Comments on: No Need to Renegotiate Beef Deal: US Ambassador

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Poor ambassador

By: MigukNamja

MigukNamja — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:38:16 +0000

Mad Cow 2008 actually reminds me of Gulf War 2003.

The original and subsequent justifications are discovered to have no basis on facts, so the justifications shift.

Yet, in the case of Mad Cow 2008, it’s ye olde “anti-Americanism to swing the politics to the left” strategy that’s brought out periodically by the xenophobic, hyper-peninsulatic far left wing of Korean politics.

I really gotta hand it to the DPRK for doing such an effective job infiltrating ROK politics.

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Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:43:10 +0000

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By: American Seoul

American Seoul — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:07:48 +0000

#35 Absolutely, this would seem to solve most of the problems if this were about health, but just like 2002 was not really about an apology either.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:16:13 +0000

“With a finishing flury, he said — and this is DLP rhetoric at its finest — that Vershbow should remember that if he continued to disrespect Korea’s sovereignty and insult its people, he along with mad cow beef would be stopped from setting foot in Korea.”

This reminds me of one of the minor oddities I remember from my time in Korea: the firm, although utterly incorrect, view of some Koreans that they could personally have a foreigner deported at will.

I came across it once in a dispute with a Korean myself, and have heard it anecodatally a score of times besides.

By: Mizar5

Mizar5 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:58:34 +0000

Among the things pawi doesn’t recognize is…well..the science behind the “debate.” The proliferation of pseudoscience appears to have infected him though.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:16:34 +0000

Here’s an idea: the Korean government should pass a law that deems beef from cattle older than 30 months old unfit for human consumption (fine for pets, not for humans). I wonder why nobody seems to be making that suggestions.

By: r.rac

r.rac — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:56:28 +0000

#28 that is unfrigginbelieve, she cant study because shes worried about eating american beef?? Man I got to send that one back to the family stateside or at least to Keith Olberman for his “dumbest person in the world” segment

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:35:35 +0000

“That is hilarious! Amazing logic going on with that one. I could step out onto a crosswalk and just die, therefore, all cars should be banned.”

Unfortunately, in Yoon-min’s case - or that of other Korean kids - getting killed by a car isn’t exactly outside the realm of possibility.

Speaking of driving safety, Lee Myung Bak just gave a pardon to over 2 million Koreans with suspended licences!

By: White House ‘Concerned’ About Beef Fiasco AND Where Beef Meets Bass Fishing | The Marmot's Hole

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:32:04 +0000

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