Samsung is doggedly sponsoring the Olympic Torch relay. I wonder if they will be hit by shrapnel in the wake of the chaos surrounding it.
Ticking PR Bomb?
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Lately Samsung has been plagued by the most inept and stupid PR blunders ever. This is just another one that will not endear them to the public.
I predict that in San Francisco, the Olympic Torch will be doused by the well-aimed vaginal ejaculation of a Tibet-loving trannie.
What would be the ultimate uber-blunder?
The CEO of Samsung is revealed to be a North Korean spy after he gets caught for bribing the head of Korea’s NIS to bury the story of him beating his advertising department head with a lead pipe on Dokdo (calling it Takashima all the while) for green-lighting an ad campaign starring Lee Hyori dressed as a comfort woman and Boa Kwon dressed as a Femme Nazi and Jeon JiHyun in blackface saying together that “Samsung Proudly Supports The Beijing Olympics and would Tibetans Darfurians and Steven Spielberg please just get over it”. To get out of his fix, he offers Samsung manufacturing trade secrets to China in exchange for sanctuary and refuge from Korean prosecutors. As he steps off the plane in China, he pulls off his mask to reveal that. . . GASP! He is really Nobuyuki Idei, Sony’s erstwhile president in disguise, deep undercover in an elaborate plot to undermine Korea’s economy and society for decades to come!
And to the ground, flutters documentary evidence that he skipped his military service, too.
Yeah that’d be about the worst I can imagine.
This whole mess is pretty bad, too, though.
(by robo-should have been a WWE Script-Writer-seyo)
I predict that in Seoul, Park Jin-hee will hurl several litres of mungbean goop at the Olympic Torch, because not even China can have both East and West.
‘Lenovo, Coca-Cola and South Korea’s Samsung Co., the three sponsors of the Olympic torch relay.’ quote from paper
funny how the guy who tells us his wife became a non korean when she married him leaves out the american company for discussion.
and save your ‘this is a korea centered blog’ since you bring up whatever you can to slam koreans.
and one more thing, how many of you in seoul will be protesting the torch?
why not put your money where your mouth is? how many of you will be protesting? my guess is not a single one. yet, we’ll see the expat go on and on about how koreans didn’t protest.
put up or shut up, expat.
‘it’s iteresting western man say nothing about killing 100,000 iraqis.’ wang quo fung
‘it’s iteresting western man say nothing about killing 100,000 iraqis.’ wang quo fung
Some of the biggest demonstrations in history were by “the western man” agianst the war in Iraq.
boy, talk about some wasted advertising money spent. Everytime their logo is supposed to be in view its covered up by some bearded hippie waving a Tibet flag, clouds of fire extinguisher smoke, riot police shields and other random debris thrown in the vicinity. Looks like this campaign might give them a small brand bump in china but it will certainly not payoff in the rest of the world.
I for one applaud the Chinese people for reinvigorating the Olympic movement and once again making a significant contribution to civilization. While past Olympics have seen vain attempts to introduce new events– Atlanta 1996-bikini volleyball, Sydney 2000-bikini dykes on bikes, Seoul 1988-Asian girls in pyjamas — this new event brings the olympics back to the people, where public participation is key, strategic planning is an important component, nations can compete for success, football tacking skills are rewarded.
I hope the IOC makes this a permanent and not a mere demonstration event.
Australia’s proposal appears to have something worth considering though. Rather than have the olympic host team play defense for the entire event as it traverses the countries around the globe, how about each nation have its own national team to shepherd the torch while its in its country, with the country toured scored for the number of times the torch is extinguished by its residents. That way Australia can use its special forces and Nepal’s ghurkas will be in with a real chance to deliver that mountain country its first olympic gold.
It would also avoid the boredom that the 2012 London event would otherwise be.
Of course, Iraq is the odds on favorite to take out the inaugural gold.
FWIW:
Samsung ranks #9 on Forbes list of “World’s Most Reputable Companies”.
http://www.reputationinstitute.....panies.pdf
6 months later, they rank #51 (a drop of 42 places) on Forbes list of “World’s Most Respected Companies”
http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/.....table.html
The difference? The first study only surveys home-country populations.
Regarding swlee’s suggestion that countries compete on the basis of “the number of times the torch is extinguished by its residents.”
New leader: Paris, France
Number of times extinguished: 4*
* Actually, police said it went out “more than four times” but insist that one time was due to “technical reasons” unrelated to protests.
“Olympic Torch Goes Out, Briefly, in Paris”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04.....torch.html
From same NYT article:
Meanwhile, while in Beijing, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge said:
“Violence for whatever reason is not compatible with the values of the torch relay and the Olympic Games.”
Somewhere there’s probably a jaded Samsung exec muttering:
“Well, the IOC ‘valued,’ and we paid $X million to sponsor this fiasco. ‘Not compatible’?! I’d say that’s a bit of a fuckin’ understatement, Jacques!”
Related article about the concerns at Samsung, Coca-Cola, Lenovo, etc.
