By The days of the Sunshine Policy wasn’t really all that long ago and the South Korean public’s perception of the North Korean regime really hasn’t changed all that much since those days:
A new survey finds that the South Korean public believes North Korea will engage in future military provocations.
According to a public survey by the pollster Research and Research on one-thousand adults, 52 percent of respondents said there is a high possibility that Pyongyang will take part in military provocations. More than 63 percent said South Korea’s security is in danger. [KBS Global]
Read the rest at the link, but despite the belief that the country’s security is in danger and that more military provocations are likely the majority of the South Korean public still believes cooperation with the North Koreans is still key for North-South relations. During the days of the Sunshine Policy many in the South Korean public felt that the North Koreans were just misunderstood poorer brothers in need of help and willfully ignored the steady stream of military provocations and inability of the regime to reform itself. The public has finally woken up to the reality of the regime once again, but realize that cooperation with the North is still better than a war.
6:10 pm on October 22nd, 2010 1
Of course people think cooperation with the North is still better than a war. Which South Korean doesn't want a BRICK Korea than a Korea with Seoul potentially bombed back to the dark ages, unless they are Chinese in disguise?
10:32 pm on October 22nd, 2010 2
Korea should stop giving them aid until they start behaving better. But still, Korea should leave all avenues of dialogue open. That's how most Koreans think, "K". In other words, they're not like you, a phony Korean.
12:12 am on October 23rd, 2010 3
어이 간첩. 오늘은 봉투 몇개 받으셨음?
12:12 am on October 23rd, 2010 4
Too many "useful idiots" in the south, especially the leftist college profs and the left-wing "activists" who evidently don't have real jobs so they have all the time in the world to protest everything.
9:25 am on October 23rd, 2010 5
Archieb, your president Obama has tried to torpedo Lee Myung Bak's hard line policy every turn. It's the US who's been the useful tool.
10:16 am on October 23rd, 2010 6
Tom, no one listens to what you say. You speak much as a fool would; spouting off without providing any information.
I hope you drop to your knees and thank God your parents are paying for you to waste their money attending a tier 3 American University.
10:41 am on October 23rd, 2010 7
Lemmy, my parents have sunk in $100,000 cash in the last two years. And they still have to sink in at least $100,000 cash and more. That's what Korean parents do for their children when it comes to education. Can you say the same about American parents? Of course not. The American kids start their lives holding debt, just like the story of United States itself which lives off of debt. Foreign students are what holds the underfunded American schools together. Yet Americans still bad mouth foreign students, telling them to speak English, go back to rice fields, and telling them that they're illegals and that they're taking advantage of American tax payers, and on and on.
11:07 am on October 23rd, 2010 8
Two Face,
You're whining again! Did you ask your mother for your testicles back? Ask yourself, why are you attending college in the U.S.? Why did you not attend college in S. Korea? Why do your parents feel it necessary to pay for your overseas education? Why did your parents WANT you to attend a university in the U.S.?
If you answer these questions honestly, your last post should vaporize like steam off a pile of feces.
11:28 am on October 23rd, 2010 9
I am not studying in the US. But nevertheless it's the same Western superiority mental midget mind at work, so I guess really, there's not much difference. I am here in the "US" because it's the fastest way for me to become a professor in Korea for the major I'm taking. I'm just using the "US" to get to my goal, nothing more than that.
11:57 am on October 23rd, 2010 10
Great, Tom! (@9) : I hope you can reach your goal of `professorship' just as quickly as possible so you can come back to `your' country and continue the same lame-brained magnificient nonsense those of your ilk
profess.
12:17 pm on October 23rd, 2010 11
after all that education, if he wants to become a professor, it's likely he'll still have tp pay ab bribe to get a professorship.
Tom, with all the crap you talk, you forget there are guys like me that deal with Koreans on a daily basis EXPORTING US MADE PRODUCTS to Korea. And we see and have to deal with getting around all the corruption. We don't participate in it, but it's there and it's ripping your government and your people off. I've seen large corporation pay triple, and even quadruple what they should be paying because they insist on buying through one of their Korean brothers that rips them off. It's sickening and one of the reasons the ex-President of Korea's largest defense contractor recently committed suicide. He got busted along with a bunch of others. So take your high-minded arrogance and ignorance and shove it up your…
12:29 pm on October 23rd, 2010 12
Tom, why would your parents pay $5,000 a year for your education and $95,000 a year for you to jerk off?
