sheila
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Post by sheila on Jan 7, 2008 2:02:45 GMT -5
sorry you feel that way but I'm not sorry for my post. My post, views and feelings on the topic remain unchanged
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 7, 2008 2:50:15 GMT -5
sorry you feel that way but I'm not sorry for my post. My post, views and feelings on the topic remain unchanged I never expected you to change your views or opinions....That was never the intention.....
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Post by kfan on Jan 8, 2008 10:07:07 GMT -5
The actor who played the role of Li Kaigu won a "Beloved Villan" award recently for his role in DJY. Koreans were happy with the way the character bowed out of the show. His tactican is the one viewed as the evil character who misinformed, misled and manipulated Li Kaigu.
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 8, 2008 13:13:24 GMT -5
The actor who played the role of Li Kaigu won a "Beloved Villan" award recently for his role in DJY. Koreans were happy with the way the character bowed out of the show. His tactican is the one viewed as the evil character who misinformed, misled and manipulated Li Kaigu. I wonder if that is in any way related to Korean social or cultural attitudes....Li Kaigu possessed so many dark character traits that "beloved" would hardly be what first comes to mind..... Then again, it reminds me of the odd direction taken by that TV Novel "As the River Flows" when the bad guy ends up being remembered as a hero even he had done precious little to actually redeem himself...."As the River Flows" was fast becoming one of my favorite Korean TV dramas until the last couple of episodes when it suddenly shifted into sickeningly sweet sentimentality, but in what I thought was the wrong way.
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Post by forfeit on Jan 8, 2008 16:28:47 GMT -5
Korean history has shown so such courage and determination. The ability to endurance hardship is unbelievable. Nowsaday, North Korean still demonstrate that spirit. I'm not talking politics but that Juche philosophy is probably the best display of independent spirit a Korean nation can show to the world. I wish once day North and South Korean can be united.
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Post by MTR on Jan 8, 2008 17:49:45 GMT -5
Is it me or maybe this seems highly unlikely when DJS is offed by Li Kaigu all the Koguryeon's inc DJY just stand and watch as first Li Wen (Mun )starts carving JS up ,as DJS staggers spouting red stuff than they all snap out of their lethargy and start screaming "Jangun'',"Jangun "and come to his aid only to freeze again when Kaigu steps in and kill's him . It is however a very dramatic sad moment if a bit illogical . More to the point is why did not DJY and co decide to kill Shin earlier in the show ,they had numerous opertunity's to off the buzzard .At some point they must have realised that Shin was the prime source for everything that had gone wrong it just would have been common sense to take him out . Minor complaints though this is still a wonderful drama .
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 8, 2008 19:02:19 GMT -5
Is it me or maybe this seems highly unlikely when DJS is offed by Li Kaigu all the Koguryeon's inc DJY just stand and watch as first Li Wen (Mun )starts carving JS up ,as DJS staggers spouting red stuff than they all snap out of their lethargy and start screaming "Jangun'',"Jangun "and come to his aid only to freeze again when Kaigu steps in and kill's him . It is however a very dramatic sad moment if a bit illogical . More to the point is why did not DJY and co decide to kill Shin earlier in the show ,they had numerous opertunity's to off the buzzard .At some point they must have realised that Shin was the prime source for everything that had gone wrong it just would have been common sense to take him out . Minor complaints though this is still a wonderful drama . I think it must have been the total shock....I know I would have completely shocked, myself, but then the Goguryeons did fight with such ferocity that Tang was all but wiped out.....True, DJY and his merry band should have offed Shin Hong, but the story writers felt he was just so important to the plot that killing him early would deprive this series of a great villain.....
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 10, 2008 18:15:34 GMT -5
Is it me or maybe this seems highly unlikely when DJS is offed by Li Kaigu all the Koguryeon's inc DJY just stand and watch as first Li Wen (Mun )starts carving JS up ,as DJS staggers spouting red stuff than they all snap out of their lethargy and start screaming "Jangun'',"Jangun "and come to his aid only to freeze again when Kaigu steps in and kill's him . It is however a very dramatic sad moment if a bit illogical . More to the point is why did not DJY and co decide to kill Shin earlier in the show ,they had numerous opertunity's to off the buzzard .At some point they must have realised that Shin was the prime source for everything that had gone wrong it just would have been common sense to take him out . Minor complaints though this is still a wonderful drama . I think Mimosa should have taken the lead in that.....
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 13, 2008 9:31:43 GMT -5
Korean history has shown so such courage and determination. The ability to endurance hardship is unbelievable. Nowsaday, North Korean still demonstrate that spirit. I'm not talking politics but that Juche philosophy is probably the best display of independent spirit a Korean nation can show to the world. I wish once day North and South Korean can be united. I wonder why there has been no recent (to my knowledge) plot or attempt to overthrow the existing Stalinist regime.....
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kfan
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Post by kfan on Jan 14, 2008 0:51:27 GMT -5
Information in/out of country is controlled so we only know what they want us to know! Its more important to pray for peace and unification of Korea.
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 14, 2008 1:48:19 GMT -5
Nope, I'm not about to pray for unification.....Just imagine the financial costs of integrating both economies....Emotional ties or not, one cannot avoid the economic consequences.....
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Post by kfan on Jan 14, 2008 2:54:05 GMT -5
There are more important things than $!
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 14, 2008 3:31:47 GMT -5
There are more important things than $! It's easy for you to say that unless you're the one footing the bill....South Koreans can feel as emotional and as idealistic as they like, but they can't deny the reality of it because one day, they may feel the impact on their wallets and pocketbooks......If the cost of reunification were to reach half-a-billion to a trillion dollars and decades of reconstruction in the north, what impact would that have on the South Korean economy? ROK politicians may like talking about all this reunification sentiment, but they prefer to maintain the status quo.....Do you think they would want to deal with a flood of starving NK refugees streaming down the 38th Parallel? Look at what happened with the reunification of East and West Germany......No one to my knowledge is suggesting that their reunification was such a smashing success even when West Germany poured billions of DM's into fixing its economy.....There are few things more heartwarming than peaceful reunification, but there is nothing appealing about what this will eventually cost the South Korean people, if it were to happen.......
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kfan
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Post by kfan on Jan 14, 2008 4:55:17 GMT -5
But do you hear the Germans - East and West - say it shouldn't have taken place?
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Post by captainscarlet1 on Jan 14, 2008 9:19:16 GMT -5
But do you hear the Germans - East and West - say it shouldn't have taken place? But did these people truly anticipate the full costs of reunification? Don't you think, given what they know now, they would have opted for something different? It was another time then and people simply got caught up in their emotions. You also have to consider the fact that the North Korean economy is in far worse shape than its East German counterpart was, back then......As I said before, it is easy for you to feel a certain way unless you have to foot the bill.....However, the concerns I have brought up are very real in the minds of those who may, one day, be faced with the task of painfully reunifying both countries and will have to deal with the massive costs involved.....I have just read that Germany had spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 Trillion Euros on improving conditions in the former East Germany and continues to pour something like 50 billion Euros a year (USD 60 billion) to keep the economy going..... After reading some of this material, I now realize that the amounts needed to reunify both North and South Korea far exceed even a trillion dollars.....
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