“Corporate Sponsors Nervous as Tibet Protest Groups Shadow Olympic Torch’s Run”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03.....torch.html
#6: ‘it’s iteresting western man say nothing about killing 100,000 iraqis.’ wang quo fung
I was arrested protesting the first Gulf War in San Francisco, so fuck you asshole.
It’s strange that while on the one hand, you insist on having us all worship at the alter of Korean nationalism, on the other hand you cannot see the obvious parallels between Korea’s colonial period and present-day Tibet, preferring instead to keep on whining irrelevantly about The Expat.
Why don’t you get your priorities straight, and while you’re at it, why don’t you get a fucking life, eh?
I second King Baeksu. I didn’t get arrested, but I protested the first war in Iraq while I was a college student. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
You’re an ass, pawi, and you are growing more of one by the day.
“swlee” gets the Jonathan Swift Award. Well done.
i don’t give one iota what the two of you have done. you gonna try and bs me by telling me this country is greatly concerned about killing over a hundred thousand iraqis? BULLSHIT!
THIS COUNTRY CARES MORE ABOUT ANIMALS THAN IT DOES PEOPLE. just look at the difference in treatment between a soldier who threw a dog over a cliff and a group of soldiers who murdered an iraqi family after seeing one of their buddies killed. the mother of the soldier who threw the dog receives daily death threats. the group of soldiers who killed an enitre arab family have largely been let go with one of them being groomed by the republican party.
if that doesn’t prove it, just look at the reaction in sf about that boy who got his thraot slashed by a tiger that escaped it’s pen. the very next day, people rushed right out to set up a memorial- to the tiger. the boy didn’t get one.
this country has lost it’s moral compass. it ain’t the country i knew growing up.
lastly, i’d like to ask a question i will be asking for the immediate future. how many of you are going to go out and protest the torch? many of you are in seoul, put your money where your mouth is, expat.
dram man, what will you be doing when the torch arrives? king baeksu? mr mao?
if the koreans don’t protest and you don’t either, then me thinks ya need to shut up about this.
I supported the war, but I appreciate the vibrant culture of dissent and protest that “the Western Man” has.
And I too think you’re an ass in the 386 mold…
Pawi, at least from where I’m standing (college student), I see many ‘western’ men and women speaking out against the Iraq war. I do think that certain rhetorics of the pro-war section trivialize the civilian casualties in Iraq, but that can’t represent the voices of the ‘western’ man.
… in fact, what the hell is the view/opinion/voice of the ‘western’ man? Pro-life/Pro-choice, Pro-war/anti-war, Pro-China/Pro-Tibet, moderates/liberals/conservatives/racists/libertarians…
List goes on.
One can’t even argue that Orientalism is the view of the ‘western’ man, because guess what? A ‘western’ man pointed the damn thing out.
Trying to group the vastly differing ideas and opinions under one term (the term that’s based on race, no less) results in an analysis based on an identity (’western man’, ‘expat’, ‘gyopo’, ‘korean’) that would be suffering an extraordinarily intense case of multiple-personality disorder. Such analysis would also have no meaning because the subject of the analysis does not exist in the real world.
‘And I too think you’re an ass in the 386 mold…’
see how the expat operates? always on the attack so as never to address the issue.
how many of you in seoul will be protesting the tourch? i’ll bet not a single one.
oh, and just in case you’re a ka, i don’t care. a ka can be an expat too. if he defends him, then i simply move this ka into the expat crowd.
btw, the western confucian is not an expat in my mind even though he is an expat. to me, he is the western confucian.
expatjane may call herself an expat and that might be, but i first think of her as jane in seoul.
do you understand what i mean, expat?
Pawi, I cannot see how a mundane Korea related PR post turned into a morality play, but since you asked my personal feelings on the matter…Considering movement to “free Tibet” boils down to turning the country from a bunch of communists to a theocracy that passes power through a nutty method rather than free elections, I don’t exactly have strong feelings on the matter.
As for the morality of the Olympics in general I think China has half a point. I personally thought the whole exerize was a waste of time no matter what period or locale. Its really just an excuse for a party, and should be treated as such and so some of these party crashers are simply impolite (there are better ways to protest than this IMHO). China only gets a half point as I find it roll-on-the-floor funny when at one point they want to “not politize the games”, then fall all over themselves to make a political point viz-a-viz the rise of China and the hosting of the games.
yeah, i consider myself western. aren’t you western?
have i become your enmey now?
Pawi, you have the consciousness of the colonized.
But this is merely illusion. Ironically, you have no one else to blame for this position but yourself.
Liberate yourself from such false thinking, and take full responsibility for your own life.
Free your mind — it’s within your own power.
Godspeed and farewell.
#14,
He’s obviously growing desperate for attention as we pay less and less attention to him.
@#20
well said. Couldn’t agree more.
# 19
Let’s say 100 Koreans protest, 5 of them violently. If I’m near the 5, guess who gets arrested? I would because I’m a foreigner(making Seoul/Samsung look bad. The 5 Koreans skate away, don’t you get it?
What a sad state of affairs this has become. Thanks to a bunch of morally bankrupt anti-Chinese degenerates like the posters on this site. Fools.
