It sounds a bit like the irrational fixation some Japanese have in respect of Russia...
A bit of a problem with your analogy:
Unlike Russia, Japan had not invaded and occupied any other country for over 85 years.
Today, any such foreign post-colonial action would be extremely unpopular with the general population.
I was reading Russia Today the other day They were saying that it was actually Japan that was sending troops into the Ukraine to take territory.
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
South Korea's capital, Seoul, has chosen a new slogan to promote the city internationally, but it has left some people confused.
"I.Seoul.U" triumphed in a vote held in the city on Wednesday, beating two other options: "Seoulmate" and "Seouling", the Korea Times reports. A panel of nine experts, including two professors, and more than 1,000 members of the general public took part in the final selection. The slogan will be used to promote the city around the world, and replaces the current "Hi Seoul". According to the paper, the project cost in the region of 500 million won ($436,000; £286,000).
Even before the vote, many people raised concerns that "I.Seoul.U" doesn't make much sense in English, and that none of the finalists inspired interest in the city. Now that the slogan is official the mockery has increased, with social media users posting parodies online, the Korea Herald reports.
On the city government's Facebook page thousands of users have "liked" posts about the new branding, and plenty welcome it as a "great choice". But many aren't happy, with some calling it "Konglish" - the Korean practice of adopting English words in a way that English speakers often cannot understand. "They were all rubbish but at least Seoulmate actually made sense," writes one user. "Terrible choice. I was in Seoul this year and this makes me feel nothing of what I felt when I visited," another person says.
Previous slogans have included "Infinitely yours, Seoul", which apparently expressed the city's "infinite capacity for development", and the potentially risky "Seoul, My...", which left a gap for people to fill as they saw fit.
“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
IT WAS A NIGHT OF RACISM AND CLASS SNOBBERY at a private dinner between journalists and a top education policy maker. After one too many drinks in Seoul’s government district, an elite bureaucrat, Na Hyang-wook, lambasted “99 percent” of his countrymen for being “like dogs and pigs” who only need to be fed and kept alive, compared them to “blacks and Hispanics in the United States who don’t even try to enter politics or climb the social ladder,” and called for a caste system on the basis that “people are not all born equal.”
His personal goal, he told the journalists, was to strive to be in the 1 percent. He offered limited sympathy for the death of a 19-year-old subway contract laborer overworked and crushed by an oncoming train, as noted in recent stories about poor conditions for part-time workers. The journalists said that they felt pain for him like he was their own child, but the bureaucrat retorted that while his death was certainly tragic, it would have been silly to pretend the subway worker was his own kid.
To be fair, the mindset of top level J-bureaucrats is similar, although perhaps not as extreme.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
most refreshing to hear that the allegations of south korea being run by the big 8 corporations are infact untrue, its run by a fruit bat shaman lady instead,
Her approval ratings had plunged to 4 percent, the lowest among South Korean leaders since democracy came in the late 1980s, and even elderly conservatives who once made up her political base have distanced themselves from her. An opinion survey released Thursday showed about 78 percent of respondents supported Park's impeachment.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
its hard to seperate wishful thinking from the reality of the corruption scandals and note 7 dramas, ill make the bold prediction that if the new S8 is as good a phone as the usual samsung flagship then it will all forgotten in no time.
their is no doubt we are into smaller increments now but the high end gear is still nicer than the chinese versions and they also battle uphill against perceptions of china inc (tm) spyware, eg: https://betanews.com/2017/03/02/backdoor-chinese-iot/
not that western governments are any better in reality but hey, perceptions is what they is.
i had a big shock the other day as i added up all the south korean stuff in my house, all i need now is a team of k -pop chickies. cough. sigh.
Law of Unitended Consequences in action.
The spooks wanted a conservative president to run the country.
Instead it ended up being run by, to quote noddy, a fruit bat shaman lady.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
South Korea’s “Sunshine Policy” has been present since the Kim Dae-jung administration. Moon Jae-in, the leading liberal candidate in the 2017 election, has been one of its strongest advocates, particularly the elements of reconciliation, peaceful coexistence, and non-absorption with the North.
Since finally developing credible nuclear capability, Kim Jong Un can feel more secure in the process by negotiating from a position of relative strength compared to his predecessors. Now that Xi Jinping has consolidated power, China’s leader can finally become serious about its troublesome neighbor without concern about party opposition and intrigues. Any agreement is likely to include the withdrawal of American forces from the peninsula and Navy from the related ocean routes, and a reduction in the presence of American military power in Northeast Asia would certainly please and satisfy the Chinese leadership. During Kim Jong Un’s meeting with the Chinese president last month, they were likely in agreement with the mutual strategic and security benefits of such potential developments.
What remains unclear is whether this will progress from show to substance. What the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un are willing to give up in exchange for an agreement as well as how trustworthy they both can be over time remains unclear.
Initial signs are promising though, hope this works out.