More on ambassador’s apology

Media Today (Korean) prints Ambassador Lee Tae-shik’s “apology speech” in Fairfax last week.  Even granting that their might have been language difficulties, the speech—given in English—was highly inappropriate.  A number of lawmakers think so, too [Pressian, Korean], and a recent radio interview with the ambassador dealing in part with the apology issue reportedly got ugly [Chosun Ilbo, Korean], with the program host/interviewer apologizing to the listeners today.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on April 23, 2007 at 7:51 pm, filed under Asides, Korean Diaspora. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. michael your flag
    Posted April 23, 2007 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

    The “uri nara projection syndrome” behind this has been gone over ad infinitum, no need to belabor it here, so I’m just glad to see some Korean lawmakers agree that the ambassador is out of line.

  2. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted April 24, 2007 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    Is he being criticized because no apologies were due or because ‘no apologies were due’. “We’re the Roh Moo Hyun government, dammit. We don’t give apologies! We demand them!”

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