More evidence that the Korea Times needs an editor. That headline is murder. Took quite a few read-throughs to have a vague idea what it's talking about. The opening paragraph is a killer, too.
The chief of a civic organization that looks after the house where former President Park Chung-hee was born was murdered by a man in his 20s at the house, Wednesday evening.
After a very dull teachers' workshop yesterday, and the misspelling of my name on the school website, perhaps I'm just hypersensitive about the bludgeoning of my native language.
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Worry not.
Unite all pedants!
I'm a small irk away from carrying around a permanent marker in my bag to correct any signs or flyers that have butchered our precious language.
Being a media student, my tolerance for such mistakes run quite low - especially if it's in a newspaper, regardless of how large the publication is.
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