Thanks Again,
Dram Man

Don’t listen to Boris here, your post was fine. It needed a second draft and an editor, but your point was clear.

Exactly—if you are just making a comment, most people just fire away. However, if you are an official contributor to a decent site, you should at the minimum be making a second draft, and if needed, getting someone to check it for readability.

A lot of the main posts here are well written, and can be quickly scanned for interesting or complex content.

The post I’m complaining about needed more than the usual effort to dissect as the writer was lazy and left us with the work of digging through the garbage that was his writing.

No offence intended to the author of this blog, but you are in a position to demand more from your writers here.

You mostly seem to take the time to sharpen your text, and you are fortunate that writers like Lankov submit here, which is a huge plus for this page.

Is there no way to ask other contributors to selflessly edit before submission?

Other Koreans like me, however, prefer not to see public money go down the drain through unnecessary construction projects such as the “Grand Canal.”

Yeah, but I believe that, in preference to sending more tax money northward, they do.

Under the Sunshine Policy, South Koreans as well as non-Koreans who work for them have been expected to make economic sacrifices in order to increase the possibility of reconciliation and reunification. Under this policy, no local economic benefit accrues, yet I believe that an expectation for increased economic power was a motivator for political change this time around.

As a local (non-Korean) taxpayer, I don’t want tax revenues squanderred, either. Between spending the money on public works projects locally or a continuation of passing the money without concession to the North, I also favor its use in public works.

President Lee will put Korea on the map.

You’re kidding, right? I mean, Korea isn’t exactly a backwater country nobody’s heard about like Burundi or San Marino or whatever.

Do you that before these Commies took over Korea was considering making English the second language?

Maybe the ‘Commies’ realized what a stupid idea that would be, what with the piss-poor state of English education in the country. After all, what use is it having an official language if there isn’t a sizable percentage of the population who actually speaks it?

England was the Christian nation in Europe.

Now that’s just mystifying. Whatever happened to… I dunno… every other European country?

1)FTA: Japan has not ratified FTA. Why Korea should?
2)US-Korea relation: From now on, Korea will be very pro-America. 180 degree shift from the Commies.

#2 answers #1.

President Lee will put Korea on the map. Trade will increase with other countries(with or without FTA) and Korea once again will accelerate its internationalization efforts.

Do you that before these Commies took over Korea was considering making English the second language?

Soon Korea will be more open country than Japan. The hub of the region. Economically, socially, cuturally and most importantly the Christian nation in Asia,like England was the Christian nation in Europe.

Also, I think that some Koreans would much prefer seeing public money spent on projects domestically, rather than simply sent northward through a variety of efforts which have borne little fruit as of yet.

The only Koreans who want to see public money spent on domestic construction projects are the construction companies, the landowners, and real estate speculators who would benefit from such spending.

Other Koreans like me, however, prefer not to see public money go down the drain through unnecessary construction projects such as the “Grand Canal.”

Dram_man does have a point here. When some Koreans think about LMB and his economic policies they don’t see a man who will increase corporate governance, bring down trade barriers, induce a market-based economy, and encourage foreign investment. They see a guy who most probably will use tax payer and borrowed money for huge construction projects and let loose the chaebols, probably to the point of turning a blind eye to corporate governance, in order to acheive his “747 Plan”. Pretty much they see someone who so far looks like will follow the economic policies of the past military governments. Of course policies like that might have worked in the 70s and the 80s, but in this era of the global economy, well…Also one only has to look at Korea’s island neighbor to figure out that government construction projects aren’t exactly economic growth elements.

Anyways, we’ll see how things turn out.