Quite the arresting magazine cover you've got there.
The latest issue of 한겨레21, with President Lee Myung-bak. They're apparently picking up the theme from last week, when the 한겨레 (Hankyoreh)'s newspaper ran a cartoon with Lee Myung-bak as Hitler overseeing a concentration camp.
Disgusting. The "progressive" media here have thoroughly discredited themselves this summer, and as a progressive myself I can only say that it's a very sad thing to behold. BS like this will only drive more ordinary people to the conservative camp, but apparently these fools cannot even see the forest for the trees. Absolutely pathetic.
Hey Brian, can't find your email or how to send info to you, but thought this might interest you and cause an uproar in Korea. LPGA to require English on it's tour. http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/235528/
Yeah, Rob, I think I'm going to have to pick one up, too.
Thanks for the link, viper. From what I can tell it hasn't caused an uproar yet, but I'm sure it will. Thing is, though, Korean pro leagues for baseball and basketball have quotas on foreign players, so I don't think they can make TOO big a stink. Granted, the K-leagues don't attract the world's top talent, as American leagues profess to do, but it's not unusual to limit foreign players. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask participants in a English-speaking country's tournaments to have some proficiency in English. But it will be a public relations nightmare for a league and a sport that not many care about anyway. I can't say I disagree with encouraging foreign athletes to be able to speak a little English---especially when they're earning big checks. They could have handled this quietly, or come out with it in a different manner.
The worst ad I saw was this video they were running in the subways a few years back... it was for a newspaper; couple of pilots get highjacked by an arab looking guy, they see super man reading their paper and point in approval. Then super girl flys buy reading the competition. They chase her in the airplane flying figure 8's in and around the World Trade Center buildings...
I asked my adult class what they thought, they saw nothing wrong with it. I asked, "What if band-aid did an ad using the Kwang-ju massacre?" There was a collective "Ohhhh..." around the room.
I saw that ad, Bobby. Disgusting. I remember seeing it playing on a big-ass projector screen in lotte world.
I have my copy of the Hani 21. I don't think I'm going to blog about it, other than maybe peripherally, though. Just annoys me too much.
The question remains: does Korea deserve a better media, or does Korea have exactly the media its people deserves -- I mean, somebody's buying copies of these issues, and the government is still supporting a bunch of these outlets for reasons I can't understand anymore, and nobody (or not enough people) are demanding better.
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holy shit! I'm buying a copy!
Disgusting. The "progressive" media here have thoroughly discredited themselves this summer, and as a progressive myself I can only say that it's a very sad thing to behold. BS like this will only drive more ordinary people to the conservative camp, but apparently these fools cannot even see the forest for the trees. Absolutely pathetic.
I call this progress. Looks like free speech to me.
Hey Brian, can't find your email or how to send info to you, but thought this might interest you and cause an uproar in Korea.
LPGA to require English on it's tour.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/235528/
Yeah, Rob, I think I'm going to have to pick one up, too.
Thanks for the link, viper. From what I can tell it hasn't caused an uproar yet, but I'm sure it will. Thing is, though, Korean pro leagues for baseball and basketball have quotas on foreign players, so I don't think they can make TOO big a stink. Granted, the K-leagues don't attract the world's top talent, as American leagues profess to do, but it's not unusual to limit foreign players. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask participants in a English-speaking country's tournaments to have some proficiency in English. But it will be a public relations nightmare for a league and a sport that not many care about anyway. I can't say I disagree with encouraging foreign athletes to be able to speak a little English---especially when they're earning big checks. They could have handled this quietly, or come out with it in a different manner.
In related news, Hankyoreh 21 has also released a special in-house photoshopped brochure comparing Kim Jong-il with Gandhi.
The worst ad I saw was this video they were running in the subways a few years back... it was for a newspaper; couple of pilots get highjacked by an arab looking guy, they see super man reading their paper and point in approval. Then super girl flys buy reading the competition. They chase her in the airplane flying figure 8's in and around the World Trade Center buildings...
I asked my adult class what they thought, they saw nothing wrong with it. I asked, "What if band-aid did an ad using the Kwang-ju massacre?" There was a collective "Ohhhh..." around the room.
Bobby
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I saw that ad, Bobby. Disgusting. I remember seeing it playing on a big-ass projector screen in lotte world.
I have my copy of the Hani 21. I don't think I'm going to blog about it, other than maybe peripherally, though. Just annoys me too much.
The question remains: does Korea deserve a better media, or does Korea have exactly the media its people deserves -- I mean, somebody's buying copies of these issues, and the government is still supporting a bunch of these outlets for reasons I can't understand anymore, and nobody (or not enough people) are demanding better.
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