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In an apparent indication of the widening rift between the Lee Myung-bak administration and the Buddhist community, a massive rally attended by 10,000 Buddhists and activists takes place at the Jogye Temple in central Seoul Saturday to protest the government’s four rivers restoration project. [YONHAP
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
6:52 am on April 20th, 2010 1
Skeptical or just able to read?
7:05 am on April 20th, 2010 2
I was speaking about a broader theme that appears in K-blogs that seemed to be implied by "an apparent indication of the widening rift between the Lee Myung-bak administration and the Buddhist community," that of increasing religious strife between Protestants and Buddhists.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
7:07 am on April 20th, 2010 3
wuz just having fun with ya!
7:33 am on April 20th, 2010 4
You should be warned I have no sense of humor or irony, and I will crush under a pile of text and insults anyone even remotely seeming as if they disagree with me.
9:30 am on April 20th, 2010 5
They certainly have good reason to protest. The project is essentially the canal project under a different name.
12:42 pm on April 20th, 2010 6
"and I will crush under a pile of text and insults anyone even remotely seeming as if they disagree with me."
I like the way Kushibo thinks.
Also, by Korean law, monks should pay a LOT of tax.
I base this opinion on the fact that a Hyundai Equus requires a lot of tax due to engine displacement and fuel economy… but a monk uses a liter of gas in less than a minute and doesn't even move.
Where is the fairness there?
Religions involvement in politics is distasteful.
1:02 pm on April 20th, 2010 7
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1:29 pm on April 20th, 2010 8
Call me skeptical, but I think this represents Korean Buddhists’ devotion to an unmolested environment more than it does a Buddhist-Protestant rift. The Buddhists have been protesting things like dams and tunnels going under mountains and what not since long before Lee was president.
2:15 pm on April 20th, 2010 9
"I base this opinion on the fact that a Hyundai Equus requires a lot of tax due to engine displacement and fuel economy… but a monk uses a liter of gas in less than a minute and doesn’t even move."
OMFG this is the funniest thing I have read all week. I love you CH!!!
3:11 pm on April 20th, 2010 10
Too late for a warning… I surmised that some time ago!
11:00 pm on April 20th, 2010 11
Will someone help me out here? I seem to be the only one participating in these re:Korea blogs who thinks that the 4RRP is a good idea. Every one else seems convinced that the 4RRP is really the GCP under a different name. But I thought the purpose of the Canal project was to link Pusan and Seoul via artificial waterways. But the 4RRP is not supposed to do that. Rather, some of the reasons for carrying out the project happens to be stuff every developed nation has to do, such as: strengthening flood control, improving water reserves, protecting rivers from sewage runoffs, etc. What are the best reasons offered by the counter-position on the 4RRP? The counterarguments given by the Korean media seem less persuasive to me than the advocacy.