that. Happens all the time here.
And at any rate, with the United States apparently having a tough time getting flags, country names and national anthems right, I don’t feel I’m in a position to cast stones…
I am probably as big a critic of DJ as there is, but that doesn’t look intentional. I am surprised that the normally reasonable Japundit author and his commenters thought it was deliberate.
I wouldn’t have agreed to sit with them in the first place. then again, i might change my mind and agree to sit them murderous scumbags and ring his fricken neck right then and there and then throw him over the fricken balcony.. that’s what i would have done…and then some…
I take it the murderous scumbags to which you refer are the Japanese royal couple, Ghola?
you dog. what are you trying to say ?
This Ghola guy is a keeper.
Ghola and his ilk pose a mystery for me.
Now, I can understand this rabid nationalism, and by extension anti-Japanese sentiments, among those youg who are living in Korea. After all, they are indoctrinated to it.
But I don’t understand where these Korean-Americans (whom I suppose Ghola is) get it from. Lacking in even a rudimentary knowledge of Korean history and contemporary politics, and often even lacking in basic ability to comprehend the language, the hyper-nationalism of Korean-American youth appears to me counterfeit, a pose, a psychological mechanism to compensate for their failure to remain Korean or even attempt to remain Korean.
I don’t do Freud often, so I will stop here…
Akihito is a murderous scumbag? He was 12 in 1945, the same age as my uncle. My uncle spent World War II in elementary school, and I presume the same of Akihito. Generally in elementary school there are few murders. Akihito is as much a war criminal as my uncle is deserving of the Navy Cross.
that’s an interesting point, won joon choe.
it annoys me when i have to deal with hyper-nationalism of korean-americans who lack basic knowledge of history and language of korea. having said that, i noticed that more and more korean-americans living here in korea are very critical of korea, the korean people, especially in terms of politics, and the hyper-nationalism. it’s funny that nationalism of korea is far greater with korean-americans in the states than with korean-americans here in korea. or at least with the people i’ve dealt with. perhaps the former are not experiencing the utter stupidity of nationalism on a first hand experience.
It’s ok, I’ll go ahead and say DJ is a murderous scumbag. At least, he’s more directly responsible though collaboration with KJI for the continued plight of North Koreans (outside of Pyongyang). Far more responsible for the ability of North Korea to pay their military stiffs to abuse the populace than an adolescent Akihito was to anything going on back in the day.
Anyhoo, I don’t think DJ and his house person’s seat blocking maneuver was anything beyond the everyday indifference to others that predominates the pedestrian life of Seoul.
Guess impeding the Emperor for 4 seconds makes up for all years the Koreans were saebae’ing to one. You’ve been served, Emperor! Served!
All he needed for a trifecta was to make that gross throat-clearing noise and hock a loogie.
Did he do that at the Nobel awards ceremony? I’ve often wondered.
Won Joon Choe,
Starting again with “I may look black but I am not black” speech?
You are black!
You are spitting up into air while lying down (Korean wisdom). The spit lands on you and your children.
Won Joon Choe,
While stereotyping KoreanAmericans, you include me in that group and you are insulting me in round about way.
I resent that.
Especially coming from a Korean. Yes, you are a KoreanAmerican, even if you say thousand times that ” I am not one of them!”.
Old Uncle Tom, that is what you are.
Coming back to the subject, now you know where Rho, DJ’s protege, gets his stupidity from.
DJ, the fool from Cholla, made Korea into a pro-Commie country. He has learned from Oxford Commies that this will enhance Korean chance of reunification. This fugging A. implemented this idiotic European bullshit in Korea.
Korea lost only true ally it ever had, the USA.
It is like a stupid woman who, after listening to her divorcee friends and woman’s study homos, abandoned the only man who truly loved her.
Won Joon Choe,
About distortion of history and national pride, every country on earth does that. France, England, Germany, USA, etc…
Why shoudn’t Korean youth have that? Do you have problem with Korean youths having pride in their country?
Are you ashamed of who you are, a KoreanAmerican?
Some ItalianAmerican youths have “hyper-nationalism” about Italy. They would have gone to streets in NewYork celebrating “We are the champions” after WorldCup victory.
What is wrong with that?
They will also be very angry about anyone who makes fun of Italians and Italy. It is so natural for them to celebrate who they are.
Why not KoreanAmericans? Why, just because we are not whites?
Mr. Choi, you are a racist.
Lithium shortage or not, the camouflage-communist has gone beyond the pale with that last remark. Talk about calling the kettle black; more racial pejoratives and stereotypes have come from Baduk’s comments than anyone else I’ve seen on this blog.
Is there anyway you can encourage your commentors to post all of their thoughts in one or at most two consecutive posts? An innocent passerby like myself might have thought this discussion was furthered with the large increase of comments only to find the same person talking and talking and talking.
And people wonder why I’m not fond of kyopos. Thanks, baduk!
And w/ comments 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18 Baduk furthers his lead in the monthly-comments tally. “As you know, it’s our Korean character to hardly work,” noted Baduk. He added, “though my nearest posting competitor has half my total, by September I expect to post 100% of the comments.” Blogging experts noted that Baduk’s proliferation seemed due to limiting his comments to “Jap bastards”, “Commies” and “You are a racist.” “Looks like Baduk saves these phrases in Notepad and copies and pastes these willy nilly into all his posts. We believe he has mastered the one-two punch of Ctrl C and Ctrl V. And once he decides to invent the acronym YAAR, there will be no stopping him.” Shrieking Cat, Baduk’s former sidekick, gushed, “He’s a credit to this race.” His frequent comments have come at a cost, though; said a commie detractor: “Baduk’s own blog was last updated on June 29th.”
What? You’re expecting certain people to actually take the time to organize their thoughts before writing comments instead of launching into stream-of-(un)consciousness rant after another? I suppose that would actually require coherent thought processes on some people’s parts.
Isn’t there some setting on the spam filter that limits consecutive posts?
Sorry about my ranting. Once in a while, I get very passionate about certain subjects.
I will try to limit my posts in the future.
If some of you like it or not: DJ is one of the great figures in Korean politics of the last decades. Stubborn as hell, yes he is, but neither a Commie nor an idiot, as many of you right-wingers want to color him. Shaped by the more than fucked up domestic political arena, he was the right man at the right time to deal with the democratization movement, the Asian financial Crisis in Korea and with, yes, KJI. I don’t agree with his paycheck politics towards the North, but he was the only president who tried to get off the beaten track of stern anti-Communism of Park, Chun and Roh which gained nothing at all. The Sunshine Policy failed, but bravo to him, that he tried to make it different than his predecessors. He emulated the Korean version of “Ostpolitik” initiated by Willy Brandt in West-Germany. The problem: East Germany was never such a totally insane, broken-down society with a dwarfish despot like KJI.
And the Japanese royals – couldn’t care less about those bland, boring and obsolete folks. Not even nearly entertaining like the British royal family…
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