Fact 1: Tibet today is much much better than it before 1959 when DALAI was there as the main leader and THEOCARACY was there. Much much better. GO TO tIBET TO TAKE A LOOK OR SHUT YOUR MOUTH HERE.
Fact 2 : our Tibetan people dont have to be confined in the reservations as native American have done. and their population has increased greatly, not like native American agian, millions got killed when the whie occupied.
Fact3; America has caused many human rights disaters in this world ,especailly in IRAQ. How you Americans have the face to demonize China here? remember ,after WW2, America started 35 wars in the whole world. millions people died in the wars. HUMAN RIGHTS?
Fact4: This is not a human rights problem. thisi s geopolitics. Tibet is crucial in geopolitics. So western powers want Tibet break away from China. Thius is the real reason. Human rights are just a pretext. hypcrite.
Fact 5 : cia is deeeply involved in Tibtet issue. The CIA’S secret war in
Tibet, published in 2002 by Kansas university publishing house.last november , Bush met Dalai in the white house. bush ’s father ,george was once the chief of CIA. YOU NEED TO KNOW MORE ? when there ischaoes, CIA IS ALWAYS THERE. cia is the real killer of the victims. shame on you ,American.
Do you want more facts?you narrow-minded fools.
1 MILLION IRAQIS DEAD!! thanks to the morally bankrupt amerikkkans!! How many muslims are tortured everyday in Amerikkka?
Thats right, hypocrits. STFU.
You are brainwashed by fox news and CNN! Learn the TRUTH
… And this is related to Samsung’s PR how?
40 MILLION CHINESE DEAD!! thanks to the morally bankrupt chinesee!!! How many journalists are tortured everyday in Chinaland?
Thats right, agit-prop.STFU.
You are brainwashed… well, you would need a brain in order for it to be washed…
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Mao
forward agit prop’s post to twenty people in less than twenty-four hours, or u will hAve bAd luck in uR love life for five years.
If you dont believe me WARNING TIHS IS 100% TRUE. I didn’t and Bill Gates stoled my girlfreind.
And one hundred billion Tibetans, Iraqonians and olympikkk athletes will die. (pinky to corner of lip)
Sad thing is, agit-prop’s incoherent rants are virtually the same as China’s official stance.
Let’s stick to listening to what the Tibetans think about their land and nation.
I thought most visas in Korea prevented political activities? Doesn’t protesting at the torch relay qualify as political activities?
your country now follows sk and becomes the third asian country to host the olympics. south korea became a democracy because of the games. can the tibetan people gain a chance at survival with a china so shamed? let’s hope so.
#30,
I’m a voter in Korea. I can protest if I want to.
#31,
The Chinese government has no shame. They just jailed some of their human rights activists. Remember Tienanmen Square? A lot of my Chinese students don’t.
“I’m a voter in Korea. I can protest if I want to.”
That’s nice… but I was talking about people with visas. I read something like that (that people w/ visa can’t legally protest) in some other thread, and was asking for confirmation.
Pawi, it’s been fun sparring with you.
I dedicate this song to you:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=57t.....re=related
Your friend,
The Expat
Been reading some bits and pieces of the protests regarding the torch relay and I can’t help but wonder…
1. How many of those showing up could find Tibet on a map?
2. How many of those showing up gave a damn about Tibet before this ‘opportunity’?
3. How many of those showing up will give a damn after the Olympics (or even the relay for that matter)?
1. Hardly any
2. A handful
3. Even fewer
Now in a completely unprovable rant…
Protesters are pretty fucked up opportunists ready to jump on any issue that gets promoted. Throw this bone out to the wannabe libs and you get a good showing.
I am sure that some of them actually care…at least once every few years anyways.
Samsung and other “top partners” like Coca-Cola and Microsoft aren’t budging:
http://www.mercurynews.com//ci_8888074
“I predict that in Seoul, Park Jin-hee will hurl several litres of mungbean goop at the Olympic Torch, because not even China can have both East and West.”
But China only has the West Sea. It’s Japan, Hitler’s ally, that has the East Sea…
BTW, don’t those places that dress up in that gay Nazi stuff really shout “Takeshima! Not ToKdo!” in their own mincingly detestable way possible? I’m surprised the “Comfort Women” haven’t been going after those “neo-collaborators”, too…
“in their own mincingly detestable way possible?” should have been “in the worst mincingly detestable way possible?”
Feeding the trolls never gets anywhere. Send ‘em to Michael Yon for the true story on Iraq.
As for those of you who protested the war honorably, good for you. Do you also protest the millions killed by abortionists? No? Woman’s right to choose? Reread Margaret Sanger… It’s all about the money.
So is the war. Would you rather a democracy had it or a Caliphate? Sorry, those are the only two choices in Iraq…
China is just showing us they don’t give a darn about Human Rights. What a surprise! Who would have thought the political descendants of Mao would ever kill protesters?
However, without a shout from Oprah or Noam Chomsky, no one will remember these Chinese faux-pas next year…
…Except the Chinese. They’ll remember we sat on our hands and sent strongly worded letters… And they’ll do it again the next time someone protests…
Follow the money…
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