Girls around the world say

ONCE YOU GET IT FROM A KOREAN, YOU NEVER GO BACK!!

Sonagi just learned it earlier then others. Now to the rest of you, get in line, and I will give you some of my kimchi juice, but only to them that beg for it.

….thinking back to that tsunami……how more uncomfortable should we feel about what appears to be this woman’s expertise?

I actually agree with you on something.
Jonathan in Osan,

I understand the Fulbright program quite well, K-blogger Michael over at the Metropolitician is one himself and has discussed it on his site. I’m just poking fun at the Low Quality Foreign English Teacher slogan passed off in the Korean media. Like usinkorea said I’m sure she is quite intelligent but she is no where near as qualified as Victor Cha and probably got the job due to family connections, I could be wrong but judging by the information about her available how else do you explain her taking over for Victor Cha when judging by her writings she has little understanding of ground truth in Korea?

Since she is also in charge of Japan policy, I would love to see what her views are on Japan as well.

Bob,

I wouldn’t be surprised if you are right.

“Sonagi do you ever get off your knees when it cums to korean men?”

Excellent example of an ignorant remark……good job fulldumb

I can think of (and name) at least a dozen people stationed at the upper reaches of the policy/research chain at USFK or at the US embassy in Seoul who would have served the president much better than a political hack. If she’s ‘fluent in Korean’ after just 2 years on peninsula, I’d love to see the DLPT scores. But DOS has always had incredibly flexible standards for what constitutes ‘fluency’.

If what she has said so far is any clear indication, then she’s definitely got a really “Dick and Jane” -level understanding of the situation in Korea. Like someone who’d buy into the argument that the reason Koreans “are so good at stem cell work because they were raised eating with chopsticks and have great manual dexterity”…

So was Robert Kim.

Sonagi do you ever get off your knees when it cums to korean men?

ED- PERSONAL ATTACK, Please keep it civil.

And even if it was a top-notch school and she was a great young teacher, how that couple of years doing ESL prepares her to fill Dr. Cha’s shoes is a complete mystery….

She is probably very smart, and for all we know, she could be a prodigy. I am serious here. Age and experience can be passed over if you have one of those people who set themselves apart and are just abnormally capable.

The problem is, we have nothing but her resume and what she was just reported as having said to go by, and from the looks of it, her resume leaves something to be desired considering the position she now holds — and what she said is trash can material that is being given a voice on our Korea policy - which is sad.

But, what I came here to comment about was the Bushie incompetent remarks….

He does hold an MBA from Harvard, right?

I guess they just give those away these days. His father was probably head of the CIA at the time and threatened to kill the deans if they didn’t give the son a free pass, right?