Name that Picture

by R. Elgin on January 20, 2007

One sees so many new and interesting things around Seoul but how many of us know what is really happening? As for one example, let us have a “Name that Picture” contest, where one must figure out just what story the picture is trying to tell us. First, the picture above shows:

A “Power Sale” at Hyundai Department store that is just a little too powerful.
Seoulites attempting to keep up with rising apartment prices.
Unhappy Seoulites trying to escape from Seoul.
A picture of Uridang members caught trying to leave their party.
A picture of two members of the Korean Teachers and Educational Workers Union attempting to seek asylum in South Korea (hey, wait, they are already in South Korea!)
Robert’s mom and dad attempting to surprise him for his birthday (didn’t work; brought too many police friends).

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 sanshinseon January 20, 2007 at 2:51 pm: Hah, ya got me, i thought it was “Seoulites attempting to keep up with rising apartment prices” — an overheated line in front of a real estate office accepting bids for slots in a new Gangnam complex…

Well, it’s good that some Koreans are protesting that outrage, anyway.
2 wjk January 20, 2007 at 4:20 pm: 2
3 globalvillageidiot January 20, 2007 at 5:06 pm: A crowd scene involving Gangnam apartments, Dokdo, USFK, FTA, or a number of other issues would be sure to draw a far larger number of protesters.
4 bopshop January 20, 2007 at 10:38 pm: oh how I love this bando……. at times.
5 baduk January 21, 2007 at 6:27 am: This is circa 2010, the fall of Seoul. The US pulled out and the last plane is leaving. These KoreanAmericans who resided in Seoul were put in a truck to be transported to the US embassy. The chopper is waiting to take them to Busan harbor.

Obviously, everyone wants to escape the fall of Korea and subsequent Communist regime and they are clamoring to get on the truck. The policemen are beating and killing non-KAs trying to get on.

The truck is filled up and some had to hang on to the sidebar.

This is the future of Korea. Those “progressive” scholars who advocated playing both sides, should see this picture. They are turning Korea into VietNam.
6 baduk January 21, 2007 at 6:31 am: OK, that wasn’t a truck. I am getting old and I cannot see straight.

Change to the ground of the US embassy in Seoul. These Koreans want to get into the embassy to escape. But, the chopper can carry only so many. And, they are not American citizens.
7 michael January 22, 2007 at 9:15 am: Baduk wins, send him the cheese platter Mr. Elgin
8 R. Elgin January 22, 2007 at 10:34 am: Yeah, Baduk sucked all the satire out of there like a sugar junkie on a creme-filled donut.
9 michael January 22, 2007 at 11:02 am: He did manage to change a funny picture into a doomsday scenario and depress the shit out of me, true.