Comments on: How clever of you, Rep. Song

By: gbnhj

gbnhj — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:25:01 +0000

Some years ago, a manager at Nike told me that the company had been approached by a religious community just up the coast from Pusan, which had made an offer to make shoes for them at a price significantly lower than that paid to their existing contracters. Still, they declined.

Reason: goods then-produced by the community where unavailable for export to the US, as they were classified as having been produced by forced labor.

By: Sperwer

Sperwer — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:30:15 +0000

I couldn’t help but picture Ms. Cutler coming back tomorrow and presenting the head of the Korean delegation with a watch made by Korean forced labor in a Japanese factory during WW II

Naw,let’s go for the gold: a couple of souvenirs from the Kyoto Ear and Nose Mound

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:45:30 +0000

East St. Louis has a heck of a scenic view.

By: joshua

joshua — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:52:37 +0000

“Kirogi” is slang for a husband who sends his family overseas while he says behind in Korea.

Draw your own conclusions.

By: slim

slim — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:00:37 +0000

I would argue that ever since The Marmot banned Mahatir_fan, pawi serves the unwitting role of being the floor below which comment stupidity does not and arguably cannot descend. EVERYONE of all nationalities (and all flavors of gyopo and all of their real and alleged detractors) can look at pawi’s “thinking” and feel at least marginally better about their station in life.

I am a bit miffed that such a human carbuncle gets to live in such a lovely place as Monterey - instead of, say, grubby East St Louis or Rahway, NJ.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:34:08 +0000

I understand he lives in Monterey.

I’ll pony up for your plane ticket.

By: Sperwer

Sperwer — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:59:27 +0000

Anybody have a light powder/low brass load for a 12 guage? I’d gladly put the goose out of its misery.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:39:47 +0000

people should take a look at nomad’s blog. there you’ll find a class of expat that’s even lower than the ones you find here. the blog even got some guy named mark always talking about rape.
yeah, that’s the guy you want for your daughter.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:12:49 +0000

It would have been sooo much cooler if he’d given her one of those sparkling pots that were selling like hotcakes in the department stores a year ago.

By: joshua

joshua — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:34:03 +0000

I couldn’t help but picture Ms. Cutler coming back tomorrow and presenting the head of the Korean delegation with a watch made by Korean forced labor in a Japanese factory during WW II.

Priceless.

Wonder whether U.S. Customs seize made in evildoer Korea goods?

Under the Tariff Act of 1930, goods made in whole or in part with forced labor cannot be landed in U.S. ports. The definition of forced labor is found at 19 USC sec. 1307:

… all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily. For purposes of this section, the term “forced labor or/and indentured labor” includes forced or indentured child labor.

In order to accomodate South Korea’s asinine “use-the-force” demand, we’d have to disregard (a) our own law, (b) a slew of international conventions opposed to human trafficking, and (c) basic common sense, which is that you don’t reward a country for testing nukes, spewing Nodongs, dealing dope, and counterfeiting Benjamins. That’s why Ms. Cutler’s boss ruled out including Kaesong products months ago. Violating (a) through (c) may be par for the course certain South Korean politicians follow, but it’s a hallucination to expect the same of us.