12:59 pm on October 23rd, 2010 13
#7,
So, you claim that your parents sunk 50 000$ per year in your education while you aren't studying in the US? Even if you were paying international student tuition in Canada, it wouldn't cost anymore than 25000$ per year, and it's much less in European countries. So, either you're full of it or you're robbing your parents blind.
1:07 pm on October 23rd, 2010 14
You are talking tuition, but do you know how much it costs to live? How much it costs to buy books, computers, car, fuel, insurance, food, rent, entertainment, airplane tickets? You think international students get everything free from local tax payers? Do you guys even know how much money we're pumping into your economies?
1:12 pm on October 23rd, 2010 15
So, in other words, you're still a mommy's boy that has to be taken care of while the most of the western students you berate are learning to be independent, self sufficient and adjusted to having to take care of themselves. They're learning to make better employees or business owners while you're learning to always rely on mommy and daddy to take care of you… I bet you're expecting them to find you a job, employ you in the family company or, at leasat, support you once you graduate until you find a job. In other words, you're still suck'n on the teets of your parents…. VERY impressive!
1:24 pm on October 23rd, 2010 16
#15, that's right I'm still mommy's boy and I'm proud of it. It's different dynamics between US and Korea. That's the way it is in Korea. The mandatory military draft has a lot to do with screwing up the timing. In Korea, after the times of high school, university, and draft, you're facing the 30's already. Culture is also more of dependent culture where the children are helped by their parents when they're young, in return for the parents to be taken good care of by the kids when the parents get old later. It has worked for thousands of years. For me, I like being a student. My parents are well off enough to support me, but they know later on, I will be there for them when they grow too old. That's the trade off my Western friend who think their culture is more superior.
1:35 pm on October 23rd, 2010 17
Just today, I was at an cafe with my Korean friend and we were talking quietly in Korean. And this rude middle aged white woman who was sitting beside us gets up and screams, SPEAK ENGLISH, THIS IS MY COUNTRY, IF YOU PEOPLE WANT TO SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE, GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THIS IS MY COUNTRY, UNDERSTAND?
I just looked at her, laughed, and in perfect English, said, "sure lady, I understand perfectly what you said. You know what? I think you can have your stinking country back as soon as I'm done with it. If I'm going to pay out of my ass so that you guys can feed your homeless welfare bums, then I'm going to get my money's worth, then I'll leave. Understand?". Then we just got up and left. The look on the woman's face was priceless.
1:41 pm on October 23rd, 2010 18
Tom, you're so full of sh*t, it's not worth even bothering with you any more. You drag up every stereotype you can and i'm sure 99% of the time you're just making crap up. You're just an immature brat and that's all there really is to it. adios
1:50 pm on October 23rd, 2010 19
I am here Thomas, whenever you need me.
2:45 pm on October 23rd, 2010 20
간첩이 교수가 된다고? 후세들 태어나기도 전에 죽여버릴 기세네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
3:14 pm on October 23rd, 2010 21
TL, the other Tom is a proven liar, bigot and racist. He reminds me that there is true evil in the world, his only joy is making people angry and he is very good at it. On the plus side, he has no friends and no love life since he is loathsome, just a group of chinese jacka**es just like him.
3:47 pm on October 23rd, 2010 22
"TL, the other Tom is a proven liar, bigot and racist. He reminds me that there is true evil in the world, his only joy is making people angry and he is very good at it."
While I somewhat agree with the "liar, bigot and racist" part, the "evil" portion has to be a joke. Two Face couldn't muster enough evil to squash a bug. Intentionally provoking anger via "racist" remarks on an anonymous poster board is nothing short of laughable and certainly not evil. Evil was the cause of his anger. We "whities" are the true evil in this discussion.
5:18 pm on October 23rd, 2010 23
Zilchy, we will have to agree to disagree. Inciting racial hatred is evil in my opinion. I also disagree that I'm evil since I'm white. I also think the racial boxes we have constructed are pretty ridiculous but that's just the Irish, English, Scottish, German, French and potentially American Indian in me speaking.
9:37 pm on October 23rd, 2010 24
From posts 1 to 23 in this thread, can anyone point to me where I said racist things? Could it be you accuse me of racism because you don't like my opinions? The typical pattern is, I say something you don't like, and immediately someone goes personal and start accusing me of "why are you in the US". Then the discussion goes down the hill. Just read from top to bottom of this thread, and the pattern is pretty my evident.
10:06 pm on October 23rd, 2010 25
Tom do you really need to be reminded in every thread of where you have called people "whitey", "rednecks", "hill billies", "yangnom-duls" or other racist remarks? Really? This is where you claim I said racist things that you can't backup and no one else can either.
