
Per Robert’s posting below, this is what happens when DLP members try to raid a committee meeting on the FTA between South Korea and the U.S. Photo courtesy of Jeon Young-han/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Korea… in Blog Format
by R. Elgin on December 19, 2008

Per Robert’s posting below, this is what happens when DLP members try to raid a committee meeting on the FTA between South Korea and the U.S. Photo courtesy of Jeon Young-han/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…
I love a good Snowball fort fight.
sparkling
Pathetic how they are supposed to be the well educated elites of Korean society. Yet they act like babies.
Well, at least we finally know who’s been substituting for pro-wrestling leagues in Korea.
Is this a case of “block the f*ckers (literally) so that they can’t vote!” or “block the f*ckers (literally) so that they won’t physically attack us and block us from voting!”? … Not that one is less pathetic than the other…
This makes the roll call (“Mr. President, I question the presence of a quorum”) and the fillibuster look positively tame…
Therefore, all war parties, get on board.
America is pulling out.
Great images in the world media for the Korea brand!!
Korea sparkles indeed!
Criticism of 우리 나라 사람 is not permitted, especially by foreigners trying to kill us with Mad Cow-diseased beef and your FTAs.
It’s none of your business if people die by inhaling fire retardant.
North Koreans are experts in tunneling and we proud ourselves on Boardroom barricade and block tactics. Ha, that’s not taught at Yale Business School! 한국화이팅!!
What a bunch of f’ing idiots.
Any apologists out there wanna explain this
charming aspect of Korean culture?
“동방예의지국” at its finest.
do these idiots realize that fta is dead in the us especially with big 3 in deep shit?
all of this for nothing except for late nite comic material. ya gotta love this place
All this for an FTA which is practically dead…what a waste of time.
FTA with the US is dead. Even if it goes through, you have to really wonder if it’s a good ideal trading with a country whose new owners are going to be the men in Shanghai and Beijing.
China, as the largest creditor nation in America, they are demanding the US let the Big Three go bankrupt so that Chinese can snap them up. This may sound outrageous for Americans, but if you think about it, it’s not really. The people who lend you money have a right to say where their invested money goes.
http://news.chosun.com/site/da.....Dep3=h2_06
It’s really disappointing and disturbing to see how far and low the US has sunk.
Korea should concentrate on getting the FTA done with Europe, Canada, Oceania, South East Asia. US is in no shape even to debate about it.
can you ban cm?
this is one of your best commenters?
LOL.
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The only person who should be banned is you, WJK.
With that racist ranting mouth of yours that offends everybody here. I’ve ignored you in the past because I know your intelligence level is highly questionable. I will continue to ignore you, except for this one time.
Well… relatively new democracies have, how shall I say? Colorful means of expression. Isn’t much different from fist fights that pop up during Taiwanese legislative meetings or Italian parliament.
America’s democratic maturization wasn’t always smooth either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks
Again, too many of you people are comparing apples to apples.
Does anyone still believe he may become an M.D.? I don’t, but on the offchance that’s true, what a frightening thought!
how about a racist lawyer?
that’s not scary?
LOL.
Everyone has private thoughts.
Mine are posted here to inform the world.
If you object, I will leave.
No objection at all. I just don’t believe you’re going to be a physician. I peg you as a Grey’s Anatomy fan with an overeager inner fantasy life.
“Inform the world”?
I almost forgot. You suffer from delusions of grandeur.
WJK,
Sometimes your points are valid, but they really get lost in the rest of your posting – you know?
I think I know the problem – your avatar is disrupting things. Seeing the Mets nose-dive in the last month of the season for the last two years, just on the brink of making the playoffs, especially from the perspective of a Mets fan, can make one go wonky.
PS – If your thoughts are private, they wouldn’t be posted for the world, would they?
Great Shot!
I am deprived of more than my fair share of things, as a MS4.
Haven’t actually watched Grey’s nor ER, to be frank with you.
I would imagine the things I mentioned wouldn’t be any topics networks would like to cover, anyway.
What, they want America to know that Peds clinics are most frequently visited by Latinos? Well, they’re the ones having babies.
Get a life, loser.
Let’see. Otaku, fake med student, 5 finger university, what else?
I know for sure you look down on non-whites in general, and therefore you are a stupid racist. The guy who says California was better before Asians moved in.
Asians ! East Asians are good immigrants. They raise the property value.
I don’t know if you are actually a lawyer or not. That is my guess.
So says the hypocrite who can’t stop carping about blacks on Latinos, even gratuitously in this post! You are the racist.
Not if you live next to that Korean student perv Robert just blogged about.
You and baduk are such hypocrites, always saying what good immigrants all Koreans are, how you’ll save America. Just isn’t so.
Korea Choking~! ^_^** ™
well it made the “oddball” segment on olbermann’s show with a reference to fight that occurred last dec
Ah, it’s democracy as a contact sport.
I think the Obama gov’t will see all the pending FTAs as a low priority and will put off the one with Korea for a while and demand renegotiation of it, so expect a few more tantrums in the Assembly.
Korea will probably have to give in a bit on autos if it wants the FTA to pass–they’re going to have a similar fight with the EU FTA anyway, so some concessions are unavoidable. And the Korean economy is forecast to shrink next year, so it needs all the trade access it can get.
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