All South Korean (and North Korean) people would be the losers in the deal if this even-bigger-fool-than-Roh got elected.

“but the vast majority of Koreans would rather see the return of competent crooks rather than incompetent fools at the helm of power.”

Thanks for the reassurance, Tom Coyner. For Korea’s sake, I certainly hope you are right.

…bar some USFK road kill…

That wording made me wince. Two dead girls are not roadkill. The civic groups and politicians who pimped their deaths for political gain deserve such caustic language, but not the girls themselves.

While the possibility always remains, I think it is even smaller than we may perceive. When I was in Tokyo during the 1990’s, I witnessed the virtual destruction of Japan Socialist Party. How did that happen? By being successful. By a fluke of parliamentary procedure, their party leader Murayama became the Prime Minister. To his credit, as a responsible leader, he had to discredit his party’s nonsensical opposition platform by assuming a responsible role in government. As a result, the JSP has never recovered its moment of “success.”

In the case of Korea, the Uri-dang never understood just how unrealistic their principles have been and, for a while, even convinced many S Koreans to let them try to govern by them. As a result, Korea’s light on the international radar has dimmed and a vast number of recent college graduates can’t find work.

The failed policies of the Liberal camp are like cement shoes for any of their candidates and, bar some USFK road kill, the conservatives should be back in power — not so much as they are so lovable, but the vast majority of Koreans would rather see the return of competent crooks rather than incompetent fools at the helm of power.

In his fantasy world, trains are running through the North, past 당막골-like villages — with the gulags conspicuously out of sight.

It would be one thing if he were just deluding himself. But shunting aside reality, as he and his ilk do, negatively affects the lives of people like would-be defectors from the North who can’t count on the South’s support, family members of abductees from the South, and Kaesong factory workers whose pay goes who knows where.

If Comrade Chung should somehow, God forbid, win this election, he’d still be a loser in my book.

What’s wrong with going on to London?

British cuisine.