You are scum, you add nothing to any converstation and the best thing you every do for anyone is staying away. This has to do with your behavior, to be honest no one knows what nationality you are, gender, age, or location althought chinese is the best bet.
10:29 pm on October 23rd, 2010 26
I don't think I've used "redneck" before.
"hill billies" is not racist, I was making fun of Retired GI. As for "yangnom-dul", I was simply using what K referred to you guys as. "whitey" is what you guys always use to describe yourself as, so I used it couple of times, but don't usually use it.
And I also called myself "ch*nk", "jjankke", "go*k", I'm equally hard on everybody. Just be honest, you have a problem with me because you don't like my message, Hamilton.
You want people to praise America all the time, you don't want any criticism, you can't handle criticisms, and you can't handle the truth.
10:35 pm on October 23rd, 2010 27
Tom, you are a proven Bigot, Racist, and Liar, that's enough for me to know you are scum and any position you hold is suspect. Now, go drink a nice big glass of Chinese milk.
12:16 am on October 24th, 2010 28
"You are talking tuition, but do you know how much it costs to live?"
My parents don't pay my bills.
"How much it costs to buy books, computers, car, fuel, insurance, food, rent, entertainment, airplane tickets?"
Books: depends on what you study and whether you're smart enough to get them used (not only to save money, but so you can study the already highlighted sections before each class).
Computers: computers nowadays are dirt cheap. You don't buy a new computer every year, do you?
Car, fuel, and insurance: cry me a river, will ya. Never heard of walking, the bus, or the dorm?
Food: Please! You're a student. You're supposed to live off ramen and macaroni and cheese.
Rent: You don't need a bungalow all by yourself, do you?
Entertainment: If you spend a lot on that, then you need to set your priorities straight.
Airplane tickets: Depends how far you go. I fly abroad every 2 months or so. The most you need to spend without being wasteful to travel halfway around the world is about 1300$.
"You think international students get everything free from local tax payers?"
You certainly get free health care if you're in Canada legally. You'd also get a great deal of money for your education because Canadian universities are subsidized by the government.
"Do you guys even know how much money we’re pumping into your economies?"
Do you know how much I'm generating for the South Korean economy? Last time I counted, I had generated well over 2 million dollars for the local economy, and that was many years ago.
12:19 am on October 24th, 2010 29
PS. Entertainment: You get us for free.
1:53 am on October 24th, 2010 30
Teadrink, I don't get any free health care nor am I getting any US government subsidy on education. You got some pretty wrong ideals there. As a foreign student, my tuition is double or triple what it usually is for locals. That's because it's not subsidized. Your schools keep recruiting in Korea with their advertisements, I wonder why? It's not certainly because they're losing any money.It's a big business for you guys. Interestingly, I see all the top students are Asians. Without the Asian technicians, Apple or Microsoft will go bankrupt because they won't have anybody to do the engineering.
2:01 am on October 24th, 2010 31
A lot of things can be said about the U.S. in Korea but the U.S. shed a lot of it's blood in Korea and is the main reason why S. Korea is a democracy and one of the most successful countries in the world. The South Koreans must be commended for working hard and saving their pride and culture. The politicians that rule China and N. Korea are the real bad guys, not the U.S. or S. Korea.
3:04 am on October 24th, 2010 32
Another lie from Tom, what a surprise!
"I don’t get any free health care nor am I getting any US government subsidy on education. You got some pretty wrong ideals there. As a foreign student, my tuition is double or triple what it usually is for locals."
But Tom, you said to Kushibo you weren't studying in the US on another thread, you said some other Western White country…..I'm shocked, you lied again, and if about tuition in the US, out of state is not 3X the local rate unless you get really creative (aka lie) about the numbers.
The lies continue Tommy Tang, you really aren't good at anything are you? You can't add, your Korean sucks and your lies are so easy to pull apart. You are the perfect loser.
4:52 am on October 24th, 2010 33
Hamilton Hamilton, read post #9. Since you guys refuse to accept that I'm not living in the US, I just gave up even trying. Besides, it's the same culture, same people, same language, not much difference. The Western mindset is also almost the same. I might as well say I am in the US.
8:54 am on October 24th, 2010 34
"Besides, it’s the same culture, same people, same language, not much difference. "
Go live in Quebec for a while.
1:27 pm on October 24th, 2010 35
"that’s right I’m still mommy’s boy and I’m proud of it."
I thought your mommy was long dead.