By GI Korea on March 20th, 2011 at 2:58 am

ROK Drop Open Thread – March 20, 2011

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Another Sunday and another Open Thread. Post any links you want to share with others ROK Drop readers in the comments section.

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Leon LaPorte
8:20 pm on March 19th, 2011 1
SEOUL, March 20 (Yonhap) — US investor Warren Buffett will arrive in South Korea Sunday on a trip that includes a meeting with President Lee Myung-bak. The chairman and CEO of US conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway will arrive in Daegu, a city located …

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/03/…
AgentX
11:50 pm on March 19th, 2011 2
The FTAs made between Seoul and the EU and the US are at risk of failing, says Donga Ilbo.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=20…
The Korean Foreign Ministry is taking a lot heat here- says the writer.
Tom
12:01 am on March 20th, 2011 3
The FTA with EU will go through for sure, after the mistranslations are fixed and worked out. The majority in Korean parliament supports this deal so any problems will be ironed out. The FTA with US on the other hand… forget it since the US is full of it.
Glans
9:17 pm on March 22nd, 2011 4
Bill Clinton has won Public Counsel's <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ZfIGqjKrk0X/Public+Counsel+William+O+Douglas+Dinner+Arrivals/RXeIgWjNInk/Laura+Ling" rel="nofollow">William O. Douglas Award.
ChickenHead
9:54 pm on March 22nd, 2011 5
"Bill Clinton has won Public Counsel’s William O. Douglas Award."

No self-promoting leftist circlejerk is complete without at least one of the Lings showing up… preferably the stupider and less-accomplished one… as she seems to have eclipsed her harder-working sister in the public eye.

Oh, and look! Euna Lee crawled out of the hole she graciously crawled into after their actions were made public… actions which normal people would have considered shameful rather than promoting.

Girls, your 15 minutes of fame are up… off you go.

Well, in a world that valued sincere achievement over manufactured sensationalism they would be up.

Oh, Pendulum of History, please swing back to the side of honor and reason.

On a bright note, with Hillary busy on the Libya thing, maybe Bill can get a little, wink-wink, nudge-nudge "payback" after the ceremony.