And at an enormous cost to the US tax payer. For roughly the equivalent gross figure salary I earned in the US and then in Korea the following year, nearly 40% in taxes was stripped away from the former, and not quite 20% from the latter. Taxes, of course, are distributed to thousands of different concerns (some of questionable value?). Nonetheless, why was I paying much less when earning a Korean salary and living in a land being defended by US
troops?

Korea is applying for OIE risk assessment because it hopes to get a “negligible” rating and use that rating in import negotiations.

think the US should pull its troops out of SK, not because SK gets a military expense dividend, which is obviously true, but because the presence of US forces in any country creates sore spots and ultimately undermines its own objectives.

Completely agree. Even if soldiers were required to remain on base 24/7 and thus there were no taxi robbings, Hongdae brawls and the like, there would still be resentment.

They are not “paintings”,But “woodblock prints”.
And Hokusai’s great works that impressed Monet and Van Gogh were printed around 1830’s.

“show more appreciation, aceface. we korean deserve it. ”

That’s why we say nothing when Hyundai making fake Toyotas and Samusung make pirated Panasonics.

“ps how do like my gravatar?”

Very nice.
You know,one day you should seriously consider about moving aomewhere by the riverbank of the Yalu,instead of living in the US and yanking at the internet for “Korean pride”.

a thousand years ago? imjin wasn’t a thousand years ago. korean influence on your culture stopped somewhere in the 1700s near the 1800s. for instance, most styles of ‘japanese’ paintings specially the one that lead to impressionist paintings in the west is derived form korea.

show more appreciation, aceface. we korean deserve it.

ps how do like my gravatar?

No,This has nothing to do with “pride”.
Somehow,for the unknown reasons,we just don’t think the way Korean do in such issues.

And the two things you’ve mentioned are the exact reason why we can enjoy some distance from the continental geopolitics.An crucial advantage Meiji government foolishly abandoned after 1905.

“his culture largely derived from korea and china.”

And here I want to express my feeling of appreciation for Korean contribution to our culture a millenia ago.
It was quite important until we had direct contact with the Chinese.

If any cases of vCJD were were found, you can bet the same.

Perhaps the Korean people are painfully aware of this and that is why they are not in the streets protesting that their own country raise it standards at least to the current US standards, if in fact it is the fear of vCJD that is fueling their hysteria.

On the other hand, the argument about the prevalence of vCJD in the US using CDC statistics has been under question for sometime, as this article in UPI notes.

Furthermore, the article in last week’s NYT
which recapitulates earlier reports in other places, including another NYT piece, problematize any claims about the inherent safety of US beef. Thus, the remark in the article that “the accusation that the American beef is so tainted is a protectionist and nationalist canard, because it has long been certified as safe” is highly dubious. This isn’t to say that SK beef gets a free pass on evaluation, but SK beef isn’t being exported here and isn’t part of an FTA and its adjoining trade pressure.

Otherwise, I agree with you on your remarks about Chalmers Johnson, though you don’t really flesh these out. I think the US should pull its troops out of SK, not because SK gets a military expense dividend, which is obviously true, but because the presence of US forces in any country creates sore spots and ultimately undermines its own objectives. Regarding the earlier posts, the US is in Korea for its own strategie purposes, not benevolence.

America is much better country than Britain. And, I do believe MI6 did Pricess Diana in. The British princess cannot marry a MiddleEastern playboy.

That screw up the British superiority BullShit. MI6 had to kill her to save their pride.

Hypocrisy of it all!