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.
Worry not.
ReplyDeleteUnite 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.