I mentioned in a prior posting the Dokdo essay contest the Korea Times is sponsoring and at least one blogger has taken the Korea Times up on their offer:
Dear Jepan:
I’m twelve years old. In all my life I never saw such a terrible thing like such as trying to take Dokdo away from nice Koreans. Korea is a nice country and I lived here five years since my Dad took me here after the divorce, and it’s great here because Korea have lots of really old cultures like such as Korean Wave and such as also Bae YongJoon, so it is really surprising when Japan tries to like take Dokdo away from the harmless peaceful Koreans who never invaded other countries a hundred years ago and made people stop speaking such as Korean like you did, but it was easier making them stop speaking Korean in the Philippines than in Korea. . . anyway, we never did anything to hurt you except such as teach our language so that Japan language sounds like Korean and when I think about Japan trying to take Dokdo away from Korea I almost feel like crying, crying like one of the beautiful white Korean seagulls that lives on the lovely Korean Island of Dokdo.
You can read the rest here at Dokdo is Ours!
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4:51 pm on October 1st, 2008 1
Korean History Channel;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptyzc4BQliY
5:45 pm on October 1st, 2008 2
He’s a 12 year old living in Korea with the political philosophy of a grad student and he can’t spell “Jepan”? Give me a break. Where’s John Stossel when you need him.
5:58 pm on October 1st, 2008 3
Gerry, Dokdo Is Ours is a joke site — much like the whole Dokdo debate.
7:33 pm on October 1st, 2008 4
King Baeksu, thanks for the info. I’m not familiar with the site. I took the post at face value. Wasn’t aware it was an inside joke.
10:09 pm on October 1st, 2008 5
GI Korea: Thanks for the link, eh?
If you followed the link, Gerry, you’d see. You might even like a few of the other posts up there.
(PS: The link is giving me a 404 Site Not Found error when I click on it.)
12:27 am on October 2nd, 2008 6
Dokdo ain’t yourn, it’s ourn.
Sincerely,
Sue Donna M. McCormorant
12:50 am on October 2nd, 2008 7
Ms. Donna M. M.:
Please tell me more about your organization.
Most importantly: do you have T-shirts? No land-claim can be formalized without T-shirts. The Korea Law Blog told me.
1:25 am on October 2nd, 2008 8
Holy crap! That was fabulous.
It was best at first glance not knowing it was an inside joke. My guffaw meter was pegged!
4 stars *** Would read again.
1:35 am on October 2nd, 2008 9
yes.
here is me modeling our t-shirt:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2906976280_c0a5f728aa.jpg
2:36 am on October 2nd, 2008 10
Dokdo is like Caribou Barbie: The real deal is far more hilarious than the parody.
12:34 pm on October 2nd, 2008 11
Sorry for messing up the link. It is fixed now in the posting so everyone can go to the site and read the full posting.
12:39 pm on October 2nd, 2008 12
Richardson, nice link. It has been a while since I watched those two, they are hilarious.
2:59 pm on October 2nd, 2008 13
how could you guys not think it was a joke?
Especially since the post was obviously making fun of the Miss Teen USA contestant when he kept saying “such as”. Very funny stuff.
5:54 pm on October 2nd, 2008 14
Tortured syntax, whiny defensiveness, geopolitical naivete — clearly what we have here is a spoof of Sarah Palin!
6:51 pm on October 2nd, 2008 15
LOL, thanks for the heads up Dokdoisaurs.
10:05 am on October 7th, 2008 16
“He’s a 12 year old living in Korea with the political philosophy of a grad student”
Wow, Gerry. I’m interested to know where you saw the political philosophy of a grad student in such as my writing.