Korea needing a wake up call as much as my sleepy lazy butt

Feb 18, 2008 02:59



Concerning the arson convicted of setting fire to South Korea's 600-year old cultural relic, the Sungnyemun Gate.

The individual in question is Jong-gi Chae, a 70 year old farmer from Ganghwa Island who raised cabbages and lettuce.  Newspapers report that  convicted on basis of a supposed past arson attempt, "similar clothing," a bottle of ( Read more... )

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thecapitalist February 19 2008, 01:12:33 UTC
For whatever reason, Sungnyemun has not received much attention in the U.S. I have not heard any recent mentions of this incident anywhere besides your blog, and the blog of another Korean acquantence of mine. Wikipedia does provide some coverage.

It's rather hard to get a soapbox. I tried to resort to paying people to comment using mturk.com's micropayment system. I haven't garnered any sustained readership of my investments blog.

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thecapitalist February 20 2008, 13:33:59 UTC
Korean citizens are funding the Namdaemun rebuilding process and multiple people implicated themselves in the arson suspect's stead. Korea is funny.

Paying people to comment? No, a better way is to comment on everyone else's blogs. Where is your investment blog anyway?

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