Shoot the Translator

The White House said yesterday’s “spar” between Bush and Roh in Sydney was due to a translation error.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on September 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm, filed under Asides, ROK-US Issues. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

6 Comments

  1. slim your flag
    Posted September 8, 2007 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    That’s some self-serving spin by the White House — par for the course, I guess, but why do the dunce Roh any favors?

  2. Brendon Carr your flag
    Posted September 8, 2007 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

    I think the Republic of Korea ought to give that translator a medal, because she tried to save Roh from the sock in the snot box that he so richly deserved.

  3. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 9, 2007 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

    A professional interpreter would make such a basic mistake. Roh was trying to trap Bush into saying that he would not sign a peace treaty with North Korea.

  4. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 9, 2007 at 1:35 pm | Permalink

    Correction: …would not make…

  5. wjk your flag
    Posted September 9, 2007 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    see? the alliance is too important. Both sides are down playing the event.

  6. hoju_saram your flag
    Posted September 9, 2007 at 2:05 pm | Permalink

    see? the alliance is too important. Both sides are down playing the event

    If it is so important, why make the snarky comment in the first place?

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