The title of this post is how I opened my latest epic at the Korea Times.
For those too lazy to read the whole thing, here is a recipe for how Lee came back from the depths of June:
- Take a public apology from MBC for bogus reporting in its ”PD Notebook” show
- Stir in some tougher police work on the remaining hard-core protesters to make conservatives happy
- Borrow some spices from the brother’s up North (in this case, unnecessary intransigence in refusing a joint investigation into the killing of a South Korean tourist by North Korean guards)
- Add a little Dokdo
- …and a little more Dokdo
- …and a little more Dokdo
- Have President Bush add a little more Dokdo
- Toss in a commitment on the visa waiver program with the US
- Leave out a public commitment of Korean troops to Afghanistan
- Put an Olympic lid on the pot to seal in the flavor
Most of those ingredients were foreign policy issues. Lee still has some work cut out on the domestic front, especially the economy.
BTW: For folks who follow Korean issues pretty closely, which I guess would be about half of the readers here at the Hole, the piece will seem to spend too much time reviewing the summer’s events. The problem is that these pieces also have to be understood by folks who might not have as much background information and who may want to find out more.
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How do you spell unnecessary?
President Lee has had some lucky breaks recently, and now he has to press on with removing the deadwood that has accumulated over the past two governments.
It would also be great if he’s finally gotten over his canal-type schemes and opts for real economic stimuluses such as incentives for small businesses and keeping up the privatization of gov’t-owned companies.
in his own party, you mean.
If he did that there would be no one left to run the country
I meant the KDJ and Roh appointments who have a vested interest in blocking his policies, just as any incoming gov’t would do. Lee has his flaws but he has hardly begun to govern, and you’re right, he needs to whip his party into shape and get the Assembly off their collectives asses and back to work. Korea has this gov’t now for better or worse, time to stop the obstruction.
1/stafford… if that’s the only spelling mistake you can spot here, you get an Epic Fail, too.
OP/Mr. Andy Jackson – you better get Firefox, which has a wonderful built-in a spell-checker. BTW Thanks for the summary, as I am too lazy to read the article. lol
Korean president’s popularity plunges, so to help shore up domestic support, he demagogues Dokdo.
Where have we seen that one before?
Is there a statesman in the house?
Jesus, can we learn to spell here?
Why be pedantic about spelling, when I can do analysis like I do.
But seriously, I graduated in America University, and am experienced with understanding foreign societies because my wife speaks a weird language with her parents, and I have a good qualification to post stories to Korea Times as a Korea Herald columnist.
BTW: For folks who toss off in the public bath house, which I guess would be about half of the readers here at the Hole, the piece will seem to spend too much time reviewing semi-geriatric dictatorship party events. The problem is that these characters also have to be understood by folks who might not have as much experience benefiting from American controlling their running dog Hitler-gook types and lack the background information about how to vote for the Republican Party and who may want to find out more.
Vote McCain so the US can find its place among nations that imperialize over other soveriegn nations.
And then there is still the Georgia problem. I will post about that to the Korean Time soon, and keep you posted, but for the moment, here is my highly qualified analysis that I offer to the Interent masses because I can.
From a hojusoju comment in an earlier post:
And I’ll leave it up to you, hojusoju, to figure out to what extent the negativity expressed by many expats who comment on this blog are due to ethnic Korean cunts like yourself. Or perhaps better put, since most ethnic Korean commenters here are just fine, cunts who just happened to be ethnic Korean.
You go back on the banned list.
Robert, your bark has bite.
I rather enjoy the challenge of spinning straw into gold, watching the humorless and bitter self destruct in illogic. But this fellow was actually quite a sad spectacle to behold.
OK, the “unnecessary” problem was fixed, although I am a little worried that it got through the blog’s house spell checker. Can I blame the owner of this fine blog for that?
Thank you, RJK.
Here, here. Addition by subtraction.
No. Spell checkers are a crutch for the stupid.
Your Plumpness, you may want to keep Hojusoju, I almost died from laughing when I read his post. You need to the examples of the loony fringe published be a Korean liberal, a banana liberal or a straight up Colorado liberal.
Korean Liberal: I graduated from in America univeristy, why they no give me PHD?
sumo294: Sigh, you really don’t know do you?
Korean Liberal: Yes, tell me please.
Everybody be sure to keep this a secret from Occidentalism. They still don’t know that Robert also bans Koreans. Shhh!
And Brendon, I’d appreciate it if you quit calling me stupid, even if it’s true.
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