Nope, it’s the anti-US beef protests in front of City Hall!
Well, it’s nice to see the Korean left found something to do after getting trashed in the presidential and general elections. And besides, they were always more comfortable with this kind of stuff than actually governing.
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The funniest thing is nothing in those pictures says anti-U.S beef… its all anti LMB stuff. Sometimes the public here is so dissapointing. They dont even realize that the left is just using the U.S beef issue as a tool to acheive their anti-LMB agenda, despite it’s lack of truth or rationality.
Hey… Are Korean candle makers listed on the KOSPI?
Man, that looks fun. I wish I woulda been there!
Who pays for the new grass in front of city hall? Seriously, though, protesting at the beginning of the chungaechun, which to me is an impressive piece of urban space and one of the better tourist area of downtown Seoul doesn’t do much for the image of Seoul . Then again, maybe Seoul could promote all the protests as a tourist attraction?
Who pays for the new grass in front of city hall? Seriously, though, protesting at the beginning of the chungaechun, which to me is an impressive piece of urban space and one of the better tourist area of downtown Seoul doesn’t do much for the image of Seoul . Then again, maybe Seoul could promote all the protests as a tourist attraction?
It’s said that we get the polititians that we deserve.
As polititians go, the Korean variety, are the gold medal tool variety. I wonder why?
#4, what “Craig” said is so true. These people have ruined the public space in front of city hall. I noticed that someone put stickers on the Claus Oldenberg sculpture as well.
“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”
- Frank Dane
This whole situation is politically motivated by the left. After getting crushed in the general election they seek revenge to restore their “face.”
Give them what they want! I don’t see alot of hope for the FTA anyway with both houses dominated by democrats. Let the Korean people myopically go about their lives paying the highest food prices in the world because, let’s face it, they aren’t going to be bringing mechanized farming to this hilly country any time soon. Prices will never be competitive because of some strange fear of abandoning rural roots.
Ask one of them why, if their argument is so sound, they had to fabricate and falsify evidence?
Lol WangKon… and hellooooooo candle money!
Ryu I had similar thoughts, but wonder if most protestors aren’t really doing this as a way to protest or maybe even more to test the LMB administration, almost in like the way children test their parents (and in fact we hear these stories of clueless teens protesting). And maybe at the same time they’re really protesting closer ties with the US–I imagine the whole thing might fit together in an attitudinal way. It’s hard to imagine that so people believe US beef will hurt them. Otherwise why wouldn’t they’d talk about wider diet issues? And I have a hard time relegating it to the some weak logic of the Korean mind (though I do strongly believe they should teach formal logic in high school, in the US also…). It reminds me of the French voting “No” on the EU Constitution because of their issues with Chirac, or of the way that a boyfriend will get fight with his girlfriend over some trivial issue, while the subtext and emotions are really about something much deeper that he doesn’t want to get into and maybe that he knows he won’t win if it is brought up, or even that he doesn’t have a clue about himself since we’re such unconscious beings so often, lalala…
At the same time the same thing happened in Japan, just without all of the protests. Is it just a bad reputation of American food? I can’t tell.
Myung Bak is off to a rough start, getting hammered in the early innings.
In short, nothing went right during his few months in office.
Prices are hitting Koreans way harder than the average US gyopo.
All that Myung Bak had to do with the beef deal was to do what all Koreans have shown to be their best suit.
Do the same thing the Japanese got.
He didn’t. I guess it would have been more expensive, though.
Pandemonium.
This is probably not just about beef.
I’m gonna guess that he stopped going to Somang gyo hwae, for his own safety. Compared to how he said he was going to go out, and even jog, so he could listen to the average chulsoo on the block and how he thinks.
If I were him, I would have chosen my cabinet with more discretion, got the same beef deal Japan got, and somehow prevented namdaemun burning up.
The rest of the year will be spent in catching up.
I understand the beef deal was done to get the KORUS FTA done in the future. May Obama fail, and Clinton fail, for the good of Korea.
Lee Myung Bak will only look good down the line, if he does indeed makes Korea more properous. Otherwise, he’ll have a rough 5 years in office. As a hated goat.
# 10,
Yeah, it’s got to be a good time to be a candle maker in Korea.
The left continues to feed Koreans the propoganda about US beef and far too many Koreans lap it up (make any claim that something is of benefit to the evil Yankees and you can be sure of getting protests, no matter how illogical or downright stupid the claim). Go ahead, keep up the protests, fools. Throw away an FTA that is surprisingly favorable to Korea. Good luck in getting another one anytime soon.
Is there another one on tonight? I’d love to go down and take a look since I am in the capital for a vacation.
#4 is right. Korea needs to stage more of these protests as tourist attractions. Korea gained attention throughout Asia during the world cup for its large street crowds. Its demonstrations have been broadcast around the world. Its gotten more media play than any “Korean wave” Sell T shirts and candles and perhaps CDs to popular protest songs and chants. Its a more real part of modern Korean history then any of the rebuilt palaces or drab city architecture.