Hey, Maybe the Pinko Ain’t Such a Bad Guy After All

Democratic Labor Party presidential candidate Kwon Young-ghil (a.k.a. Mr. I-Will-Make-the-US-Tremble-like-Hugo Chavez) has pledged an end to the Korea-US Mutual Defense Pact should he get elected. His plan called for a three-staged withdrawal of US forces from South Korea.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on November 14, 2007 at 12:55 pm, filed under Asides, ROK-US Issues, South Korean Politics. 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. dogbertt your flag
    Posted November 14, 2007 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

    I wonder how so many people come up with completely whacked-out romanizations of their own names.

    Does he think his name is 킬? Why the superfluous (and incorrect) “h” in “ghil”?

  2. Brendon Carr (Korea Law Blog) your flag
    Posted November 14, 2007 at 2:21 pm | Permalink

    Because they want Americans (as proxy for “foreigners”) to say their names “correctly”. Unfortunately, Roman letters do not directly correspond to hangul and the sounds of the Korean language.

  3. mateomiguel your flag
    Posted November 14, 2007 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Does this mean Kwon Young-ghil is going to jump from 1.4% popularity to, say, 1.8% popularity?

  4. snow your flag
    Posted November 14, 2007 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

    Wow, I agree with a commie on something.

  5. Breaktrack your flag
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 7:30 am | Permalink

    Make the US tremble?! What a joke! Atlantis may tremble! I know Patrick Duffy would be overcome with fear!

  6. Benicio74 your flag
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 11:35 am | Permalink

    I’m certainly trembling.
    Oh wait. That’s just the morning “piss shiver”.

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