By The Dokdo nonsense continues:
The Japanese government has instructed officials to boycott Korean Air because the carrier marked the inauguration of the newly purchased A380 jumbo jet with a flight over Dokdo. Japan’s Foreign Ministry sent e-mails to all its diplomats overseas instructing them to avoid Korean Air for one month starting Monday.
Tokyo is upset because it entertains a dubious territorial claim to the Korean islets.
Korea has protested against the boycott. The Foreign Ministry summoned Hideaki Mitsukoshi of the Japanese Embassy to express regret. “Unless there are problems in terms of air traffic control, a Korean flag carrier is free to do anything within our own air space,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said. “From the standpoint of bilateral relations, the Japanese decision is very disappointing. We’ll have to see how the Japanese government responds to our demand to abandon the boycott.” [Chosun Ilbo]
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10:22 am on July 15th, 2011 1
This is a win-win situation. Japan gets to save face with the one month boycott featuring only their government officials, and Korean Air gets some good PR. I’m sure the PR value for both the politicians and Korean Air is higher than the value of lost tickets from government officials who would be flying on Japanese flights on official business anyway. Complete and total, but amusing BS.
11:29 am on July 15th, 2011 2
독도는 한국땅!!dokdo neun uri ddang
대한 독립 만세…
Long live Korean Independence!
12:55 pm on July 15th, 2011 3
From China!
1:00 pm on July 15th, 2011 4
#2 Since when was Korea “independent”? Korea can’t even defend itself.
1:03 pm on July 15th, 2011 5
North Korea seems pretty independent to me.
1:19 pm on July 15th, 2011 6
#5 Perhaps Kangaji. But even the DPRK needs handouts from the ROK and USA. Granted, they are capable of kicking some ars, at least for a few days. Which is more than I can say for South Korea.
1:42 pm on July 15th, 2011 7
I love these girls. Aren’t they cute?
2:33 pm on July 15th, 2011 8
Kangaji’s Translation: Today we are going to present a place we care about very much. The island of DOKDO! The island of Dokdo is situated in the East Sea, known in most countries as the Sea of Japan, but it is the East Sea. Now look at this picture. Dokdo has many natural beautiful terrain features?? When it rains it is very very beautiful there. (Cand ploua este foarte foarte frumos acolo) And it is well documented (there is a lot of evidence for) the fact that dokdo has been part of Korea since the Chosun period in the 1700′s (and some other stuff I don’t quite understand). Documents from 300 years ago (she talks about Japan’s claims but says the evidence/documents show that the islands were a part of Korea.) Now we will sing a song about these island.
That’s sort of what they were saying in Romanian, but I couldn’t understand all of it.
2:46 pm on July 15th, 2011 9
Koreaphile fan girls. Never the less, they’re cute aren’t they?
2:49 pm on July 15th, 2011 10
Foarte!
3:38 pm on July 15th, 2011 11
No one made a big deal about Dunkin Donuts…
3:56 pm on July 15th, 2011 12
Last time I flew Korean Air it was filled with Japanese tourists.
4:08 pm on July 15th, 2011 13
Asia is alright…. might hit up next South America next year for a change of pace, never been
5:42 pm on July 15th, 2011 14
Both Korean Air and Asiana fly to more cities in Japan than they do in Korea.
And for Japanese in most of the US, it’s the cheapest way to get to/from home.
5:47 pm on July 15th, 2011 15
“North Korea seems pretty independent to me.”
…You must think being China’s little bitch is independence.
6:37 pm on July 15th, 2011 16
What??? Japs getting irrational and emotional about Dokdo?? and why nobody is bashing them now???
Their territory??? that’s strange, I only see the Korean flag over there …. and why they have to ask permission to Korea to fish around the island if it is their territory? and why Koreans soldiers are stationed in “japs territory”???? Hummm, very strange ….
6:38 pm on July 15th, 2011 17
I’m from the school that thinks that China has less influence than most people think.
6:44 pm on July 15th, 2011 18
Kangaji #8
Do you have any idea why those girls are siding with Korea in this case?
