Comments on: The Presidential Repository of Hidden Things

By: Wedge

Wedge — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:50:17 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new French Internet overlords.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:55:14 +0000

…and how the fuck did I suddenly end up in France?

By: Linkd

Linkd — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:54:30 +0000

…I try to tell myself I’m part of the solution…baby steps….

By: Linkd

Linkd — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:49:22 +0000

After some back-and-forth, during which the translator struggled to explain the “logic” that she was sure I wasn’t grasping, and me struggling to explain the holes in said logic to her, we settled on this:

“In 2007, LGLS realized gains from its long-term investments in new drug development. Forming strategic alliances with world-class pharmaceutical companies, we began exporting liver disease treatments and anti-obesity drugs, as well as proprietary pharmaceutical technologies. These partnerships have boosted our business results, as well as confirming the company’s superior R&D capabilities.”

The rest of my day shall be spent trying to find new ways to describe every one of SK Group’s many affiliates as individually laying claim to the title of “global leading company”.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:07:58 +0000

“Linkd”, can you not reword it in English? I’ve had to do the very same thing you are doing now so I do not envy you. Make your own Repository of Hidden Things out of words.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:11:48 +0000

Sigh**

It’s 2 am, I’m tired. I have the CEO Message for LG Life Science’s annual report in front of me. The Korean version has been approved, and states that 2007’s results were given a boost by the company’s redoubled focus on new drug development.

New drug development takes 10 years and costs a lot of money. There is no way to boost annual results by spending money on R&D. In fact, the opposite is true.

What to do….

By: Bipolar Mindscrew

Bipolar Mindscrew — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:29:38 +0000

To quote my uncle, “you make a better door than a window!”

By: Stacked

Stacked — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:39:10 +0000

You cannot have a worse president than Roh. I’d rather have some poor African guy as president.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:51:21 +0000

I think someone’s English-Korean dictionary has the words ‘transparency’ and ‘vapidity’ confused.

By: whitey

whitey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:28:22 +0000

Ditto to #1.

Each time I see the word “transparency” I can only chuckle, as it one of my Korean boss’s favorite words. His actions in 2006, however, in which we had a bit of a kerfuffle when he reneged on a promise related to my visa and didn’t bother to inform me, defined anti-transparency / untransparency / opaqueness.