6:54 pm on July 15th, 2011 19
Because they are KPOP fans and they like everything Korean, doesn’t matter what the issue is, especially the guys.
7:09 pm on July 15th, 2011 20
Tom #19,
Than God bless KPOP!!!! Because in the long term KPOP will change the way the world sees Korea.
It was about time for Korea promoting its culture abroad like China and Japan did from many years ago …
Who would believe that dancing and singing kids would become the new diplomats of Korean soft power around the world????
7:53 pm on July 15th, 2011 21
kangaji wrote:
I am sort of in that school. I think their control over the US dollar and debt are considerably less than many believe, but I think they are dangerous when they try to overcompensate.
One day, there will be a miscalculation and then — BOOM! — we’ve got a major war in Southeast Asia, the Spratleys, the Senkaku Islands, or the Korean Peninsula.
7:58 pm on July 15th, 2011 22
You guys can’t live without China for 10 minutes. What would you guys do if you can’t have $20 furniture, $1.50 toys, $2 trickets, $10 power tools?
Your inflation rate would go up by 155% and your economy would be in trouble because you wouldn’t be able to afford anything.
8:05 pm on July 15th, 2011 23
Tom wrote:
Buy stuff from India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Guatemala, Brazil, etc.
Yup. Crappy stuff for $10 would go up to something that might last at $15. That would actually be savings.
China is the factory floor of the world, as in it’s a giant factory and much of the stuff has the quality of something that fell on the floor.
8:21 pm on July 15th, 2011 24
Tom is even more sophisticated than I thought. He used the word tricket.
10:52 pm on July 15th, 2011 25
Well, last time I was in Romania was in 2001, and Romanians were confusing Koreans with Chinese people and calling black people the n-word out of ignorance, even though they knew more than the average American about Iraq, the Middle East, and European nations ofcourse. They could be Romanians who are in Korea though. My best guess is that Romanian broadband got SUPER DEVELOPED within the last ten years and the better your internet connections are the more likely you are to interact with Koreans. If your Korean friends tell you about Dokdo theory first, and they are more likely to as the Japanese don’t really care, then you go with Korean ideas. Also, consider that Romania is historically a cross roads between Turkey, The Holy Roman Empire/Austria/Hungary/Germany, and Ukraine/Russia and you’ve got more sympathy toward a Korea type state that has to deal with Great Powers.
10:53 pm on July 15th, 2011 26
hey, and Dr. Yu you should be able to pick up some of what they are saying too since you know Portugeese.
11:09 pm on July 15th, 2011 27
Hmmm, There was a big Daewoo plant in Craiova that made cars, but it went out of business in 2002.
2:07 am on July 16th, 2011 28
#20
“Than God bless KPOP!!!! Because in the long term KPOP will change the way the world sees Korea.
It was about time for Korea promoting its culture abroad like China and Japan did from many years ago …”
KPOP is Korean culture???
2:14 am on July 16th, 2011 29
Dokdo? Are you talking about that useless Japanese island that Koreans are making fools of themselves over? Yep, that’s the one!
4:19 am on July 16th, 2011 30
OK Guys, Kpop is to Britney Spears as Anime is to Baywatch. It’s the lowest form of cultural exchange.
Not everybody wants to read Pride and Prejudice…
7:44 am on July 16th, 2011 31
Exactly #29!
I love it when Koreans go crazy over a bunch of rocks that really belong to Japan. They make themselves look so stupid. I get a kick out of it every time! Especially when they kill innocent animals. That draws even more worldwide attention to their stupidity.
The Japanese, who are ten times more sophisticated than Koreans can ever hope to be, sit back and laugh too.
Yes, I support the Japanese claims to Takeshima, it’s rightfully theirs, the Slicky Boys stole it and planted a flag on it. This behavoir can be seen in claims that Kpop is Korean culture. Too bad if you don’t like who I support, everyone is entitled to think what they want. God knows Koreans feel they have the right to do so…and they put it into practice regularly!
4:46 pm on July 16th, 2011 32
Kangaji # 26,
Yes, maybe I could understand it. I will give a try, ok?
12:51 am on January 7th, 2012 33
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